I'll start with the other annoyances.
Today was the first day back at work after my four day weekend. I was greeted with over 100 messages in my in-box, most of which were due to people being stupid. It seems that, some time Monday afternoon, whilst I was blissfully not at work due to Canadian Thanksgiving, some employee (presumably from one of the American offices) thought it would be a good idea to send what was essentially spam to pretty much the entire company, though, granted, it could have been an honest mistake. However, this was followed by people using reply to all to basically say "wtf?", despite being repeatedly told (including at least once by an admin) to NOT USE THE REPLY TO ALL button. Of course, people kept doing it, because, well, they're dumb.
Frankly, it does kind of amaze me that people have to be told to not use reply to all for something like that in the first place, let alone need to be told repeatedly not to do so and then keep on doing it. I mean, it's not like 99% of the people getting all those e-mails could actually do anything about it, the only person that needed to be replied to at all was the original sender. For my part, I would have (and did) just ignored and deleted the original message - and that is in fact what the CIO told people they ought to have done in the first place in a message today basically admonishing people for being stupid. (Though he didn't actually call them stupid, but probably should have.)
Anyway, moving on... today is the Canadian federal election. Joy. The one good thing I have to say about it, is that it's super convenient that I'm able to cast my vote in the building I live in - and I did so, pretty much right after walking into the lobby with basically no wait. But as to the election itself, I have to say that it's unfortunate that our political leaders are so, well... lame. They're all fairly uninspiring. Oh well. I've done my bit for democracy, so all I have to do now is wait and see how it all turns out.
Freak Out,
-TFitC
1 comment:
Hey, at least you live in a province where your vote (should you not be voting Conservative) might make a difference. Only one seat in all of Alberta went to a non-Conservative candidate and it probably took the bulk of the eligible student body of the U of A to do it. (An NDP candidate was elected in Strathacona.)
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