#AOL email problem

[ms-demeanor]

I don't know how to say it so that people will listen, but if you work at a business you should just accept that *unless your literal job is being the only one who handles wire transfers and you are professionally engaged ONLY in verifying that money is being transferred correctly* any request to wire someone money is a scam.

Our client is working with a company called (anonymized for internet example purposes) "Anaheim Sales" and have been communicating with them at their email, which is, deeply unfortunately, anaheimsales@aim.com

Client has been told by Anaheim Sales to send a check in the mail. They put the check in the mail, then get an email from anahiemsales@aol.com requesting a wire transfer instead. They cancel the check and they wire the money.

Now. A huge part of this is Anaheim Sales' fault. Buy a domain, dipshits. Your business email shouldn't be going to a gmail aim yahoo outlook whatever ass address, it should be going to YOURNAME@YOURDOMAIN.COM because it's a lot harder to scam your clients when you have to purchase YOURDOMIAN.COM than it is to scam them by setting up YOURNAAME@aol.com.

But also. They never should have wired the money. Even if it HAD been from bobsmith@anaheimsales.com, Bob's email could have been compromised. Even if it's in an industry where wiring money isn't something that happens only once in a blue moon.

If you are working at a business and you get a request for a wire transfer, you NEED to make sure that you speak to someone from the requesting business who you either know personally or who you reached by calling a known number for that business (KNOWN NUMBER from your vendor/client records; not from an email signature, and not from their website). If I were allowed to make all the rules, you wouldn't be allowed to make a wire transfer without a notarized request from the accounts payable department of the vendor.

This will slow down the transfer. It will make things take longer. But nobody doing legitimate business with you is going to be pissed if you take a couple extra hours to verify that they are actually making that request before you send them tens of thousands of dollars. If someone is yelling at you that you need to send the money NOW, that is actually when you need to stop and back away and escalate to your boss or get someone else from the requesting company on the phone.

"They said the contact I knew was out sick" cool don't send the money, if your known contact is not available you require a notarized request from one of the company's officers.

"They said they'd cancel the contract if we didn't get it out by this afternoon" then let them cancel you can re-sign a contract, even with a penalty, but you can't get that money back.

"They said that THEIR business was tied up and they couldn't do anything because they didn't have the payment and the check would take days to clear" sounds like a them problem; unless you get a signed, notarized request for a wire transfer you will not be sending a wire transfer.

And if you are a business owner you need to give your employees unlimited permission to say "yeah this sounds like bullshit I need to verify before I move forward" to anything that is even slightly suspicious. Your employees should NEVER be worried that they'll get fired if they say no to wiring money. You should give them a fucking bonus if they cause a delay in getting a *legitimate* wire payment transferred because they needed to get confirmation.

Wire transfers need to be a last resort, and you need to have policies in place that make them extremely cumbersome to use. The fact that wire transfers are immediate, efficient, convenient, and irreversible is WHY they're such a common way to scam people.

Also ffs please please please just set up a real website for your business there are cheap and easy ways to do it that will mean your clients are less easily targeted by scammers because they know that your email address isn't at *AOL INSTANT MESSENGER DOT COM*

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[kommandonuovidiavoli]

What ever happened to Ray from the Aussie sector?

Little Ray! The real life Spider Boy! I need to work on him more but I know what happens to him in the future!

He gets decommissioned at 13 and his spider family decides it's time for him to live in the human world, so they make sure a family adopts him (don't ask me how, in this freaking show a human made of black and flames exists so...), giving him the name Raynold Walckenaer III.

He meets again with Sydney in high school, the two bond over being outcasts (Ray is a metalhead and Syd just hates being around people and loves videogames) and become best friend (again). Ray actually is Syd's conscience and helps him to not get into too serious problems. He also saves his life at some point.

Then he's kind of forced to go to law school, to conform to everyone else's standard, which is something he always said he didn't want to do. He becomes a boring, normal lawyer, unsatisfied with his job (even if he's one of the bests) and were his life is going, feeling like there's something from his past he needs to know.

He still has a fascination for spiders. Feels like they're family.

He and Syd still exchange emails (since calls and texts are too expensive between Countries) and sometimes chat on AOL (at least, when they manage to get online at the same time and it's a decent hour for both of them).

Wally does know about him, and he's the one that introduced him to metal music, actually!

Teen AU? Meh...

Adult AU? OH BOY...

