here's a confession: i HATE junk email. junk email meaning any email that isn't actually meant for me; it's a forward or an ad. whether it comes from payless shoes or a relative. i just don't like having random things unnecessarily cluttering up my inbox. and it makes me a mean and horrible person, like i'm about to prove to you.
the worst offender at sending out junk email is the editing department. i get at least six emails a day from them with worthless unpaid editing internships and offers from random ladies who wrote their own "pseudo-electro-psycho-fantasy vampire novel" and will offer "experience" to any student who will edit it for free. phyllis daniel, the editing department secretary, whose name appears as the sender of all of these emails, has long been on my "delete immediately" list.
but today was the last straw. phyllis got a bit email trigger happy this morning. she sent out her average three or four morning internship emails, accompanied by another email advertising a random indian man who is coming to speak on campus. an event that has nothing to do with editing, just a random lecture by a random, probably very intelligent and nice but not-interesting-to-me guy.
that was it.
so i responded saying this (it's unedited, so you can see how spiteful i am over such unimportant things):
"Why are we receiving this information? This has nothing to do with the editing minor and therefore should not be sent to us by the editing department. I feel like this is an abuse of power to be able to send out so many unimportant emails."
a few minutes later, she emailed me this back:
"I am sorry, I thought it would be something that might be interesting to you. I can take you off the email list if you would like."
whoa--phyllis is actually a person! and she was reasonable! i immediately felt like a bad and horrible person for questioning her authority to send out useless, unimportant emails to all the editing minors. i just said back:
"That would actually be great. Thank you."
and then six minutes later she sent me another two emails about more useless editing internships. i stopped feeling bad.
3 comments:
hahahahahaha.
this is like when i honk at a pedestrian for being in my way, then i realize that they have the white walking man signal and that i am only turning right.
it makes me feel like a terrible person - i reform my ways, and then a few months later, i do it again.
sorry people who get in my way.
hhahah That is great. Phyllis, phyllis. She should learn!
HAHAHAHAHA that is hilarious. I feel the same way about the comms department. UGH.
you wouldn't happen to feel this way about a certain relative of ours, would you? now that would DEFINITELY make you a terrible person :)
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