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March 9, 2005 at 5:14 am #2177099
I’ve got a great idea!
Lockedby advancedgeek · about 17 years, 2 months ago
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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March 9, 2005 at 5:24 am #3350130
Sounds like a good alarm clock
by awfernald · about 17 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I’ve got a great idea!
Look at the benefits, not the problems. Consider it a feature, not a bug!
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March 9, 2005 at 5:33 am #3350127
Stay awake
by choppit · about 17 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Sounds like a good alarm clock
Post your addy and we’ll make sure you stay awake 😉
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March 9, 2005 at 7:20 am #3351743
We also do wake-up calls
by smorty71 · about 17 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Sounds like a good alarm clock
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. 🙂
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March 9, 2005 at 11:43 am #3351630
hah…
by advancedgeek · about 17 years, 2 months ago
In reply to We also do wake-up calls
Do you guys have room service as well? What about complimentary breakfast? 🙂
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March 9, 2005 at 5:45 am #3350122
BAH!
by advancedgeek · about 17 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I’ve got a great idea!
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. 🙂
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March 9, 2005 at 10:17 am #3351653
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March 10, 2005 at 9:09 am #3332068
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March 11, 2005 at 6:07 am #3351085
haha
by advancedgeek · about 17 years, 2 months ago
In reply to quite possible!
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.
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March 11, 2005 at 8:59 pm #3350979
blah
by william · about 17 years, 2 months ago
In reply to quite possible!
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
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March 9, 2005 at 7:16 am #3351744
Management material
by stress junkie · about 17 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I’ve got a great idea!
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.
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March 9, 2005 at 9:10 am #3351685
CPQ Insight mgr.
by tbragsda · about 17 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I’ve got a great idea!
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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. -
March 9, 2005 at 1:02 pm #3351592
Works for me…
by jessie · about 17 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I’ve got a great idea!
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
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March 10, 2005 at 4:47 am #3332282
huh?!
by advancedgeek · about 17 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Works for me…
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 😀
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March 10, 2005 at 4:52 am #3332279
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March 10, 2005 at 6:16 am #3332213
I won’t
by jdclyde · about 17 years, 2 months ago
In reply to over here
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.
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March 10, 2005 at 11:31 am #3331980
Learn to turn it off
by dr dij · about 17 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I won’t
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’).
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March 10, 2005 at 9:51 am #3332037
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March 11, 2005 at 1:17 am #3351204
hey!!
by jaqui · about 17 years, 2 months ago
In reply to You’re right…
don’t tell us your marital woes. 😉
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March 11, 2005 at 2:25 pm #3349771
Phooey!!!
by jessie · about 17 years, 2 months ago
In reply to hey!!
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!!!
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March 11, 2005 at 4:58 pm #3351029
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March 10, 2005 at 8:25 am #3332100
ahhhh
by advancedgeek · about 17 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I’ve got a great idea!
That’s what I like to see…a nice noonish email…
/me initiates a slow clap
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March 10, 2005 at 9:04 am #3332070
auto on/off
by cactus pete · about 17 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I’ve got a great idea!
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…
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April 7, 2005 at 7:41 am #3233194
Or use level 1 messages
by zaferus · about 17 years, 1 month ago
In reply to auto on/off
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
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March 11, 2005 at 2:29 am #3351146
Sacked…
by hockeyist · about 17 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I’ve got a great idea!
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.
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March 11, 2005 at 6:06 am #3351087
hah
by advancedgeek · about 17 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Sacked…
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.
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April 18, 2005 at 7:24 am #3246856
Therapist
by craig herberg · about 17 years, 1 month ago
In reply to I’ve got a great idea!
Sounds remarkably like BRD, a very treatable malady.
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