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Fri 1 Dec, 2006 02:57 pm
I just got an e-mail on my hotmail account from a guy who I am meeting for an interview on monday. When I open the f*cking thing, it doesn't give me an option to reply. It has options for "accept" "tentative" and "Decline". It also gives me a little box that says, "NOTE: Please Respond. This event is not in your calendar."
So I click on "accept". When I do that, another dialogue box comes up with three options. One to respond "yes" and include comments, one to respond "yes" and not include any comments, and one to respond "no, do not send a response".
If I click on any of these, it does nothing (or at least nothing that I can see, or that is in any way verified). So now, after clicking on each of these options at least a couple times, I still have no clue whether this guy got any response from me at all.
Thank you Microsoft, for once again making the simple more complicated, and doing it in such a half-ass way, to boot. Good work once again, shitheads.
Anyone else ever dealt with this particular idiocy from this shitty company? Anyone know why it doesn't work?
I don't know, but it seems like a very impersonal way to set up an interview.
Well, actually, we set up the interview over the phone, but he told me he was sending me an e-mail with the info I'd need when I go to meet him, so that's what this was. I got the information, but he sent it as one of these @#$@ing meeting requests, instead of just sending a regular e-mail, so now I don't know what the hell, if anything, I sent back to him.
I hate microsoft.
I know nothing about this so sorry if this is a dumb question, but do you have his email address? (As the "from" in the meeting request or for any other reason.) Maybe just send him a whole new email explaining that there were some technical difficulties so you're sending him this (the new email) to make sure he gets the correct info?
Is anything in your sent box in regard to this?
I know when I accept a meeting request - it simply disappears from my inbox, but then is in my calendar and in my sent email.
Actually, this incident has served to remind me that it's time once again to send my annual e-mail to microsoft, telling them why they are the reason for all the problems in the world, and a long rant about how much I hate them. So I guess, in a way, this is a good thing.
Ah, the spirit of the holidays...
sozobe wrote:I know nothing about this so sorry if this is a dumb question, but do you have his email address? (As the "from" in the meeting request or for any other reason.) Maybe just send him a whole new email explaining that there were some technical difficulties so you're sending him this (the new email) to make sure he gets the correct info?
Yeah, I do have his e-mail, but I'm not going to do anything more. Screw it, I have the info, and if he got anything from me in response, then he knows that. If he didn't, I don't think it matters all that much. I'd rather just show up without responding then alert the guy to any technical savvy that I might be lacking.
Linkat wrote:Is anything in your sent box in regard to this?
Nope. I bet it has to do with me being on safari. F*cking microsoft bastards...
Well, I was going to go on about "Outlook" for a while, but you seem to
have decided to just let it go.
I have only this to offer from a guy I know who really hates Microsoft:
"When Microsoft finally makes a product that doesn't suck, it'll probably
be a vacuum cleaner."
I like that one a lot.
Steve Jobs once said...
The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste, they have absolutely no taste, and...I don't mean that in a small way I mean that in a big way. I am saddened, not by Microsoft's success - I have no problem with their success, they've earned their success for the most part. I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third rate products.
He sent you a meeting reminder/appointment confirmation, not an email. I used to get those from my last company on Lotus Notes. You can't reply to them.
You could just call him and ask him for his email if you need it.
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