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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / October 2007Disturbing message at work today
Late this afternoon there was a message from our IT department to everyone in our building saying this: "If anyone here drives a gray Toyota, license plate # <blah blah>, someone has reported that there is a cat stuck in your car engine. Please come down to the parking lot immediately to help remove the animal." I went down immediately to see if I could help in any way, but there wasn't anyone around trying to get a cat out of a car engine. I scoped out the gray cars looking for a Toyota, but didn't find one. So I went back up to my office and went to ask the IT guy about it, to see if he knew anything. Why IT was doing this, I don't know. Someone had been walking through the parking lot, thought they heard a cat crying from inside a car engine, and called the guy in IT to send out the message to everyone. But also, it turned out he had sent out the email this *morning*. It sat in an email queue all day waiting for whoever-is-in-charge to "approve" the message. Apparently, all non-work-related messages that are sent to the whole company have to be approved. So meanwhile, if there really was a cat stuck in an engine, it was stuck there all day. I just hope that whoever owns that car saw the email before leaving work! Also, my company is not the only one in that building, so I hope that the other company also had a similar announcement. Poor kitty! I hope it's OK. Joyce jXwXeXrXmXoXnXt@sonic.net wrote in news:4722bbd8$0$14090 $742ec2ed@news.sonic.net: > Late this afternoon there was a message from our IT department > to everyone in our building saying this: [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > Joyce Maybe it is only because I am old enough to remember _writting_ I would have left a note on the car instead of only going and telling the "IT guys. _Maybe_ the person DID that in which case I expect things would have turnd out OK. Maybe more information will trikle through the grapevine when you are back at work. I hope the cat was not hurt. Andy (an IT guy) > Maybe it is only because I am old enough to remember _writting_ I would > have left a note on the car instead of only going and telling the "IT [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Andy (an IT guy)- Hide quoted text - Geez, a phone call to animal control probably would have been easier. Or maybe they *did* call A/C in addition to the email. Or someone along the line did. That *is* disturbing. IME, sometimes cats will sit in the engine and scream because they are too afraid to jump down. I hope that's the case and the kitty isn't badly hurt. Sherry > Geez, a phone call to animal control probably would have been easier. > Or maybe they *did* call A/C in addition to the email. Or someone along > the line did. > That *is* disturbing. IME, sometimes cats will sit in the engine and > scream because they are too afraid to jump down. I hope that's the > case and the kitty isn't badly hurt. When I first got the announcement email about it, it was about 5PM. I didn't realize that the message had been sent many hours earlier, so I believed that the situation was going on in that moment. So when I immediately got up and went to the parking lot, I was expecting to see a bunch of animal control types standing around a car with the hood up, trying to extract the cat. Instead, there was nothing at all happening in the parking lot. I walked all around, checking out gray cars (I forgot to bring the lic. number with me so I couldn't be sure, although it didn't matter because I didn't see any gray Toyotas). Anyway, I wasn't necessarily assuming the cat was hurt, but maybe it was just stuck in there and scared. I was more worried that the cat would *get* hurt once the person came back to their car, unaware there was a cat in the engine. Then again, maybe there was no cat at all. This all got started because someone reporting hearing a cat crying sound coming from a car. I would hope it wasn't a practical joke, but the person could have been mistaken. I don't know what they actually heard. Some sounds are unmistakably a cat's meow, but other noises could be many different things that sound vaguely like cat crying. On the other hand, engines don't usually make those sounds if the car is not running. Joyce On Oct 27, 3:57 pm, jXwXeXrXmXoX...@sonic.net wrote: > > Geez, a phone call to animal control probably would have been easier. > > Or maybe they *did* call A/C in addition to the email. Or someone along [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > > Joyce Joyce, here's my cat-in-the-engine story: I was at the drive-thru at the pharmacy, kept hearing a cat meowing. I thought "Oh, there's a kitty over there in those bushes." Looked for it, didn't see it. Went home, and later couldn't find Jacky. Long story short; three days later animal control found my cat Jack at the pharmacy. They'd been feeding him bologna out of the deli. He had quite a little adventure. This was 10 miles from my house! Sherry > Joyce, here's my cat-in-the-engine story: I was at the drive-thru at > the pharmacy, kept hearing a cat meowing. I thought "Oh, there's a [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > the pharmacy. They'd been feeding him bologna out of the deli. He had > quite a little adventure. This was 10 miles from my house! Eek! I'm glad he was OK!! And that you got him back. I'm really glad that Smudge doesn't appear to have the proclivity for climbing into car engines. Joyce On Oct 27, 5:10 pm, jXwXeXrXmXoX...