Wednesday, May 24, 2006
You've Got Mail
Well, someone did! :-)
Let me give you a little background on what we do here, before I carry on with this topic. Putting it into perspective for you, may make you see the humour of the situation a little better.
We work in a research lab for a company in India. Our project collaborates with a large number of European companies, and labs in the development of wireless technologies. As a result, there is a frequent exchange of e-mails between us and them.
Yesterday was a day with one such email. It came from France. There were a few problems with the language, so a colleague of mine asked us to help "translate" it. After a few minutes, we were able to grasp the meanings of his queries.
Just to annoy the person who received the mail, another colleague, hit the reply button on his mail client.. and typed a few choicy words to the french chap.
You can imagine what happened next. Send button was pressed, and the above mail was sent to France.
What followed was an intense one hour of panic. We furiously searched for his contact details on line to call him and apologise for this grievious error. Meanwhile, both, the person who sent the mail, and the colleague who receiived the original mail, sent out email apologies. Phone calls were made to France to try and apologise.
Finally, a new mail arrived.
He accepted the apology.
Let me give you a little background on what we do here, before I carry on with this topic. Putting it into perspective for you, may make you see the humour of the situation a little better.
We work in a research lab for a company in India. Our project collaborates with a large number of European companies, and labs in the development of wireless technologies. As a result, there is a frequent exchange of e-mails between us and them.
Yesterday was a day with one such email. It came from France. There were a few problems with the language, so a colleague of mine asked us to help "translate" it. After a few minutes, we were able to grasp the meanings of his queries.
Just to annoy the person who received the mail, another colleague, hit the reply button on his mail client.. and typed a few choicy words to the french chap.
Please rephrase, dumbass...Let me digress again. Most of us have set a default spell check in our mail clients. As a result, when u press send, the spell check is activated, and after clarifying spelling errors, the mail is sent out. Our friend here, whose mail client was being used, did not have this feature activated.
You can imagine what happened next. Send button was pressed, and the above mail was sent to France.
What followed was an intense one hour of panic. We furiously searched for his contact details on line to call him and apologise for this grievious error. Meanwhile, both, the person who sent the mail, and the colleague who receiived the original mail, sent out email apologies. Phone calls were made to France to try and apologise.
Finally, a new mail arrived.
He accepted the apology.
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I tried to imagine the scene and couldn't stop laughing.. oh boy! "Please rephrase dumbass"???? Ha ha ha
Hilarious...reminds me of the time when I was cribbing about a 'close' friend to my best friend and sent the message to the 'subject' of the message. Highly embarrasing...
Haha. I bet that french dude will have gotten a good kick out of it too.
@equi
you are SO uptight about everything. We need to throw you off an airplane with a parachute into a billion crazy wild kids. Loosen up!
/fjxlzvw
@equi
you are SO uptight about everything. We need to throw you off an airplane with a parachute into a billion crazy wild kids. Loosen up!
/fjxlzvw
@rupsha
it was funny only in retrospect! and beware, the curse continues!
@equilibrium
u still a student.. get out into the corporate world, and ur outlook will change!
@advitiya
i've done that quite a few times.. a couple of times, they were actually compliments sent to the wrong girl! :-)
@jetru
i sure hope so... i just wonder if he will land up here via google some day.
and ease up on equilibrium :-)
it was funny only in retrospect! and beware, the curse continues!
@equilibrium
u still a student.. get out into the corporate world, and ur outlook will change!
@advitiya
i've done that quite a few times.. a couple of times, they were actually compliments sent to the wrong girl! :-)
@jetru
i sure hope so... i just wonder if he will land up here via google some day.
and ease up on equilibrium :-)
@equi
Yea, listen to zoxy. In the corporate world, you laugh at your bosses dumb joeks or the other fellow gets the raise.
/oriioi
Yea, listen to zoxy. In the corporate world, you laugh at your bosses dumb joeks or the other fellow gets the raise.
/oriioi
@jetru
that is not how it works.. i dont know what kind of workplace u have!
and whats with zoxy????
@equilibrium
thats good... u ought to keep ur integrity..
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that is not how it works.. i dont know what kind of workplace u have!
and whats with zoxy????
@equilibrium
thats good... u ought to keep ur integrity..
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