Thursday, July 12, 2007

Bridge burning 101

I don't know why this surprises me, but I just received an e-mail from a retarded middle manager at my former place of work - you remember - the one who unceremoniously fired me just 3 days ago?

To paraphrase the e-mail:

Sorry that you got canned and everything - man, that really sucks.

So, hey... where did you put the folders for X project and do you recall what the details and specs were? Because I can't find them, and blah blah blah please respond asap because client is waiting on this. Very urgent! Thx! :-)

So I just replied to the e-mail by simply attaching this photograph, and nothing else:


10 comments:

T said...

I guess you could have sent him a pic of your middle digit, but that might have been a little more harsh than your Retro/Unsubtle expression.

pistols at dawn said...

Wow. That seems like the sort of thing they'd ask you before firing you...roughly eight seconds before firing you. "Hey, where are those files? Really? Okay, where are you? Because you don't work here any more. Get out."

steakbellie said...

goodness that must feel SOOOO awesome....

Leonesse said...

I love this~

Thank you for being Kat Rocket.

Bert said...

I bet you feel just a bit, just a tad, guilty. So it wasn't his fault that he Peter-Principled out two promotions ago.

But you could quickly get beyond that guilt if you knew who the client was and called them, saying you were "whozit's" secretary following up on the project and you just wanted to confirm that they'd doubled the size of the current ads and were sending over additional art & copy for some rush ads for next Tuesday's Penny Saver because the CPM was a heck of a lot better than what Hustler Magazine projected.

Dale said...

It was the only way to go. Way to go!

katrocket said...

T: She would have been expecting the middle digit from me. Even in the throes of unemployment, I refuse to be typecast.

Pistols: Well, they did that too, but apparently they still had some unsolved myseteries to investigate.

Steakbellie: One of the few upsides to downsizing is the freedom of frankness. I was inspired by the question: "what would Steakbellie do?"

Leonesse: thank you for enabling my anti-social behaviour.

Bert: I feel no guilt whatsoever. That employee had no right to contact me. But to clarify, I knew this lady would take it well because she actually has a brilliant sense of humour, so she replied to my message with a "ha ha ha - I guess I deserved that! LOL Thx anyways ;)"

Dale: Thanks for your comment and welcome to Rocketradio. Your blog is hella-funny - I've added your link to 'Top Blogs!' Pistols may get jealous and challenge you to a duel. Tip: ice cream is his Kryptonite.

pistols at dawn said...

I do tend to get jealous if other people are funnier than me, but then I get hungry, waddle to a place where I eat my weight in burritos, and then I get back to what I'm best at: forgetting completely that other people exist. My mind is like a softly lit vaseline-lensed Barbara Walters interview with myself where I also play the part of Barbara Walters.

Dale said...

Pistols at Dawn seems to have stolen my defense strategies so it could be a battle to end all. The vaseline lens is an artifice I have invoked in my writing somewhere too.

Thanks too for the kind words and kryptonite Katrocket!

Snooze said...

That was absolutely the perfect response to your former manager. Her response was cool too.