Spend any length of time in the corporate world and you’re sure to experience the eerie feeling of having the daily Dilbert cartoon mirror exactly something that’s happening at your company that week. I’m used to it by now.
I wasn’t prepared for yesterday’s Shot in the Dark to pull off the same trick, however.
Today a cheery, encouraging email proclaiming “Outlook 2003 is here!” appeared in the in-boxes of my Division. Of course, an exclamation mark doesn’t necessarily mean cheerful and encouraging (think, “The British are coming!” or “Wellstone!”) but I know that’s what my company had in mind. I really didn’t need to see the email to know what was going on, however, because I could already hear the curses and screams of those around me who had already been “converted”. (Like a New Orleans 9th Ward resident wondering where the buses are, I’m still awaiting “my turn”).
In the meantime I can take comfort in Mitch’s statement that there are some things — such as being eaten by rodents or receiving a PineSol colonic from Anna Nicole Smith — that are worse than Outlook.