@sonic.net wrote: > > Joyce, here's my cat-in-the-engine story: I was at the drive-thru at > > the pharmacy, kept hearing a cat meowing. I thought "Oh, there's a [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Joyce Adult cats don't seem to do it as bad as kittens. Jacky was the kitten we found taped up in a cardboard box out in the driveway one morning. It still totally amazes me that he didn't jump out onto the highway until the first place the car stopped. Sherry > On Oct 27, 3:57 pm, jXwXeXrXmXoX...@sonic.net wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 41 lines] > > Sherry What some kitties will do for a little lunchmeat. Will in New Haven -- "Good news; Your creditor will pass away without cashing that last check." Fortune Cookie On Oct 27, 7:11 pm, Will in New Haven <bill.re...@taylorandfrancis.com> wrote: > > Joyce, here's my cat-in-the-engine story: I was at the drive-thru at > > the pharmacy, kept hearing a cat meowing. I thought "Oh, there's a [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Will in New Haven Ha! He never got bologna again, that's for sure. I never saw a cat with such a case of intestinal gas. Sherry > Maybe it is only because I am old enough to remember _writting_ I would > have left a note on the car instead of only going and telling the "IT > guys. _Maybe_ the person DID that in which case I expect things would > have turnd out OK. Maybe more information will trikle through the > grapevine when you are back at work. I hope the cat was not hurt. > Andy (an IT guy) I imagine that posting company-wide emails about cats in cars is not one of your official job duties? Oh, well, it doesn't matter - the message did get posted... eventually. It was NOT the IT guy's fault that the message was delayed. Since it's the weekend I will have to wait until Monday to find out if everything was OK with the cat. Joyce > > Maybe it is only because I am old enough to remember _writting_ I > would > have left a note on the car instead of only going and [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Joyce I do hope everything is okay with the cat, if there was a cat. I don't know what the IT folks are doing these days but we used to get emails messages all the time about ridiculous stuff. (I'm NOT saying email about a possibly trapped cat is ridiculous! Absolutely not saying that!) One woman emailed everyone in the building to ask if anyone knew the type of flowers planted out front. (IIRC they were pansies.) Why not just call building management and ask for the name of the landscaping firm that planted the flowers? They were always out there digging up and planting new stuff as the seasons came and went. The president of the company sent out email to *everyone* (including clients) announcing the birth of this daughter. Proud papa aside, they named the poor child "Sunny Blue". Oh dear. They didn't "hold" emails that weren't of a business nature, but perhaps they should have. Then again, when WAN lines were down and the help desk phones were ringing off the hook I was told *not* to send email saying we are aware there is a problem. What, it's better to get 1100 phone calls on an 8 person help desk than to tell people ahead yes, we already know and we'll let you know when it's fixed? I never could figure that one out. Jill -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- From: "jmcquown" <jmcquown@bellsouth.net> >Then again, when WAN lines were down and the help desk phones were ringing >off the hook I was told *not* to send email saying we are aware there is a >problem. What, it's better to get 1100 phone calls on an 8 person help desk >than to tell people ahead yes, we already know and we'll let you know when >it's fixed? I never could figure that one out. Hmmm! I might have a guess. :) > Then again, when WAN lines were down and the help desk phones were > ringing off the hook I was told *not* to send email saying we are [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Jill This reminds me; I work at a small (2000 student) residetial college. We at IT no longer (in theory) run the email lists but we can send email to them, of course. When I first created the ability to email every person on campus many many years ago I was the one who would send out the emails. I created the ability to inform people of network issues. At the time our president (who has moved on now) liked the image of perfection and every time I would send an email like "We are having an issue with our Internet feed; please be patient blah blah blah .." I would get a dozen or so "Thanks for letting us know" emails. At the same time the pres would whine to the vice prez "Why does Andy have to do that waaaaaaa..." He did not want people (students who paid good money) to know things sometimes broke. At that time I think I had two people to answer help desk calls. I wont say I got a little extra joy knowing I was bugging the prez (I wont say that:). Andy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- From: "jmcquown" <jmcquown@bellsouth.net> >Then again, when WAN lines were down and the help desk phones were ringing >off the hook I was told *not* to send email saying we are aware there is a >problem. What, it's better to get 1100 phone calls on an 8 person help desk >than to tell people ahead yes, we already know and we'll let you know when >it's fixed? I never could figure that one out. Hmmm! I might have a guess. :) > Late this afternoon there was a message from our IT department > to everyone in our building saying this: [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > Joyce Oh, me, too. Purrs everything is okay for the cat (if, indeed, it was not a practical joke or mistake and there really *was* a cat). Ginger-lyn  SignatureHome Pages: http://www.spiritrealm.com/summer/ http://www.angelfire.com/folk/glsummer (homepage & cats) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~summer/index.htm (genealogy) http://www.movieanimals.bravehost.com/ (The Violence Against Animals in Movies Website) |
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