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TAGS:crash, Lotus Notes
IT TOPICS:Management, Software

This pilot fish is called into his boss's office -- and the big man is not happy.

"He had been working for hours on a report in Lotus Notes," says fish. "Then Notes crashed. He told me to get his report back.

"I asked if he'd saved his work at any time in his writing. Of course he hadn't.

"I explained that I was afraid there was nothing to be done if he hadn't saved.

"His reply: 'Make it so this never happens again.'"

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Wow, that is something lol

Submitted by computer repair Etobocoke on October 13, 2009 - 7:39 P.M.

Wow, that is something lol

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Big jim

Submitted by Mad Hatter on October 13, 2009 - 11:54 A.M.

This story really burns me up! (Not literally; that's just a figure of speech. You can't take everything you read literally.) Just because someone is a giant does not give them the right to jim someone around!

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my beef (?) or hind part (?)

Submitted by mad bad bear box on October 14, 2009 - 3:30 A.M.

...is with my boss and short men.

you really can literally say 'your head is close to neptune's nearest planet.'.

but since i am a polite chicken, i imagine it and post it here instead.

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Noobies

Submitted by ole bin login on October 13, 2009 - 11:20 A.M.

Always look for the temp files, its there somewhere it just needs to be found! Even JTB knows this much about puters.

ole

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Fish must be a rookie

Submitted by joker on October 13, 2009 - 12:19 P.M.

Yeah, the fish missed this one. The temp file will be somewhere around there, and any competent fish should be able to find it. I can't believe that this slipped through without someone mentioning temp files.

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'Make it so this never happens again.'

Submitted by fish on October 13, 2009 - 10:31 A.M.

...but I don't have the authority to fire you sir.

CAPTCHA: zone calved: we have new zone babies!

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Solution

Submitted by Major Hochstetter on October 13, 2009 - 9:34 A.M.

My first gut reaction (which I would be forced to quash!) would be to shoot the Executive-In-Question. This solution has three advantages: 1) This would NEVER happen again; 2) Someone might get promoted; 3) The successor would, at least for a while, remember to save his/her work. The disadvangates as well as repercussions are, I think, self-evident...

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ahhh, the genie solution!

Submitted by DupeOfURL on November 4, 2009 - 5:33 P.M.

So you're granting his wish, but in an unforeseen (and, to the recipient, unwanted) manner. Exxxxxcellent!
Celentano whirred - a better read than "Atlas Shrugged"??

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Would someone please keep

Submitted by Griper from the Past on October 13, 2009 - 9:09 A.M.

Submitted by Dan on June 25, 2007 - 11:54 A.M.

Would someone please keep JIM away from the keyboard? He obviously doesn't know how to use it, which is quite strange for someone who thinks so highly of themselves.

Thanks

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Really?

Submitted by pflickner on October 13, 2009 - 11:13 A.M.

Pard, yur not from 'round these here parts, are ye? Jim the Boss is a god around here. Or a dog -- yeah, the latter sounds more like Jim -- and we love him just the way he is, pointy hair and all!

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