Last week, I received an email from Queen Perfume’s flunktional manager asking if I could cover for while she is out on her 3 week vacation. I figured this was a great chance to throw a rock so I responded to her flunktional manager with the following email:
Given the fact I have more than a full time job just covering my own work, on top of mentoring a senior engineer two levels higher than me, and the fact I’m already doing half of Queen perfume’s job, I don’t have the bandwidth to do the rest of her job.
Given the fact I have more than a full time job just covering my own work, on top of mentoring a senior engineer two levels higher than me, and the fact I’m already doing half of Queen perfume’s job, I don’t have the bandwidth to do the rest of her job.
Of course I never received a response from the email however my flunktional manager wanted to talk to me today. I walked into his office wearing a Mickey Mouse t-shirt, jeans with a hole in them, and a 3 day old beard, telling him I didn’t have too much time to talk so if it was fast we could talk now. He assured me it would only take a couple of minutes and told me to close the door behind me.
My flunktional manager told me that some people feel that my emails are a little brash. I just laughed. He then gave me example paraphrasing the email I sent to Queen Perfume’s flunktional manager. The only thing I could think to say was “I guess it could come across brash.” He then gave me great life advice that I should be careful what I email and think about it before I hit send.
Because I’m the one that smells like a rotten egg after throwing a rock at Queen Perfume, I throw rocks.
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