* * * * *
                                        
                 The Flowers and Fruit Basket Request Form Form
                                        
> A certain HR (Human Resources) manager, hired from DEC, arrived with a
> binder full of “memo templates” to be used for all intra-office
> communication. She loved memos so much that people were soon just calling
> her “Memos.” When she sent out a memo instructing everyone on the proper
> care of their office plants, Mereztky decided enough was enough. He and a
> few co-conspirators surreptitiously replaced the original memo in
> everyone’s in-box with another, which said that the company was now
> offering a service to take care of employees’ house plants; it seemed there
> was concern in management that, what with the long hours everyone was
> working, said plants were being neglected. An included multi-page
> questionnaire asked for the location of each plant as well as such
> essential information as the song it preferred to have sung to it while
> being watered. Some people took it seriously, mostly — and much to the
> Meretzky and company’s delight — the poor humorless souls in business
> marketing and the other more buttoned-down wings of the company. HR rushed
> around to put a cover sheet on each memo saying it was not to be taken
> seriously, whereupon Meretzky and company added a cover sheet of their own
> saying the cover sheet saying not to take the memo seriously should itself
> not be taken seriously. “Immense confusion” followed.
> 
> Not learning her lesson, Memos was soon distributing a “Flowers and Fruit
> Basket Request Form,” for sending out condolences to employees’ families
> who were experiencing a bereavement. Meretzky did her one better, creating
> a “Flowers and Fruit Basket Request Form Form”; the idea would later show
> up in Stationfall as the “Request for Stellar Patrol Issue Regulations
> Black Form Binders Request Form Form.” 
> 

“» Down From the Top The Digital Antiquarian [1]”

Given some of the past memos [2] I've received from HR at The Ft. Lauderdale
Office of The Corporation, the idea of sending out satirical fake memos is
appealing, but I like the paychecks that they send me to actually do anything
like this.

Pity, because it sounds like fun!

[1] http://www.filfre.net/2014/04/down-from-the-top/
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2015/10/27.1

Email author at sean@conman.org

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