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The Tiger Oil Memos
Harriet:
If the mods feel this more appropriately placed in the Coffee Break folder, please do move it there!
"From the offices of the now-defunct but at one time Houston-based Tiger Oil Company come a total of 22 enormously entertaining memos; all sent by, or on behalf of, the firm's incredibly amusing, painfully tactless, and seemingly constantly angry CEO - Edward 'Tiger Mike' Davis - to his staff. "
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/08/tiger-oil-memos.html
That whole site "Letters of Note" is pretty wonderful but I thought e-Hell would appreciate this amazing series of memos from the late seventies. Are there any that you could argue are not rude?
I also wonder if the "rude-ometer" for inter office memos/emails has shifted since 1978. Certainly you couldn't get away with a lot of this nowadays... or could you?
ETA: Warning... light profanity.
Barney girl:
That looks a happy place to work ;).
I love his repeated memos about not talking to him, who'd want to if they were going to get their heads bitten off.
AuntyEm:
Loved reading them! Can you imagine being his secretary? He must have gone around in a permanent snit. Hope he paid well.
ShanghaiJill:
He wanted the rig hands to be neat and clean? :P
chicajojobe:
Those are actually real? Yikes.
I like the one where he says 'no levity of any sort' I don't think there was much risk of that!
As for if there is anyone who can argue they aren't rude, I wasn't alive in the 70s but I'm going to say no. Even if you believe that a boss has the right to treat his employees like annoying wastes of money, swearing in official memos puts it over the edge into bad manners.
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