Comments on: Dear Office

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:59:12 +0000

Molly, I loved that email! I still love it when that email ends up being sent around. It’s been a while, and people are a little more disciplined about it now, but it was so timely when you wrote it.

Hope you are well! Oh, and “do you take a check over the phone?”

By: mollyschoemann

mollyschoemann — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:17:41 +0000

T. Love, I miss you too. You pretty much saved that job for me. You don’t even know! We’ll always have the Pour House…

By: T Love

T Love — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:30:37 +0000

I am the one who tends to send this out again at work. But I have also had at least 5 instances where someone else who remembers the glory days of Molly and her acerbic yet lovable wit asks me to resend this email to the company. At this point, I have to preface that email by saying “You probably never met her, but this comes from the funniest employee to ever work at this company…” because the sad truth is that so much has changed and so few know the joy of you personally. But I can say that my favorite days recently are the ones where I look through my Outlook archives and find the delirious joy that comes from reviewing old email conversations with you.

By: Barrett

Barrett — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:06:03 +0000

We had the email detailing how to properly use the bathroom. We have adults in our office.

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:21:36 +0000

I’m in.

By: mollyschoemann

mollyschoemann — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:44:51 +0000

Oh man, that would have been a BLAST!

The response was overwhelmingly positive and nice; lots of people emailed me to say they completely agreed and enjoyed the note, although it did absolutely no good at all and five minutes later everyone was back to dissing on the Yankees.

One day I think I caused the company to lose about a half a day’s worth of productivity when I started the Email Thread to End all Email Threads: I pasted a picture of a Pound Puppy, with the words, “Hey, remember Pound Puppies? They sure were huggable.” And with that, it was ‘post a picture of crap you remember from your childhood!’ time, for about four hours. Man, that was awesome.

By: leanne

leanne — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:01:07 +0000

I think you should change the title of this post to “A Guide to Winning Friends and Admirers in Your Office.”

Too bad you’ve moved on – it would be fun if you could either program an innocuous virus (or find a programmer who could write you a virus) that would scroll “PATRIOTS ROCK!!!!” for 5 solid minutes across the computer screen of anyone who responded to a mass email chain with specific words in the body of the email (i.e. lols that’s great.)

Curious – what was the response to this?