GO ABBA GO!!!

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Oh, "cheers" is so much worse! "Best regards" is stupid but at least it seems to be something people do because their partners do it and so it seems like an appropriate professional signoff. Cheers is worse because people do it because they have a friend who did it and they thought it was cute to inject some Britishism that implies a fun-loving attitude and so on and so on and so on.

Namaste.

I currently associate "cheers" with a South African internal audit guy who was fun to work with. Best regards is some jackass in risk management who talks way, WAY too loud with an obnoxious NY accent. He is so loud that I repeatedly hit the reduce volume button when he calls -- why can't the phone go any quieter?

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by ironweed
When you become really big and important your emails consist of no-punctuation re: line sentence fragments with no body text.

E.g., "where are we on smith and jones"

I recall being advised that one should dress for the position you want to have (hence the blue overalls), so I have switched over to this format for all of my work-related emails.

Excellent. I will set up an email template that looks like this:

Subject Line: [Client/matter]????

Which obviously means "What the fuck is taking you so long?"

[dtb]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Oh, "cheers" is so much worse! "Best regards" is stupid but at least it seems to be something people do because their partners do it and so it seems like an appropriate professional signoff. Cheers is worse because people do it because they have a friend who did it and they thought it was cute to inject some Britishism that implies a fun-loving attitude and so on and so on and so on.

Namaste.

Blech. I hate, hate, hate "Cheers" unless it's from an actual British person (or some other foreigner who doesn't know any better). At the firm where I worked, lo, these many years ago, it was actually in the Style Guide (or whatever they called it) that we HAD to sign our letters "Best regards" if we knew the person. If it was a person we'd just met, then it was "Regards" only.

Pfft. Southerners.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Hmmm. I use "please advise" when I'm pissed off and dealing with a total idiot who doesn't give enough information. "Please advise whether you need me to deal with this situation." (translation -- I don't know you enough for you to be venting to me, and you just sent me a long-ass email about some issue (most likely not even my area), but didn't say what it is that you think I have to do with it, and while I am tempted to just ignore it because you didn't actually ASK ME TO DO ANYTHING, I feel that that is counterproductive, you fucking idiot.)

OTOH, I have not had to deal with any morons who (a) forgot to add their newborns to their health plan for more than two months, and somehow want it to be my department's fault; (b) got a really expensive dental procedure without ensuring it would be covered, and think that if they just call over and over and over and over, somehow we will magically give them money; (c) signed up for an HMO because it's cheaper, but now want to switch to a PPO because want to use a particular doctor for some surgery, want it to be my department's fault, and think that if they call and bitch and moan and email and say rude things, somehow we will magically violate federal law and let them change their plan or (d) think that 18 days is too long for it to take for continuation coverage to be registered, in a company with 6 payrolls and 20 different health plans and 15,000ish employees, with high turnover.

So it's a good day.

Fringey I was told to e-mail HR as soon as my baby was born, and to fax all paperwork etc. thereto to them and I did. When I was in little condition to do so, but I did. [supposedly to add the baby right away]

Then we receive both the hospital bill and a 1st checkup bill from the pediatrician. How is this my fault?

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
You should try Craigslist. I've heard you can find all kinds of things there.

Like what?

TM

[dtb]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Like what?

TM

Sperm donors.

[robustpuppy]

There is a town in PA called Quakake.

I know I'm immature, but I can't help but laugh every time I see that name.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
Fringey I was told to e-mail HR as soon as my baby was born, and to fax all paperwork etc. thereto to them and I did. When I was in little condition to do so, but I did. [supposedly to add the baby right away]

Then we receive both the hospital bill and a 1st checkup bill from the pediatrician. How is this my fault?

Because I said so. You did not forget to sign up your kid. These people do. For 2 and a half months.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Hmmm. I use "please advise" when I'm pissed off and dealing with a total idiot who doesn't give enough information. "Please advise whether you need me to deal with this situation." (translation -- I don't know you enough for you to be venting to me, and you just sent me a long-ass email about some issue (most likely not even my area), but didn't say what it is that you think I have to do with it, and while I am tempted to just ignore it because you didn't actually ASK ME TO DO ANYTHING, I feel that that is counterproductive, you fucking idiot.)

OTOH, I have not had to deal with any morons who (a) forgot to add their newborns to their health plan for more than two months, and somehow want it to be my department's fault; (b) got a really expensive dental procedure without ensuring it would be covered, and think that if they just call over and over and over and over, somehow we will magically give them money; (c) signed up for an HMO because it's cheaper, but now want to switch to a PPO because want to use a particular doctor for some surgery, want it to be my department's fault, and think that if they call and bitch and moan and email and say rude things, somehow we will magically violate federal law and let them change their plan or (d) think that 18 days is too long for it to take for continuation coverage to be registered, in a company with 6 payrolls and 20 different health plans and 15,000ish employees, with high turnover.

So it's a good day.

one of my biggest clients just had her first kid. how soon do you have to add it? make me look smart, darling.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
one of my biggest clients just had her first kid. how soon do you have to add it? make me look smart, darling.

31 days, generally.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Because I said so. You did not forget to sign up your kid. These people do. For 2 and a half months.

Thank you.

so HR is calling and blaming you?

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Because I said so. You did not forget to sign up your kid. These people do. For 2 and a half months.

Jesus h christmas, what the hell were they doing all that time?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
It was actually my post,

it's okay for Abba not to remember the past. it's the future she'll be predicting, and I'm sure if you can see the future you'd find the past too boring to remember.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by dtb
Blech. I hate, hate, hate "Cheers" unless it's from an actual British person (or some other foreigner who doesn't know any better). At the firm where I worked, lo, these many years ago, it was actually in the Style Guide (or whatever they called it) that we HAD to sign our letters "Best regards" if we knew the person. If it was a person we'd just met, then it was "Regards" only.

Pfft. Southerners.

I read "cheers" as "fuck off, skank".

There's a lawyer here who ends all phone calls, "Right-o!" It makes me want to kill him.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Like what?

TM

Tit for tat. Or so I've heard.