Pilot fish gets a call from the IT manager, who wants to know if fish has set up the extension number for a new employee in accounting."My reply, of course, was 'Yes sir!'" says fish."Then he asked me what the new extension number was."A bit taken aback, I told him, '@#$%!, I don't know.' I don't remember extension numbers after I set them up any more than I remember user passwords after they're initially assigned. "I told him if he liked I could hang up, press the contacts button on my desk phone, type in her name and call him back with the number."His reply? 'Sure, would you do that for me?'"Yes, we're using similar phones on the same PBX. But my answer, of course, was 'Yes sir!'"I think he wrote it down..." Write down your true tale of IT life and send it to me at Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spambots geschützt! Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein!. You'll get a stylish Shark shirt if I use it. Comment on today's tale at Sharky's Google+ community, and read thousands of great old tales in the Sharkives.Get Sharky's outtakes from the IT Theater of the Absurd delivered directly to your Inbox. Subscribe now to the Daily Shark Newsletter.
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Pilot fish gets a call from the IT manager, who wants to know if fish has set up the extension number for a new employee in accounting."My reply, of course, was 'Yes sir!'" says fish."Then he asked me what the new extension number was."A bit taken aback, I told him, '@#$%!, I don't know.' I don't remember extension numbers after I set them up any more than I remember user passwords after they're initially assigned. "I told him if he liked I could hang up, press the contacts button on my desk phone, type in her name and call him back with the number."His reply? 'Sure, would you do that for me?'"Yes, we're using similar phones on the same PBX. But my answer, of course, was 'Yes sir!'"I think he wrote it down..." Write down your true tale of IT life and send it to me at Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spambots geschützt! Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein!. You'll get a stylish Shark shirt if I use it. Comment on today's tale at Sharky's Google+ community, and read thousands of great old tales in the Sharkives.Get Sharky's outtakes from the IT Theater of the Absurd delivered directly to your Inbox. Subscribe now to the Daily Shark Newsletter.