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09-02-2008, 03:41 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Winnipeg, MB
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Out of Office Irony (or maybe not, let the irony nazis decide)
Interesting little sequence happened today. I was chatting with a co-worker about how I felt a little out of the loop on the company 'happenings'. We're a pretty small company (25 people or so), but since I'm working off site I really have little to no communication with many of my co-workers, etc. We used to have monthly status meetings but those have dropped off in the last 8 months or so.
Anyways, I decided to email the two co-owners and let them know I was feeling a little out of the loop, since I'm likely not the only one, and to ask if they were planning a status meeting any time soon. Immediately after hitting send I got two little Out of Office replies, each saying the recipient would be out of the office until the end of September. I had no idea they were gone, so I messaged my buddy and asked if he knew where they were. Turns out, they are both climbing Mt Everest. I'm not kidding. So apparently I'm so out of the loop that the two guys that run the show can go and climb Everest and I don't even know. Which made my email to them about feeling out of the loop decidedly ironic. Anyways, on the one hand I think it's really cool that they are doing something like that. On the other hand, I feel kind of hurt (in a stupid sort of way) that I didn't even know. I'm actually kind of confused by the hurt feelings, I would not have expected to feel like that at all. All in all, I guess I just thought I'd share an experience that certainly doesn't happen to me every day. Hopefully they don't both die in an avalanche, or I guess I'm out of a job.
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09-02-2008, 03:53 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Stuck in Yinzerville, PA
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If you didn't tell them about your push up challenge...I call it even.
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09-02-2008, 04:02 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Winnipeg, MB
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Classic 
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"Breakfast? Breakfast schmekfast, look at the score for God's sake. It's only the second period and I'm winning 12-2. Breakfasts come and go, Rene, but Hartford, the Whale, they only beat Vancouver maybe once or twice in a lifetime." |
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09-02-2008, 04:04 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Hometown of Canada
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I think it is kind of weird that the two head honchos in a relatively small company are gone for at least a month, and the entire company didn't know about it.
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09-02-2008, 04:07 PM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Sep 2003
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I didn't know you were a woman.
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09-02-2008, 04:13 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Winnipeg, MB
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Me neither, hence the confusion!
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"Breakfast? Breakfast schmekfast, look at the score for God's sake. It's only the second period and I'm winning 12-2. Breakfasts come and go, Rene, but Hartford, the Whale, they only beat Vancouver maybe once or twice in a lifetime." |
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09-03-2008, 06:23 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Boston, Ma
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Everest? In September? You don't climb Everest in September. You climb Everest in May.
Well, maybe they are climbing ON Everest and not summiting. |
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09-03-2008, 06:46 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Colorado
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That's not quite true, it can be climbed after the monsoons, depending on snow depth. Plus, if they are hardcore climbers, it can be climbed anytime - some months are much more challenging than others. |
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09-03-2008, 07:20 PM
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High School Varsity
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Boston, Ma
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Don't the monsoons last from June-September, though?
Yea. I guess they could be hardcore. I assumed that they were not based on absolutely zero info. |
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09-03-2008, 07:30 PM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Colorado
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The Fall climbing season runs from September to November. Exactly what weeks typically, I don't know.
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09-03-2008, 07:33 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: non white trash MD
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I make voodoo dolls of my coworkers. I envy you!
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Dominating Warewolf for 0 games! GIT R DUN!!! |
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09-03-2008, 07:46 PM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: NYC
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Sounds kinda Brokeback Mountain-ish.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. |
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09-03-2008, 08:36 PM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: San Diego via Sausalito via San Jose via San Diego
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Marsha Marsha Marsha!!
What really would have sucked is if they invited all the office people to go...
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09-04-2008, 05:14 AM
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High School Varsity
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Budapest
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The Dilbert guy could get at least a month of strips out of this story
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What the hell is Mike Brown diagramming for them during timeouts? Is he like the guy from "Memento" or something? Guys, I just thought of something … what if we ran a high screen for LeBron? |
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