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[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 82 points 2 years ago

Fake, there's no way the sysadmin wouldn't throw the HR rep who signed the policy under the bus (without some CYA documentation prior).

[-] aloso@programming.dev 91 points 2 years ago

Oh, didn't the domain somesoftwarecorp.com give it away?

[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 32 points 2 years ago

Do I really need to put /s on my top comment..

[-] darcy@sh.itjust.works 30 points 2 years ago

something something poes law

[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago
[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 33 points 2 years ago

Even if this is a joke, this is a great example of something that happens all the time: people avoiding responsibility by blaming some chunk of software. The electronic equivalent of "No, sir! I didn't kill that person. The butter knife did it!"

[-] om1k@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

Please believe me lol

[-] vaxpy@mujico.org 15 points 2 years ago
[-] lazyvar@programming.dev 41 points 2 years ago

You don’t know Some Software Corp and their world famous website somesoftwarecorp.com?

[-] Maudfer@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Of course it didn't happen, it's a joke lol

[-] dreadedsemi@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Please believe me sounds like I don't know how to manually set emails. No way it cannot be done.

[-] KaladinStormblessed@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago
[-] dreadedsemi@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Damn, I didn't notice that.

[-] aloso@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago

I guess it cannot be done if their IT infrastructure was not designed with that use case in mind. Although I'm not familiar with human resource management software, I don't find this hard to believe at all.

Also, you'll understand what Biron Tchaikovsky meant with "Please believe me" when you look at their email address. They already tried to do it, and probably complained many times before giving up.

[-] squaresinger@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

The place I work at does something like this, and there was actually quite a bit of trouble when a second person with the same abbreviation joined. The responsible guy seriously suggested fireing the new guy because the policies didn't account for duplications.

[-] CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago
this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2023
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