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Gear Grinding 6: I'm So Over This.

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Handyman said:
Or we could just be thankful every day cause that has more meaning...I dont need a holiday to tell me what to feel.
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Just because you are thankful everyday, doesn't mean there can't be a holiday...

We have days for every stupid thing imaginable, I don't think it is unreasonable to have one designated to remember the sacrifices of our military members. In fact, it is pretty **** sad that anyone would think that.
 
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Actually what is pretty *** sad is you cant read a one sentence post and figure out what I was trying to say. No worries though maybe if you try again you will get it... :p
 
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Handyman said:
Actually what is pretty *** sad is you cant read a one sentence post and figure out what I was trying to say. No worries though maybe if you try again you will get it... :p
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Maybe what is sad is that you can't be clear in a one sentence post.:p
 
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"Oh, I don't know about this table!"

Well, no, not when you and your kid lean your combined 500+ lbs on the same corner at the same time and almost tip the **** thing over. I've sat at that very table multiple times and somehow I've avoided nearly flipping the thing upside down.

Everybody carries some extra poundage, myself included. I get it. But 409 is a household cleaner, lady. It's not a target weight. And when your front butt also has a double chin, it's time to quit seeing how much pizza you need, and maybe find a salad. Your kid could stand to do the same.

And letting the 2-year old kid you brought with you screech and run around the place didn't exactly do much for the ambiance of the place, either.
 
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Hammer said:
"Oh, I don't know about this table!"

Well, no, not when you and your kid lean your combined 500+ lbs on the same corner at the same time and almost tip the **** thing over. I've sat at that very table multiple times and somehow I've avoided nearly flipping the thing upside down.

Everybody carries some extra poundage, myself included. I get it. But 409 is a household cleaner, lady. It's not a target weight. And when your front butt also has a double chin, it's time to quit seeing how much pizza you need, and maybe find a salad. Your kid could stand to do the same.

And letting the 2-year old kid you brought with you screech and run around the place didn't exactly do much for the ambiance of the place, either.
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This is why I do the bulk of my shopping after work (at 8am). I'm in 100% agreement with you.
 
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Just to clarify: There's a difference between being big, and being a slob. I've seen 350 pounders than can handle themselves in the grocery stores without wrecking half the candy aisle. You can be the size of an Oldsmobile for all I care, as long as you carry yourself with a little bit of dignity when you leave the house. Just make a reasonable effort, and we're cool. But these people were flat-out slobs, and it showed in every way possible.
 
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FreshFish said:
Friday, June 3, "National Doughnut Day."
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And yet understanding the history of National Doughnut Day makes it far less stupid. The Salvation Army started it as a fundraising event back in 1938 when donations were down due to the Great Depression. The event, according to them, was to commemorate the SA's Doughnut Dollies who went to France and handed out doughnuts to GIs during WWI.
 
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Some moron accidentally sent an e-mail to (from what I can tell) the entire global manufacturing e-mail list. I am now getting a couple e-mails a minute asking to be removed from the list by even worse idiots replying all to the e-mail.

It's like I'm stuck in some early 2000s nightmare...
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Some moron accidentally sent an e-mail to (from what I can tell) the entire global manufacturing e-mail list. I am now getting a couple e-mails a minute asking to be removed from the list by even worse idiots replying all to the e-mail.

It's like I'm stuck in some early 2000s nightmare...
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Oh come now, that's probably the most entertaining thing that happens on that day! Makes for a good laugh.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Some moron accidentally sent an e-mail to (from what I can tell) the entire global manufacturing e-mail list. I am now getting a couple e-mails a minute asking to be removed from the list by even worse idiots replying all to the e-mail.

It's like I'm stuck in some early 2000s nightmare...
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It's going to continue...

I can't find the other story I was looking for, but I swear there was one about a four day reply-all that essentially shut down a company for that time around a year ago.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Some moron accidentally sent an e-mail to (from what I can tell) the entire global manufacturing e-mail list. I am now getting a couple e-mails a minute asking to be removed from the list by even worse idiots replying all to the e-mail.

It's like I'm stuck in some early 2000s nightmare...
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Somebody sent out an email to a huge global address list - close to 200K people - early on the Friday morning prior to Memorial Day. It took down our email servers for most of the day with the Reply All activity of "please take me off this distribution list." Outlook should have a function designed into where if you reply to a giant address list that it comes back with an estimated count, and asking if the user is certain of sending. Then it should include a warning that using the Reply All function could come with a compulsory sacking.
 
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St. Clown said:
Outlook should have a function designed into where if you reply to a giant address list that it comes back with an estimated count, and asking if the user is certain of sending.
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That would be awesome.

St. Clown said:
Then it should include a warning that using the Reply All function could come with a compulsory sacking.
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I said that this should be a fireable offense (obviously jokingly, I don't think I could have been more obvious), and one guy in the cube farm stands up and angrily says, "REALLY?!!?!"

:rolleyes:

I decided to troll him and he just kept getting more and more ****ed until he just walked away.

Secretly, I do think it should be a fireable offense.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
That would be awesome.



I said that this should be a fireable offense (obviously jokingly, I don't think I could have been more obvious), and one guy in the cube farm stands up and angrily says, "REALLY?!!?!"

:rolleyes:

I decided to troll him and he just kept getting more and more ****ed until he just walked away.

Secretly, I do think it should be a fireable offense.
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A lot of companies do have e-mail policies surrounding this sort of thing. In some companies, HR will send a message quoting an e-mail policy, and then actually sack the persistent.
 
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St. Clown said:
Outlook should have a function designed into where if you reply to a giant address list that it comes back with an estimated count, and asking if the user is certain of sending.
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This would be so easy to do I'm shocked it hasn't happened yet. I've heard of e-mail programs that will detect if you wrote "attached is..." or "see attached" in an e-mail without attaching anything, and stop you when you click Send. This would be a no-brainer.

Problem is you'll still get people that click through the "WARNING: You are about to send this e-mail to 48706 recipients" dialog because They're Good With Technology and They Know What They're Doing.
 
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Or if the technology wizards could just make it so there is a button to "unsubscribe from email chain"
 
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bigblue_dl said:
Or if the technology wizards could just make it so there is a button to "unsubscribe from email chain"
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At least for my company (and for many more) you'd have to be removed from an email group, which you were added to for business purposes in the first place. It's tough to PEBKAC-proof email delivery groups because there's always someone in the office with an MBA.
 
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