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Jackie Olsen
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Post by Jackie Olsen »

Here's an interesting news bit:

"Speaking the same language:" As director of communications I was asked to prepare a memo reviewing our company's training programs and materials. In the body of the memo one of the sentences mentioned the "pedagogical approach" used by one of the training manuals. The day after I routed the memo to the executive committee, I was called into the HR director's office, and told that the executive vice president wanted me out of the building by lunch. When I asked why, I was told that she wouldn't stand for "perverts" (pedophilia?) working in the company Image !!

Finally he showed me her copy of the memo, with her demand that I be fired and the work "pedagogical" circled in red. The HR manager was fairly reasonable, and once he looked the word up in his dictionary, and made a copy of the definition to send back to her, he told me not to worry. He would take care of it. Two days later a memo to the entire staff came out directing us that no words which could not be found in the local Sunday newspaper could be used in company memos. A month later, I resigned. In accordance with company policy, I created my resignation memo by pasting words together from the Sunday paper. Image

Isn't that great!

Jackie

[This message has been edited by Jackie Olsen (edited 03-26-99).]
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RACastanet
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Post by RACastanet »

Hmmm.............. J.D. would not last a day at that company.


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