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Re: Hilarious Things At Your Office
« Reply #950 on: November 11, 2015, 07:13:24 PM »
Maybe belongs in the pet peeve thread, but whenever someone says they're going to contact someone at my new work they say they're going to "ping" that person. Do other offices say this?

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Re: Hilarious Things At Your Office
« Reply #951 on: November 11, 2015, 07:17:27 PM »
Maybe they just want to make sure the computer is connected to the network :dunno:

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Re: Hilarious Things At Your Office
« Reply #952 on: November 11, 2015, 07:18:41 PM »
Maybe they just want to make sure the computer is connected to the network :dunno:

no it means they're going to email or call or slack or whatever

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« Reply #953 on: November 11, 2015, 07:23:43 PM »

Maybe they just want to make sure the computer is connected to the network :dunno:

no it means they're going to email or call or slack or whatever

Yeah, I was making a bad joke about they had to ping your computer to test network connec.... nvm

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« Reply #954 on: November 11, 2015, 07:26:44 PM »
I hear people say ping. Also, if someone is following up on an email they sent that hasn't yet been responded to, they'll forward that same email and put "ping" in the body. Nothing else. Just ping. These pinging acts are only done by the younger people.

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Re: Hilarious Things At Your Office
« Reply #955 on: November 11, 2015, 07:31:08 PM »
Maybe belongs in the pet peeve thread, but whenever someone says they're going to contact someone at my new work they say they're going to "ping" that person. Do other offices say this?

Calling people is "buzzing" at my office.  Just give me a buzz after you get out of that meeting.
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Re: Hilarious Things At Your Office
« Reply #956 on: November 11, 2015, 07:45:20 PM »
maybe ping is an acronym for something work related?


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Re: Hilarious Things At Your Office
« Reply #957 on: November 11, 2015, 07:54:48 PM »
Maybe belongs in the pet peeve thread, but whenever someone says they're going to contact someone at my new work they say they're going to "ping" that person. Do other offices say this?

Calling people is "buzzing" at my office.  Just give me a buzz after you get out of that meeting.

Buzz has been used for a while

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Re: Hilarious Things At Your Office
« Reply #958 on: November 11, 2015, 08:00:44 PM »
Maybe belongs in the pet peeve thread, but whenever someone says they're going to contact someone at my new work they say they're going to "ping" that person. Do other offices say this?

Calling people is "buzzing" at my office.  Just give me a buzz after you get out of that meeting.

Buzz has been used for a while
I think of buzz as being specific to phone class or drop-ins

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Re: Hilarious Things At Your Office
« Reply #959 on: November 11, 2015, 08:05:51 PM »
Here's the only work environment where ping is an acceptable term


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Re: Hilarious Things At Your Office
« Reply #960 on: November 11, 2015, 08:18:50 PM »
Here's the only work environment where ping is an acceptable term



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Re: Hilarious Things At Your Office
« Reply #961 on: November 12, 2015, 02:21:17 AM »
Here's the only work environment where ping is an acceptable term


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Re: Hilarious Things At Your Office
« Reply #962 on: November 12, 2015, 09:56:56 AM »
Seriously though I'm glad that term hasn't made it into my company's lingo (yet).  If I ever see or hear somebody use "ping" I will mock them by reenacting that line of the movie.  It will be me doing an imitation of Sean Connery doing an imitation of a Soviet sub captain.  It will be as ridiculous as it sounds and hopefully make the person who uses "ping" to become aware of just how dumb it is.

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Re: Hilarious Things At Your Office
« Reply #963 on: November 12, 2015, 11:03:23 AM »
can we just smack them upside the back of the head while yelling "Pong"?

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« Reply #964 on: November 12, 2015, 11:35:03 AM »
I mean you can do whatever you want in your office so probably

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Re: Hilarious Things At Your Office
« Reply #965 on: November 12, 2015, 01:06:17 PM »
Ping means IM in my office for an ever growing # of wackos. I just say, "send me a lync"


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Re: Hilarious Things At Your Office
« Reply #966 on: November 12, 2015, 07:10:09 PM »
Ping means IM in my office for an ever growing # of wackos. I just say, "send me a lync"


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Re: Hilarious Things At Your Office
« Reply #967 on: November 12, 2015, 07:12:09 PM »
why wouldn't you just say "send me an im"?
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Re: Hilarious Things At Your Office
« Reply #968 on: November 12, 2015, 08:41:57 PM »

Ping means IM in my office for an ever growing # of wackos. I just say, "send me a lync"


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Damn are you running XP or some crap?
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Re: Hilarious Things At Your Office
« Reply #969 on: November 12, 2015, 08:42:47 PM »

why wouldn't you just say "send me an im"?
well, some people in our office wouldn't know what an IM is. The know what lync is.


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Re: Hilarious Things At Your Office
« Reply #970 on: November 12, 2015, 08:45:38 PM »
do you?

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Re: Hilarious Things At Your Office
« Reply #971 on: November 12, 2015, 09:24:27 PM »
But Lync is now called Skype for Business, so that wouldn't make sense.

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Re: Hilarious Things At Your Office
« Reply #972 on: November 12, 2015, 09:26:25 PM »
But Lync is now called Skype for Business, so that wouldn't make sense.

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Re: Hilarious Things At Your Office
« Reply #973 on: November 12, 2015, 09:27:21 PM »
I can't even imagine. I work for a school district for gods sake and we are running 7 at least

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Re: Hilarious Things At Your Office
« Reply #974 on: November 12, 2015, 09:51:42 PM »
a hacker could rip off a company for way more money in a much shorter time than if they would just upgrade an outdated, old, non-supported for a full year and half system.