E-mail of the Year

[moneypenny]

So, I have this intern. It was hard to find interns this semester, but we needed them badly. So we lowered our standards. Then we lowered them some more. Finally, I ended up with Bobby, a meathead lacrosse player from Suffolk University who wears sweatpants and sneakers to the office and who has yet to utter a sentence consisting of more than

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[harker207]

I think I will speak for everyone when I say:

"Owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!! My LANGUAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

[picodulce]

you know, that really wasn't so bad. i have seen a couple of notes from wanna-be interns at my office. mostly they are okay-written, i suppose (though i heard tell of one who had worked here in the past and sent a cover letter to my boss basically stating that he did her job); but good gracious, there is some ego in them thar hills!

if i had copies i would type and post them. my boss, my work-twin and i have had a solid laugh or two.

[moneypenny]

Linguistically, it could be worse -- I think -- but what I found particularly potent was the combination of haphazard grammar/typos with his curious decision to brief me on the "coming up" of his blood and his difficult decision to forsake nutrition in favor of alcohol for a solid week. I did ask if he was OK, but a simple "I was sick" would have sufficed. Fortunately in this case, the interns no longer get paid -- if you were in Boston, I bet you'd be a bit incensed to know that your tax dollars were paying Bobby's salary and retirement fund. Then again, I know a few state legislators who kind of remind me of Bobby, so maybe the problem is already upon us.

[whosaidilied]

I like his decision to go with "consumed" a lot of drinks.

[picodulce]

but the extra "l" in "all" accentuates how much he didn't eat! (why he told you about the drinking explicitly does blow my mind.)

yeah, i thought this would be a "good livin'" moment for most legislators, right? this guy could be president. does he snort the nose candy? then he's a shoo-in.

[perich]

a meathead lacrosse player from Suffolk University

Wow. All that and he can't even play for a good school.

[sanspoof]

That's strangely beautiful. I fine I guess. It's like Flowers for Algernon, or a chimp using sign language.

[ldy]

That was so well-put that I completely lost track of what I was going to say here.

[wildemoose]

I think that seeing his writing sample would actually make me feel a lot better about my capacity to find a paying job after the ever-looming graduation.