Because I've been stuck on the song, my GTalk status message since yesterday has been "I wanna know, have you ever seen the rain coming down on a sunny day?".
And since then I've gotten more than one friend telling me they haven't in a while, and good that they haven't because when it rains on sunny days it means ghosts are getting married. Hilarious.
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Monday, June 25, 2007
I'm shamelessly borrowing the wit of another human being for this post. This is something we guffawed at for a while in the office. Of course, I'm not giving out full names to protect the identities of those involved, not to mention my rear end. Here goes...
Background:
There's this new joinee Kedar who landed himself, thanks to yours truly, a rather simple first project where he had to change the signature in our document templates from the previous VP of Operations to the new VP - Allan Lastname. Now, we weren't sure what designation to put under the signature, and Kedar of course wanted that clarified (these things are important when legalities are involved). So, being the *ahem* good mentor I am, I jotted down the correspondence for him. Except, instead of Allan, in a sudden fit of unforced mental randomization, I wrote down Andrew. The smart mentee of mine noticed this and changed the name back to Allan, except he didn't do that in all places. Not all that smart after all, huh? (I'm one to talk!) Anyway, the end result was this:
"Please indicate what designation needs to go along with the signatures where necessary. For Allan Lastname, I'm thinking of using 'Andrew LastName, Vice President'."
Crisis:
Needless to say, this was a hilariously tragic error that was both preposterous and illogical at the same time, and we never noticed it until Allan replied:
"Vincent and Michael will keep you correct on the title. I would suggest we do not use Andrew Lastname as indicated. Two points on this, first that is my uncle and he has been dead for a long time and therefore unlikely to be interested! Second, it is not my name.. Just wondering, where did you get the idea to use Andrew?"
Thanks for that sense of humour Allan. We heartily laughed at ourselves today!
Background:
There's this new joinee Kedar who landed himself, thanks to yours truly, a rather simple first project where he had to change the signature in our document templates from the previous VP of Operations to the new VP - Allan Lastname. Now, we weren't sure what designation to put under the signature, and Kedar of course wanted that clarified (these things are important when legalities are involved). So, being the *ahem* good mentor I am, I jotted down the correspondence for him. Except, instead of Allan, in a sudden fit of unforced mental randomization, I wrote down Andrew. The smart mentee of mine noticed this and changed the name back to Allan, except he didn't do that in all places. Not all that smart after all, huh? (I'm one to talk!) Anyway, the end result was this:
"Please indicate what designation needs to go along with the signatures where necessary. For Allan Lastname, I'm thinking of using 'Andrew LastName, Vice President'."
Crisis:
Needless to say, this was a hilariously tragic error that was both preposterous and illogical at the same time, and we never noticed it until Allan replied:
"Vincent and Michael will keep you correct on the title. I would suggest we do not use Andrew Lastname as indicated. Two points on this, first that is my uncle and he has been dead for a long time and therefore unlikely to be interested! Second, it is not my name.. Just wondering, where did you get the idea to use Andrew?"
Thanks for that sense of humour Allan. We heartily laughed at ourselves today!
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