The stupid, it burns....

[digitaldiscipline]

I just got a talking-to from my very-amused manager, who was apparently confronted by an offended personage of some sort, because I sent the following announcement to the supervisors, one of whom forwarded it verbatim to their team:

Hot off the presses is the Cup Cavalcade for this week in the Fresh Training section, wherein you and your minions will learn everything you could possibly want to know about the cups we sell to our customers!

Apparently, a few folks had to look up not only "minion," but "cavalcade" as well.

Calgon, get me the fuck out of here!

Comments

[kaliva.livejournal.com]

*hands you a bottle of SoCo to deal with others lack of brain cells*


Please....tell me you are kidding?!?! Or at least tell me you omitted the fact that you sent the email to those in the Second Grade.....

[ladysoleil.livejournal.com]

uhm. yeah. I hope the supervisors also got bitchslapped for sending that out verbatim, as well.

what.a.maroon.

[david-deacon.livejournal.com]

Look on the bright side: they didn't have to look up "customers."

[geekers.livejournal.com]

Impressive.

[fenixinthedark.livejournal.com]

Jesus Hopping Christ on a Pogo Stick!!!

Can they maybe just go to dictionary.com instead of getting insulted with your using words they don't yet understand? Maybe they'll learn something instead of waxing offended. Sheesh.

[smaugchow.livejournal.com]

I understand the forwarded-verbatim thing. I could send my boss an extensive diatribe of foul language and thinly veiled insinuations that his mother might not be a biped, and if I put something bland and intended for the whole team in the subject he would send it on. Dumb cock.

I'm wondering what the bitchng was about. Was someone upset about words they didn't know? And if so, isn't that their own fault? Was the bitching about the meaning of the word 'minions,' because I could see some potential ill will on that one (albeit from limp-wristed nancy-boys or busy-body bitches.) I do not get it. Anybody who didn't understand that should be ashamed of themselves and should look up the words and shut the fuck up.

[jmoriarty.livejournal.com]

I actually had a boss of mine ding me on a review for (and this IS a direct quote), "using big words."

[ivy]

Yeah, these are my questions as well. I would really hope no one is offended by *vocabulary*. Being stupidly offended over nuance is less terrible than that. "Oh, you know that Rafe. Always putting on airs with his big words." [facepalm]

[etcet.livejournal.com]

i usually get quizzical emails from upper management if i use too many terms that send folks scurrying for dictionary.com.

"why did you use such a big word?"
"because it's the right one."
"but. . . "
"it's not my job to be nice. it's my job to educate people; if you happen to learn something, that's a bonus."

[etcet.livejournal.com]

i'd have said, "well, here are two nice short ones for ya. 'fuck' and 'you.'"

[etcet.livejournal.com]

nope, not kidding.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

i wandered over to them and said, "you know, maybe i should have said 'funyon' instead."

[etcet.livejournal.com]

see, you're a short-timer, so in your position, i -would- do something like that.

[ladysoleil.livejournal.com]

Oh, you intimidating bastard, you.

Thankfully, since the bulk of the people I work with are obviously into education or are ex-teachers, so I can use as many big words as I want without worrying about it.

It's one of the few saving graces of the place.

[mighty-man.livejournal.com]

Heh, in Pharmacy School, one of the cardinal rules of counseling is:

No Jargon.

The general public simply doesn't understand it, so don't use it. You have to use smaller words.

corporate speak

[yokes1971.livejournal.com]

anything more than 2 syllables will cause many of my corporate lackeys to hang themselves.

Re: corporate speak

[etcet.livejournal.com]

"minion" -is- two syllables!

[etcet.livejournal.com]

future correspondence will cite lackeys, flunkies, peons, etc.

*G*

Re: corporate speak

[yokes1971.livejournal.com]

We're in Buffalo where minion is 3 syllables ;-)
you know "dis"
Min - e - on

[smaugchow.livejournal.com]

Well, I do have the respect of a couple of vice presidents and a project manager - I guess I don't NEED the good will of my Sr. Manager.....

No no - no burning bridges for me. This place is enough of a resume stain by itself.