OT: Stupidity of the day

[Kenneth Brody]

On 2/11/2011 1:52 PM, Richard Kreiss wrote:
[...]
> The VPN was down so no one in any of the facilities or offices had access to
> email.  However, the IT department felt they should notify every one of the
> outage.  How do you do this, by email of course.

I've heard stories going the other way.  The IT department receives an email 
along the lines of "my e-mail isn't working".  The apocryphal reply is "yes 
it is".

> Gripe number 2:
>
> Exiting off the interstate, the car in front of me exits and then half way
> down the ramp turns on the directional signal.  At the bottom of the ramp,
> the car crosses 3 lanes without signaling. How much effort does it take to
> press that little lever down?

Worse, in some ways, are the people sitting at a red light, without a 
blinker on.  Then, when the light turns green, they pull halfway into the 
intersection, stop, and _then_ turn on the (left turn, of course) signal. 
So now you're stuck behind them until they can make the left turn.  Had they 
simply turned on the blinker a few seconds earlier (or, FSM-forbid, before 
they stopped for the light in the first place), then you could have planed 
for this, and gone around them.

[...]

-- 
Kenneth Brody