Smartassery

Conspicuous Fathead Oaf: (Looking harried) Ugh, Beatrix, can I ask you a question?

Beatrix Kiddo: (uh oh, this is the 20th question since 8:00am) Sure

CFO: Could you check why I don’t have access to the folders within my Inbox when I log in to Outlook remotely?

BK: OK. Do you see them when you log in to your e-mail in the office?

CFO: Yes, but I don’t otherwise. Something was setup wrong. You need to fix it. Just log in with my info through the Internet and you’ll see

BK: (Something tells me this too is going to be operator error) OK, I’ll do just that

…

BK: Err, CFO, I logged in and I can see all your files

CFO: Are you sure?

BK: (I’m surprised…doesn’t he know I’m the fountain of knwoledge?!) Yes, do you want to try it?

CFO: OK. Let’s see. Aha! See, they are not there (I no longer believe he is qualified to be our new financial guy)

BK: Hmmm. Why don’t you try expanding your Inbox?

CFO: (Face of despair)

BK: You see that plus sign next to the word Inbox? Click that

CFO: Ohhhhhhhhhhh

This is what’s puzzling…To access the purported files when he logs in to his desktop at work, he necessarily has to do the same operation I just described. WTF?!

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