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    #31
    Originally posted by MaryPoppins View Post
    I quite like the related article, about the leaving email from Gareth Jenkins:

    "This is an emotional email for me to have to send. The tears are flowing.

    Today is my last day at PwC. I haven't sent this to everyone because what would be the point? Why do people send their leaving emails to everyone? We didn't care about you then and we certainly don't care about you now.

    I still presume hardly any of you knew me, which is good because I'm rubbish at audit, so I wouldn't have helped your stellar careers.

    I've also learned how not to decorate an office - green and orange block colour walls with business buzz phrases on. 'Find your space', 'always add value' etc. Where do these terrible phrases come from? Is there a team of people lurking about in Embankment Place whose only duty is to pump out corporate drivel?

    "Oh yah Rupert, I like 'diversify your outlook'"

    "Fantastic, fantastic, let's roll it out"

    "I'll action that"

    "By close of play?"

    "Oh, absolutely."

    "What does it mean, though?"

    "Hm. Fantastic point, we'll have to revolutionise outside the box on this one, I can tell."

    "Touch base on this a-sap?"

    "Rather.""

    I look forward immensely to never having to attend an event in which Our Beloved Leaders stand up and tell us we've massively exceeded budget, so in reward we get no bonuses and instead we get the treat of listening to Coldplay while quotes from the greatest leaders of our times are played across a screen.

    Dare we be different? Not really. What we dare to do is stick out 3 years until we get the ACA and we can leave. Except me, obviously. I got fired. Whoops.

    I have a personal email, so if you want to send me anything (I can't imagine why you would), just guess it. If it's meant to be, I'll get it.

    I'm also on Facebook but I hate it. I'm sure you've got real friends of your own and I'd prefer if you left me alone quite frankly.

    If we ever talked (doubtful, I avoided anyone that looked like they might give me some work), add away.

    I've left some treats in the group area.

    Not really.

    Bye forever xxx"
    Something makes me think he has ambitions to be a contractor.

    It's precisely the kind of e-mail I was tempted to send when I left an insultancy firm, but didn't.
    And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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      #32
      Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
      Elizabeth O'Connor's got that 'naughty neighbour' look about her.

      http://cache.gawker.com/assets/image...11/pwc_big.jpg
      FYI. New clunge.
      Guy Fawkes - "The last man to enter Parliament with honourable intentions."

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        #33
        Thay all have a generic look about them.

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          #34
          Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
          The e-mail adresses of the guys who organised this are all here, so perhaps we should sent them our scoring?
          I couldn't be arsed trying to convert the internal addresses, but these are the externals:

          Edit: name1 @ place.com <-- this one is a bit of a mystery, given the next one
          Edit: name2 @ place.com
          Edit: name3 @ place.com
          Edit: name4 @ place.com
          Edit: name5 @ place.com
          Edit: name6 @ place.com <-- his out-of-office is on at the moment, BTW
          Edit: name7 @ place.com
          Last edited by RichardCranium; 11 November 2010, 22:19. Reason: Snippity snip of the harshness
          My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.

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            #35
            That's harsh RC. You've named and shamed people who only received the email, not just the ones who sent it on. Snip snip?

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              #36
              Originally posted by thunderlizard View Post
              That's harsh RC. You've named and shamed people who only received the email, not just the ones who sent it on. Snip snip?
              'Kay.

              But I'll let you all know which ones accept the LinkedIn invitation...
              My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.

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