I’m trying to hire someone at work. The HR department is ever so helpful, and they have a new web-based recruitment system that manages workflows or something. Anyway, some guy sets me up and sends me a note with my username and password. As part of my ultra-tough stance on security, I change the password to something I can’t remember. Days pass, and I finally have to get into the system because I’m tired of doing the work of the person I have not yet hired. Obviously, I can’t get in.
The original email had instructions for what to do in this situation. I am to dial a 1-800 number, press 1 for english, 2 for employee something or other, 2 for something else, then 1 or 2 to speak to a real live person. I do this. I get to the real live sounding person. I explain my problem. She transfers me. I get to the next person. I explain the problem. She also transfers me, and this time I get voice mail.
It’s the voice mail of the guy who sent the original email with the instructions.
He didn’t return the message. My phone number was probably too simple.
In other news, I’m now completely blocked from personal email access at work. This is probably a good corporate policy, and I’m too busy for it to really bother me, but I know that I’m going to receive something in the next 48 hours that needs my immediate attention and can’t wait until I get home, so I’m saying it here: I can’t read my email from work. See, if I sent out a mass email, it’d seem really egotistical. Here it’s perhaps mildly obsessive compulsive.