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Here is another for your dictionary.
VIKI - Viagra is kicking in 
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Will be enjoying some time away from my desk for a change... 
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I'm heading to Maui with the wife next Saturday 
Vacations are nice to have once in a while, they just don't happen often enough, and its NEVER a good time to leave the office. Seems the law of vacations means that all the issues pop up right before your vacation...
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Yeah I'm right towards the end of a project.... it's a good thing people haven't tried to guilt me out of going.
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I had a customer call yesterday wanting me to travel today for a 1 week stint, had to tell them no (they are notorious for turning a 1 week "quick trip" into a month-long odyssey).
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Yeah, been there done that... I will be avoiding customer calls for the next week until I leave on vacation.  
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Ron Beyer wrote: I'm heading to Maui with the wife next Saturday
There's one obvious flaw in that plan.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Sorry, posted in wrong forum.
Marc Leger
Senior Microsoft Developer
modified 15-Aug-13 15:40pm.
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Maybe write an article about it? Its tough to download a library that I don't know will be useful using the 3-4 sentences of description you give. Put up an article showing how to use it.
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Makes snarky comment re: Microsoft putting all it's eggs in the wrong basket and wondering how _that_ could have happened. 
And a senior dev no less! tsk tsk tsk. 
"Science adjusts its views based on what's observed. Faith is the denial of observation, so that belief can be preserved." - Tim Minchin
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To be fair, he's a Senior Developer in Microsoft Technologies, as far as I can tell (by downloading his resume) he's never worked for Microsoft itself...
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I think I know where this is going. I suppose I have to reasonable too? 
"Science adjusts its views based on what's observed. Faith is the denial of observation, so that belief can be preserved." - Tim Minchin
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I needed some information on a legacy system.
I asked person A for a subject matter contact.
Person A sent me to person B.
I asked person B a few questions.
Person B couldn't answer the questions and sent me to person C.
I asked person C a few question.
Person C couldn't answer the questions and sent me to person A.
Person A answered my questions.
Even though I work in technology I pretty much hate all other technology people.
I've never seen such skill when it comes to avoiding responsibility or avoiding being useful.
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Also, this sort of communication is impossible: IT Guy 1 -> IT Guy 2
Instead, we have to have it like this: IT Guy 1 -> Me -> IT Guy 2
I've given contact information to both departments but they won't elephanting call each other directly, instead, forcing all communication to pass through my desk.
PICK UP THE #$%@! PHONE AND TALK DIRECTLY WITH EACH OTHER! 
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I didn't want to interrupt you two but perhaps you weren't asking the right questions the first time.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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ryanb31 wrote: I didn't want to interrupt you two but perhaps you weren't asking the right questions the first time.
Person A has the specs.
Person B needs the specs.
WHY IN THE HELL DOES PERSON C HAVE TO CARRY THE SPECS FROM A TO B WHEN A AND B HAVE EACH OTHER'S CONTACT INFORMATION?
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Why don't you tell us how you really feel?
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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MehGerbil wrote:
WHY IN THE HELL DOES PERSON C HAVE TO...
Do tell us, person C. If you don't want to be in the middle and you have a choice, stop doing it. Why would A and B want to do the work if you are willing!
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"Show me a community that obeys the Ten Commandments and I'll show you a less crowded prison system." - Anonymous
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Person A - can't be bothered to deliver said specs.
Person B - can't be bothered to get said specs.
and this is where you Person C come in.. fetch those specs and deliver them to me
simples
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Reminds me when the Chef asked a new assistant to go ask the Pastry Chef for his Long Wok, who sent him to ...
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Herself used to do that when she was in mass catering: send the new kid round the hardware shops looking for a fallopian tube for icing. The shops were in on the act and could keep them walking all afternoon...
This message is manufactured from fully recyclable noughts and ones. To recycle this message, please separate into two tidy piles, and take them to your nearest local recycling centre.
Please note that in some areas noughts are always replaced with zeros by law, and many facilities cannot recycle zeroes - in this case, please bury them in your back garden and water frequently.
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OriginalGriff wrote: fallopian tube
What would be interesting (and scary) is if he actually came back with one.
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MehGerbil wrote: I've never seen such skill when it comes to avoiding responsibility or avoiding being useful.
I know there's a political around here somewhere. 
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We need to reverse engineer a regulatory reporting system, I ask person 1 who owns the system, get referred to person B, you know the story from there. We can't find the owner of the f***ing, ugly Access database that take 4 days to run every month, they then need to patch the crappy data b/c the results are incorrect AND THEY HAVE BEEN FOR 4 YEARS
Please do not push that button again, someone is going to get a new one ripped!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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