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This is a classic…

“Matt, Hi it’s Rob. I wanted to give you an update on the power point projector that we loaned out. We haven’t used it yet, and there is a reason. Um… Before, we were going to use it for a client presentation, we had a supplier come in and borrow it to present some of his own things to us… and the stink in the room was so bad, we thought it was the guy. Today we tried the power point… lcd projector again and it is the projector. Matt, I don’t know what it is, but the… ventilation of this projector is blowing out a stink like BO like you would not believe. We can’t even sit in same room with it. So I just wanted to give you a heads up. I don’t know what is wrong with it, but I can’t see anyone being able to use it… for a presentation. You might want to look into maybe cleaning the filter or something on that thing. That was it, thanks bye.”

This is a real voice mail I received a couple of years ago when I was an IT Manager for a media buying company.