A weblog by Ernie Hsiung

I just got an e-mail attachment from a manager. The file name was co-workers-asses.doc.

“Well, that’s pretty inappropriate,” I thought to myself. “I barely know the guy, and that just screams sexual harrasment, if the person wasn’t careful.”

Then I took a second look at the filename. co-workers-assess.doc. Assess, as in, to evaluate. I knew that. Really. (Good thing I figured out the file name before I filled out the document, instead of after.)

That is all.

§1424 · October 21, 2003 · Uncategorized · · [Print]

26 Comments to “asses, assess, same difference”

  1. I can’t wait to see your post about you co-workers comments after they read this one.

  2. cia says:

    I read it like the way you did, too! PWAHAHAHA.

  3. mikebiggz says:

    So when can start working for you Mr. DUMBASS!

    The name, is dumass(du-maas)

    Oh!

    Feeling a little thickheaded?
    I love that commercial. Reminded me of that.

  4. DK says:

    They also pulled that “du-mass” thing in Shawshank Redemption. Figures that Ern would misread something like that. I, however, would have pointed out the error in a mass mail, not realizing that I was in fact incorrect.

  5. Dan says:

    You’re really reaching here.

    Write more posts about badgers.

  6. coworker says:

    Does that mean you’re checking out my ass now?

  7. webdev1 says:

    Oh, shit! Then I filled out the document wrong.

  8. Camilo says:

    Dure, you were soo wishful-thinking!
    Did you expected the doc to have pictures and all? I would!

  9. Camilo says:

    Dure, you were soo wishful-thinking!
    Did you expected the doc to have pictures and all? I would!

  10. Vicki says:

    This is so not the first time you did that. When you were in LA and saw the sign for Fruitasis (as in a word combination of fruit and oasis, it’s a smoothie place) the first thing you said was “there is a place called fruit-asses??!”. Talk about wishful thinking Ernie.

  11. webdev1 says:

    All visual designers must perish from the persistent accusations posted toward our fellow webDev#22. We stand in solidarity (till he backstabs us) and believe our Ernie, is the light of enduring truth in a time of webdev darkness. So co-workers-asses.doc or not, we got his back!

  12. sarah says:

    Just had to give a guy at work a list of stats I did and it just so happened there were … 69 resulting values. Great. That was fun to say over and over again.

    Feel your pain.

  13. Jess says:

    Do your co-workers have nice asses? That’s what I want to know!

  14. should have had fun with the reply.

    “had to bend over backwards to turn that around. butt didn’t want to get the booty, so i got this baby back to you as quick as i could.”

    best i can do right now.

  15. muckdog says:

    That’s pretty good.

  16. Rachel says:

    You could always assess your coworkers’ asses.

  17. Raven says:

    You put the wrong emPHAsis on the wrong sylLAble :)

  18. elisa says:

    so in oregon there is some gunman who decided it would be fun to shoot people on a tricycle….http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/West/10/23/offbeat.car.hijack.ap/index.html
    read the story for yourself, its hard to believe but i think cnn is a credible source, u can put it on your mini blog section

  19. walter says:

    that gun totin’ tricycle rider is a numb nuts. what a maroon!

  20. sean says:

    And yet another case of reading something the way you want it to be, rather than the way it actually is.

  21. Fred says:

    Allright, Ernie… It’s been 6 days now. No posts!?! :)

  22. monkeyinabox says:

    I remember on our network looking over photo’s of buildings. I came into a project that was a library in the town of Sisters. There were two photos: one interior and one exterior. The first was named ‘sistersin.jpg’ and the other was ‘sistersex.jpg’.

  23. ali says:

    good all

  24. Alex says:

    This ia good page.

  25. Sunny says:

    Yes, this is good page.