I'm an office e-mail-funny snob.
That is to say I consider myself usually above all those silly jokes that do the company e-mail circuit, the ones that are supposedly infinitely funnier just because they're on your computer screen or your mobile phone but wouldn't get a second look on paper. I don't know why that is? Someone should conduct a study into why grown men and women send each other childish e-mails they'd otherwise disregard as infantile schoolyard material.
Anyway, I said 'usually' for good reason as today I received my daily dose of unfunny funny emails and found something genuinely funny for a change, a sample of which I enclose and implore you to distribute far and wide.
That is to say I consider myself usually above all those silly jokes that do the company e-mail circuit, the ones that are supposedly infinitely funnier just because they're on your computer screen or your mobile phone but wouldn't get a second look on paper. I don't know why that is? Someone should conduct a study into why grown men and women send each other childish e-mails they'd otherwise disregard as infantile schoolyard material.
Anyway, I said 'usually' for good reason as today I received my daily dose of unfunny funny emails and found something genuinely funny for a change, a sample of which I enclose and implore you to distribute far and wide.
BLAMESTORMING:Apologies for the intrusion into your otherwise productive and enjoyable day.
Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.
STARTER MARRIAGE:
A short-lived first marriage that ends in divorce with no kids, no property and no regrets.
CUBE FARM:
An office filled with cubicles.
PRAIRIE DOGGING:
When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on.
XEROX SUBSIDY:
Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.
GENERICA:
Features of the American landscape that are exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, subdivisions.
OHNOSECOND:
That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake.
ADMINISPHERE:
The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.