Post #87,800
3/12/03 7:08:06 PM
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Why do bosses think that sexual humor is funny?
I get an email from my boss asking why a particular Web program for searching by Zip codes is not working. I look into it and discover, to my great relief, that internal error messages are not being displayed on the Web site. Why? Because this is the error message our client's customers would have seen:
can't get my zip(per) up
This helpful message was buried in a program by my ex-boss, who left the company a few days ago.
This reminds me of an incident that happened here a couple of years ago. A programmer had me test some of his code and I discovered, to my astonishment, that one of the hyperlinks went to a Thai porn site. I discovered this right as our office manager walked up. I think she believed that I wasn't surfing porn, but since I was the new guy, it looked really, really bad. Had this slipped into production, we'd might have gone out of business back then. It's okay to have fun and games at work (it's mandatory, IMHO), but not with stuff like this, and never with potentially sexual content that a client might see.
"If I heard a voice from heaven say 'live without loving',
I'd beg off. Girls are such exquisite hell." -- Ovid
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Post #87,807
3/12/03 7:34:44 PM
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Unprofessional, sexual or not.
Funny comments/messages are funny until a client (or another employee) without a sense of humor sees them.
Now, having said that, I've put a few comments in programs out of frustration or out of a misguided attempt at humor. It's hard to be utterly professional 100% of the time. ;-)
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #87,835
3/12/03 8:58:33 PM
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funny non sexual non racial are fine
but I am always surprised at the behavior of folks at some companies. Telecomms seem to be bad that way.
thanx,
bill
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Post #87,870
3/12/03 10:02:15 PM
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The problem being...
You never know when a piece of code is going to end up being sent to a client.
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #87,861
3/12/03 9:55:59 PM
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Re: Unprofessional, sexual or not.
/*
/* here be dragons
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-drl
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Post #87,869
3/12/03 10:01:38 PM
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There be a syntax error.
Depending on the compiler. ;-)
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #87,890
3/12/03 10:35:24 PM
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funny - I did think about that
..but my compiler passed it, so there.
-drl
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Post #87,826
3/12/03 8:47:54 PM
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Try this one on for size...
At one of my previous jobs, one of our major clients was Heyman Corporation. I was VNC'ed into one of their machines from my site, on the phone with the female sitting at that terminal, and going through a quick explanation about how to use MSIE. So, up came IE.
Me: Now, let's go to the Heyman company home page.
Me [typing]: [link|http://www.heyman.com/|http://www.heyman.com/]
MSIE: Dutifully pulls up the porn site I just entered.
Me: Uhhhh, shit. Whoops. Sorry 'bout that.
Me [typing]: [link|http://www.heymancorp.com/|http://www.heymancorp.com/]
Thankfully, she had a sense of humor. :)
-YendorMike
[link|http://www.hope-ride.org/|http://www.hope-ride.org/]
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Post #87,867
3/12/03 10:00:10 PM
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Did she have a sense of anything else?
-drl
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Post #87,943
3/13/03 1:03:42 AM
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Howdyou pronounce that?
Many fears are born of stupidity and ignorance -
Which you should be feeding with rumour and generalisation.
BOfH, 2002 "Episode" 10
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Post #88,398
3/14/03 5:33:20 PM
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Happened to me a few times
usually when code is shared, someone else changes it and if you do not detect it, it gets sent out. I had someone do that to my code, they bypassed the Frontpage and Source Safe controls by writing over the file directly even thought it was read-only and checked out by me. Some of the error messages got changed, and if someone clicked on an area 12 times, it would change the font and size and color until they clicked on it 12 times again.
Why? I have no idea. I also got pictures of Eddie Munster put on my seat after my son was born. I also had my seat adjusted by someone who came in earlier or later than me, and someone who also messed up my desk at least once a week.
"Bill gates cannot guarantee Windows, so how are you going to guarantee my safety?"
-John Crichton to the Emperor of the Scarrans on [link|http://www.farscape.com|FarScape]
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Post #88,755
3/16/03 11:56:54 PM
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Where's Meekat? :-)
I know he has some stories about amusing error codes he put into a program.
And then they got triggered one day...
Wade.
Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
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Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please
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Post #89,007
3/18/03 3:16:31 AM
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Thought I'd related that tale too many times already.
However, maybe that was on the old II or Jabber or even on SleazyBoard, coz all I could find was [link|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=48342|this post] that I made last year.
To cut a long story short(ish), many years ago I had to write a program in VB to control a [link|http://www.olivetti.co.ls/olivetti/printers/pr2.htm|nifty receipt printer] used out in branch-land. And, got bored whilst doing all the error-checking logic.
So some of the choice error messages were "Orange Marmalade? No, it's a Paper Jam!", plus the 'parrot-y error' one mention in my old post linked above.
The help desk, upon receiving said errors (which never turned up in testing, may I add, else I may have made them more sensible), were very much 'What the ...?' but really, the tellers never mis-reported these errors, as they were non-technical folks and tended to make mistakes when reporting arcane error numbers from other applications.
My boss, fortunatey, was amused :)
John. Busy lad.
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Post #89,619
3/19/03 9:48:54 PM
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Perhaps.
But I love it nonetheless. :-)
I also liked the detail when one of the support guys from level 1 encountered one of these errors for the first time - and in the field, too. He was also amused, IIRC. It probably made for a most memorable day!
Wade.
Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
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Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please
| -- "Anything but Ordinary" by Avril Lavigne. |
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Post #108,928
7/9/03 7:09:01 PM
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Re: Why do bosses think that sexual humor is funny?
At one time, there was a link somewhere in the msdn site that linked to something called nymphette.com. Very funny from the outside.
WWJD?
JWRTFM.
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Post #108,984
7/10/03 10:05:15 AM
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ICLRPD (new thread)
Created as new thread #108983 titled [link|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=108983|ICLRPD]
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Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.
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Post #108,941
7/9/03 10:56:31 PM
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Re: Why do bosses think that sexual humor is funny?
It's like clapping you on the shoulder or insisting on paying for everything. It's just a sign of being in charge.
-drl
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Post #108,970
7/10/03 7:48:49 AM
7/10/03 7:49:46 AM
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Because it IS often actually pretty damn funny, perhaps...?
Or maybe because the incredible prudery that is deemed "politically correct" nowadays (at least over there on the wrong side of the Pond) is just fucking ridiculous?
Hey, these are just a couple of guesses; maybe you know better how incwedibly FENFITIVE your poow widdle cufty-wuftomerf are...
...but personally, if someone couldn't take an error message like "can't get my zip(per) up", I'd take PRIDE in not doing business with the fucker.
[Edit: Corrected case in "Subject:" line.]
[link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad]
(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575|Ashton Brown]
Edited by CRConrad
July 10, 2003, 07:49:46 AM EDT
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