# Brownie did a heck of a job. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 3, 2005, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brownie-did-a-heck-of-a-job/329318 "2005-11-03T17:51:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Metacom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecae2f/32.png) [@Metacom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Metacom)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brownie-did-a-heck-of-a-job/329318/61 "2005-11-04T23:55:27Z")
> [@wring](#): > > Brown had time to reply to fucking emails about his goddamn shirt, but it took him 4 motherfucking people harming days to **forward** on one mother fucking email offering actual fucking assistance where and when it was fucking desperately needed? Brown wouldn’t have had a clue what to do with that email if he’d taken 30 days; the problem isn’t that he didn’t have enough time, it’s that he didn’t have a clue what he should be doing. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2005, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brownie-did-a-heck-of-a-job/329318/62 "2005-11-05T00:25:35Z")
> [@Metacom](#): > > Brown wouldn’t have had a clue what to do with that email if he’d taken 30 days; the problem isn’t that he didn’t have enough time, it’s that he didn’t have a clue what he should be doing. scuse the fuck outta me. you asserted > [@Metacom](#): > > Taking the time and energy to reply to emails on daily minutiae: OK. > > Not handling the important emails: Not OK. and I point out exactly the type of “Not handling important emails: Not OK” sort of thing and you still veer off. He was/is a clueless incompetent jerk. Pointing out the very many ways he was clueless and incompetent is relevant. One of the ways was him having sufficient time to email about his wardrobe and not bothering to forward on an important email. I grant he didn’t have a clue what he was doing. **but** , instead of figuring out something productive to do (like resigning 'cause he didn’t have a clue what he was doing for example), he’d spend our money paying his salary to write fucking emails about his goddam shirt. He did in fact forward on the email to an appropriate person **four motherfucking days later** I don’t suspect it took him all fucking four fucking days to figure out who the fuck should actually get that information. But good thing he dressed nicely. ---
**Author:** ![Metacom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecae2f/32.png) [@Metacom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Metacom)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2005, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brownie-did-a-heck-of-a-job/329318/63 "2005-11-05T00:42:44Z")
> [@wring](#): > > scuse the fuck outta me. > > you asserted and I point out exactly the type of “Not handling important emails: Not OK” sort of thing and you still veer off. You’re still not getting it. The reason that he didn’t handle the important emails was not because he didn’t have enough time to do so, it was because he didn’t know how to do so. Your argument seems to be: [ol] [li]Brown didn’t respond to important emails.[/li][li]The reason Brown didn’t respond to those emails was because he didn’t have enough time.[/li][li]He must have had plenty of time, because he responded to other emails about trivial matters.[/li][/ol] #2 is where you go wrong. Unless the reason he couldn’t do his job is because he wasted his time doing non-job related things (like writing person e-mails), then those personal emails are completely irrelevant. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2005, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brownie-did-a-heck-of-a-job/329318/64 "2005-11-05T00:47:39Z")
how do you figure that he did in fact respond to it 4 days later? suddenly he knew how to foward an email to an appropriate person? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2005, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brownie-did-a-heck-of-a-job/329318/65 "2005-11-05T00:51:18Z")
> [@Metacom](#): > > You’re still not getting it. > > The reason that he didn’t handle the important emails was not because he didn’t have enough time to do so, it was because he didn’t know how to do so. And yet, instead of attempting to find someone who did know how, he chose to use the time he did have on the inconsequential minutiae. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2005, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brownie-did-a-heck-of-a-job/329318/66 "2005-11-05T01:08:00Z")
> [@niblet\_head](#): > > I don’t watch the tv news. Cuz it sucks. > > Can anybody tell me if this will be or has it been covered on the tv news? Local tv news? I think the more general public needs to know about this idjit (and ESPECIALLY about the being kept on as a consultant at full salary), and I assume that only a certain demographic reads the papers or [cnn.com](http://cnn.com) _The Daily Show_ has had a great deal of fun with these (it’s where I got my sig), and constantly prefaces their repeating of the emails with, “We swear we’re **not** making this up.”😃 ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2005, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brownie-did-a-heck-of-a-job/329318/67 "2005-11-05T01:24:46Z")
> [@Metacom](#): > > Then it’s a stupid point that doesn’t make any sense, because paying attention to the daily minutiae weren’t detrimental to the important things. Unless the spend 12 hours a day doing nothing but writing short, one-liner emails on non-work related topics, they just don’t fucking matter. The minutiae that doesn’t matter, is all he did. > [@Metacom](#): > > it’s that he didn’t have a clue what he should be doing. Now there is the problem. He was in way over his head before he even got appointed to FEMA. > [@Wring](#): > > One of the ways was him having sufficient time to email about his wardrobe and not bothering to forward on an important email. I grant he didn’t have a clue what he was doing. but, instead of figuring out something productive to do (like resigning 'cause he didn’t have a clue what he was doing for example), he’d spend our money paying his salary to write fucking emails about his goddam shirt. He did in fact forward on the email to an appropriate person four motherfucking days later I don’t suspect it took him all fucking four fucking days to figure out who the fuck should actually get that information. But good thing he dressed nicely. Isn’t “dressing nicely” about the only good thing his former employers at the Arabian Horse Whatever had to say about him? He should have never been hired. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2005, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brownie-did-a-heck-of-a-job/329318/68 "2005-11-05T01:35:33Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > Isn’t “dressing nicely” about the only good thing his former employers at the Arabian Horse Whatever had to say about him? IIRC, they were impressed with his six month investigation of whether or not a horse owner had liposuction performed on his horse’s ass. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brownie-did-a-heck-of-a-job/329318.md?page=3)