BOIW Inggris Lesson Part 3
References: Lessons 1-4 (Scroll down); Introduction to BOIW
Lesson 5
Reduce staff to tears of hysterical desperation by issuing condescending and confusing instructions.
Eg: 'From (colleague's) e-mail, we are suppose to "(Dept) has been asked to look at the processes for Q3 and Q4 2004 only." pls be guided by this.'
(Ed's note: Please be guided by the fact that I can't even paraphrase (or cut-and-paste) convincingly)
Lesson 6
Become a pathological liar.
BOIW was supposed to answer several queries relating to what were essentially, areas within the unit's purview. BOIW then sends an email to person collating responses (person A) to said queries with the following preface (no grammatical horrors have been spared):-
Further to yesterday evening e-mail, I have prepared in detail the answer to the above questions after thinking about it overnight.
However, unbeknownst to our overnight-thinker, Big Boss sends an email to person A attaching responses from a third party to queries forwarded to BOIW that were CC'd to her. Lo and behold, what does person A find?
1. Email from BOIW asking the exact same questions that were asked of her.
2. Responses from third party were the exact replica of the answers which BOIW had spend the whole night mulling over.
Several conclusions:
Premise 1: BOIW is a pathological liar (why would you claim that you had to spend a whole night thinking over something which essentially you should know like the back of your BO-infested hands?)
OR
Premise 2: BOIW had spent
the whole night attempting to establish telepathic (or telepathetic) connections to third party in order to arrive at the exact same answer, bullet-points and typos and all.
Really people, don't we all wish we had such a gem working for our organisations?
nads went at 16:53