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**HairyArsedBloke** · 24 March 2010, 09:45

Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post

Last company I was at was really big into IM Worldwide around the business.

A number had AIM, Yahoo, MSN etc, so it was difficult to decide what to have.

Eventually the IT dept deployed Pidgin IM, but because it had been deployed by the IT department no-one was sure if it was secure.

Who uses IM, and is Pidgin the best one to use to wrap all of the above together or is there something better.

I fink its da biz.

I use it on a daily basis with some of my clients where it is allowed. I've never looked too deep into using anything else apart from the MS product

**Moscow Mule** · 24 March 2010, 09:51

We tend to use skype for IM here.

Some of us have Cisco softphone installed which does IM too, but there's not enough take up yet so Skype is the default choice.

**EternalOptimist** · 24 March 2010, 09:56

When I was at Barclays in Knutsford, over ten years ago, I was on a floor with about 400 dudes, only a dozen of whom were blokes.

I was sat next to the most gorgeous fragrant, nice, perfectly formed 25 year old bird. She was a stunner.
She was charmed by a rugby type guy, who sat four rows away, who whammed her with the full whirlwind romantic stuff, and they used to disappear at lunch time coming back looking a little flushed around the gills. Everyone was made up for them.

Of course, sitting next to her, sometimes I got to see the ims flying, which was quite entertaining.

Anyways, one of the network support guys was a well known rampant bum-boy, and his name and initial was one character away from the ladies. So one morning, the network guy gets a message by mistake, the rugger type has promised to take him behind the tennis courts, rip his nicks off and work it up where the sun dont shine till he begs for mercy.

Rugger type keeps looking over at girly, she shrugs back, he's puzzled , why isnt she agreeing???

so in the end he saunters over and they have a little chinwag, everything gets sorted.
Then the network guy appears behind my chair, out of breath, face bright pink, gushing in some sort of pre orgasmic hot flush, he squeals
'of course I will be there, I just didnt know. ooh I just didnt know you cared. oh my God, im going to faint. I am soooo happy'

He was lucky to get out alive

**cojak** · 24 March 2010, 09:58

Yep, IM has been big where I've used it, very useful where offices are dispersed.

Pidgin is a good collater but most end to gravitate around MSN and skype, so I just keep them open.

**Xenophon** · 24 March 2010, 10:00

MSN and Skype (sometimes).

**Cliphead** · 24 March 2010, 10:02

Only ever Skype.

**Churchill** · 24 March 2010, 10:04

BlackBerry Messenger

**MarillionFan** · 24 March 2010, 10:06

As an addition to EO's story. Do you remember the first 'email viral gone wrong' story that came out about ten years ago. http://www.snopes.com/risque/tattled/swire.asp

I went backpacking around Asia just roundabout when the story broke, and for anyone who has ever backpacked on your own, you have to go out of your way to talk/meet people.

Anyway, one of my questions to people I had just met(I suppose this would work quite well for a date as well) was 'Whats the most embarrassing thing that has ever happened to you?'

I was on a plane sat next to a stunning girl, when we got talking and I asked her. She then went through the story above to which I then gasped 'Oh my god, was that you?' and the reply was 'No. It wasn't. But that bloke was my boyfriend the fking wnker and that girl is a fcking slag!!!! So I'm leaving until it dies down!!!!!'

Ooops!

**Scrag Meister** · 24 March 2010, 10:10

Lotus Sametime, Globally here.

Although I hear there is a move to some MS based product, Communicator?

Internal only AFAIK.

MSN, Skype, Facebook at home.

Can't read your link MF, obviously NSFW as far as web security is concerned here.

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