It's not about me, it's about clue

[j4]

Email conversations you don't want to have last thing in the day:

ME: Please circulate the work you've done so far to attendees before the end of tomorrow.
THEM: Unfortunately, the webpages are too large to be sent via my email, so I will have to forward them to you all via UMS.
ME: WTFFF?
ME: What format are these pages in? Can you gzip them?
THEM: They are screenshots from Paint in Word so each screenshot takes up more that my email allowance.

Email conversations you don't want to have first thing in the morning:

ME: I notice this [Reporter PDF] says "Orders of Examinations 2005" at the top of each page. Shouldn't it be 2006?
THEM: Whoops! it has been printed like that!

*headdesk*

Comments

[j4.livejournal.com]

Giving them the benefit of the doubt for a moment, it's possible that the screenshots in question are from a web-based application that most of the people who'll be looking at this info don't have access to.

Possible.

So I won't shoot them yet.

But even if they are... aaaauughhh. There have to be better ways!!

a web-based application that most of the people who'll be looking at this info don't have access to.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

It's even *likely*. Especially if eg. they were emailing from the university network and you you weren't. I just thought it was funny if they hadn't thought of that. And that, if it was html, they couldn't just copy that! Or at least COMPRESS their bitmaps! It's be quicker to read it to you.