What Stpid Thing Have You Done Today?

[Kevy Baby]

I sent two texts meant for Susan to my boss today.

Thankfully, it wasn't anything horrible.

But, oh what could have been...

[blueerica]

The I did an email faux pas classic, the "Reply to All". No clue as to why I would have hit reply to all, but now everyone knows my company cell phone choice with Verizon.

Mwah, mwah, mwaaahhh....

[Kevy Baby]

I thought I lost my cell phone earlier today.

I had taken it with me to the restroom (to play a game - no phone calls in the potty) and apparently left it there. When I realized I had done this, I checked with both the management office (which is on the same floor) and security (neither had it). I also tried to call the phone a couple of times but no one answered.

I used the "Find My iPhone" feature (anyone with an iPhone should have this in place - if not, do so now) to try to locate my phone. When it came up on a map, it showed the phone being on a street that is a mile or so away. What I didn't realize at the time was that what it was showing me was the center of a very large circle of where the phone was - probably about a mile+ radius around that point.

While I was looking at the "Find my iPhone" map, I saw that one of the options (besides locking my phone and wiping my phone, the latter of which was what I was getting ready to do) was to send a message to the phone, which I did (and apparently it plays a really annoying sound at the same time).

Well, this got the person's attention (where apparently the two calls I made to the phone did not) and they called immediately. Someone from another office had picked it up and gave it to their receptionist who was planning on giving it to security on their way out to lunch. Problem solved.

What I was most pissed about was the possibility of having to replace my iPhone before the G5s came out.

[RStar]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

I sent two texts meant for Susan to my boss today.

Thankfully, it wasn't anything horrible.

But, oh what could have been...

I'm not sure how that speaks to how you feel about your boss, or about Susan, that you'd confuse the two.

But, glad you found your phone. Even if it did almost get you fired.

[Kevy Baby]

Another Stpid thing...

I had been holding off on this one until I knew how things would work out (which they did). I will get the what-could-have-been-terrible-news out of the way first. Spoilerized in case you want to skip it.

Spoiler:

Two weeks ago, both of our Chameleons had issues which caused us to take them to the vet; the male had some spots on his back that we were concerned about and the female slit her own throat (we're pretty sure it was her typical clumsiness and not an attempted suicide). The spots on the male turned out to be normal and non-lethal (and pretty innocuous), but the vet found an abscess in his mouth which normally wouldn't be caught until it was too late - thankfully we caught it early and could do something about it. For the female, she got a couple of stitches.

Last Friday morning, when I was feeding everyone, I found the female (Karma) on the bottom of her cage and she was black (not a good sign). I honestly thought we had lost her as she didn't move at all for a couple of minutes after I picked her up and even then, it was barely perceptible. I will state right now that she will be fine (otherwise I wouldn't be posting this); however, Friday morning, I honestly did not think she would make it.

So why is this in the "What Stpid Thing Have You Done Today?" thread? Because Susan sent me a text letting me know she was on the way to the vet.



And I asked her if Karma was still alive.

Did I think Susan be taking a dead animal to the vet?

[alphabassettgrrl]

Glad the little girl will make it.

If it makes you feel better, I probably would have asked the same thing....

[JWBear]

I accidentally left the oven on all last night.

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by JWBear

I accidentally left the oven on all last night.

I've done 3 days

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by JWBear

I accidentally left the oven on all last night.

I've left the gas stove on. Thankfully there was nothing on the stove.

[Ghoulish Delight]

So I've been trying for a week+ to get something tested at our office in India. It needs to be tested before this week is over.

With the nearly 12 hour time difference, things are difficult, any communication takes a full day. As if that weren't enough delay, Monday was a holiday in India, and then the person who was supposed to do the work had to take the week off for an emergency.

So I asked on Wednesday for remote access to their systems so I could just do it myself. Instead the manager said he'd find someone else to do the work (would be way faster for me to just do it myself).

Yesterday, at almost 5PM (around 6AM India time), I got an email from someone about installing the software necessary (see the "Workplace reallyisms" thread for the substance of that email). We exchanged emails for a little while, then they stopped responding, so I went home. I kept checking in at home, trying to get status. Got no response, so I went to bed after 11 (middle of the work day in India) with one more email saying, "This is critical, I need to get this done tomorrow, please let me log in remotely".

Well, he responded shortly after I sent that. And from his response (and the appearance of an email from someone else in India) it finally dawned on me...this guy is not in our office in India, he's in San Jose.

He has an ethnically Indian name. And his manager (copied on the emails) has the same first name as the manager in India. And he working on exactly what someone in India would be working on if they were trying to do the testing I needed them to do. So I never thought to question it.

But now I feel kinda racist and had to send an uncomfortable apology email (I decided not to say, "I thought you were in India", just said "I mistook this for a different email conversation.").


ETA: Of course, the questions that this guy was asking were stupid, no matter what country he's in