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by advancedgeek

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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?) :D

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by smorty71

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. :)

by advancedgeek

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. :)

by advancedgeek

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.

by william

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

by stress junkie

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.

by tbragsda

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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.

by jessie

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

by advancedgeek

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 :D

by house

I'll take that puppy off your hands... then again, there's a reason that I dumped my pager 5 years ago. ;)

by jessie

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.

by jdclyde

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.

by dr dij

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').

by cactus pete

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...

by zaferus

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

by jessie

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!!!

by jaqui

it is a blast.

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

by hockeyist

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

by advancedgeek

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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