[sweethoneyrose83]

90s-inspired dialogue prompts

"Dude, did you hear? The new Nirvana album just dropped. We have to hit the record store before it sells out!"

"I swear, if I don’t beat this level in Mario, I’m throwing the controller across the room!"

"You've got mail! Wait, hold on, my dial-up is still connecting."

"Why would you spend $50 on a pager? Just call me on my landline, duh!"

"Have you seen the new episode of Friends? I need to talk about Ross and Rachel!"

"I'm telling you, AOL chat rooms are where it's at. You can meet people from anywhere!"

"Whatever. As if! Like I’m gonna wear that to the mall."

"Let’s meet up at Blockbuster later. I’m thinking about renting Clueless again."

"I just recorded that new song off the radio onto my mixtape. It's going to be on repeat all day."

"Mom said we could use the car, but we have to rewind the VHS before we return it!"

"No way. I heard they're working on something called a DVD. I don't get it. Why change VHS?"

"The Tamagotchi is dying again. I don't know how many times I can save this thing."

"I just got my first Walkman. CDs sound so much better than cassettes!"

"We should totally prank call that radio station and request Backstreet Boys for the hundredth time."

"Okay, I got a quarter—I'm gonna use the payphone and see if anyone wants to hang out."

"I'm recording TRL later. I can't miss that new Britney Spears music video."

"What do you mean you don’t have a MySpace account? It’s, like, the thing right now."

"If my parents pick up the phone while I’m online, it’s going to cut me off. Don’t call the house!"

"I just burned you a CD with all the best songs from the radio. You’re going to love it!"

"If this Y2K thing actually messes up our computers, I’m never trusting technology again."

"Dude, you won’t believe what I just found at Blockbuster!"

"No way! Did they finally get 'The Matrix' in stock?"

"Why do you always hog the phone line? I’ve been waiting for my AOL dial-up for like, forever!"

"Chill out, I’m trying to finish this important call on my pager."

"Man, you’re dressed like you just walked out of a Nirvana concert."

"It’s called grunge, bro. You wouldn’t understand."

"I’m telling you, Tamagotchis are like, the future."

"Yeah, if the future is taking care of a digital pet all day."

"I just taped the season finale of ‘Friends,’ wanna come over and watch it?"

"As long as there’s pizza, I’m in. Could I be any more excited?"

"My Tamagotchi just died because I was too busy playing with my new Game Boy Color!"

"You need to get your priorities straight."

"Can you believe they canceled 'Saved by the Bell'? Zack and Kelly forever, man."

"Yeah, but the new season of 'Fresh Prince' is all that."

"I just bought a stack of CDs, now my Discman’s set for the road trip."

"As long as you don’t hit a bump and make it skip!"

"I got an email from this girl I met in a chatroom last night."

"Email? You should’ve just asked for her AIM screen name."

"I heard they're coming out with something called a DVD next year."

"Pfft, like that’ll replace my VHS collection."

At the Mall:

Character 1: "Dude, if we don’t get to the food court soon, I’m gonna pass out. I need a slice of Sbarro pizza, stat!"

Character 2: "Chill, we'll get there. But first, I’m grabbing this Nirvana shirt—Kurt would want me to have it."

Dial-Up Drama:

Character 1: "I was this close to beating my high score on Pac-Man, and then someone picked up the phone and killed the connection!"

Character 2: "Ugh, the struggle is real. Why do we even have one line for the internet and the phone?"

Movie Night:

Character 1: "Blockbuster was out of Jurassic Park again! I had to settle for Space Jam."

Character 2: "As if that’s a problem! Michael Jordan and Looney Tunes? That’s a classic, man!"

Mixtape Meltdown:

Character 1: "I made you this mixtape—front to back, all the jams you love."

Character 2: "Wait, you recorded over my TLC album? You’re gonna be scrubs to me forever!"

School Day Crush:

Character 1: "He passed me a note in history class! I swear, it's love."

Character 2: "Let me see that… it just says 'Wanna hang at the arcade later?' So romantic…"

First Cell Phone:

Character 1: "Dude, check it out, I finally got a cell phone!"

Character 2: "That’s not a cell phone, it’s a brick! You gonna carry that in your backpack?"

The Internet:

Character 1: "I just spent an hour downloading one song on Napster. Totally worth it."

Character 2: "Better hope the FBI doesn’t show up at your door. They take that stuff seriously."

Fashion Emergency:

Character 1: "What’s up with the butterfly clips and platform shoes? Are you going for the full Spice Girls look?"

