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Giggle over this.
Apr 28, 2005 11:37PM PDT

My company has had to lay off about 30% of our staff over the last few years.

I don't get the joke, but as long as you're amused by other's misfortune, that's the important thing.

Dan

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It's the IRONY!
Apr 28, 2005 11:39PM PDT

Unions frequently price their workforces beyond the means of the companies. Company has no choice but to shut down. Union gets a bit of its own medicine, they lay off. How EVIL of them!

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ditto Evie's headline
Apr 29, 2005 12:02AM PDT

[There seems to have been a server infarct a few minutes ago that wouldn't take my reply - perhaps it was because my subject line was the same as Evie's but hers was already in the queue? But my post was a tiny bit different so here it is copied back from the clipboard...]

It's the irony of the anti-layoff union having a layoff... but you're right about the employees - it's no joke for them.

dw

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I think it's an anti-spam feature
Apr 29, 2005 12:19AM PDT

I had an orphaned post recently due to accidentally pressing the "New Discussion" vs. "Reply" button. I then tried to just repost it in the proper thread and got an error about a duplicate post or somethingorother. I changed the subject line ever so slightly and voila!

Evie Happy

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yup... the newest "features" in the forum software
Apr 29, 2005 12:45AM PDT

require some exploration to learn their limits... but I didn't want Dan to think I was ignoring him when I couldn't respond to his valid concern.

Happy

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There may have been a server blip.
Apr 29, 2005 1:04AM PDT

I was unable to load any pages at around this time.

It has been the feature for the last couple of versions that you could not post sequential messages with the same titles. That would minimize duplicate postings of the same message.

Dan

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and what was really ironic...
Apr 29, 2005 1:16AM PDT

(pun intended) is that Evie and I blew in with exactly the same headline at (more or less) exactly the same time. Hers wasn't up when I started my reply, but must have been by the time I clicked submit. Mine went to a page not found error several times before I gave up and went away for a bit. When I came back and saw there were 3 posts, I thought maybe it took but couldn't give me the confirmation screen. Then I looked closer and saw Evie's name under MY headline! Thief, Thief, Somebody call the police. Wink

dw