You know, sometimes people can be so rude.
I try to be a nice person. I try never to blame people when they mess up, I try to give them the benefit of the doubt. Why the &^^% can't anyone ever extend me the same courtesy?
A work-related email today accuses me of not having put a certain important link on the office website.
Written as: "it is NOT listed below."
Rude. Ugly. Insistent that I have messed up without allowing for any other possibilities.
The link was there. This person was just too thick-headed to find it.
Sometimes, ECD gets tired of that.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Rant of the day
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I think email has a dark side. It can be the source of so many careless hurtful words, wild accusations and innuendos which are too easily just broadcast to everyone in the address book. It is also a source of much misunderstanding. It is not at all as romantic as they make it out to be in movies like "You got Mail".
Anyway, I've been on a similar receiving end of such emails. Hang in there. What goes around comes around and bites them in the behind.
Start coming up with witty responses to peoples "inconsiderations".
ie:
I am sorry that you left your glasses at home.
I can see you are having a blonde moment.
Did you know that out of 500 people, you are the only one who couldn't find this link!!!!?????
sheez... sorry ECD. I have low tolerance for rudidity! (ooo i made up a word)
My thought is, if this person couldn't find the link, there are ways that they could have asked about it without accusing me IN CAPITAL LETTERS of not putting it there.
Thanks for your support, LGS and Melanie.
it sounds like you are a very nice person.
I do use the words, where you insert the symbols.
It makes me come down quicker.
Hmm, you made me think.
Writing it doesn't release the frustration.
Lesson one, ugly words make us uglier not stronger.
Ah, Ela, I don't mind Your profanities at all, and I do sprinkle some of my own into my blog-writing, rather than symbols, from time to time.
Sometimes it's more fun just to pound %#$%&&! onto the screen than to spell out the word, though.
I'm not really very nice. If I was nice, I wouldn't be contemplating the joy of sending an electric shock through cyberspace to melt the computer screen of the aforementioned rude idiot.
:)
that was truthfull.
At least you did not attempt the M-word.
Marshmallows?
Marlene Dietrich?
Mastication?
Monarchy?
Melancholy?
Mincemeat?
Mauritania?
Moxie?
Moi?
Maraschino?
Muppet?
I know, I know. That IS indeed a very ugly word.
M like murder
but you knew:)
Have a nice day
oh, man, something wrong with my vision.
First, I did read 'Adena, I love you'
then I completely didn't see 'I know I know, and seems to think that you said 'that must be a very ugly word'.
Something is playing with my mind.
You aren't nice?
Quit pulling our legs, ECD. :-)
Wishing you luck and more patience with thick-headed persons in your workplace!
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