LOL.. Funny incident at office.

[maximus maximus]

There is one more guy in my office, who works in a different IT department, but has the same first and last name as mine.

Whenever his teammates send his emails, mostly they copy my id as well, because they dont know who is who.

I have written emails to him and his teammates so many times, telling that I am not the guy they are looking for. But everyday morning, I seem to get a ton of emails and the worst part is that others use "reply-all" to those emails.

Today morning, I came to the office early and found some 6 emails which did not belong to me. The emails were asking me to find some kind of id in the database. I got so angry, that I sent a random id to them..

After that emails kept bouncing back and forth asking me for more ids... I kept on replying with some random numbers. After an hour or so... someone realized that I was not the guy and the information I was providing was total junk. Looks like they have to redo a lot of the work they had done in the past hour.

I got an email asking why I was replying for something for which I had no information.. I replied. You ask the wrong person, you get the wrong reply.

I dont think I am getting any more emails from them.

Cliffs -
-One more guy in office with same name.
-I keep getting emails meant for him.
-Today started replying to those emails with junk answers.
-screw around with some people.
-winnar?

 

[iamwiz82]

Yeah, that's a good move for those who want to limit their careers.

 

[zixxer]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Yeah, that's a good move for those who want to limit their careers.

 

[eLiTeGoodGuy]

good one

 

[calvinbiss]

zing....ouch!

 

[R Nilla]

Wow...

 

[Syringer]

After an hour or so... someone realized that I was not the guy and the information I was providing was total junk. Looks like they have to redo a lot of the work they had done in the past hour.

:roll:

Will it be funny if they fire you?

 

[aleckz]

would your name happen to be john smith?

 

[SonnyDaze]

Uh....yeah. While you're at it, shoot an email to the bossman and tell him to fvck off!!

 

[dirtylimey]

Two people called maximus maximus in the same company??

Shens!

lol funny story though, I would probably get fired if i tried that in the last job i had where I had a similar problem. Would always get emails from my namesakes colleagues about new drugs in development, calling card pins etc. /sigh

 

[huberm]

not exactly a brilliant career move, but I probably would have done it too

 

[rivan]

Originally posted by: Syringer

After an hour or so... someone realized that I was not the guy and the information I was providing was total junk. Looks like they have to redo a lot of the work they had done in the past hour.

:roll:

Will it be funny if they fire you?

 

[MisterJackson]

I'm with the crowd on this one, while mildly funny it was not too bright on your part.

 

[KB]

LOL... Funny career self-pwnage at the office.

Don't expect to make any friends there.

 

[Hammerhead]

u r teh fired!

 

[astrosfan90]

Originally posted by: MisterJackson
I'm with the crowd on this one, while mildly funny it was not too bright on your part.

 

[J0hnny]

That's why you should go to the IT team to change email/name to reflect a distinction.
Our company has over 15,000 employees and this is how we deal with it.

Example:
John Doe (IT team A)
John Doe (Accountant)
John Doe (Manager of Team B)

 

[GasX]

fat, drunk and stupid is not way to go through life, son...

 

[Steve]

Let us know if HR wants to speak with you this afternoon.

 

[meltdown75]

:Q

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Yeah, that's a good move for those who want to limit their careers.

:thumbsup:

Congrats OP, you're 2/2 with the self-pwnage in as many days.

 

[Syringer]

How old are you btw?

 

[FoBoT]

yes, geta chocolate cake recipe and reply with that

 

[fLum0x]

we have two similar names for sure. We have a Jonathan Sims and a Jon Sims. Jonathan is a friend of mine and an IT guy, while Jon is the Director/VP of IT :x

I have called Jon Sims a couple times by mistake

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: Syringer

After an hour or so... someone realized that I was not the guy and the information I was providing was total junk. Looks like they have to redo a lot of the work they had done in the past hour.

:roll:

Will it be funny if they fire you?

Yes, to us.