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Working From Home to Receive Chickens

From:<Redacted Sarcastic Team Member>
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 4:27 PM
To: <Redacted>; team
Subject: RE: WFH after 10 tomorrow
Congrats to the proud father!!  This calls for a roast!
From: <Redacted Redacted>
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 4:24 PM
To: team
Subject: WFH after 10 tomorrow
I’ll be working from home tomorrow after our 10am stand up in order to be there to [...]

Bird Control

—–Original Message—–
From:
Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 4:50 PM
To:
Subject: Bird control
In an effort to control what has become a terrarium outside our office, ____________ will be using a water hose to try and deter the birds from constantly perching on our overhangs. This will not harm the birds as its only water.  Starting tomorrow morning and [...]

Refrigerator Memo Re: Carcass

This note posted on a refrigerator in the “Nutrition Center”…
otherwise known as a kitchen/break room, at a Dallas TV station

‘Tis the Season for Empty Peanut Shells

From: <Redacted>, Christine
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 10:31 AM
To: <Redacted>
Subject: Holiday Party Invitation
When: Friday, December 04, 2009 4:00 PM-8:00 PM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada).
Where: City Steam Brewery
Translation: In case you didn’t know, this is one bad economy.  As a consequence, this year’s holiday party will be in a bar [...]

Joe the Plumber Prays for Good Joints

From a church bulletin board…”Joe the Plumber Prays for Good Joints”

Pants Required for the Board of Directors Meeting

From: Barbara <Redacted>
To: Team
Friday, September 25th Board of Directors Meeting
Craig asked that everyone help to make the office look as nice as possible for the board meeting tomorrow.  As you know, board members will be here for our team meeting after the board meeting so pants are mandatory.
Thank you.
Photo by ousooner

Why the Interwebz are Down

RH> From help@redacted.uu.net Thu Sep 22 11:24:48 1994
From: rich@redacted.uu.net (Rich Haag)
Subject: Palo-Alto outage
Reply-To: noc@redacted.uu.net
There will be a scheduled power outage at the Palo Alto hub, this Friday, September 23, from 2:30 am until 5:30 am_Pacific_ Time. The reason is pretty funny.  There is a restaurant down the street from our hub.  Well, they mistook one [...]

Replying All To Say “Don’t Reply All”

Here at EvilMemo we LOVE the Reply All button! As do my friends at Big Redacted Company, below…
From: <Redacted>, Fernando
Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 12:09 PM
To: <A Really Long List of Redacted People>
Subject: RE: EAST Wireless Migration Notification

Please stop replying [...]

A LinkedIn Recommendation Gone Bad

The view on the Network Updates Page…

Reads differently, perhaps when you click “Read more >>”

Thanks Andy!

Winding the Office Clock

Sent: Tue 7/1/2008 9:09 AM
To: 91
Cc:
Subject: Grandfather Clock

Just a friendly reminder that the grandfather clock in the reception
area is only to be wound by the receptionists. Thank you.

Ted Turner says: Because only office receptionists, with the demanding, advanced training they receive, can handle winding a grandfather clock. And [...]