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Thursday, June 18, 2009

You've got mail.. and a faulty mail client!

What is more annoying than Microsoft Outlook?
IBM Lotus Notes

What is more annoying than IBM Lotus Notes?
Lotus Notes that take a loong time to load.

What is more annoying than Lotus Notes that takes a long time to load?
Lotus notes that gets hung while archiving old mails (which was unfortunately attempted to reduce loading time)

What is more annoying than Lotus notes that hangs while archiving and also, takes a long time to load?
Lotus Notes that doesn't allow sending of mails due to exceeded mailbox limit.

What is more annoying than Lotus Notes that doesn't allow sending of mails due to exceeded mailbox limit, gets hung wile archiving, and also takes a long time to load?
Lotus Notes that suddenly restricts opening of new or old mails with a weird message of "You are not authorized to perform that operation"

What is more annoying than Lotus Notes that restricts opening or sending of mails, gets hung wile archiving, and also takes a long time to load?
Lotus notes that throws recursive error of CircularDocException, and will not come out of the loop until one finally gives up, closes the application with a ctrl-alt-del.

What is more annoying than Lotus notes that throws recursive error of CircularDocException, restricts opening or sending of mails, gets hung while archiving, and also takes a long time to load?
Calling the maintenance personnel while fretting about the delays in meeting deadlines, waiting for them to fix the problem for 5 hours, and finally, profusely thank them at the good repair work patiently done, only to see the problem recurring the next day.



**Sigh!!**

8 comments:

Ashwin said...

Ha ha ha!!! Aiyo paavam! Glad I work with the 'esteemed' Outlook! ;)

Archana said...

N i rem you telling me that lotus notes is much better - LIAR!

Kunal Chandra said...

What is more annoying than Calling the maintenance personnel while fretting about the delays in meeting deadlines, waiting for them to fix the problem for 5 hours, and finally, profusely thank them at the good repair work patiently done, only to see the problem recurring the next day.

Turning your computer on at 12.30 A.M. to find a notification that there is a new blog on "For what its Worth" and after waiting for 49 seconds for the page to load to find that it was about lotus notes which was last in fashion when my age was still in single digit...
:-)

Archana said...

hahahahahahhahaha!! good one!:-) I think the series will continue. Meanwhile, my woes with Lotus Notes also will!

Nithya Sriram said...

ha ha ha... good one :)... am so glad that am using outlook !!!!!

cm chap said...

Ah I knw.. Ltus notes sucks.. welcome to the club :)

Anonymous said...

i just wrote about complaining and here u are, ha ha, i love cribbing!
from a simple layman's perspective, i hated lotus notes and glad to see you join the club!

Archana said...

We three can actually start a we hate lotus notes group.. my happiness in finding like-hate-minded people is enormous!! :)