Character 2: "You say that like it’s a bad thing. Girl Power is forever."

After School TV:

Character 1: "Hurry up! Fresh Prince is on in like five minutes!"

Character 2: "Not until I’m done watching Sailor Moon, this episode’s a big deal!"

Computer Lab Chaos:

Character 1: "Why does this computer keep freezing? I’ve got to finish my PowerPoint for tomorrow."

Character 2: "You’re probably running too many programs. Close Oregon Trail before you get another 'Your ox has died' message."

[silentlyinfamous]

To whom it may concern,

Beware of the profile “carinnelson” , they are scammers. They express interest in your photo or artwork and claim to have a client. They claim that you will be compensated for your work. This particular instance they want to use Cashapp for the payment. When provided with the legit cashtag they claim that there is a problem and need your email address. This is a ploy just to get your email so they can further the scam. Once they have the email, they send you an email stating that the amount has been credited but because it is not a “business” account the limit needs to upgraded. THIS IS A LIE…for the cashapp personal account you have an unlimited limit on receiving funds. However, they claim that they have deposited extra funds to upgrade your account and now you have to refund them the amount. In this case it was $500 to be refunded so the account would be credited with $1500. Again this is a lie. You should never have to pay or send money to get payment. Furthermore, the “Cashapp support help” is from an aol account. When Cashapp uses a square account for there emails. I even verified my account to make sure. Again these people have no conscience apparently and believe that this is ok to do, and that we’re the ones who don’t understand. Please be careful and double check always before dealing with “interested buyers” over the internet. If you see the account “carinnelson” block them or report them. They will get what is coming to them. You reap what you sow…

Sincerely,

Silentlyinfamous

@scam-alerts

[mountmortar]

hi, i saw your post about different socials/sites and i'm curious to ask what your experience on mastodon has been like? i've been interested in checking it out but it's hard to know what kind of "instance" i should join in that case, or generally what the culture/etiquette there is like!

OKAY. so! your experience on mastodon will be heavily influenced by the instance you join—it might be best to shop around for instances that fit your interests! for example, i use mastodon primarily to get tech news/web news that nobody else on the web seems to talk about, so i joined the tech.lgbt instance. as such, when i log on there, i definitely see shitposts and things from the younger members of the instance (early 20s) but even the shitposts tend to relate to tech things a lot of the time. it's pretty much a lot of tech talk. some instances let you view what other people on the instance are saying before you join—you'll see the the option for "live feeds" on the right side (if you're on a computer), for example! mastodon.social, the most generic and popular instance (249k active users as of right now), has this option. obviously, if you join a generic instance like this, you'll see a lot of EVERYTHING. an instance for fandom is blorbo.social, a popular one for anime/manga content is sakurajima.moe, which i've also linked the live feed to! you can find a metric fuckton of instances to search through here!

i've been part of three instances—mastodon.social (generic), mas.to (also generic) and tech.lgbt (topic-oriented). being part of the generic instances ultimately gives you the most general social media experience, and you'll probably find yourself ignoring your local server feed (the other people who are in the same instance) and curating your experience via people you follow the same way you would on here! being part of a nicher, topic-specific instance may provide you with more entertainment right off the bat based solely on the fact that you are already connected with people who are also interested in things you like.

(ultimately, it's just like picking an email provider—yahoo, gmail, aol, etc.—that allows you to communicate with people with both the same email provider or with different email providers! it's just that it also comes with a community page of people who use the same email provider as you, if that makes sense at all. just find one you like, read the rules, and you're good to go!)

using mastodon is a LOT like using twitter, if you're familiar with it—it has its own lingo, of course (toot instead of tweet, for example), but the layout of the site/app is pretty twitter clone-ish. the difference is that while twitter is, in recent times.........Conservative/Right-Leaning As Hell, mastodon is so liberal/left-leaning that i've seen people describe it as TOO liberal/left-leaning, lmao. if you join a niche instance and venture outside of it, prepare to see a lot of political posts. interaction between users is encouraged, though because it IS filled with a lot of techy people no matter what instance you join, prepare to see the occasional techbro every now and then. it's easy to avoid them, though.

a Very Big Thing about mastodon—the circles i'm in, at least—is that alt text on images is a MUST. if you've never done alt text on images before, be prepared to learn or whatever you post WILL be ignored to hell and back because some people will straight up refuse to interact if you post an image with no alt text. it's also important to note that some instances of mastodon have moderation problems, which you might find being discussed by users on there a lot.

