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On Fri, 12 May 2017 18:15:05 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> >> Causes no end of confusion when the firewall admin replies to a |
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> >> ticket saying he'll do it and revert. |
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> > I'd be complaining about someone like that the whole time. |
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> > "Why the *beep* will you revert all changes before we can even test |
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> > them? You *beeeeeep*" |
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> True story: |
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> I used to do exactly that, then got into horrible trouble with HR, and |
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> disciplinary hearing and $DEITY knows what else. |
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> Turned out one of the fellows I called a *beeeeeep* was the CEO of our |
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> subsidiary in Ghana |
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Couldn't you simply explain that, as with revert, *beeeeeep* now has an |
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alternative, non-offensive meaning ;-) |
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Neil Bothwick |
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