Long Notice

I knew I was quitting, so I gave 2 month notice at my job. I know, two MONTHS? But I figured it was the right thing to do, and they could hire my replacement in plenty of time. After I gave notice my boss started treating me really badly. I called [...]

New Forms Are Awesome, Huh?

Embedded within a performance culture is the ability and desire to seek opportunities to enhance performance throughout the organization. I believe the Maximizing Claim Productivity Worksheet we have created will enable us to continue to find ways to improve our productivity, implement changes in a timely fashion and appropriately assess the impact of such modifications.
The [...]

Letter From CEO Translated

Greetings to All: I want to thank everyone for their participation in the organizational assessment done by [Expensive Consultantancy Firm]. I have discussed their findings now on two occasions and feel this assessment and the implementation of recommendations are extremely important to our institutional health and viability. I am calling for a facilitated meeting with [...]

Wacky Manager Speak

Just a few little highlights….
“We’re not trying to boil the ocean here.”
“Do you have any bandwidth to work on a support call?”
“We need to interface one-on-one offline post team meeting.”

Can’t Live…If Living Is Without You

About that [employment contract] we talked about. You know that our business can’t run without you, your extremely important to the function of this organization, however we can’t make an exception for just one employee.
[Ed: Only managers have logic like this.]

Summary: Sell More

To summarize, we have some ground to make up as we got a slower start out of the gate this year. Clearly, we must redouble our efforts towards meeting our revenue objective. This is our Number One objective for the year. The “trickle-down” effect of achieving our revenue plan by end of the second quarter [...]

Grammar Boss

[Ed. These are highlights from a very badly worded email from the boss. My guess is that this company doesn't sell english textbooks.]
In an effort to streamline who does what in my department please direct your questions to the following areas. [Ed: Such as? ] Sometime in the real near future there will be [...]

Push That Envelop(e) Where?

We have elevated the quality of our work, we have added exciting and challenging new clients to our roster, and some of the assignments we were privileged to work on this year continue to inspire our team to excel and push the envelop[e] [Ed: sp!]. I’d say we did quite well in living up to [...]

The Bennies Are Great Here…We Get WATER

The cleaning person left me a note saying that the coffee pot was left on last night and there was a small amount of coffee left in it. It is very important that we all are making sure that the coffee pot is turned off before the end of the working day. The people in [...]

Emailing MP3s

Please refrain from using our email system to send MP3 or movie files within the company. We are trying to conserve our bandwidth for the website, and it’s expensive as you know. We don’t want any slowdowns or outages because our employees are using all the bandwidth for themselves!
Thanks!
[President]
[Ed: Hey assclown, the mail server that [...]