Thursday, August 16, 2007

Pimp My Help Request

so my new thing at work is trying to become best friends with the IT guy.

i send him semi-smartass replies when he tries to assist with my desperate help queries. and sometimes he responds with ":)" which means...

it's gonna be a great day!

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(that's lolol in binary code)

here's an example:

CALL...

From: Aparna
To: IT Guy

Hi IT Guy,

I’ve been putting ads on the McBoogle* webpage in the boxes on the very right but none of them show up when the page is saved even though they’re there. Any idea how to fix this?

Here is a picture of the bottom right boxes I’m trying to work with…
[insert helpful picture]

Thanks! ~Aparna

...AND RESPONSE!

From: IT Guy
To: Aparna

Aparna,

Theory: The webpage banner is too wide?

[link to webpage banner]

Please make it smaller (or take it off) to see if the other images are exposed.

IT Guy

CALL...

From: Aparna
To: IT Guy

IT Guy,

I hope you didn’t wager any money on that theory in the IT pool because it didn’t work…

But all suggestions are welcomed!

...AND RESPONSE!

From: IT Guy
To: Aparna

:)

*name changed to protect the innocence [of da world].

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2 comments:

moonrat said...

this sounds like an "office romance." "office romances" rock.

Aparna said...

no no nothing of that sort. more like a spiritual friendship born under mutual stress and suffering haha.