TTPPoD for Tues
TTPPoD is Totally Trivial Pet Peeve of the Day.
This one is -- Surprise! NOT Election related. And maybe not quite so trivial.
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Okay, I sent a quickie e-mail to my boss, who had gotten some information that we were both waiting for. The person sending the information did not fulfill our greedy little dreams. In fact, they gave us everything we couldn't have cared less about and nothing we wanted. This has been going on for some time and we're both rather heavily invested in the outcome.
So my e-mail reflected this. It was just three short sentences. The last sentence was one word: "Damn."
Well, my boss responded, acknowledging her disappointment. She attached my original e-mail to her response. But she edited out the "d" word.
Oh, come ON!!!
She didn't cc: anyone else on the e-mail. It was just a straight answer back to me.
Why did she do this?
Was she afraid some IT spy would randomly peruse her mailbox and somehow hold it against her for having a subordinate with a potty mouth?
Was this her subtle way of informing me that it is undesirable to use any sort of 4-letter word in company e-mails?
Was she expressing that the word offends her personally? Hmm. I asked her that morning if a recently laid-off employee might be coming back and she replied "HAIL, no!" Which, here below the Mason-Dixon line is the common way of saying h-e-double hockey sticks.
This lady has never struck me as the prudish type, except in one respect. She will study what the executives do, and then try to model herself after them. Our company is a private firm, run by some rather religious folks. We get complimentary copies of "Our Daily Bread" every 3 months. When I first came to work here, she laughed at a co-worker who had an autographed copy of the president in his cubicle. But within 3 months, she had the same picture, as well as a similar one of John McCain. I strongly suspect she is simply posing. She's anything but a goody-two-shoes...in fact, she's a smoker.
I'm not sure what kind of message she was trying to send me today, but I'm having a lot of trouble resisting the temptation to tell her I suspect she's a hypocritical ass-kisser.
ETA: Perhaps she misunderstood the concept of having one's hard drive "corrupted"...
This one is -- Surprise! NOT Election related. And maybe not quite so trivial.
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Okay, I sent a quickie e-mail to my boss, who had gotten some information that we were both waiting for. The person sending the information did not fulfill our greedy little dreams. In fact, they gave us everything we couldn't have cared less about and nothing we wanted. This has been going on for some time and we're both rather heavily invested in the outcome.
So my e-mail reflected this. It was just three short sentences. The last sentence was one word: "Damn."
Well, my boss responded, acknowledging her disappointment. She attached my original e-mail to her response. But she edited out the "d" word.
Oh, come ON!!!
She didn't cc: anyone else on the e-mail. It was just a straight answer back to me.
Why did she do this?
Was she afraid some IT spy would randomly peruse her mailbox and somehow hold it against her for having a subordinate with a potty mouth?
Was this her subtle way of informing me that it is undesirable to use any sort of 4-letter word in company e-mails?
Was she expressing that the word offends her personally? Hmm. I asked her that morning if a recently laid-off employee might be coming back and she replied "HAIL, no!" Which, here below the Mason-Dixon line is the common way of saying h-e-double hockey sticks.
This lady has never struck me as the prudish type, except in one respect. She will study what the executives do, and then try to model herself after them. Our company is a private firm, run by some rather religious folks. We get complimentary copies of "Our Daily Bread" every 3 months. When I first came to work here, she laughed at a co-worker who had an autographed copy of the president in his cubicle. But within 3 months, she had the same picture, as well as a similar one of John McCain. I strongly suspect she is simply posing. She's anything but a goody-two-shoes...in fact, she's a smoker.
I'm not sure what kind of message she was trying to send me today, but I'm having a lot of trouble resisting the temptation to tell her I suspect she's a hypocritical ass-kisser.
ETA: Perhaps she misunderstood the concept of having one's hard drive "corrupted"...