ultimately, i'd say my experience on mastodon has been positive—i've followed some genuinely interesting people on there (a lot of university professors and people in the workforce—i've learned more about SpaceX satellite waste in the last few months because of an astronomy professor i followed than i ever would've had i not joined!). if you don't feel like eternally searching for an instance you like, there's nothing wrong with just joining a generic, "catch-all" instance and then just seeking out people to follow. just make sure to read and follow the rules of an instance (which usually amounts to "be friendly" "no hate speech" and whatnot—depends on the instance, but it's all the same) and you'll be fine no matter how you talk or interact. you might find some instances that prefer you to use tone tags and some whose userbase has never even heard of tone tags—there's a lot of different "holes in the ground", so to speak!

(i will say—despite me linking a couple of fandom instances above, there really isn't much of a fandom presence on mastodon as of right now. not that i've seen, at least. you'll find a lot more people talking about their real-world interests (tech, gardening, marine biology, knitting, whatever) than you will someone going nuts over a fictional character. so if you're super into fandom, or super into a NICHE fandom, you may find yourself a bit lonely over there if you don't have a group of friends to migrate with you. if you don't mind that, then it works out! )

i hope this helped a bit! ^.^

EDIT: FORGOT TO MENTION. CONTENT WARNINGS ARE A BIG THING OVER THERE. you can hide your post behind a sort of "spoiler" type warning (like discord basically) and a lot of instances require you to content warn for certain content (gore, food, etc.) it's a VERY big thing.

[pleasantcandycollector]

http://blog.360ict.co.uk/2016/08/windows-10-anniversary-update.html?sc=1745213281580#c3195137462236406756

https://blog.lionode.com/2018/01/how-to-increase-page-rank-on-google.html?sc=1745213459048#c874898103838649427

http://blog.gisinternals.com/2014/03/intramaps-roam-first-release-windows.html?sc=1745213547040#c8797713416473745523

http://blog.gisinternals.com/2014/03/intramaps-roam-first-release-windows.html?sc=1745297192994#c3817616888149698368

[emilykaldwen]

Why can't we had a big bang that is off discord? The last fandom drama revolved around discord. it's a cesspit and a lot of us don't use it for all the above reasons. Too many private servers and problems. Now those who don't use it are isolated. The other mod keeps saying she hates the fandom today blaming it on pms but she is always saying it, always posting fandom call outs. She is part of the drama in discord. There is no trust anymore

TL;DR: You are not required to join the discord to be part of the big bang, but we will need to be able to contact you by email in order to check in with you throughout the event. So yeah, if you wanna hop in here and bitch about my friend and co-mod, I can't help you.

You don't HAVE to join the discord, we're just encouraging you to join for some extra discussion that's easier to have. Also, Tumblr DMs are notoriously unreliable, so if you won't let us contact you by Email, we have to have some way to get a hold of you that is reliable.

And I totally understand feeling hesitant about using discord but that's not how discord works. There's some pretty awful servers out there - gosh knows I've left some gaming servers that were a total mess. A server is what you make it, and the modding team matters. I can tell you our server is quiet, and so far we haven't had issues since I've been on it and we've got several time zones covered. I take modding seriously, and I know @ewanmitchellcrumbs does as well. I wouldn't have accepted the offer to help co-mod if I didn't think she did.

But also, I haven't seen her saying she hates the fandom, but I think we can all agree that things have been pretty chaotic the past few weeks and it's fucking exhausting. People are allowed to bitch about fandom. People have always bitched about fandom. I remember many an epic meltdown after various episodes of Supernatural. Doesn't mean I wasn't excited for the next episode or to write fic or read fic.

Fandom Drama will originate wherever there are people. That goes for Tumblr, Livejournal, MySpace, Skype, MSN messenger, AOL and IRC chats, forum boards, gaiaonline.... it's not a discord issue, it's a people issue. People will always engage in drama and bad behavior. We do not engage in it in either my inbox or the big bang server.

Also any further questions on the big bang should be sent to the @hotd-bigbang askbox. I will not be answering any more here.

[mass-convergence]

I’m not saying the world can’t be an incredibly shitty place and all.

But y’all need to stop finding problems where there are none. I’m talking about like conspiracy theories and misinformation being like “ACKSHUALLLY THE THING YOU LIKE IS SUPER PROBLEMATIC AND YOU ARE A HORRIBLE PERSON FOR NOT KNOWING THAT AND ENDORSING IT!”

