And another one that no-one will believe....
.... but it is true.

So it's a day like any other, a server had died and was being fixed (yes turned off and booted back up). But on this occasion it was a mail server so lots of people were contacting us about it.

An email was sent out detailing that it was being looked into and we hoped to have it back in the next 15 mins.

10 minutes later it's back up and running so my colleague writes out the email detailing this.

NOTE: We had a standard format for these emails and *luckily* had a rule about always getting someone else to read the email before sending it out.

So I get called over to glance over the thing before sending, I peruse the document for a few seconds and was about to say 'yeah fine, send it' when I spotted the greatest line ever.

My colleague was dyslectic (I'm sure that word is intentially hard to spell) and had put the following (thereabouts, confidential crap removed).

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FAO Mailserver1 Users

Please be aware that the problems reported with Mailserver1 have been resolved.

The server is now back online and can be accessed as normal.

Any emails received during the downtime will be delivered over the next hour.

We apologise for any incontinence this outage may have caused.

Kind Regards,

IT


Yes that's right, he'd tried to type 'inconvenience' then right clicked on the spelling error and chosen the first option in the list.

I still think of some poor manager pissing himself because the email is down everytime an email server stops working.....
(Klynton, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 22:33, 2 replies)

I love how
in a post about dyslexia you've managed to spell it wrongly.
I'm not sure if it's intentional or not but it amuses me muchly.
(Evilweevil is covered in bees, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 23:19, closed)

It's actually correct
You can use Dyslectic or Dyslexic both are correct.

On an 'aside' we always referred to it as Deslipstic for amusement.
(Klynton, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 23:50, closed)