Herman by Jim Unger for September 22, 2024

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    Yakety Sax  2 months ago

    That’s How The Greeks Got Into Troy, Ya Know

    I’m an IT technician. So is my colleague, but he is… well… a bit special. One day, a customer sends an email, which [Colleague] reads but doesn’t tell me about. I haven’t seen it because I only look at the mailbox when I see there’re unread messages. Our boss has also seen it but not opened it, so he comes over, his wife with him, and asks us about it.

    Boss: “What about that email from [Customer]?”

    Colleague: “I’ve seen it.”

    Boss: “Did you check it out?”

    I now look at the email. It is a forwarded email that the customer received supposedly from a delivery service with a PDF attached, supposedly an invoice. The customer asks us to open the file in an isolated environment to check if it’s legit, or possibly infected.

    Colleague: “Okay, they sent us a file. Let’s look inside.”

    Boss, Boss’s Wife, & Me: “NO!“

    He had almost opened a potentially malware-infected file, on his work PC, because he didn’t think. As an IT technician. Luckily, he didn’t, and I checked the file on a sandbox I have set up specifically for that purpose (it looked legit), but my boss really ripped into him.

    (not MY story)

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    sandpiper  2 months ago

    They still end up in the dump file, just sooner

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    John M  2 months ago

    When everything is the top priority – nothing is.

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    MayCauseBurns  2 months ago

    YOUR high priority is rarely MY high priority.

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  2 months ago

    True dat.

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    My First Premium Member 2 months ago

    Usually, it’s scams posing as real concerns for you. Pro tip – When someone says to go out and but gift cards, and then provide the numbers to the person to make the problem go away, you may be dealing with a scam artist.

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    dflak  2 months ago

    When I build my resume, I use caps and bold and underline sparingly. Over use like ALL CAPS on a post obscures what is important.

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    mourdac Premium Member 2 months ago

    Delete everything in your inbox at the end of the day. If it’s important, they’ll resend it.

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    Twelve Badgers in a Suit Premium Member 2 months ago

    That will work for about 24 hours, after which they’ll start ignoring all of your emails.

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    mistercatworks  2 months ago

    Nobody sorts on “priority” anymore for just that reason. There is no “feature” that cannot be subverted into uselessness.

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    cuzinron47  2 months ago

    That will be a priority deletion.

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    Strawberry King  2 months ago

    Neither is “Super Duper Important”

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    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  2 months ago

    “FAILURE TO PLAN ON YOUR PART DOES NOT CONSTITUTE AN EMERGENCY ON MY PART”

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    cheap_day_return  2 months ago

    You know you’re living too fast when a microwave isn’t fast enough.

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