I’ve got a little corner nook in the big office close enough to the center of action in the room to hear some really good stuff. Today’s laugh comes courtesy of a manager and a part-time worker.
It was a discussion about e-mail and why the part-timer hadn’t seen something she needed to see. Lo, the manager beholds 1,400 e-mails in the part-timer’s Inbox. One hundred and eighty-eight are from the manager. None read.
And the question of the day from the part-timer: “Do you read all of your e-mail?”
The answer was an unequivocal “yes” from the manager. Her Inbox had 50 or fewer e-mails.
I couldn’t help but chuckle.
And speaking of e-mail
The Washington Post had its e-mail cut off the other day because somebody forgot to pay the bill (for one domain it turns out). The Washington Post. Somebody forgot to pay the bill.
Right.
Well, that’s what I thought until it happened at home. Not to the extent that it made everyone pick up the phone or write a, God help us, a letter.
No, it only affected a couple of people. The suspicion is that it was just an accounting error. And it very well could be.
Which is why I’m keeping better track of our checkbook at home. We’d be dead without cable.