All staff spam. It's endemic. From those treating work email as an extension of eBay or CraigsList, to endless sponsorship begging or it's-for-charity garbage, it's amazing any meaningful communication gets through at all. Reading it can make for some nice office entertainment, however. . .
Ad Min - Here we go, another breast cancer thing. Why is this breast cancer stuff pink? That’s gay.Palmer Eldritch - Pink is the colour of cancer, generally.
Ad Min - Is it? Well, they’ve got it all wrong. It should be the colour of AIDS, if anything. Cancer should be white. Or black, if it’s tumourous.
Palmer Eldritch - Someone’s selling James Morrison tickets.
Ad Min - Didn’t he die? Wasn’t he in the Doors? You’ve been had, love.
IT Manager - [sighs, evidently reading a different email] God, they keep sending these. That's not a project, it's. . .oh, God! I told them, I couldn’t come up with a reason why a project is a project and a service request is something different. I mean, the only thing I could think of is that a project is big and a service request is ‘can you come and wipe my arse for me.’
Ad Min - You don't want to start colour-coding that.


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