And other such stories.
Our Accounts dept runs from 9am to 5pm. My own dept runs from 4pm til 8am (with a shift change in the middle)
Much of our accounts dept’s work depends on a set of files generated at the end of business for my dept.
Well today I arrived at 4pm to find an email requesting those files. After doing some unrelated work that is usually waiting for me when I get in I got around to investigating (I always do. It involves finding out why they didn’t get the files and taking steps to minimize the risk of/avoid it happening in future)
Well it seems the files did get sent. Strange. No reported problems either from my staff. Stranger.
So I have a look at the destination of the files. They’re sat there, as normal as night coming after day.
What on earth is going on.
So I go to the computer of the person asking for the files. I bring up the destination folder on their machine. It’s a Microsoft Outlook public folder.
I can see files for the day after. I can see files for the day before. But no files for the day in question.
What on earth!?
So I look closer.
One of the minuses isn’t a minus. It’s a plus.
I click the plus.
Abracadabra, shala-zam, bish bash bosh. There are the files!
So it turns out the poor guy sat waiting all day because Microsoft Outlook was all of sunday’s files from him.
Have thee a similar story to tell? It would be amusing I am sure. (probably more amusing than mine I excpect)