# Your examples of people throwing their weight around.

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 23, 2012, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-examples-of-people-throwing-their-weight-around/641868 "2012-11-23T02:35:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-examples-of-people-throwing-their-weight-around/641868/21 "2012-11-25T01:20:59Z")

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> [@Clothahump](#):
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> We had a server crash the other day. One of the supervisors called and bitched about how this was slowing down her productivity and how we needed to send out notifications in advance of a crash so she could make provisions for it.

"Dear Supervisor,

"The IT staff regrets deeply the negative impacts on your productivity from server crashes. With my boss’s concurrence, I have issued a directive that you and other Supervisors be given at least 24 hours advance warning of any future scheduled server crashes.

"Do bear in mind, however. that much as with fire drills, this will have no impact on unscheduled server crashes, which do not originate from IT actions.

"I trust this pro-active step will serve to alleviate your concerns to the extent possible.

“Sincerely,  
Clothahump”

😃

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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-examples-of-people-throwing-their-weight-around/641868/22 "2012-11-25T02:19:26Z")

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> [@Butterscotch](#):
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> “I am very busy and important.” is a quote from the Bridget Jones film. I know a few English people who use it to be funny.

Interesting!

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