CUPERTINO, Calif.--Employees at WeltSoft, a local software firm, mistakenly fucked off yesterday when a light-hearted suggestion was inadvertently emailed to the entire company.
Jay Gopalakrishnan, a support technician at Systems, was demonstrating some of the features of his recently purchased Blackberry 6510(tm) handheld device to programmer Carl "Ferstie" Ferst. The BlackBerry features email, phone, web browser and organizer applications, as well as a 'walkie-talkie' feature.
"Ferstie asked if I could show him how the email function works, and I said, like, 'Dude, no problem', said Gopalakrishnan. Gopalakrishnan then coached Ferst on using his thumbs on the backlit QWERTY keyboard.
"I thought it was kind of tricky getting the cursor back to the address book," said Ferst, "so Jay said to just to reply to an old message."
Ferst typed out "fuck off" in reply to a company-wide message from Help Desk Coordinator Dave Hurst who was at his desk on the other side of the large open work area shared by the company's 47 employees.
Gopalakrishnan countered that replying to Hursts message was "so not" his idea. "And I so told him to check the To field. Jack ass."
Reactions to the message varied from confusion to acceptance, but by the end of business Friday a total of 15 employees had fucked off.
"I have a lot of work to do before the next release," said QA technician Havlova Vassilovskya, "but I think it's important to be a team player. So I fucked off."
Another employee said she was already fucking off at the time and took the message as a confirmation.
"We're in code freeze until next month so I've been fucking off all week," said Technical Communications Lead Cecily Guildensleeve, who spent the afternoon updating her Amazon.com wish list, pricing villas in the south of France and entering sweepstakes. "If Publishers Clearinghouse ever comes through for me, I'm going to fuck off out of here."
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