Quote Of The Week: Email Miscommunication
Thursday morning at the office started with an email from the HR department:
To: All
Subject: Mikka is dead…
His body is in the HR office for anyone who would like to say good bye.
The news that one of my co-workers had died came as a bit of a shock but not as shocking as the fact that the email seemed to be suggesting that his body had been laid out on an office desk for everyone see. Where his grieving parents also going to swing by the office? Were they going to bury him in the back garden?
A short while later another email was sent all:
To: All
Subject: RE: Mikka is dead…
Mikka is the office cat, not a human.
Something tells me I was not the only one who got confused.
Erm… You know I’m looking for a job, right?
So, when your company decides it’s time to get someone with some communications skills in their HR department, let me know.
That being said, poor puss. I hope he’s living it up in Kitty Heaven.
Poor kitty!
But still, that would have been weird, to have a body laid out–at his desk, hand on a slowly cooling mug of coffee…
Even for a cat, it’d be weird. I really don’t do dead things / people -at all-
You had me there for a minute. I can imagine your shock, and, later, relief (if that’s the right word).
o_O”
That is indeed quite disturbing, cat or not.
Hilarious – and I like Jules’ comment.
That’s brilliant, especially the idea that anyone would want to go and pay their last respects.
Do you have a human called Mikka working there. What did he/she think when they heard that they were dead.
When I heard that it was the office cat I had visions of a line of office mice all standing with there heads bowed.
kiki – For a moment there, when I had just read the first line, I thought you were offering to be the new office kitty.
Jules – …and a schedules as a grave stone.
Breigh – Agreed.
John – They had the whole office for a minute.
French Bean – That thought had crossed my mind too.
Julia – Thanks :)
Marianne – There actually was a funeral in the garden as well.
Dragonlady – We used to have someone in the office with the same name but he left a few months before.
I would have liked to see the mice paying their last respects to their old enemy.
I can picture all of you with shocked faces staring at your pc screens trying to figure out if you were reading a joke or what! :D
I would LOVE a job as an office kitty! I’d sit on desks and get stroked and fed tidbits. Wait – that’s pretty much what happens at home.
It is such a shame that the whole thing wasn’t done via GoogleWave…it would have been great to see how that all played out.
Aledys Ver – I think that is pretty much what it was like.
Kiki – You’re a kitty at home?
Heather – It would have been a much longer post if it had been as well :p
Oh no! Poor cat! I hope you attended the funeral, as you ought! I’d have paid my respects had I known!
(on a sidenote, a housemate of mine told me he did some test gaming at your company :) )
Oh, that’s funny. I forgot that about Amsterdam–cats everywhere. Hopefully mostly living ones.