And then they link to like idk, a daily mail article or something that would have been circulated via AOL email two decades ago with: “FWD: FWD: FWD: YOU CAN’T BELIEVE WHAT THE FBI HAS UNCOVERED”. Learn some goddamn reading comprehension and critical thinking please.

The poisoned thinking has def seeped into my thoughts where I am constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop on something I enjoy or a person I look up to. No you probably shouldn’t uncritically enjoy everything and treat every author/film director/famous public figure as your hero in some weird parasocial relationship that will definitely crash and burn once they make an iffy social media post.

But … you also don’t have to just assume everything good in this world is secretly bad. You know?

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[techexamineryt]

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[antoineooc]

I've been talking about this for awhile now because of the jobs I've had and what I do at the moment for a living.

I'll give you an example of my experience with this.

My last job was a customer service rep for a tech company and I had a young adult who was old enough to be my own kid, and he was emailing customers like he DM'd his friends on snapchat. I had to literally sit him down next to me to show him how to write an email because we had constant complaints about his emails to customers and they'd call us to talk to a manager about it. I told him it was like writing a letter but digital and he kinda got it but it didn't stick and he lost his job.

As a drag king, I come across folks who don't know how to email people all the time. I get emails like "wanna be in my show?" with no information at all. This isn't even younger generations who do this. It's also older generations who have no idea how to write an email either. I work with a drag pageant based non-profit that has a bunch of older folks (boomer age I will say) on the Board of Directors and they still write like that. I'm a drag KING and I know if I didn't write a professional email, it'd give anyone who looks down on drag kings a reason to not want to have us in their establishments. It's a whole fucking issue already and we work hard as hell to not give them anything that says we aren't "professional enough". So I have to go above and beyond with email etiquette, otherwise I'll be passed over by producers and the like without hesitation. I have weight with my non-profit with how long I've been with them but that isn't the case with other shows and hosts contacting me for shows.

If anyone has issues with writing emails, I have no problem teaching you or giving a tutorial as I've been doing this since AOL was in most homes on dial-up.

One thing my wife just told me which I think is important is that technology and email are so drilled into our generation because it was so new and we were told it would dominate our lives once we became adults. They were very right, but that was over two decades ago. Technology is so normalized in everyone's lives that it's not as drilled into younger generations and for the older ones that are more resistant to change since they didn't grow up with it like us and the younger generations did. I think having these skills is important but also understanding that some people will just have trouble absorbing that kind of habit-forming information. For those of us who can, the best thing we can do is help and do our best to be understanding.

not to sound like a boomer, but I need some people to learn how to write emails in a semi-professional (at the very least) format so you're not cold emailing a business/potential employer/any other stranger about formal matters in the exact same way you'd DM a close friend on instagram

the formality/language can loosen up in the email chain once you've established a rapport and you match the other person if they're being less formal, but please don't have the very first email you send a stranger be written in all lowercase ultra-casual sms slang with no greeting or signature and a billion emojis

[sativaasiren]

Can you explain the context Im ootl

Context on?

If you mean my recent post: I’m the group’s point person for all concert tickets and hotel bookings and had completely blocked out that I booked my Portcon hotel, went to book it (again) and thursday was sold out and was gonna cost everyone extra money. Turns out I DID book early, the email got moved into the wrong folder because the title was wrong (AOL-long story) and didn’t actually fuck that up. I’m just so stressed from the big stuff in my personal life that I assumed I had dropped the ball when the email wasn’t there as proof I did it. ADHD problems huh?

If you mean the health stuff, I have an autoimmune disease that on its best days is simply “inconvenient” but on it’s worst days, legitimately life threatening. Ehlers Danlos affects your natural collagen production so because my joints and tendons are too loose, the muscles near them hyper tighten to keep me from constantly dislocating or sublexing joints. You know those people they talked about during COVID, the ones who could die if they got it? *raises hand* I did have it and almost ended up in the hospital because I couldn’t breathe.

Unfortunately, me being sick a lot causes other people to get sick, take care of me, cancel plans because I can’t go, and I imagine it’s hard to be around someone who has a life counter above their head Death Note style when you care about that person lmao. I myself get frustrated with my disability so it would be ignorant to assume no one else does. In fact, they usually do first.

