I’ve a few friends (yes, even I have a few friends) who work at this big ugly corporation. It’s just so fake I can’t even begin to deconstruct the layers, tools and facilities this organism has evolved to allow near total functionality by default. Without mentioning any names, let’s just allow further corporate identification by saying that you really have to want to screw this company if you want to screw this company up at all. Some of the above mentioned friends are obsessed with this notion, not because they want to screw the company (that’s a given) but because the situation to them is so obvious that the leadership’s inability to share or even comprehend the absurdity is a testament to the bosses’ ineptitude and becomes a reinforcing case-in-point.
If not for the courage of the fearless legal department, any email could be lost, forwarded, forwarded, forwarded and forwarded again until liquid crystally displayed near, in proximity of or immediately in view of the lusty eyes of some other company who probably couldn’t much care about such errant information other than for its novelty factoid amusement value.
As if words ever kept anyone from reading anything they were not supposed to, all emails from anybody who works at the above company get this signature tacked on and there is nothing they can do about it:
The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to
which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged
material. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient,
you are hereby notified that your access is unauthorized, and any review,
dissemination, distribution or copying of this message including any
attachments is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended
recipient, please contact the sender and delete the material from any
computer.
Yeah. Like that would ever happen. Maybe it has happened. I doubt it. More later….
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At the end of the day my office remains open to all next generation-based thought driven innovations ramped up as a windfall result of a two point oh influenced paradigm shift enhancement. Could you please change the toner cartridge after you bring me a cup of coffee?
I think the answer is in corporate transparency, sir. Transparency is a mission-critical, think-outside-the-box, cross-platform, C-level thought leadership quality. In order to be best of breed and take advantage of our bandwidth, we need proactive synergy and frictionless information sharing between all enterprise platforms. We don’t want to reinvent the wheel but know that going forward, any company that can ramp up a customer-centric, next-generation, transparent offering and who can incorporate cutting edge integration will build a client and employee-focused paradigm resulting in a robust customer gateway and corporate rain-making, beginning with low-hanging fruit. We might even move our cheese.