Vacation Autoresponder for gmail

Fun & games in the office this morning; one of the chaps spotted an article (don't know where) about another new gmail feature: "Vacation Autoresponder" - You know, one of those 1d10t features, the ones that are only used by Sales, Marketing or HR twats, with an inflated sense of self-worth, which normal people wouldn't touch with a bargepole. Which, BTW, were originally designed by crooks, to discover the houses that could be burgled safely, whilst the owners were away.

Anyhow, he immediately checked his gmail account & couldn't see it. :^) - Much consternation - Every other person in the office, with a gmail account, checked & could see it.....

You could almost hear the "pop" of the self-importance bubble as it disappeared. He almost cried.

End.

Quote of the day, from trouble ticket notes: "Policy looks fine, can't see a problem will call 'clientX' for testing". "ClientX has gone home, over to you for tomorrow". "Oh! forgot to mention, can't find out why his fw rules were disabled, no notes in ticket, so haven't enabled them, but test anyway. Perhaps you can see why his VPN isn't working".

Disabled rules were cause of fault ticket........

Bangs head, thrice.

Wednesday Blues

Early shift this week (6AM - 2PM) usual stuff, playing with fw's, routers & catalysts. Nothing exciting.

One of the admin chaps (supposedly there to protect the technicians & filter dross calls) shouts out, at the top of his voice; "Can anyone tell me; if a client has a /24 network does he have to put an IP address on his networked printer in order to print to it?"

This particular chappie has been at the firm for 3 years. D'oh.

"No, [insert twats name], it's obviously automagic & can read fridge-waves, BTW a /24 is the clients IQ, what's yours?"

"So, what do I tell the client, can he print or does he need a new network then?"

End.