minorthird

so…it’s Tuesday. You probably knew that, but with me having Mondays off I need to remind myself at least half a dozen times throughout the day.

Two tales from the office:

One
Why do people think that if they send an email with “please disregard this” in the body nobody will read it? I guess one of the divisions in the department got hit with a virus yesterday and they’re just getting their email access back, so every 2-3 minutes someone feels compelled to send a test message to “All.”

I don’t like being part of “All.”

You’d think that we — the global, office “we”, not a group with “me” in it — could get it together and come up with a buddy system, or an email chain to test out a new or recently restored address.

I’m a consultant now…maybe I’ll suggest it.

Two
This morning I overheard two “engineers” talking about state budget cut rumors.

“I heard that they’re going to ask us to keep the lights turned off.”

“Yeah, I heard that at the other place they actually had a higher heating bill because they were ’saving money’ on lighting.”

“I heard a rumor that during the winter they came it and there was frost on the desks.”

Frost. On. The. Desks.

Because the FLUORESCENT lights were turned off.

Hence the air-quotes around “engineers.”

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