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work makes me carry this INFERNAL blackberry around for emergencies and all. So I’m sleeping and all of a sudden all hell breaks loose in my bedroom. Earthquake? no. Was I getting mortared/carbombed/nuked? no.

It was the INFERNAL EMAIL FROM TECHRUPUBLIC AT 5:15 IN THE MORNING!!! BAH! I never did get back to sleep…I don’t mind getting them…but maybe at a decent hour for the week…like 0800 or something. 🙂

*note: this is mostly a joke…those who flame me will be sacked, and those who jokingly flame me— will also be sacked (any monty python fans out there?) 😀

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Sounds like a good alarm clock

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Look at the benefits, not the problems. Consider it a feature, not a bug!

Stay awake

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Post your addy and we’ll make sure you stay awake 😉

We also do wake-up calls

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Yeah, the whole alarm clock thing is one of our beta features. We’re doing wake-up calls, too. Just post your phone number with the time you want to be called and either Jay or I will help you kick off your day. 🙂

hah…

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Do you guys have room service as well? What about complimentary breakfast? 🙂

BAH!

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Hah…sure it’s blah@blah.com…have at it 🙂

Seriously if anyone out there actually has that email address…they get SO many emails because of me. 🙂

yeah… or these

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john, david, chris, joe… all @hotmail – poor saps.

quite possible!

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http://www.blah.com/corporate/

haha

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I hope that guy doesn’t read this forum…
he better have one heck of a spam filter 🙂

*all employees of blah.com have been sacked.

blah

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I wonder if they either had the problem or expected to have the problem with people using whatever@blah.com? I noticed they use …@corp.blah.com as their email. ha

Management material

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Start a discussion. (Satirically) state that contrary views are not allowed; just agree with me or shut up.

Sounds like you qualify for a management position.

CPQ Insight mgr.

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Worked a project at a big bank I was was with. Setup Insightmgr for like 150 branches. While I was getting the project going, I was the only one getting the pages. Branches connected through the mainframe with NW SAA/SNA. For some stupid reason I never got, the PUs would reset at night, not all on one schedule either. So, beepbeepbeep. 10 min later beepbeepbeep.

Works for me…

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8 am for you would be 9am for me… at that point I’d have already been awake for 4 hours. Wonder if they can delay the messages to deliver at 8am in each time zone… of course, that would put some people 24 hours behind the times… that’d be bad… I think they should just stick with waking YOU up at 5:15… that’s 6:15 MY time, and I’m already up by then too… and come to think of it… I don’t have a cheezeball blackberry anyway… so I don’t really care what time they wake YOU up. :p

huh?!

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9am for you? I live on the east coast!Anyway…such hatred…you will be sacked!

p.s. if you would like my blackberry…i would gladly “lose it” in your garbage can 😀

over here

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I’ll take that puppy off your hands… then again, there’s a reason that I dumped my pager 5 years ago. 😉

I won’t

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even break down and get a cell phone, personal or professional.

I do NOT want people calling me all the time. If I wanted to talk to someone I would go visit them. I do not need to talk to them while I am at the mall or driving down the highway.

Cell phone = teather.

Learn to turn it off

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I’ve eliminated my landline so cell is all I got. On weekends, power it off if work people bother you. Unless you’re paid to be on call, then work should supply it. At nite, I keep it in room other than BR so I don’t get woken up.

I’ve actually had ex-gfs call while I’m out on weekend with my current gal, not as bad as work calling. (It was OK, we’re still ‘friends’).

You’re right…

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I was never any good at math… that’s why I got a degree in electronics 🙂

Actually, I’m good at math, but time zones always screw me up!

I’d like to be sacked… haven’t been sacked in months.

hey!!

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don’t tell us your marital woes. 😉

Phooey!!!

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It is occassionally mildly entertaining to get fired… from a BAD job…

Most fun I ever had QUITTING a job… I walked in one day, said, “I came to give my notice. You’ll notice I won’t be here anymore.” and left. 🙂 Now THAT was fun!!!

done that

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it is a blast.

something like that old movie:
Take This Job and Shove it!!

ahhhh

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That’s what I like to see…a nice noonish email…

/me initiates a slow clap

auto on/off

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I didn’t read to see if anyone else already suggested it, but the blackberry options include an auto off feature… comes in handy 🙂

you can set it to turn back on about the time you want to wake up…

Or use level 1 messages

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I have a BB too, but instead of auto on off I have all messages set to silent, and level 1 messages set to vibrate.

Under desktop manager you can set that messages from certain domains/addresses forward to your unit as level 1 messages – everything else is ignored except for legitimate messages.

For myself any messages from our monitoring server or a few select people get treated as level 1. Helps me sleep at night!

Zaf

Sacked…

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Those who sent the e-mail have been sacked.
The people hired to replace the people who were sacked have been sacked.
Those responsible for carrying the e-mail through the ether – sacked.
Your partner for not turning the alarm off before it woke you – sacked.
Those responsible for not supplying you earplugs – sacked.
The person responsible for this post – sacked.
…sorry

hah

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Glad to see i’m not the only geek out there…

The person responsible for sacking…has been sacked.

*note: Please go rent “Monty Python: The quest for the Holy Grail” if you have not seen it…or risk being sacked.

Therapist

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Sounds remarkably like BRD, a very treatable malady.

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