Every now and again though the work newsletter can be okay and there are the rare times that it is rather funny...here are two from today's newsletter that well gave me a bit of a chuckle. One is in light of what this month brings. Valentine's Day of course!
Without further ado, I present to you the....
Top Ten Gifts NOT To Give on Valentine’s
10. A new vacuum, dishwasher, or any appliance really…
9. A membership to Boston Sports Club, if you don’t know why, don’t plan on having a girlfriend for much longer…
8. Anything from Lane Bryant…
7. The Die Hard Trilogy, now including Die Hard, Die Hard 2, and the digitally re-mastered I’ll Remember this Awful Gift with a Vengeance…
6. Anything you made yourself (only your mother appreciates the 15 minutes it took you to glue some photos and trinkets together, and that was because you were 5)
5. Dinner for two at the Texas Roadhouse, there may be peanut shells on the floor, but you smell that… that’s love in the air (or is that burnt meat?)
4. Any jewelry that comes in a ring sized box, unless it actually is a ring and you’re proposing…
3. That 60inch plasma TV that you… I mean she’s always wanted…
2. That lovely perfume your ex used to wear, and your soon to be ex never will…
1. Flowers from a gas station, nothing says I love you like the sweet smell of 93 octane!
And if that still didn't do it for you, then this one definitely will. I was at work last week and received an email from a friend whom used to work with me at my current company. I mention this because it plays a part in the story.
I open the email and my friend writes "You have probably already seen this because it has appeared to have gone around the company several times" She was referring to my company, the one she no longer works at.
After reading just that much, knowing that my company is on the rather large size, and the fact that my friend had received this and is no longer working with me, I deducted that somebody was screwed.
I noted that I had to scroll to the bottom to see what this email was all about. As I scrolled down I was seeing that there were several people in my company that had forwarded this email on and they were of varying levels throughout the company. Hmm...I really wondered what this was. So I kept scrolling.
I finally came to the bottom of the email and holy crap, if this is not a lesson on double checking who you are sending your emails to then I don't know what is. This is what an intern that thought she was writing to her boyfriend wrote, when in fact she sent it to her boss on the job.
"baby what time is your game on sunday? i want you all day!"
Poor girl! I bet she'll never do that again!!!
