How to send email like a non-metaphorical boss

If they had to use cuneiform or wax tablets, the work and time involved would make them more likely to just send out only important messages that actually matter, instead of the hundreds of irrelevant emails I get every day, wasting my time and attention.

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I bet there wasn’t ever clay tablet cuneiform spam. Too much work.

ETA - Oh hey that’s exactly what you said, wheeeee

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Except bosses wouldn’t have been the ones doing the work. “Ameneop, inscribe a tablet to Neferetebne letting her know I received her tablet of last week. Include that hieroglyph of the yawning kitten thanking the gods that it’s Ka-ḥr-ka. OMG I know, right? So cute!”

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The main thing to remember is…
Don’t forget to put covers on your TPS reports!

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Or rather, how to send emails like a boss at Enron, sterling role-models all.

Bro, I only wish it were “too much work.” I am constantly getting this same joke/ad delivered by Hittite courier, sometimes 2-3 times a day:

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Proof that dad jokes are the oldest form of humor. :wink:

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