You can’t make a tomelette without breaking some gregs
One of the things that stood out the most to me in the Epstein files was just how many typos Epstein made in his emails
My wife remains adamant that there is a correlation between how much thought you put into your text and how much you proofread it, and how good of a person you are. She’s an English teacher, so that might have something to do with it.
Empathy I’d say, you intend for another to perceive and understand the message. Also would be a strong sign of emotional intelligence.
This is tangential to just workplace stuff but I used to work for a manager that only wanted us to send them an email using their specific heading template and email body template for certain email subjects. If you didn’t use it they would get really bitchy about it. So I had to send them an email one day regarding the subject. I used the template, filled it out intentionally to their specifications. The response I got back was:
Thamks
-sent from iPhone
At least they thamked you.
Usually applied to people making ludicrous political arguments, but also feels a bit relevant here:
Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
–Jean-Paul Sartre
Didn’t woody Allen rape little children?
is this in the forward to Fanon’s wretched of the earth?
Used to work with a billionaire. Can confirm.
One thing all super rich people seem to do is end their emails with the most basic signature. Like just their initials in lowercase or something.
I’m perfectly okay with the signature thing. Way better than the mandatory giant product banner and contact information “signatures” that are injected into our emails where I work.
Where I work people have started doing the short signature immediately before the giant contact info signature.
I think it’s asinine but literally every email I’ve gotten from someone outside my team in the last two weeks has done it, so now I’m doing it too lest someone think I’m being rude or some shit.
At work I don’t write a text signature at all. My contact info is in the header already. If they demand a signature, then it’s going to be a detached GPG signature.
That makes email threads much more difficult to parse, it’s useful to be able to tell when an email ends and who sent it.
That’s in the headers!
Same exact principle as how many of them like to dress in jeans and t-shirts. They think that it demonstrates that they’re so significant and intrinsically powerful that they’ve transcended the need to signal wealth and power. But it’s really just another level of signaling: trying to signal that they don’t need to signal, which is in some way even more poser-ish and pathetic
Tbf if I got all the rich you’d never be able to tell by outward appearance, it’d take you a sec to be like “hey wait a minute, do you have like, a job? How do you afford living?” I’d pay off my house, keep my used car, keep wearing my dumb clothes, you’d start questioning when all the camera lenses and expensive whiskey rolled in but only if you knew me and bourbon well.
If dressing flashy is signaling wealth and dressing down is a subtler signal of transcendental wealth and power, then what should they wear?
The other commenter has a point. Maybe they’re just wearing what they really want to, idunno. They should wear whatever they want. But the fact that they all ubiquitously have started to address casual in the last couple of years makes me doubt that that’s what they want. On the other hand, I don’t see billionaires as being the type of tasteful people who would care to commission custom clothes or anything artistic that expresses themselves, etc etc.
I would say their actions are a better measure of character than their clothing
Well, yes, of course I agree
They don’t have to write correctly. Nobody will dare to correct them. The burden to decipher what they mean is entirely on you. You - on the other hand - may lose your job if your sloppily written email ends up in the wrong inbox.
Yeah we underlings have to make sure our corporate emails sound professional.
hay it geg
I’d go crazy if I worked with someone writing like that and sending emails with an empty subject.
Dude don’t make me defend billionaires crimes are kinda fun. I ain’t never done that kind of crime, I don’t like hurting people unless it’s their ears with raucous jazz, but haven’t you ever wanted to have Chinese takeout on a picnic blanket at a park that closes at dark at midnight? Fuck I didn’t have time to go buy red spice delicious block today.
How many weed have you injected today?
I just like committing gay crimes is all.
And like all of them
Bruh I’ve done so many drugs in closed parks, you can have your picnic if you pick the right spot.
And I’m no billionaire (maybe thousandaire depending if we count 401k). Tip: if you get caught likely a house near the parking lot is a snitch, find another entrance, possibly less populated or conventional.
oh dude i have gotten ensnared in so much high school bullshit with the police having picnics in the park at sunset. like even as an adult, to the point they’re like “dude we have been being called on this guy since he was a child for having picnics in the park at sunset when will this town learn to stop calling us”. they just see it’s me on a blanket with my dinner and they have been doing this for so long they let me eat my dinner. i should really like, start selling drugs out of my picnic basket or something but my wife would kill me
Nah keep doing what you’re doing lol don’t sell drugs you’re not ready!
And at “sunset” those parks should technically be open, until it ends. I’d be arguing hahaha. Glad they leave you alone now though! But see, “someone called,” it’s always snitches, find a more secluded entrance and/or spot!
Hell the fuck no I’m not moving. I’ll let them call, come, and then the cops can move on and everyone who needs to sleep that night can sleep. I have a hell of a lot of privilege I might as well use it.
When I was younger I’d TP the snitches’ houses a few months later, but now I just wave.
Lol hell yeah well sounds like that works for you! Some of us have drugs on us and aren’t that lucky lol.
I mean I have weed on me nowadays but like, California’s cool
