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Oct 25, 2006
Mr. Bad Habits
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How many times do wasteful or useless habits at work slow you down or hold you back? Maybe your job has become a drag because of all that useless baggage...
My bad habit: Being talked into Cc'ing or Bcc'ing too many people on emails. I try to keep them down to only the appropriate and necessary people.
the confessor(10/28/2006)
My girlfriend is alternately puzzled and disgusted by email about better erections-and her first name is very feminine.
BPFH(10/28/2006)
For a while, my wife was getting all the penis enlargement spams (she has an obviously female name), and I was getting all the breast enlargement spams (I have an obviously male name, and I do NOT want man-boobs, thank you!). But to offer a potential solution to those problems, I use SpamBayes at work (http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/), and once the filter is properly trained (by you telling the filter what is and is not spam) it's really quite effective. (Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with developing SpamBayes, I just think it's good.)
JobSchmobber Community Comments
Victoria (10/28/2006)
I'm not real "computer savvy" with some of the lingo, but there has got to be a word for useless, vile, flotsam and jetsam emails perpetually sent back and forth all day. Example: I get TONS of chain-letters about how the Lord loves me (and I love Him!) but if I don't forward the chain-letter I and generations of my family to come will die the death of 1,000 shards, or whatever. Also, more tons of puppy,cat, roses galore and Barbie-Doll-esque angels letting me know how much I am loved. - You know I am a woman, but I don't get it why we females are particularly susceptible to this cloying junk. Also, the same gals that send me this mail are sending me disgusting (female chauvenism???) male cheesecake poses of "young hunks" and puerile bathroom type "jokes". - What is going on? Is EVERYONE a vulgarian these days? - After years of all this feminist pulaver about "womin" being the superior and gentle sex, I am bummed out and much, much prefer dealing with men in the workplace. But, I do digress....Do others of you get bombarded with this stuff?
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