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Anyone here been suspended over joke emails?

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    #11
    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
    "A computer expert... Hotmail address"

    Does not compute
    Could have been trying to be clever, since hotmail accounts are regularly hacked. "Wasn't me, guv".
    Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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      #12
      Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
      "A computer expert... Hotmail address"

      Does not compute
      What is this hotmail snobbery?

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        #13
        Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
        "A computer expert... Hotmail address"

        Does not compute
        I also wondered why the employer allows access into their system using a hotmail account.
        Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.

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          #14
          Originally posted by The_Equalizer View Post
          What is this hotmail snobbery?
          Hotmail is obviously the 'Daily Mail' of the email world.
          What happens in General, stays in General.
          You know what they say about assumptions!

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            #15
            In the early 1990s I worked at a brokerage not a million miles from London Bridge where the head of IT would use the company dial up lines to connect to hooky BBS (remember them!) in the US to download "scans" (as they were then) of Pr0n which was then stored on the company fileservers.
            ...my quagmire of greed....my cesspit of laziness and unfairness....all I am doing is sticking two fingers up at nurses, doctors and other hard working employed professionals...

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              #16
              Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
              "A computer expert... Hotmail address"

              Does not compute
              You know that to journalists anyone who can switch on a computer is an 'expert' or 'IT boffin'.

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                #17
                I worked on the call desk for a major magazine publisher (FHM-Max Power) and we had several callers who were fed up with receiving spam emails full of porn and wanted us to block them, we would then have to point out if we stopped people in the company looking at porn we would go out of business

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                  #18
                  I once had a test server with a slightly dubious hostname. I typed it into a browser during a client demo and instead of the local domain it resolved it to hostname.com which unsurprisingly was utter filth. This was in the days before popup blockers, i literally had to switch the machine off to get rid of the resulting porn storm.

                  Luckily people in those days had a sense of humour.
                  While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by Bunk View Post
                    You know that to journalists anyone who can switch on a computer is an 'expert' or 'IT boffin'.

                    My mum thinks I 'work in computers' so can help her with her PC. I tell her I have junior colleagues with personal hygiene issues and no social skills to deal with that, so she phones my brother, who does something to do with oracle.

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by Old Greg View Post
                      My mum thinks I 'work in computers' so can help her with her PC. I tell her I have junior colleagues with personal hygiene issues and no social skills to deal with that, so she phones my brother, who does something to do with oracle.
                      "What is it you do again, dear?"

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