So as you may recall…I got yelled at by my boss a while ago for using AOL IM at work.
So yesterday I get the following IM from him (we have an internal IM client called Sametime that also can talk to AIM)
Mugsy’s Boss: How do you reach AOL IM via sametime
Mugsy: under people there is a link for log on to aol
Mugsy: people menu that is
Mugsy’s Boss: okay I have done that and logged in, how do I see people on AOL
Mugsy: you have to add them
Mugsy: like you add sametime folks
Mugsy: except that the “community” is aol not sametime
Mugsy’s Boss: okay, I don’t need to install AIM correct
Mugsy: that is correct
Mugsy’s Boss: thanks
Mugsy: np
Mugsy’s Boss: okay, I added a few ids. if they are online will it show ?
Mugsy: it should
Mugsy: just like in sametime – they will be green if online
Mugsy’s Boss: do you have an AOL I could test with
Mugsy’s Boss: I have tried this before, did not seem to work
Mugsy: I removed it all but lauraann has one
Mugsy: *****
Mugsy’s Boss: it worked, thanks
Mugsy: she just got an IM but she’s not sure it’s you
Mugsy’s Boss: needs2climax
Yup. He sent my female co-worker, (who also works for him) an IM from “needs2climax” (there are numbers in his IM name too, but I removed them, just like I starred out LauraAnn’s IM name).
Well, LauraAnn and I get a good laugh out of all this. The fella who sits next to me comes over to see what we’re laughing about. He just happens to be the Director of Internet Security Engineering for our company.
He was not amused. He officially requested a copy of the Sametime transcript from me. I just asked him that he not sell me out :)