From: A.Dellfarmer, drone
TO: I. Bigwig, CEO
Poverty-Enders, LLC
06:25 am 31 Dec 2010
RE: Reduced Workload Program
Sir:
Your recent sixteen emails and their
accompanying attachments, requesting my
prompt attention to each, ASAP,
not to mention your suggestion that perhaps
all employees might arrive earlier for work
(please note the time stamp, above),
have enlightened me considerably
and, while I applaud all current efforts
to reduce this agency’s workload
“by any means necessary” as your
brilliant and lengthy memo suggests,
I remain convinced, as I stated at
the mandatory marathon staff meeting,
that the elimination or reduction of
poverty in our society will not be achieved
by simply eliminating those individuals
who are experiencing said poverty.
It is with great regret, therefore,
that I must decline your insistence
on my participation in your innovative
but misguided “Clean Out The Ghetto”
program. I believe there are less drastic
and more merciful approaches than
your “Hunt Down The Needy” initiative
and your drive to “Eliminate the Slacker.”
Please consider this memo to be my
tendered resignation, understanding
that I remain self-employed and,
as such, do not number myself
among your projected targets.
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Posted for this week’s (“Epistle“) prompt at: WE WRITE POEMS
Well done, Ron!
Terrific venting of spleen! Well done with your epistolary.
Yes, well done.
“your drive to “Eliminate the Slacker” is very funny, as it the whole damn epistle. That last stanza are my sentiments exactly. Spot on.
I am standing up and applauding. That doesn’t happen often, and even less these days. Yes, yes, yes,
Elizabeth
http://soulsmusic.wordpress.com/2012/09/26/a-thank-you-note-to-katniss-everdeen/
Touche! It is a rare ‘Boss’ that can actually see past managerial rules and regulations and do the right thing. I quite my last to jobs because of lack of respect and common sense. The question that begs to be asked is; Will they ever learn.
I just scrawled a few lines here:
http://julesgemsandstuff.blogspot.com/2012/09/wwp-prompt-124-oh-dear.html
I’d say the addressee of your epistle has a serious case of cranial-rectal insertion. *hint hint*
Bravo.
-Nicole