Deron, you’ve seen The Office, right? I’m not sure if I’ve ever mentioned this. But I was transferred to a new team and after a couple of weeks I made an annoucement in one of our team meetings. I was getting a lot of screen prints on my desk with little handwritten notes asking me to look into this or that. So I said something like, “Going forward, if you have a question on a file, rather than making a screen print and leaving on my desk where it might get lost, I’d like to ask you all to send me an email with your question and the file number. This will also save paper.”
The next morning I arrived to an email in my inbox and, the same email, printed and left on my desk.
Please think before you print.
God damn. I thought working with librarians was bad.
My rule is that you can quote as much crap as you want as long as you don’t have some animated GIF at the end of your email. Or emoticons.
Yet again, we have proof that I’m a better manager than Michael.
I’m going to do a documentary on Michael and Cindy’s office lives.
Inter-Office Memo:
Cindy is the better manager.
-Employee #455722390867-B
My employees aren’t numbered. They almost all have names.
Deron, you’ve seen The Office, right? I’m not sure if I’ve ever mentioned this. But I was transferred to a new team and after a couple of weeks I made an annoucement in one of our team meetings. I was getting a lot of screen prints on my desk with little handwritten notes asking me to look into this or that. So I said something like, “Going forward, if you have a question on a file, rather than making a screen print and leaving on my desk where it might get lost, I’d like to ask you all to send me an email with your question and the file number. This will also save paper.”
The next morning I arrived to an email in my inbox and, the same email, printed and left on my desk.
That settles it. I’ll see you with my camera.
I think that’s the reason The Office works. Because it is an accurate chronicle of the nonsensicality of office life.
TODAY IS OBVIOUS WEDNESDAY. PLEASE POINT OUT ANYTHING OBVIOUS TO EVERYONE ELSE.
They’ll never let you in the building, Deron.
I’m a ninja.
Things work very smoothly here. Employee emails are limited to 15 characters or less. Violation is punishable by death.
I really don’t miss office life. Thanks for reminding me.