Originally Posted by www.iworkwithfools.com

"I few years back, I was witness to a new level of foolishness.

As the lead IT person at a smallish company, I get some strange questions. One day, one of the customer service reps was having "problems" finding some of her mail. She decided to ask for my help locating the messages.

I sit in a cubicle farm and she stood in the doorway and asked the following questions:

Her: I can't find some of my mail messages.
Me: Are they messages you recieved?
Her: Oh, yes. I saved them in a folder and now they are gone.
Me: OK. What was the folder?
Her: TRASH

At this point, I could see several of my coworkers stifling laughter and leaving the room.

The conversation continued:
Me: Why did you put it in TRASH?
Her: I wanted to keep it someplace.
Me: The trash gets emptied after two weeks.
Her: Why?
Me: Because its trash and it is supposed to be thrown out. Kinda like your trash can at home.
Her: Why? How can I keep messages?
Me: leave them in your inbox or make a new folder for them.

She then muttered something about the system being dumb for emptying the trash and left. When she was outside of earshot, the rest of my coworkers had a tremendous laugh over that one."