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It's time once again for Bizarre Emails Day! Got one your self? Then mail in your mail!

"It's a good thing unit tests can be turned off so that the build succeeds," Botia wrote, "Otherwise, how could we ever get the changes into production?"

________________________________________________________ From: John Doe Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 5:09 PM To: xxxxxxxxxx Cc: PlannedDevTechLeads Subject: 793 unit tests in the build! Guys, Please go through the build a GREATLY reduce the number of unit tests. Planned dev will not be responsible for fixing 793 unit test every time we try to create a build. As it stands now it takes over an hour to run a build and does not report the 94 failed unit tests until the end. Obviously, planned dev cannot fix this many random unit test every release. If you guys want to leave this many unit tests in that is fine, but planned dev will shift all unit test support over to you going forward. Let me know what you guys decide on Monday; it we cannot get a build on Monday we will be turning off all unit tests for the build so we can get it out. JD

"I can understand that Devin was upset to find that his lamp had gone missing while he was away on vacation," writes Chris, "but couldn't he have just sent a message to the help desk? "

________________________________________________________ From:, Anton (M Cont IA) To:, Devin N. (M CEO Ofc) Sent: Tue Mar 30 11:43:46 2010 Subject: where is my lamp The lamp from my table disappeared when I was on vacations. Could you please help me to return it back? Thank you Anton Senior Software Developer ________________________________________________________ From: Devin N. (M CEO Ofc) Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 11:49 AM To: Anton (M Cont IA) Subject: Re: where is my lamp I'm sorry about your lamp. What would you suggest I do? Devin CEO ________________________________________________________ From:, Anton (M Cont IA) To:, Devin N. (M CEO Ofc) Sent: Tue Mar 30 11:54:41 2010 Subject: RE: where is my lamp I do not know... as I understand some service people removed lamps from a lot of desks. Some people did not allow them to do this, but I was on vacation... Probably you can tell me who did this, by whose order or/and who is responsible and what I have to do to request the lamp back... Anton Senior Software Developer ________________________________________________________ From:, Devin N. (M CEO Ofc) Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 12:04 PM To:, Anton (M Cont IA) Cc: Christopher L. (TR RE Fac) Subject: Re: where is my lamp On the assumption that you are serious, I have copied Chris T---- in our real estate group who can look into the great lamp caper. I wish you all the best. Devin CEO ________________________________________________________ From: Anton (M Cont IA) To: Devin N. (M CEO Ofc) Cc: Christopher L. (TR RE Fac) Sent: Tue Mar 30 12:16:08 2010 Subject: RE: where is my lamp I sent these emails mistakenly not looking at where I send them. I am so sorry. Please accept my apologies. Anton Senior Software Developer ________________________________________________________ From: Devin N. (M CEO Ofc) To: Anton (M Cont IA) Cc: Christopher L. (TR RE Fac) Sent: Tue Mar 30 12:25:58 2010 Subject: Re: where is my lamp Don't apologize. Its ok. Chris will sort it out. Devin CEO

Jason has a funny feeling that the new tech might not work out in the long run.

"When a user submitted this support request," wrote John, "the best suggestion I could offer was that perhaps all representives were busy?"

________________________________________________________ From: G----------------------- Sent: October-05-10 12:31 PM To: John -------- Cc: John -------- Subject: Touch Tone not working Hi John, Further to my prior email, I received a call from Q-------- on my cell phone blackberry voice mail. I called my cell phone from my line to retrieve my voice mail. When I listened to the voice message, and it asked me to “Press 1” to be able to talk to a representative. I pressed “1” on my Astra phone but it didn’t transfer. Please advise on how fix this. Thanks, G----

"A user had a question about a drive on her machine," writes Isky, "Thankfully, she included a diagram to reduce the possibility of any confusion on our part."