Tuesday, November 16, 2010

SOTD - Mr. Cellophane

I received this e-mail today (a little doctored up to make everything anonymous).

I noticed that you have [meeting room] booked in the afternoon on [date].  Unfortunately, the group that is in there before you, won’t be done until 5pm.  Sorry to inconvenience you, but this group will be in here until 5pm as mentioned.

Thank you and once again I am sorry for the inconvenience this causes you.

Warmly,
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First, the extra comma between "before you" and "won't be" is the sender's and not mine.

Second.  Warmly?  Are you kidding me? 

Anyway, the second thing I did (after first sending a snarky response) was forward it to my wife with the comment that this is another sign that I don't matter around here.

So Mr. Cellophane from Chicago popped into my head.  (Obviously, I'm referring to the movie and not the band.)




People sometimes ask me why I don't like my job.  And it's things like this.  I feel like other groups have a complete lack of respect for what I do here.  Sigh.  I'm still disappointed about not getting the other job.  Maybe this was a good salesjob by them, but in the interview, I felt like I would matter there.  And I'm not sure that I would ever matter here.

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