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Got it,
Username: eauditor
Password: I emailed you
Weird. It's just showing up as ******** for me
hunter2 for me
Oh Internet. You never change.
The skill of removing as much ambiguity as possible is valuable. This includes ambiguity derived from loopy brain. Prepare to still be amazed by wild interpretations, but minimize what you can. One tip is to reduce message complexity and clearly separate concepts (in this case, the greeting and the actual instructions).
I get that, and I've had a reminder of an old failing at explicit communication to end users on my desk for 5+ years to help keep me grounded, but come on... In what interpretation other than Yoda giving instructions would an English as their first language user think 'hey hey!' was the username I was providing? It's out of frame, but the previous three sets of IMs I've sent this user started with hey hey! hey hey! and hello hello! so it's not like this was even a one off weird greeting for them (I should probably mix it up a bit more but what can you do)
That's another useful tip: never underestimate user stupidity.
I had to screen share with a user yesterday because he couldn't find the print button on the print dialogue.
It was right there. When I remoted onto his computer his cursor was about four pixels away from it. It even said "Print".
No idea how he managed to mess that up.
Haha that’s very true, yeah
It is almost as if OP was expecting their customer to have attended elementary school or something.
An auditor with this level of scrutiny and attention to detail? Say it ain't so.
Sadly this was an internal coworker who requested the auditor’s access…
Oof, i can relate to that.
What's really sad here, though, is that it was so easy and effortless to assume it was the auditor himself lmao
Ah yes, email, the most secure channel possible
Super fair, but it’s at least across two channels for a 3 day login with very limited permissions, not something I’m worried about in this situation.
Microsoft Teams 😂
Every day, I grow more convinced that the average person should never be anywhere near a computer.
I am in the middle of a CRM migration and I feel like I'm having the "emails are IN the computer?!?!" conversation every hour
You work with Yoda?
Omg REPOST
Translation: nobody is allowed to see this ever again because I've already seen it
I'm IRL friends with OP and I'm just giving them shit.
I feel crept upon!
Definitely saw this already on the Slack instance we share 🤣🤣🤣
Users following instructions:
The fuck, you emailed a password oO
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