If you’re a tech geek and work in a large shop with change management in place, you’ll love this story.

We received a spam from the Change Management Procedure Group stating that they were going to implement a change to the actual change management tool so that individual inboxes will be swept of all “Closed” work orders older than seven days in order to speed up the application’s performance for all users. This makes total sense. When I was actually involved in infrastructure changes, I never deleted any work orders and it took about five minutes for the database query to fill my inbox to complete. Multiply this by 10,000 people and you’ve got serious issues.

But the funny part comes in this followup spam:

Please disregard this notice as this process will NOT be implemented until discussed and addressed by the CMPT in the meeting scheduled for July.

Thanks,
Change Nazi
(name changed, of course)

The irony: the Change Management Procedure Board has been dinged for a change to the change management tool which did not follow the correct change management process as defined by the Change Management Procedure Board.

Gotta love it!