“I Hope This Email Finds You In A Well”: 50 Funny Posts Satirizing The Millennial Corporate Life

The Majestic Opossum

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Fool me once...

My wife uses words autosave feature. It used to be that it just worked. Then it only worked if you were uploading to OneDrive, so she pays for premium OneDrive to have enough space and she keeps her files there which she hates. Recently, word has started randomly renaming her files to a six-digit number and not saving them, then she closes word or it crashes and the file goes to the recycle bin. What follows is a bunch of screaming and me having to spend 20 minutes restoring her files. Apparently this is a major bug in word that affects a small percentage of people but that small percentage is still tens of thousands of people, and I found tons of articles about it, but no one has a solution.

I still remember the day I found out you could have a clipboard history..it was a good day

That is the definition of learning from one's mistakes. It's how one survives. . . . e.g. I fell into a lake when I was 10 and barely survived drowning when my father leapt in and saved me. Therefore, I will not try to fall into lakes any more. Do you want to mock that?

I’m GenX, not millennial, and this is me.

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So true….

If you use Gmail, there's an option you can enable I think it's in labs under your settings, that gives you an amount of time to change your mind. It's not perfect, occasionally it fails, but basically it makes an outbox and keeps your file in that outbox until that timer runs out. And a little undo button shows up at the bottom of your screen until the timer runs out or you change screens. So you send your email, and then you have like 20 seconds or whatever to change your mind. I always forget the attachment, and that's very helpful.

I hit send on a long text and the recipient asked a bit later what was the cucumber all about. 🚗🥕 got me again. I had no idea what word I really wanted.

Thank Dog for Gmail's "Pause delivery for X seconds after you hit SEND". It has saved me many times.

Gmail's delay send feature has saved my dumb a*s sooooo many times...

Never thought of it like that but this is pretty accurate.

That's exactly how I perceive them. Some people simply need to vent their thoughts, speak them out loud and usually come up with a conclusion themselves. Thanks for wasting my time, a55face.

What is the actual point of an application when the resume you asked me for has the same information?

I use this a lot, mostly with my ex-husband, since most of our communication is about the kids. I also let him know if it's an emergency, urgent but not an emergency, or not a big deal.

Good from the perspective of who?

Not to mention clippy... Yes I know it looks like I'm trying to add dot points to my document, NO I DO NOT WANT ANY F.U.C.K.I.N.G HELP

dіck. Nothing more to say. You're welcome.

Want to open something written in another text editor? Bye bye formatting.

Why would you expect a program other than adobe to be able to edit a pdf? The whole point of pdf is it's generally not editable for security. That's why it's often used for things that need to be signed.

I sarcastically told my boss ‘I made you aware of this months ago’ when he got lit up by corporate for our department shutting down. All because he was signing off everyone’s vacation without looking at the dates. He was convinced it would work itself out. So all 8 off us went on a week cruise to prove a point.

But I so relate to yawn and stretch and try to come alive

What a way to make a living!

ah dangit the songs in my head now... not the worst song to get stuck in one's head, though

This is the start of my playlist for my bike commute

Or to standards that were developed when the work was shared. Oh, so your flat is less clean than when one person was working and one person was a full time cleaner and cook? Oh my!

I have read this before. It's still true.

Forwarded with the message "As previously Stated"

and a screenshot of said mail attached to garnish it

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That 3 minutes is bliss. Unless you're dumb like me and start something thinking you'll miraculously finish in 3 minutes, go down a rabbit hole, forget about the meeting, and join 10 minutes late.

that's time for coffee and snacks

I am not alone. Good to know!

You should be able to call in dead to work.

Sure, why don't you? You dont need to give them chapter and verse, just that you're too sick to work today, right? Mental health is as important as physical.

Time to gird my loins

I find all of these useful. I had forgotten about the girding of the loins. Mustn't forget that. That explains the chub rub.

(note to self - hiding in the stationery cupboard isn't working as well as I'd hoped ...)

My work makes us reset our passwords every 90 freaking days! And it has to be at least 10 characters with capitals/numbers/special characters/blah blah. As none of us can remember a new password every 3 months, most of us just change the number. Which defeats the purpose of having to change it so often! Even IT hates this stupid idea!

In an unprecedented act of reason, my workplace actually stopped requiring us to change our passwords, because, SHOCKER, it caused more problems than it prevented.