The email system here stopped working. Bloke in office calls IT to ask them to sort it. IT says 'yes we know there's no email, we sent out an email telling people about it'

Durr does anybody else have the same problem?

Could they have meant that they sent out and email telling you that the email would be down for a while which you either didn't read or binned without opening ?

That, or they really are dim.

Nope the email stopped working, so they emailed us to say that it had stopped

So your going to fix it then?

He's going to email IT

Tell me about it!

We have contractors on $240 per hour who cannot use a fax machine properly

You'd have to pay them $250 per hour if you are expecting them to learn how to use the fax machine.

And I can guarantee you 100% some thick manager told them to do that despite being told repeated times that no-one will receive it !!

I'm no export in everything but I seen IT managers who I wouldn't trust with a ballpoint pen, never mind a companys entire infrastructure.

In my experience anyone who's highly intelligent or who takes an obsessive interest in one subject has little common sense.

Oi! I resemble that remark

I couldn't possibly comment; I'm a kept woman.


(He has no common sense whatsoever. Not a practical bone in his body.)

err, what's that then ?

On a lighter note; why do the phone/internet company's call centre message say "press 1 for internet problems", then go on to say "you can get help by contacting us online"

If I was online, I wouldnt be contacting you idiots;.................

What's my experience? My father Was as clever as anything but common sense passed him by.

I've been known to use the phrase "educated idiots". I once worked somewhere where we paid an awful lot of money to bring in some Management Consultants to tell us where the business was going wrong. I watched one of the very clever people attempt for five minutes to put some papers into a plastic wallet - you know the ones closed on 3 sides, punched holes down one side?

Then I smiled sweetly, took it all off her, rolled the papers, stuffed them in, unrolled them and handed it all back to her. Those of us that left school and started work at 16 actually know useful stuff.

because maybe you can access the website from work, from your auntie flo's, from the library, from your smartphone...