When corporate life goes to hell
This is when otherwise professional business people go bad. I am on a fairly boring mailing list for a company I used to work for. Mostly it is just people bitching about the way the company treated them before laying them off or posting job openings for people who are out of work. But every once in a while it becomes totally worth reading. The names, places and people have been edited to protect the guilty.
First email from Todd Bailey:
Howdy all…
Wanted to interupt the endless stream of job postings and let you know that Sarah Edwards and I (Todd Bailey) are about to tie the knot this Saturday in lovely __City__, Ca. I guess now I can’t say I left __The Company__ empty-handed… especially since we have twins due in July!
The twins (according to the doc) look like a boy and a girl and are dueJuly 31st.
Life is good.
-Todd
Second email from Alex Edwards (who happens to run the alumni list):
Uh…ahem…this just goes to show that the value of __The Company__ Alumni network goes FAR beyond ordinary business. Just think, Todd didn’t leave the company empty handed, he ended up with way more than half of my money from there too. Congratulations Todd!
Seriously, enjoy the kids if you can. They’re worth more than money. Watch out for that mother in law though…
-Alex
P.S. For all the rest of you who weren’t at the comapny and have no idea what I just said, right as I was hired at __The Company__, I married (at a young and impulsive time of my life) Sarah Edwards, who later joined __The Company__. As I am not from __midwest state__, the ex-wife Sarah Edwards should not be confused with the other Sarah Edwards, who is my sister, and also worked at __The Company__ at the same time with the same title in the same group.
An interesting __Company__ story arose from this…when my sister got laid off, someone in IT or HR got confused by the identical names and accidentally inactivated my then-wife’s ID card and email account, terminated her 401k, and canceled her insurance. The ex-wife Sarah and I divorced in early 2004, immediately after which I danced a jig and traveled much of Asia, while she and Todd started dating. The rest is history…
ok, back to the endless stream of job postings…
Third email from Todd Bailey, again:
Don’t really know how to respond to that… BUT sorry the whole list had to hear such personal things about private matters. I seem to remember Alex posting about his divorce, so a wedding announcement is hardly out of line. Thanks for making it special Alex.
-Todd
p.s. Sarah’s mom is a sweet 75 year old lady who I will be proud to call mother-in-law.
I guess Alex won’t be getting a X-mas card this year.