The Stinker!
A more Potent weapon mankind has not found! This is the tale of the Stinker.
From the first e-mail sent out between DOD geeks to the sprawling myriad complex of the modern enterprise; the stinker has become as ubiquitous as the AK 47 in Africa!
What, my Facebook generation friends would observe; is a stinker. Having not yet put their feet in the muddy swamps of a Job, they are blissfully unaware of its existence.
Allow me to elaborate.
A stinker is an email sent with only one intent – to foul the mood, plans and ego of the recipient often as a vent for the increasingly rising frustration of an approaching deadline.
It is crafted from the annuls of hate deep in your gut, molded from the pressure of a deadline on your shoulders, decorated with the threat of consequence and dressed up as a trophy wife in words.
It must fulfill the below criteria to be called a classic Stinker; else it is just an abusive mail:
1) Subtle like a well placed compliment; just opposite though!
2) copied to the boss man and his boss man.
3) an emphasis on buzz words and the single most stress inducing word in the English language – URGENT!
4) A call to the sensibilities and responsibilities of the recipient
Writing a good stinker is an art form, and not many have perfected it!
The point is – that everyone must learn one thing ASAP after joining the corporate world – how to send a classically scented, convulsion inducing yet the very epitome of panache wrapped in 100 kilobytes of pure frustration.
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