"All my email has disappeared"
This is a genuine conversation I had with a colleague about 4 years ago
Me: Hmm, OK, we've got it all backed up so that's not a problem, but why has it all gone? And your inbox seems to have some mail in it. Where's the problem?

"All the email I'd filed has gone. There's thousands of important emails in there. This is ridiculous."

Where? You don't have any folders in your inbox - did you delete a whole folder?

"No - I press this X button on the email and it files it in this folder here..."

The 'Deleted Items' folder?

"Yes. Whatever it's called. Stop asking stupid questions: where has my email gone?"

That, dear reader, is left as an exercise for the student...
( chthonic, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 10:58, 3 replies)

Ah, the virtual equivalent of the round filing cabinet found under most desks
I am not surprised
( LemonEntryMyDearWatson This time, Moriarty, the hand is on the other foot, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 11:49, closed)

I can hear it now...
"All my bloody email just disappeared, so I get this computer guy over and the cunt starts talking all this technical jargon like I give a fuck. Just get my email back, ya prig!"

I swear I'm starting to not believe in genuine computer problems anymore.
(jessemoya, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 15:07, closed)

Ever since the network boffin for a bank that will remain unnamed
wanted to use the DMZ switch we look after as a replacement for some floor switch that blew "because it's only got two ports used on it" I don't trust ANYONE to get anything right anymore. He probably told people we were being anal about our gear after we told him to back away from the rack.

(the two ports were the in traffic and out traffic for the entire bank in this country...)
(Scritty Bakerman., Sat 26 Sep 2009, 15:43, closed)