# This is why I want to go home early today
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [July 17, 2008, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883 "2008-07-17T23:24:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2008, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883/1 "2008-07-17T23:24:05Z")
Real life email conversation:
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To: Locator Database Guy
From: Karen
Subject: Map Correction: Room
I cannot find Feynman in the conference room locator.
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To: Karen
From: Locator Database Guy
Subject: Re: Map Correction: Room
Are you sure Feynman is an employee here? I have checked in the employee database and there is no Feynman.
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To: Locator Database Guy
From: Karen
Subject: Re: Map Correction: Room
Feynman is a conference room in Building 18. I was using the conference room locator, not the employee locator.
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To: Karen
From: Locator Database Guy
Subject: Re: Map Correction: Room
# Well, you’ve answered your own question: to locate conference rooms, you need to use the confrence room locator.
:rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2008, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883/2 "2008-07-18T00:36:49Z")
Gah.
Cool that you have a conference room named Feynman, though. What are the others called?
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### Author:  [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2008, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883/3 "2008-07-18T00:42:04Z")
[QUOTE=PastAllReason]
Gah.
Cool that you have a conference room named Feynman, though. What are the others called?
[/QUOTE]
In Building 18, they are mostly named after famous scientists: Faraday, Aristotle, Hawking, Newton, Shockley.
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2008, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883/4 "2008-07-18T00:55:55Z")
No Behe?
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### Author:  [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2008, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883/5 "2008-07-18T01:29:32Z")
[QUOTE=]
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To: Locator Database Guy
From: Karen
Subject: Employee Locator: Locator Database Guy
As of 9:00 AM, I have checked the employee database and there is no longer an employee named Locator Database Guy.
Regards, Karen
[/QUOTE]
Send this just to freak him out.
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### Author:  [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2008, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883/6 "2008-07-18T01:37:39Z")
[QUOTE=Karen Lingel]
To: Karen
From: Locator Database Guy
Subject: Re: Map Correction: Room
Well, you’ve answered your own question: to locate conference rooms, you need to use the confrence room locator.
[/QUOTE]
Surely he’s joking!
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### Author:  [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2008, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883/7 "2008-07-18T02:10:40Z")
_twitch twitch_
I’m getting that crap with my father, but he’s got an excuse. Why don’t you ask Locater Database Guy if he’s been tested for Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus lately? It sure looks like the symptoms I’m familiar with. 😉
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### Author:  [@vix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vix)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2008, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883/8 "2008-07-18T02:26:15Z")
I feel your pain, but methinks you were just being too “subtle” for poor literal-minded Database Location Guy. What if you tried:
“I attempted to locate the Feynman Conference Room, which is a conference room in Building 18, in the conference room locater, but it didn’t show up. There must be a glitch in the conference room locater. Can you fix it, please?”
Of course, he’ll probably just reply by saying, “Why were you looking it up if you know where it is?” 😛
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### Author:  [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2008, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883/9 "2008-07-18T02:34:17Z")
“Morons. I’ve got morons on my team.”
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### Author:  [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2008, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883/10 "2008-07-18T03:28:50Z")
Awww, maybe he’s just having a bad day. I was left in charge of my store for a week about a month back, and my rep sent me this email:
> [@](#):
>
> Stasia,
>
> We need to send our driver out to pick up [X product] from [big client]. The product is faulty, and we need to replace it with the new batches. It will be no charge, and we need it done by tomorrow, or Thursday at the latest.
>
> Here are the faulty batch numbers:
>
> XX00
> YY11
> ZZ22
>
> Please double check the new product batch codes to make sure they are new! Get back to me ASAP.
I wrote back:
> [@](#):
>
> [Rep],
>
> I’m on it, I can get it done by tomorrow morning.
>
> Stasia
>
> PS - **you wouldn’t happen to have the faulty batch numbers, would you? That would really help**.
