Corporate Idiocy
Comedian Al Murray recounts a run-in with industrial-scale stupidity: "Car insurance company rang, without having sent me a renewal letter, asking for money. Made them answer security questions." In the same vein, tell us your stories about pointless paperwork and corporate quarter-wits
( , Thu 23 Feb 2012, 12:13)
Comedian Al Murray recounts a run-in with industrial-scale stupidity: "Car insurance company rang, without having sent me a renewal letter, asking for money. Made them answer security questions." In the same vein, tell us your stories about pointless paperwork and corporate quarter-wits
( , Thu 23 Feb 2012, 12:13)
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Not surprised
A mate designs webpages for a charity. In the early days of the Web, his predecessors used to physically print out the pages and the underlying source and put them in a box which would then be posted recorded delivery to the charity archive. Recorded deliveries have the date of posting, and if they're unopened are accepted by the courts as a original copyright. They can be resealed in court and still qualify for further cases.
Apparently, if you submit stuff to Jeffrey Archer's publishers your agent will insist you do this.
( , Tue 28 Feb 2012, 11:50, 1 reply)
A mate designs webpages for a charity. In the early days of the Web, his predecessors used to physically print out the pages and the underlying source and put them in a box which would then be posted recorded delivery to the charity archive. Recorded deliveries have the date of posting, and if they're unopened are accepted by the courts as a original copyright. They can be resealed in court and still qualify for further cases.
Apparently, if you submit stuff to Jeffrey Archer's publishers your agent will insist you do this.
( , Tue 28 Feb 2012, 11:50, 1 reply)
Not concerned about copyright
More that any inane dribblings or woeful misunderstandings I might have scrawled while drunk or tripping have become official history since they are on apparently authoritative sources.
Still, I guess that's a pretty good definition of the internet, really...
( , Tue 28 Feb 2012, 12:16, closed)
More that any inane dribblings or woeful misunderstandings I might have scrawled while drunk or tripping have become official history since they are on apparently authoritative sources.
Still, I guess that's a pretty good definition of the internet, really...
( , Tue 28 Feb 2012, 12:16, closed)
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