I work for a good sized corporation We have 6000-7000 employees in the US. Today, one of our senior vice-presidents sent this email out to all US employees.
:smack:
Doesn’t this guy have more brains then to believe every email that crosses his desk? Doesn’t he have more to do then panic every employee in the company. For this, he gets a VP title?
I hope he enjoys the response I sent him, including the Snopes link. :wally
You think he’ll click on the Snopes link? He’s a busy man, a man of action, and doesn’t have time to be actually “learning things” or “looking things up.”
I have *never * had a positive response from sending *anyone * a link to Snopes. :rolleyes:
I sent a HR person a photocopied page from “The Choking Doberman” many years ago when she sent a warning around about Mickey Mouse LSD on the playground. I made a lifelong enemy, and she tried her best to have me downsized over the next year. (Although I am still here and she is gone, so I guess the story has a happy ending.)
People just prefer to roll around in their own ignorance. Now I just let them embarass themselves.
I just love this phrase. 
I plan on using it every chance I get.
The sad part is I know waaaay too many people to whom it applys. :eek:
Myself included, apparently. :o
Applies, moron.
In need of afternoon coffee, obviously.
Engineer Cannibals
Five cannibals get appointed as engineers in a car company. During the welcoming ceremony the boss says, “You’re all part of our team now. You can earn good money here, and you can go to the cafeteria for something to eat. So please don’t trouble any of the other employees.” The cannibals promised.
Four weeks later the boss returns and says, “You’re all working very hard, and I’m very satisfied with all of you. However, one of our janitors has disappeared. Do any of you know what happened to him?”
The cannibals all shake their heads no.
After the boss has left, the leader of the cannibals says to the others, “Which of you idiots ate the janitor?”
A hand raises hesitantly, to which the leader of the cannibals replies, “You fool! For four weeks we’ve been eating Team Leaders, Supervisors and vice presidents and no one noticed anything, and you have to go and eat the janitor!”
After all the guy has to justify his jynormus salery. :wally
FTR, I have sent Snopes links to VPs with the suggestion that they check stuff out first, or they will look real silly.
A good friend of mine at work used to constantly copy me on all these glurge emails she would get. You know the ones, like let’s all not buy gas on Sunday to make the oil companies collapse. Every time I’d take a deep breath, go look it up on Snopes, and email her the link.
Now she still copies me on these, but it’s only to show me that she’s responding to the email with a link to Snopes.
To some people the truth apparently isn’t as exciting as spreading misinformation or false stories. Most of these people, when challenged, will either refuse to acknowledge the falsehood, or instead get mad that you’re ruining their “harmless fun.”
:rolleyes:
I’m one of the “not fun” ones. I once wrote a 2,000 word refutation of the “boycott oil for a day” email and CC:ed it to all 30 people to whom the original person wrote. She got mad at me for “embarrassing her”, I then reminded her of the policy of unauthorized use of the company’s computer and email systems.
That was that - I never received another one (whether she sent them out is another matter).
Isn’t there a Ferengi Rule of Aquisition about this? Something like “It never hurts to suck up to the boss?”
I’m sure there’s a corollary to that somewhere.
Be discreet. Don’t embarrass the big boys. They sign your paycheck and will appreciate your discretion.
You might be able to stave off more e-mails by warning him that they’re going to be taxed.