Ever have one of those days?

Posted on August 27, 2009 by johnfx

Every had one of those days? This is an actual word-for word exchange (names censored to protect the muggles) I had with someone in HR this week while trying to troubleshoot a problem they were having with our ERP system.

<Previous messages omitted>

From: John F
To: HR Person

Could you also send me that last import file you tried where it truncated the phone number?

From: HR Person
To: John F

The message is ready to be sent with the following file or link attachments:

[Attached HR.mdb]

From: John F
To: HR Person

Actually I need the import file, not the database. The c:\employees.csv file.

From: HR Person
To: John F

John,

I’m sorry, where do I find that?

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