Reply to: Computer People

[DaveB]

Not CP related but one of the PR muppets at a previous client did similar.

Problem was that there was broken Exchange Server out there that couldn't handle the size of the CC field and promptly started spamming every address on the list with multiple copies of the original mail, all off which appeared to originate from my clients mail system. By the time we had tracked down the offending server and contacted the owners we were being swamped in complaints. When we did get to talk to the owners the response was

"Oh, we were wondering if there was a problem, our email has been slow for a while now but our IT support guy is on holiday in the Gambia for 3 weeks. Can we get him to call you when he gets back?"

[Epiphone]

She's a lying cow. They did this to me a couple of years ago and promised an iminent system upgerade blah blah blah. Report them for breaching the DPA

[Troll]

Suffice to say I didn't bother in the end. Had read stories about CP here before but thought surely they aren't all that bad???

Yup

[MrRobin]

did it cause much wailing and gnashing of teeth?

Oh yes. Especially amongst the call centre staff where a 1K difference in annual salary meant 10%.

I also came to the conclusion that day that, other than the directors, I took home more than anyone else there (and the rate was CR4P!). A month later they offered me a perm position and it was a real choke into your coffee moment.

[BrilloPad]

You remember the Microsoft ads with the people wearing dinosaur heads? One of them was about a dino sending the salary details of every employee to everyone in the company and the new MS software was supposed to stop that kind of thing... Yeah sure.. noone could be that stupid, right?

Well, one of the HR muppets actually did this at my last client!

I worked with someone who got a list of everyone's salary and put against each what he thought they were worth (the ide being that he was most underpaid). printed it out and forgot.

made him very popular.

[Burdock]

You remember the Microsoft ads with the people wearing dinosaur heads? One of them was about a dino sending the salary details of every employee to everyone in the company and the new MS software was supposed to stop that kind of thing... Yeah sure.. noone could be that stupid, right?

Well, one of the HR muppets actually did this at my last client!

did it cause much wailing and gnashing of teeth?

[MrRobin]

Another email faux pas

You remember the Microsoft ads with the people wearing dinosaur heads? One of them was about a dino sending the salary details of every employee to everyone in the company and the new MS software was supposed to stop that kind of thing... Yeah sure.. noone could be that stupid, right?

Well, one of the HR muppets actually did this at my last client!

[Old Greg]

dont pimps stick together? gosh it is dog eat dog isn't it...

There is no honour amongst pimps.

[Old Greg]

Old Greg , and this is not ?

Interesting qusetion. Maybe - but that has no bearing on what the pimp did.

[2uk]

Sarah, is that you?

Yes it is me. And you are not getting anymore work from CP

[BrilloPad]

It is computer people so pile in

dont pimps stick together? gosh it is dog eat dog isn't it...

[2uk]

could you postthe email addresses on here please? obviously remove your own...

Old Greg , and this is not ?

[DodgyAgent]

So 460 got an email by mistake ,What is the big deal ? All of us receive about that volume in spam a week. Leave Sarah alone.

It is computer people so pile in

[XTC]

So 460 got an email by mistake ,What is the big deal ? All of us receive about that volume in spam a week. Leave Sarah alone.

Sarah, is that you?

[BrilloPad]

could you postthe email addresses on here please? obviously remove your own...