Birthday Answers

[susandennis]

miss_ljv asks:


3. Tell me an embarrassing story

I’m one of the first people I ever knew to send an email blasting a person, right to that person. It was 1993 or 4 - before email. It was an IBM inner office system called PROFS. I worked with a woman named Cindy who was just a pain in my butt. I hated the little twit. She sent out a stupid message and I replied with some very unkind observations about her - I intended to forward to a sympathetic co worker. Instead I replied.

It almost, but not quite, went over her head. She didn't really fully understand but got that it was insulting. I was mortified to my core and can honestly say that I never ever did that again. Ever.

4. What color are your eyes? Blue… ish?

Comments

[manue7a.livejournal.com]

Epic :D

[christalin80.livejournal.com]

I did that with a text msg... it was a reminder to never try and do it without putting on my readers.

[msconduct.livejournal.com]

Argh. Back in the mid-late 1990s I had a friend who had somehow got saddled with reading someone else's unpubbed manuscript. They were on the same email list and the woman started sending my friend her ms chapter by chapter, unsolicited. And it was terrible. My friend sent her diplomatic responses but relieved her feelings sending me her scathing comments. Until the day I somehow managed to hit Reply All.

[richaarde.livejournal.com]

Was your coworker Cindy anyone important? If not, then F' her.

[susandennis]

To be honest, I wasn't that bent about insulting her. I was more concerned about our boss and his boss who were also on the emails.

[lenine2.livejournal.com]

I did that once. My sister had sent me a "poor me" email complaining that there had been a family gathering and she hadn't been invited. That was not uncommon with her, claiming to be left out of things when the fact was she was invited and couldn't make it. I decided to forward it to a friend and rant. Of course she was invited! My cousin mentioned she had spoken to sister and sister had to work that day. Rant rant rant — hit reply instead of forward.

I called her and asked her not to read it. I'm sure she did, though. Maybe it did a bit of good.

The first email system I used was at Arthur Andersen back in the 80s. We had Wang PCs. We got great delight in saying things like "Send me a wanger." "Did you get my wanger?" So mature.

[dadi.livejournal.com]

LOL the early days of email. I did something like that... I had a crush on a coworker and forwarded a nice message he had sent me to a friend in my office..and erroneously to the whole firm. With my comment about me wanting to do unspeakable things to the guy. In 1992....

[susandennis]

oh geeze. you totally win and now i feel better :)

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

3. Ouch