Will the last person out ....

**pluckyduck** · #1 11-27-2002, 11:11 AM

... turn out the lights?

How'd you like to get this memo at work?

http://www.internalmemos.com/memos/m...p?memo_id=1116

I'd say coffee and water are a benchmark for stability.

Andrea

poseidon · #2 11-27-2002, 11:43 AM

How do I tell Lulu that I'm just not interested?

We had a similar situation start back when I was working in the office. I joined the company and, once they decided to keep me, informed me that I needed to contribute to the coffee fund.

I politely told the coffee fund chairwoman that I didn't drink coffee and therefore wasn't interested in contributing to the fund. She looked at me like I was from Mars.

A few days later, they decided to add me into the rotation to make coffee in the morning for everyone. I went ahead and told the group, "Hey, you don't want me making your coffee for you." They asked me why, and I explained that since I don't drink coffee, I don't make it, either, and couldn't promise the outcome. They encouraged me to make the coffee and I agreed only to appease them and to be a "team player."

About an hour after I made the coffee, they informed me that after great discussion, they agreed that I shouldn't be making the coffee anymore.

**conradd** · #3 11-27-2002, 01:00 PM

ROFL!!! Great site, Andrea. Is this straight out of Dilbert or what?

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By now, I'm sure you are wondering, "What can I do to get that rooster?" It's simple, go above and beyond the call of duty to the point where your leaders and peers recognize your effort. If you see someone over achieving, let your team leader know and they'll go to war with the other managers to bring the Rooster home to that person.

Deb
hoping that no one in this forum came up with the Rooster idea

theeye · #4 11-27-2002, 01:14 PM

Next step is to institute a Turkey award. I nominate the author of that memo for the very first Turkey award.

jnbmoore · #5 11-27-2002, 01:22 PM

OUCH!!!!!!!

This site is proud of their material!

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The little "$" next to that item means
The memo you have selected requires a paid subscription
Unlimited access to all memos, for an entire month, for $45
Billed monthly, cancel anytime. Or enjoy our new
discounted subscription, $180 per year.

I'm sorta interested in the memo that the company that laid hubby off last year had on line

But not that interested

http://www.internalmemos.com/memos/i...?search=alstom

Hey check this one out:

http://www.internalmemos.com/memos/m...hp?memo_id=220

Remember that one????

**pluckyduck** · #6 11-27-2002, 07:52 PM

Quote:

OUCH!!!!!!!

This site is proud of their material!

quote:
The little "$" next to that item means
The memo you have selected requires a paid subscription
Unlimited access to all memos, for an entire month, for $45
Billed monthly, cancel anytime. Or enjoy our new
discounted subscription, $180 per year.

This site is run by Pud, of F**kedcompany.com fame. Pud has made a living making fun of dot coms who couldn't make a living.

The boy collects his

Andrea

**pluckyduck** · #7 11-27-2002, 07:58 PM

So I don't know what I was thinking.

I circulated the memo to my cronies at work (company controller and two of the four Sons of the Owner)....what do you think I got back?

A three hour round-robin "reply to all" conversation/debate/business plan about how we should get rid of the coffee and water services and save money.

Nobody was serious, of course, but when they started throwing in banning all on premisis smoking, I started to lose my sense of humor.

I'm afraid what will happen if forward the link to the Rooster.

Andrea
who never wants to turn into the things she makes fun of

**Joubert**[$] · #8 11-27-2002, 08:40 PM

I had circulated the site a couple of weeks ago at work with a note to "knock off the idiotic email requests".

**pluckyduck** · #9 11-28-2002, 07:46 AM

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Originally posted by joubert
I had circulated the site a couple of weeks ago at work with a note to "knock off the idiotic email requests".

God, ain't that the truth.

My biggest fear used to be Mike Wallace showing up at my door. You know how some people have an irrational fear of being sent to jail, even when they never break any laws? Well, my biggest fear has always been doing some completely bone headed business thing and having to be one of the people who shoves the door in Mike Wallace's face, or walks to her car with a shirt over her head.

Now, there's the internet, where you can be completely humilated in a myriad of ways.

Andrea

**Joubert**[$] · #10 11-28-2002, 10:01 AM

Mike Wallace once showed up at a target's door brandishing our product. And he hammered the hell out of the people.

We now practice (no joke, a half dozen of us practice) with a media consultant should the tables ever be turned. There are only three people allowed to take media inquiries. That doesn't help if one of us is giving a speech somewhere and a reporter asks a question from the floor.

But the stuff in email. Much is made of the investment bank emails. Any company in America has similar stuff. And Pud is going to show them all. It's a wildly entertaining site.

**pluckyduck** · #11 11-28-2002, 10:12 AM

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Originally posted by joubert
Mike Wallace once showed up at a target's door brandishing our product. And he hammered the hell out of the people.

We now practice (no joke, a half dozen of us practice) with a media consultant should the tables ever be turned. There are only three people allowed to take media inquiries. That doesn't help if one of us is giving a speech somewhere and a reporter asks a question from the floor.

I can only imagine how my fear level would escalate if I had a national brand like you do.

When the Kathy Lee Gifford thing went on awhile back, I grilled my guy in Taiwan about who exactly was making my lapel pins. Nobody national cares about me, but I am a main source of awareness ribbon lapel pins for most of the national organizations of any Pick-A-Cause. I had visions of Mike Wallace knocking on my door, asking about the (Fill in Major American Charity) buying lapel pins made by 5 year olds or prisoners in China.

I got signed documents that my lapel pins are all made in Taiwan, not mainland China, and there is no child labor. Nobody has ever once asked me a question, but sometimes it is good to be paranoid.

Andrea
whose mother told her never to put anything in writing that she didn't want published on the front page of the local newspaper

**Joubert**[$] · #12 11-28-2002, 10:28 AM

And if your Mom were with us today, she would say "don't put anything in email that you don't want to see on Pud's websites"

**pluckyduck** · #13 11-28-2002, 10:34 AM

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Originally posted by joubert
And if your Mom were with us today, she would say "don't put anything in email that you don't want to see on Pud's websites"

Andrea
trying to cope with the vision of her Ever Proper Southern Mother reading Pud