14 August 2009

April Fool's, everyday...

Every year on April Fool's day, gmail puts out a notice about some sort of new ridiculous feature is going to start including in the email service, to see how many people believe it (a surprisingly large amount). I think 2 years ago their joke was that they would now be offering something called "Gmail Paper", where you could order hard paper copies of your emails and they would be delivered to your door.

Sounds really silly, right? This firm literally does that. They print out all the emails received by and sent from every person in the office via the Outlook server and John reads every single one. Then they get stored in binders, sent on one colour paper, received on another. I have seen the binders in the basement, they go back to like 2002 or something utterly fantastic like that. And the strangest point is, they do this besides having digital copies of all the emails stored in meticulously arranged folders on the main server.

I am working in a joke...

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