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“Dear Acme Vitamins,
Enclosed are two wads of cotton that I found inside a bottle of your product purchased from the pharmacy. Cotton balls are not vitamins! Please inform your staff.”
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For those not aware, those are to protect the top and bottom disks of the spindle from damage. Otherwise you’d be shortchanged by having only 48 usable disks.
…..thanks. Took me a second to think about that.
I do have a story about a box of ten “100% Certified” 5.25″ floppy disks that had several manufacturing errors.
One disk had no media inside the jacket. No, I don’t mean the paper sleeve, I mean the black plastic jacket.
Another had two disks of media inside the jacket, so at least that balanced out. Of course, the jacket isn’t designed for two disks so they wouldn’t turn.
A third, when formatted, left its magnetic material on the drive head. It wasn’t adhering properly to the substrate and would wipe off with a tissue. Wiped the whole disk on both sides leaving only the transparent substrate. Took it back to the store, looked at the guy behind the counter through the drive-head window and substrate and said, “Now that’s a blank disk!”
The store sold the remaining stock to a competitor and got a new supplier.
I kind of want to see the reply letter now…
Those are do it yourself CDs! Makes you appreciate the manufacturers all the more if you try to make your own CD-RWs!
(Serious niavete fail, I’d have loved to see the reply letter as well…)
I wonder if this was written by the same woman who sent the angry email to Facilities when they painted the mens’ restroom doors green and the ladies’ purple. She was furious because “using different colors implies that Management believes there is some fundamental difference between men and women!” Uh lady, last time I looked, there was…
At least someone does.
Notices the difference, I mean. I gotta quit posting fresh off work.
LOL. It has led to a lot of “what’s behind the green door?” jokes among us female employees, though.
Really? I’d be more horrified by the Barney theme
since we dont have a letters from crazy people (though people sending these ‘letters’ in this day and age are inherently crazy) I suppose here will have to do
Ninja CDs
That happened to me with a 50 CD spindle from HP. No, they were not at the top and bottom, but they did make nice hanging art. Obviously the company neglected to put the nice shiny tin on the bottom of the CD that allows it to record. They were perfectly normal otherwise. And very pretty.
They should have been, the machine that loads the spindles was obviously misloaded or they would have been either both at the bottom (happens like 1 out of 5 spindles) or at the top and bottom one each they are meant to protect your cd’s from getting scratched, either on the bottom side (where it will make it much harder to write to or read from) or on top (which will damage the foil on most disks making them unusable).
haha.. having worked for HI-VAL… letters like this were common..
I would say the blank CDs were the only things HI-VAL sold that weren’t crappy.. but I would be lying… thier CDs were crap.