:smack:
And, I CC’d the damn thing to our regional manager (who was on the original CC list, but now he gets to see my moronic response). :smack: :smack:
I chalked it up to lack of coffee and my rep brought me a latte. 😃
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### Author:  [@adhemar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhemar)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2008, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883/11 "2008-07-18T03:31:16Z")
Where I worked the conference rooms were named after barbeque restaurants. Rendezvous and Interstate were a bit confusing if you weren’t in the know but the latest one was Three Little Pigs.
Adhemar
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### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2008, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883/12 "2008-07-18T03:39:33Z")
To: Karen
From: Locator Database Guy
You wrote “_Feynman_”, but perhaps you meant _“Fenneman”_? Do you love Groucho as much as I do? Maybe we should get together!
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### Author:  [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2008, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883/13 "2008-07-18T03:52:50Z")
I’ve had worse conversations with tech guys. No kidding.
Some _really, really_ good IT types are so technical-minded that they’re basically retarded in all other manners of thinking.
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2008, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883/14 "2008-07-18T03:59:05Z")
Five years ago, when I went to work for D-Link Systems in Irvine, the conference rooms in the building were named after Southern California ski resorts (Arrowhead, Mammoth, Big Bear). When the company moved headquarters to Fountain Valley about six months later, the conference rooms in the new building had THE EXACT SAME NAMES!
How the hell did they manage that, I wonder?
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### Author:  [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2008, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883/15 "2008-07-18T13:04:44Z")
Yesterday, someone called me to come fix the copier. (I ordered it, so I know all about servicing it, right?) I went over and found that the finisher component was separated from the rest of the machine by about a foot. I pushed it back together and ta da! Fixed!
About two minutes later, the same person came after me again. “The copier won’t work!” I go look at it and the display screen says it is out of paper. :smack:
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Someone else sent me an email because I can forward it on to the whole group. The email says she needs everyone’s schedule. I change the title of the email to make it clear that _she_ needs everyone’s schedule. Naturally, everyone has sent their schedule to _me_.
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### Author:  [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2008, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883/16 "2008-07-18T13:45:50Z")
[QUOTE=Karen Lingel]
Real life email conversation:
======
To: Locator Database Guy
From: Karen
Subject: Map Correction: Room
I cannot find Feynman in the conference room locator.
======
To: Karen
From: Locator Database Guy
Subject: Re: Map Correction: Room
Are you sure Feynman is an employee here? I have checked in the employee database and there is no Feynman.
======
To: Locator Database Guy
From: Karen
Subject: Re: Map Correction: Room
Feynman is a conference room in Building 18. I was using the conference room locator, not the employee locator.
======
To: Karen
From: Locator Database Guy
Subject: Re: Map Correction: Room
# Well, you’ve answered your own question: to locate conference rooms, you need to use the confrence room locator.
:rolleyes:
[/QUOTE]
Now you mess with his mind. . .
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To: Locator Database Guy
From: Karen
Subject: Re: Map Correction: Room
Ok, I checked the employee database and found Feynman. Thanks so much.
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2008, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883/17 "2008-07-18T14:07:28Z")
[QUOTE=her]
i just input her intake into the database manually, and after i click submit, it doesnt take it. tit still shows that intake has not been approved, and when i click on the pt,non of the info is saved!!! help!!!
[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=me]
I fixed it.
[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=her]
thanks! by the way, i didnt mean to say “tit still shows” i meant to say “it” 🙂
[/QUOTE]
..
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2008, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883/18 "2008-07-18T14:08:57Z")
[QUOTE=Trunk]
Now you mess with his mind. . .
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To: Locator Database Guy
From: Karen
Subject: Re: Map Correction: Room
Ok, I checked the employee database and found Feynman. Thanks so much.
[/QUOTE]
😃 I’d go with this.
Daniel
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### Author:  [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2008, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883/19 "2008-07-18T14:10:52Z")
Feynman not here man.
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### Author:  [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2008, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883/20 "2008-07-18T14:29:12Z")
Around here our conference rooms are named after local high school mascots.
They rejected my suggestion to call them Amityville, Bates, etc.
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