I wake up every day and wish I was healthy. It’s how the body progress started, i’m drinking tons of water and taking all sorts of vitamins and cut down on my garbage food intake too, but even still, I can be completely knocked down with a bug that most people don’t even get because their normal immune system fights that shit off. Mine went to lunch and never came back 😂

I hope this answered your question. If not, ask again lol

[andtheghost]

01/30/24 - Your master has betrayed you

Has anyone else noticed technology being all wonky lately?

I went to the library the other day to print a few things. I send my images to myself via e-mail, and I forgot my little password notebook so I couldn’t log into my email. However, I had my iPad with me in case I took a last look before printing and caught something that needed to be fixed, so I figured I could just make a new temporary email and send them with that. Simple fix, no problem.

I try making a Microsoft account. They have a series of “tests” to prove you’re a human. The visual test is a seemingly random string of letters and numbers and a picture of a robot, with absolutely NO instruction as to what you’re supposed to do with them. Is it a code? Am I supposed to drag something somewhere (no, unless the dragging thing wasn’t working in my browser). So there’s an audio test. Which of three audio samples changes instruments half way through? I don’t have my headphones with me, but I’m hidden in the back of the library away from everyone anyway, I figure if I keep it on the lowest setting right up to my ear, it should be fine.

I get through the first test fine. Then it informs me there are three more to go! I don’t hear a single sample that changes instruments in the second test. I listen to it again. A woman comes in and sits at the other end of the table to work on a puzzle. I’m sitting there listening to these stupid audio samples over and over because NONE OF THEM have any instrument changes. Now I feel like an asshole because I’m not alone anymore, listening to music in a library without headphones. RUDE. And I’m getting frustrated because I’ve listened to these samples how many times, and none of them are right. So I start guessing. I make two guesses, fail both, I get to start the tests all over.

Fine, fuck Microsoft anyway.

I can’t use Yahoo, because I’ve tried it for this exact purpose and I think they might have a daily upload limit? I have three fairly large images to upload, so that’s not an option. I try AOL. I didn’t even know AOL was still a thing. Every time I try to check if the email I want is available it tells me there’s an error, try again in a few minutes.

I go to Google, search best free email providers. The first option it gives me isn’t free. The second one says it sent me a validation text. I never got the text, so I press resend, still no text.

I give up at this point. It shouldn’t take more than two minutes to make a new email, if that, and I’ve been through three different options with no success, it SHOULD NOT be this hard. I finally decide to just go home and come back the next day.

And this isn’t even like a one time thing. It’s been happening a lot lately. Very simple things just NOT WORKING. Either technology has specifically singled me out to stop working properly, or there is some kind of universal devolution of technology going on. Too many people using it and it’s starting to malfunction maybe?

Honestly, I’d be okay with that after a while, I think. There would definitely be an extraordinarily bumpy transition period, sure, but I think I would survive just fine. Take us back to the “dark ages” where technology didn’t poison everything it touches.

[askprobforum]

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[unsurebasil]

Transcript:

Man in suit jacket, “now, John, I don’t wanna to say officially got the job yet but goddammit that was one of the best interviews I ever seen”

Man in button up shirt, John, “thanks for saying that, Jerry. It means a lot.”

Jerry, “alright, just give me your email address and you should expect something in your inbox this weekend.”

John, “email address?”

Jerry, “yeah, email. You ever heard of it?”

John, “yeah, that’s the thing, I just don’t really use email like that. I can stick around if you need an hour to type something up.”

Jerry, “it’s going to take a few days to work up, man. Just- just give me your email.”

John, “yeah, no, no problem. It’s- uh- it’s”

Jerry, “come on, spit it out”

John, “lord of the farts 69421 at AOL dot com.”

Jerry, “I’m sorry?”

John, “lord of the farts six nine four two one at AOL dot com.”

Jerry, “are you serious right now, bro?”

John, “69420 was already taken.”

Jerry, “you have to be joking.”

John, “and that’s farts with a Z. Two Z’s”

Jerry, “you do realize unprofessional that makes you look?”

John, “one can argue it’s actually the most professional I could be!”

Jerry, “how so?”

John, “it shows loyalty to my past self. I- I stick to my guns. I made a decision all those years ago to make that my email address for my life. I owe it to my twelve year old self to stand my ground. Job offer or not.”

Jerry, “you know what, John. You got guts.”

John, “I do?”

Jerry, “you know I had a few more candidates to interview for this position but check your email box.”

John, “subject: Job offer. From Lord of the farts 69420 at AOL dot com.”

Jerry, “guess I beat you to the punch.”

John, “guess I got the job.”

Jerry, “see you Monday, 421.”