Q: Why’d you launch this site?
A: My friends and I have always laughed at the internal emails and memos companies send employees. Whether it’s the stern boilerplate warning not to discuss internal affairs or the peeved ‘clean up after yourself’ admonishment from Facilities, those emails can’t help being funny. We add snide comments and forward ‘em on to each other. I’ve seen company-wide emails about not leaving reading material in the men’s room stalls and about not napping on couches in the common areas. Life imitates ‘Dilbert’ and ‘Office Space’, so we need a public forum to mock those earnest reminders about the cover sheet on the TPS Reports.

Q: How do I submit an email or memo?
A: Go to the share an evilmemo page. You can copy and paste the text into the form, or you can upload as a Word document, text file, pdf file, or image file (jpg, jpeg, etc). It’s supposed to be easy. If it’s not, email me at russ at evilmemo dot com and I’ll help if I can.

Q: Why the name evilmemo.com?
A: It was short. It was available. It made me laugh. Yes, you could say the same thing about a munchkin girlfriend with a knack for one-liners.

Q: Who is the evil mastermind behind evilmemo.com?
A: My name is Russ. I’m an Internet marketer with years in Fortune 500 companies and startups. I’m a dad and a blogger. I don’t have a mean bone in my body but I do like to make fun of stuff.

Q: Can my submission be traced back to me?
A: We remove any information that might identify companies or individuals in our postings. I’m not going to say “not a chance”, but it’s unlikely since we don’t retain your IP address, email, or other identifying information. And in the unlikely event that a corporate legal weasel or other company representative demands that we remove a posting, we will. See our privacy page for more information.

Q: I see a posting on your site that shouldn’t be there. What should I do?
A: Contact me at russ at evilmemo dot com. Let me know what posting you’re talking about, why it shouldn’t be there, and who you are. It helps me to know if you work at the company, or if you the material in question, or if you’re  a legal weasel, or if you just have a strong moral conviction that Memos Must Not Be Mocked. I’ll respond within 24 hours and we’ll resolve the matter.

Q: Does evilmemo.com make money?
A: If all this site ever got me was more bad emails to laugh it, it’d be worth it. But I’m modestly greedy. So there’s some advertising on the site, and you’ll see affiliate links too sometimes (i.e. a link to a product where I get a commission if you buy it). I won’t do those things in a deceptive way, and I won’t sell, rent or otherwise pimp out your email address if you choose to share it with me.

Q: I have a business proposition for evilmemo.com (cheezburger, is that you?)
A: Let’s talk. Contact me at russ at evilmemo dot com.

Q: Can I hear some legalese?
A: If you must – I think you meant to say “What are your terms of use?”  By accessing content on evilmemo.com, you agree to not sue evilmemo.com for its content, whether original or linked or quoted from another source, on any grounds whatsoever in law or equity. You agree that all disputes concerning these terms of use or any issues regarding evilmemo.com shall be settled either at Hanover’s in downtown Pflugerville, Texas by a bartender of evilmemo.com’s choice; or in the Kingdom of Narnia,which I’ve always wanted to visit and to which you shall purchase the tickets; or, if you must be boring, in the courts of Travis Country, Texas under the laws of Texas and the United States of America.  All original content on evilmemo.com is owned by evilmemo.com and may not be quoted or distributed except as provided herein. Evilmemo.com grants permission to read, quote, cite, link to and otherwise use evilmemo.com content as long as 1) credit is provided to evilmemo.com and 2) a hyperlink back to the original content is provided wherever practical. Yeah, links are good. Content uploaded to evilmemo.com becomes the property of evilmemo.com. A user who uploads content acknowledges this, acknowledges that they are permitted to share the content with evilmemo.com, and agrees to hold evilmemo.com and its owner(s) harmless against any real, potential, or wholly-imaginary consequences. The user also grants evilmemo.com full rights to edit the content for clarity, brevity, privacy or just for the sheer exhilaration of copy-editing.  If you find content on evilmemo.com objectionable you agree to not be a jerk about it but, instead, to confine your future web surfing to www.hampsterdance.com and turn your speakers all the way up and dance along with the hampsters (I never knew why they misspelled ‘hamster’). If you do not have speakers, you agree to buy them. If you believe evilmemo.com has violated any copyright or proprietary information agreement you agree that evilmemo.com’s responsibility is limited to removing the offending material with reasonable promptness.