Dear Sir,
My pleasantries to you. Since we have never really communicated besides across a wooden table I'd like you to know a few things.Firstly, to your great surprise and maybe horror let me inform you that I do not want to do this job. Yes, I do not want to.
I do it because a certain Institute of Chartered Accountants of India forces me to.
I do it because I don't want to be a dummy (pun intended).
I do it because I could do with the little extra cash besides my pocket money.
I'd rather be reading books, blogging all day or going out and meeting new people. I curse the day I decided to be a Chartered Accountant. I don't think I even decided, it just looked like the right and convenient thing to do. Now that I'm smarter and have tested the waters I wish I hadn't....
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Dear employees who CC managers and bosses on their emails:
Ask yourselves this: are you capable of getting something done on your own?
When you were a child, did you make sure your parents were aware of all conversations you had with friends? When you were at school, did you make sure the teacher was aware of all playground issues you dealt with? Did your Daddy help you with all your homework?
Did you go home every weekend during college? Did your parents come to visit you every weekend at the dorms? Did you move back in with your parents after college and you still live in their basement?
Have you ever accomplished anything at the office without letting your boss know about it? When was the last time you did something at work without expecting a pat on the back? Have you ever...
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Dear Jeff Bezos,
bezosIn your position, I imagine that you rarely have an opportunity to receive feedback from one of your temporary-contract employees. I thought you should have some input. I hope you find this useful.
Having just completed my maximum of eleven months of contract work Amazon allows, I thought I would share my thoughts on your practice of hiring a staff that is made up of temporary-contract workers. Although it may seem like the company is saving money — because you don’t have to provide temporary workers with medical coverage or paid vacation time — the revolving door of new hires encourages low quality work, inconsistent productivity and wastes useful resources on training.
I joined the X-Ray for TV and Movies development team in its infancy. [“X-Ray for Movies...
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Ladies and Gentlemen:
We are here today to ask that the City become a significant funding partner of the Economic Development Council (“the EDC”) and that your designated representative retain a seat on our Board of Directors, a board whose size has recently been reduced to 16 individuals from an unwieldy 28.
About nine months ago, I met with City Manager, Steve Burkett, to discuss the above. He was quite clear that in his view the EDC had done nothing of consequence for Sequim and politely denied my request. At the time, I had been Executive Director for only a few weeks. But it was rapidly becoming clear that the EDC truly had done very little for several years to win either your confidence or that of the broader community. In the nine plus months since that meeting our team has...
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Dear authors of the Ignite | IoT methodology,
before I start my rant, let me congratulate you on the first publicly available IoT methodology. The increasing importance of IoT requires such a methodology. Your book and web site are an extremely valuable contribution.
However, I do have one major issue with your approach – and this is very close to my heart. As you are correctly saying, IoT projects are multi-disciplinary and thus an IoT methodology has to combine multiple skills and disciplines. Most experienced project managers will agree that this alone represents a huge risk. In addition, current IoT projects usually have to deal with a lot of new and (b)leading edge technologies, which further increases the project risks. Of course these big risks are coming with huge...
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Dear Dave,
On behalf of Diamondbacks fans, congratulations on the new job and welcome to Arizona. We're glad to have you - mostly on the basis that you aren't Kevin Towers. I know it's your first time being General Manager of a franchise, so figured we should offer some helpful tips from a fan perspective, to ease your transition from the world of agency.
1. There's no rush
The last thing I want to hear in your introductory press-conference is waffle about how we're going to contend in 2015. Because we've been hearing that for the past three years, and what we actually saw is a death-spiral down to where we're on pace for the second-worst record in franchise history. You needn't worry about attracting bandwagon fans, because there aren't any left. They've all been burned off by...
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Dear Surf Team Managers,
You don’t tell us how to do our job, so we won’t tell you how to do yours starting tomorrow.
Until then, hey, you should meet our friend Bobby Martinez. He’s unsponsored, kinda cute, and actually isn’t less interesting than cottage f–king cheese. You two have so much to talk about!
For instance: what it’s like to be an inked up Mexican among Beachboy Ken dolls; Tupac; spacious pants; why boxing is better than surfing; and keeping it real. Also, why Bobby — backhand genius on a tour that’s ethnically cleansed itself of lefts — is without a major clothing sponsor. That’ll be an interesting conversation. Maybe we can sit in.
Sign Bobby and he’ll totally sport your stickers while rebuking judges after his heats. Photo: Sherm
It’s just that…how...
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Dear David,
Back in the summer when I was asked to pen an open letter of welcome to you on the eve of your official first day as the new United manager I wrote that there would be some wretched times ahead and you would need to develop Rhinoceros skin to deflect the heavy criticism that even your predecessor had to deal with at times.
I never for one minute thought it would ever get as wretched as it did in Athens.
And if your skin has got thicker over the last eight months then I suspect you are going to need grow another heavy layer quickly so that the latest bombardment of flak doesn’t penetrate and wound you fatally.
If you thought the ride was bumpy so far then I hate to be the bearer of bad news but it is going to be like riding along a pot-holed road in Fred Flinstone’s...
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Dear recently graduated Millennial:
Congratulations on your graduation! I understand you’re ready to conquer the world of advertising. I want to get to know you. You may be exactly what we need.
Before you begin your conquest, let me introduce myself and offer up a few pointers.
I’m the creative services manager at an ad agency. I work with our creative directors to assign teams. Day-to-day, that’s partnering people with the right blend of sensibilities, suitable experience, drive, and magical team chemistry. Bigger picture: That’s being thoughtful and extremely careful about who we hire, inviting in only those ready to work hard, contribute something every day, dream big, and make stuff great.
To understand me, you should know I’m the poster child for Generation X. Yes, I’m...
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Dear Midwest City Resident,
In my years with the City, I have been quite often surprised by the confusion about whether a neighborhood is or is not in the city limits of Midwest City. We are sending this letter to you to confirm that you do live in Midwest City.
There are several reasons that contribute to the confusion on City boundaries:
• Our post office is an Oklahoma City branch, so our zip codes are often confused with being in either Oklahoma City or Choctaw areas (You may receive mail addressed to you, but, with Oklahoma City or Choctaw as the destination city),
• Phone numbers are sometimes associated with zip codes, so Midwest City residents may be listed under Oklahoma City phone information,
• There is one dependent school district, Crutcho, and three different...
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