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How we roll. OR Any old Valley Girls in your office?
Subject:How we roll. OR Any old Valley Girls in your office? From:"McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> To:"techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 10 May 2012 14:46:50 -0400
Well, it's communication of a sort, and the people involved are technical - aside from me (and the whole rest of the engineering department as [generally -] silent witnesses, the participants are John H., a test engineer who runs our local hardware lab, and John R., a verification tester.
John H. is a gruff, balding, 60-year-old, who is good at his job, but not terribly careful with punctuation.
From: H, John
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 11:46 AM
To: Local Contractors; Local Employees
Subject:
Looking for the handheld temperature meter?
John H
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From: R, John
Sent: May-10-12 11:47 AM
To: H, John; Local Contractors; Local Employees
Subject: RE:
No, as a matter of fact.
John R
From: H, John
Sent: May-10-12 11:51 AM
To: R, John; Local Contractors; Local Employees
Subject: RE:
OK! I need the hand held infrared digital thermometer it does not appear to be in the lab?
From: McLauchlan, Kevin
Sent: May-10-12 11:51 AM
To: H, John; Local Contractors; Local Employees
Subject: RE:
I was wondering if anyone had seen my interrogative inflection. I might have left it in the lab.
-k
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