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I got one from our Indian testers / developers. They do speak the King's English down there if I'm not mistaken, but after reading this legendary email 5 times, I still had no idea what was being said / asked.
I like emails that have the subject line, "Did you fix the problem in your code?" Shortly thereafter, it is discovered no one told me about the problem
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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<i>can you update me on your progress?</i>
This week I have established the SQL Database on the enterprise server.
I have begun to create tables, and stored procedures.
Once this is complete, in about a week, I will switch over to building the CRUD Screens.
<i>Can please you explain this in simple terms?</i>
Keep It Simple, keep it moving.
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Be happy about this. When you report to someone who doesn't understand what you do, or who is too senior to spend time on software details, you generally get to set your own priorities and write your own performance evaluation. It's a win-win for you and your manager.
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Send a Progress-bar graphic at some estimated percent complete. Perhaps with some text like ‘Installing Tables’
I’m so glad I retired from all that.
Time is the differentiation of eternity devised by man to measure the passage of human events.
- Manly P. Hall
Mark
Just another cog in the wheel
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And now I have a template for about every email I send.
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Let me know what you decide.
I'm not expending any more effort because it is obvious that my attempt at using logic is useless.
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"Let's take this off-line."
Either (1) I don't care what you have to say, or (2) tabling this issue in the presence of others is going to be embarrassing for me.
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How about, after sending in a rather long report with the explicit instruction to users to "..NOT use product x for comparison purposes as it counts something entirely different from the data in this report" and the absolutely very first responding email starts "..I've just used product x to compare the numbers and they don't tally..."?
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I think that might fall under "Thanks for your feedback."
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People are so busy that they can't take time to READ emails. You provide someone with detailed instructions and you get a question that is addressed in the first sentence of the email they have supposedly read.
I guess that is why we are developers, we know how to deal with the details and they don't.
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Copy - pasted for my email template!!!
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*No*
I'm going to make you ask for this at least three times to see if you really need/want this.
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Hmmm. I'll play. Using the legend you've supplied, I'm just going to reply with:
Per my last email...
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Heartless marriage players one crazy warning of danger (7)
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Pretty sure it's wrong, but ...
Heartless marriage MARAGE
players one P
crazy warning (anag)
of danger
RAMPAGE
It may not be right - and I doubt it is - but at least you know we are looking!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Nopes!
And yeah - thanks for letting me know that it's being looked at.
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Well,
I think you beat us again. I bailed out as soon as I realized that there are several card games that could match the phrase "Heartless marriage players".
Marriage group - Wikipedia[^]
I don't know enough about card game terminologies to follow this path.
Apparently Winston Churchill was an avid player of Bezique so at least I learned something new today.
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Okay - for being so much passionate for CCC - clue for you and everyone...
No cards/card-games involved.
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Time up. Posting solution.
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That's 5 letters...
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Six with the question mark ==8-)
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For the first time in almost 10 years I noticed the FAQ (question mark next to "New Discussion").
I like two things about it:
1. How it mentions Netscape and IE4.
2. This comment[^] by @TheGreatAndPowerfulOz
A friend of mine watched it about two weeks ago, borrowed my DVD actually, and both him and his girlfriend loved it.
We can continue to be friends
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Under the menu "help" is "General FAQ" too... and it has more content.
Just in case...
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I really didn't need a FAQ.
I was just curious and then surprised to find Netscape, IE4 and some movie wisdom
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