You Will Be Missed Too

A friend of mine showed me a hard copy of an inter-departmental Email that got sent around where he works announcing the death of a long time employee.<br />I am redacting the names as the message here is what I find immensely telling.<br /><br /><br />Dear employee,<br /><br />On Thursday November 28th 2013, (<i>enter dead guy's name here</i>) passed away. (<i>Dead guy</i>) worked at (<i>insert corporation here</i>) for almost thirty years.<br /><br />He will be missed.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Sincerely,<br /><br />(<i>So and So</i>)<br /><br />General Manager<br /><br /><br />That's it.<br /><br />Thirty fucking years the guy worked there and it was summed up in one sentence.<br /><br /><br /><br />No mention that he croaked on Thanksgiving day.<br /><br />Also no mention that the poor bastard got diagnosed with cancer two months ago and worked until the day he was so sick he couldn't get out of bed.<br /><br />No condolences to the family or anything like that.<br /><br />Thirty fucking years.<br /><br />"He will be missed"<br /><br /><br />This is what loyalty gets ya these days.<br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrHvw4tTIh9D3k1fZVmqObe3i8F9Q1EEPK8g-pnv50zgzZbLDQCDEe9VgzAuqlixNbj3iXXHtV8rvA6DeOXomC-o3qM2GKU1bxhuwlPVIRm0t-mpcDbRLm3y1oeu1TzhTX4uVkaVW7HJxJ/s1600/middle-finger.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrHvw4tTIh9D3k1fZVmqObe3i8F9Q1EEPK8g-pnv50zgzZbLDQCDEe9VgzAuqlixNbj3iXXHtV8rvA6DeOXomC-o3qM2GKU1bxhuwlPVIRm0t-mpcDbRLm3y1oeu1TzhTX4uVkaVW7HJxJ/s640/middle-finger.jpg" /></a></div>

You Will Be Missed Too

A friend of mine showed me a hard copy of an inter-departmental Email that got sent around where he works announcing the death of a long tim...

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