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- flashbender
so I get this email from my boss after a meeting:
It seems to me that it is almost a "hey, I was pleasantly suripsed you didn't fuck that up"
what do you think?
"Nice job in the meeting today. Well-thought through and presented points that showed your ability to think larger than the physical product you create, but the overall management and strategy behind the process.
That’s the kind of bigger picture thinking we hope to free you to do more of in the coming months.
"
- Soler0
looks more like - good job - we're trying to promote you without paying you more.
- flashbender0
haha. I suppose that's better than being surprised that I can put forth a coherent argument.
- flavorful0
I send e-mails like that out all the time to people, haha. There's a method, and reasoning behind them of course.
He/She ... okay who am I kidding?! ... He wants to tell you "good job, keep up the good work "- but masks in this speak so you take it for more than it is.
It is supposed to spur you on that your superior recognizes that you do a good job, that they notice and appreciate it, and that they have taken the time to deliver the message home to you.
Questioning the motives is the first step into employing them yourself, and moving up rungs on the corporate ladder my friend.
- interesting... the wording just struck me as a bit odd.flashbender
- and HAHA at the "who am I kidding ... He...."flashbender
- Mimio0
Maybe he's passive-aggressive and you made him look like a "Day-Dream-Johnny."
- hell no, the end of the meeting was all about numbers and budgets and I was struggling to stay awake.flashbender
- ribit0
I'm just imagining your boss actually sits next to you in the office and sends this stuff by email...
- flavorful0
I need to turn my art of bullshitting into something more profitable than the title and position I have conned my way into now.
I would love to have people like your boss above, come to me and be like, "Alright, this douche that works for me did okay in a meeting. Can you give me some bullshit that would make his mother cry if she read it?"
And I'd be like ... boom boom.
And that's all I did all day. Just fuck with the English Language like ... boom boom.
Okay, I don't really want to type no more but after two there must be three, you know how I be like ... boom boom!
- Not that you are a douche.
I safely assume of course.
:Dflavorful - haha. I'm pretty good at what I do, so no worries there;)flashbender
- Not that you are a douche.
- TheBlueOne0
"Bigger Picture thinking...", "..think larger than the product you create.."
Awesome. I'm stealing those for nefarious pruposes for dumber people easily pleased and distracted by pure english language pablum.
- That's what is so weird. I don't make a "physical product" I make shitty graphics for a mediocre website... I think maybe he has a web2.0 generator for this stuff
flashbender - he has a web 2.0 generator for this stuff.flashbender
- That's what is so weird. I don't make a "physical product" I make shitty graphics for a mediocre website... I think maybe he has a web2.0 generator for this stuff
- flavorful0
TheBlueOne, would you like to be my first client?
- You got it chief...TheBlueOne
- See: Post 11flavorful
- posts got numbers?TheBlueOne
- lvl_130
it's because he knows you already have one foot out the door. you know it. i know it. he knows it. ha
- ha! pretty albeit confusing emails are definitely not the way to get em to stay.flashbender
- flashbender0
putting that in the resume under "accolades"
- See, more of that Bigger Picture thinking right there! Boom!TheBlueOne
- haha! I'm all about the big picture now.flashbender
- flavorful0
Look, I need you to step up your game, and collect your thoughts in a more concise manner. Trailing ellipsis? Since I can't see you from my office in fucking gay Paris, and that fucking gay is happy coupled with a Paris that is pronounced Pay-wee you drunken hillbilly, I am going to safely assume you are wearing two different flip-flops and a shirt that says, "I'm with Mr. Un-Impressionable" with an arrow pointing to either a picture of yourself, or a mirror.
On second thought, anybody who would develop film that depicted you would either puke on it upon first glance thus saving some other poor soul from gazing upon you, or just burn the entire photo-hut down never to be seen again. I didn't even get to the mirror yet. There is obviously not a mirror near you. Couldn't be. You can't even have a mirror in that cardboard box you live under a bridge either.
Because if you ever saw yourself you would commit suicide.
Lord knows I would if I looked like you. Of course this is all assumptions, I have never met you, but I am your superior and you are just a name next to a salary that I get joy out of under paying you for despite the fact I have copious amounts of capital to distribute considering the money I do not use in the budget for the year does not go in my pocket.
But hey, life's little joys right?
To recap, I do appreciate your effort. You could have just as well typed nothing and I would have never thought twice about you. At least now I will remember your name when I plan on firing 12 people at random on Christmas Eve.
Cheers,
Jerome
- flavorful0
putting that in the resume under "accolades"
flashbender
(Dec 14, 07, 3:11 p.m.)Two weeks ago in a meeting, apparently my unconscious tactics of answering questions with questions or changing the subject finally boiled over in a VP from another company who started screaming that he never gets a straight answer from me, starts babbling nonsense and doing an imitation of me, knocks everything off a table and stormed out of the room.
I looked around and saw the dumbfounded gaze from associates from both companies in the room, smiled and said, "I am putting that on my resume under, invokes action."
Brought the house down. Which I am sure was not what he wanted to hear as he was storming down the hallway.
I even spun apology speak to him to get him to apologize to me afterwards. Kept the client too, haha.
- jfletcher0
Email seemed fine to me...
- OK good, thanks. maybe I am just paranoid. OR guilty about not living up to potential.flashbender
- I also didn't read the whole thread, so maybe I missed something, but it didn't seem backhandedjfletcher
- flashbender0
^^^ Good lord, that's ridiculously funny. The apology spin, clearly you get an A+ in the corporate game department. The "invokes action" zinger was just pure genius. I'm going to keep that in the back of my head and actively seek out a time and place to use it.
- BonSeff0
reminds me of this great commercial airing now...
funny as hell- cept its in english - heheBonSeff
- ha, buzzword bingomrdobolina
- Jaline0
Yeah, it seems like he was being slightly assholish without being too rude. Just run with it.
- Llyod0
make sure to get paid
- blaw0
For a fat guy, you don't sweat much.
- forcetwelve0
if you keep delivering good results it'll be genuine - and you'll feel it.