Happy birthday to you ;)
On 5/17/07, C. Hatton Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So today's my birthday. I'm 33... whopee. > > My morning starts off well enough, a couple of the legacy client > issues come in and I work to help them. One of them asked for a user > to be created in their system. > > Our new SOP requires that we not email user account information > directly in emails. Instead we are supposed to create a PDF that > contains the login information. I decide to create a "quick tool" to > generate those PDF's. > > Then I find out that BD Free has the CFDocument tag disabled (those > that are on the other list will see the thread that I started). > > As I'm going through that, I get a call from a client that asks that I > help her with an order on a legacy system. I do so and email her the > proof and receipt, copying the requisite people internally. In my > haste I copy the ENTIRE EMPLOYEE LIST email instead of ED, the > helpdesk manager. > > One of my co-workers calls me and tells me that I did this AND that > there is a type-o in the order. I post a recall request on the email > and go and re-place the order, correcting the type-o. > > About that time I get a direct email from New Atlanta telling me that > I did, indeed, misinterpret the BD Free license agreement and need to > make sure that before we do take anything to production (lucky for me > nothing IS in production yet) we will need at least the JX license. > > Then the network admin asks me if I want to recall my recall because > all of the "can't recall" emails are being sent to the ENTIRE EMPLOYEE > LIST as well. > > Sum total of my morning: > - I look like an idiot to my co-workers because I have managed to > FLOOD their inboxes with recall failed messages. > - I look like an idiot to the client I was trying to help because I > misspelled their company name. > - I look like an idiot to my boss because I've worked hard to sell CF > running on BD as a solution since there would not be an engine cost. > > Happy birthday to me... the idiot. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create Web Applications With ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2. Build powerful, scalable RIAs. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJS Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:234984 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
