On Fri, 12 May 2017 18:15:05 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> >> Causes no end of confusion when the firewall admin replies to a
> >> ticket saying he'll do it and revert.  
> > 
> > I'd be complaining about someone like that the whole time.
> > "Why the *beep* will you revert all changes before we can even test
> > them? You *beeeeeep*"  
> 
> True story:
> 
> I used to do exactly that, then got into horrible trouble with HR, and
> disciplinary hearing and $DEITY knows what else.
> 
> Turned out one of the fellows I called a *beeeeeep* was the CEO of our
> subsidiary in Ghana

Couldn't you simply explain that, as with revert, *beeeeeep* now has an
alternative, non-offensive meaning ;-)


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Neil Bothwick

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