“Please Stand By for an Important Message”

December 4th, 2009

Our CFO prides himself on being computer literate, even going so for as to trying to convince The Curmudgeon and I that he worked in Corporate IT for a number of years (sure, perhaps as the dude that ran around replenishing the paper in the printers…come to think of it, sometimes that’s *me*…oh, the horror!!). Needless to say, for a person who’s so “in tune” with technology, I got a kick out of an email he asked our HR person to send out. The subject line was simply “Stand by for an important message by XXX XXX” WTF is he, the President of the United States??

Wanting to have a little fun with this one, I called the HR person and asked him if the CFO’s email account was working okay. She told me it’s working just fine but he didn’t know how to send a message out to everyone at once. Totally understandable since every email platform is different, of course. So I asked her if he typed in “Everyone” to the “to:” field. She said it was….wait for it….too hard for him to remember.

And *this*, my friends, is why our CFO gets paid the big bucks (literally). :::sigh:::