Boss-across-the-hall update: new assignment
Published by Becky S January 12th, 2005 in style & grammar, boss-across-the-hallWe’ve all been assigned work tasks unrelated to our actual job descriptions. For example, last year I got the following instruction:
Tell Annoying E to stop sending those fucking e-mails. But say it nicer than that.
I’m happy to oblige because I’m a professional company woman. In addition, I excel at sending polite messages that tell the recipient, essentially, to piss off. Today boss-across-the-hall gave me one of these bonus projects:
Boss-across: I need you to write an article for the IT newsletter.
Me: What’s the topic?
Boss-across: Oh, you know—anything. You have complete artistic license.
I can hardly wait to compose a newsletter masterpiece!
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You should write about blogs, specifically your own.
I wish my boss would pay me to write articles for the company IT newsletter.
I’m wondering the identity of Annoying E. In addition, I suggest a hard-hitting investigative report into the effect of ballot box stuffing on soulless office park mores, perhaps extrapolated to ascertain predictive trends regarding the 2005 Iraqi elections and how such will influence traditional paradigms in the post-Feminist post-pseudo-bellum anti-totalitarian ante-democratic Islamic sociocultural universality.
Oh wait, now we are getting political. Or just typing a run-on sentence.