No Unauthorized Items In Dirty Laundry

[IgD]

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We used to get hospital wide e-mails about laundry problems every week. Here is one:

Congratulations, no unauthorized items were found in our dirty laundry
during the week of ___.

Let's keep up the good trend.

Remember, "Shake it, Bag it, Tag it".

Thanks
V/R
___
Safety Manager
Naval Hospital

The leadership would hardly ever send out command wide e-mails except to mail an occasional "your the best hospital in the Navy", a disciplinary rant or a response to the laundry e-mails. Here is an example of what we got:

To All Hands,

Obviously you folks are doing things right - the trend in unauthorized
items in the laundry continues to decline. Congratulations and keep
this in focus!

XO sends.

I used to get a chuckle reading these types of e-mails. I wonder if they were serious about the comments. At times they would get all worked up about it.

 

[crazybrancato]

IgD, please don't resort to the nonsensical act of posting emails here; they're foreign to us, taken out of context, and completely meaningless. I know what you're trying to do. You're trying to demonstrate the 'silliness' of military life. Great, point taken, we get it.

You're a doc, you were a mil doc, you have plenty of good experiences to speak of. Stick to that. You can convince people of anything you want by just narrating your own experiences, and what you gained/lost from them. this posting of email makes you look loony . (you're a shrink right? cmon, you know better)

 

[IgD]

IgD, please don't resort to the nonsensical act of posting emails here; they're foreign to us, taken out of context, and completely meaningless.

Weren't you saying something before about not having any experience in the military medical system? Where exactly are you in the military medicine pipeline?

I think you captured my point. The urgent e-mails about non-urgent problems were completely meaningless especially when we had major issues going on.

 

[The White Coat Investor]

Our current silly emails are about the percentage of times we answer the phones in the clinics without it going to voice mail. Every morning I get this email. I shake my head every time as I hit delete.

 

[Mirror Form]

I used to get a chuckle reading these types of e-mails. I wonder if they were serious about the comments. At times they would get all worked up about it.

LOL, thx, those were funny. We get plenty of emails like that where i work too. What i find really annoying is when i receive ten emails tagged as high importance that are all in regard to "not forgetting this week's ice cream social." And of course all ten emails will have a 2 mb attachment w/ the ice cream social flyer or something.

 

[TheGoose]

LOL, thx, those were funny. We get plenty of emails like that where i work too. What i find really annoying is when i receive ten emails tagged as high importance that are all in regard to "not forgetting this week's ice cream social." And of course all ten emails will have a 2 mb attachment w/ the ice cream social flyer or something.

i think everyone gets these annoying pieces of poo flying into their inboxes regardless of where they work. Im on staff at a major university science department and just got an email with 10 pictures attached of the department secretary staff dressed up in their halloween costumes thanking everyone for having a fun halloween.

 

[pgg]

What i find really annoying is when i receive ten emails tagged as high importance that are all in regard to "not forgetting this week's ice cream social." And of course all ten emails will have a 2 mb attachment w/ the ice cream social flyer or something.

... followed by hourly "Your mailbox is over its size limit" messages. Nice to come back after a week of leave and find 168+ of those filling up my allegedly "full" inbox. 🙂

I'm just waiting for the command-wide Nigerian prince email telling us we could be heir to an 11 Million Pound (Sterling) fortune ... I honestly get less spam in my webmail box.

 

[crazybrancato]

doh! you guys are relentless. you're really doing a diservice to yourselves by bitching about something as silly as emails . . . you're diminishing the value of your opinions in other threads . . . seriously, you're just making me (and probably others) think that you're chronic complainers. this article comes to mind:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/11/03/angry.internet/index.html

 

[backrow]

My personal favorite email was from the Command DAPA office who sent out a "forward email" regarding some "new" type of drug being sold to kids that was strawberry flavored. The corpsman was non to happy when I sent her a response with a link to Snopes letting her know that the email was bogus.

I loved it even more when the email was rescinded filling my box with two more messages.

 

[IgD]

doh! you guys are relentless. you're really doing a diservice to yourselves by bitching about something as silly as emails . . . you're diminishing the value of your opinions in other threads . . . seriously, you're just making me (and probably others) think that you're chronic complainers. this article comes to mind:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/11/03/angry.internet/index.html

What's up with the ad hominem attacks? We were enjoying a period of peace and stability around here.

 

[notdeadyet]

doh! you guys are relentless. you're really doing a diservice to yourselves by bitching about something as silly as emails . . . you're diminishing the value of your opinions in other threads . . . seriously, you're just making me (and probably others) think that you're chronic complainers.

In fairness, crazybrancato, IgD makes jokes and points out the absurdity of some of the things going on in milmed, which is educational to those of us on the outside.

No offense, but about half the posts I've read from you on this forum lately have been kinda b!tchy. If you don't like someone's opinions, don't join their fan club. If you don't like the direction a thread is taking, don't read it. If you really don't like a poster, click the ignore button.

But the finger pointing about how you think that everyone with a different viewpoint than yours is embarrassing themselves is getting a little old.

 

[BomberDoc]

I set up a filter that automatically deleted any email that I wasn't in the "to" field from these any many more people. This caused almost all of my spam that was sent SQ, group, or wing wide via distro list to be deleted. I figured if it was important, somebody would tell me. Nobody ever told me that I missed a "critical" ice cream social.

filtered spammers
1st Shirt
Chaplains
SQ/Group secretary
Chief Nurse
anyone who was head of a stupid club like Booster Club, CGO Club, intramural sports, etc.

This was a major timesaver. Also, close email application when you want to get work done so you aren't constantly interrupted with every email. Anything that can't wait a couple of hours will most likely present itself either in person or by phone. Email is a huge productivity killer.

 

[Perrotfish]

I have now received a total of 8 emails regarding "Family Fun Day" on Thursday.

"Family Fun Day" will feature a bouncing castle, face painting, and food.

"Family Fun Day" is mandatory for all married Marines.

"Family Fun Day" is a scheduled for 1400 on a school day, meaning no children will be able to attend.

Fun!

 

[NavyFP]

My turn.

I have now received a total of 8 emails regarding "Family Fun Day" on Thursday.

"Family Fun Day" will feature a bouncing castle, face painting, and food.

"Family Fun Day" is mandatory for all married Marines.

"Family Fun Day" is a scheduled for 1400 on a school day, meaning no children will be able to attend.

Fun!

More bounce time in the castle for ME!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Sarg's kid]

My turn.

I have now received a total of 8 emails regarding "Family Fun Day" on Thursday.

"Family Fun Day" will feature a bouncing castle, face painting, and food.

"Family Fun Day" is mandatory for all married Marines.

"Family Fun Day" is a scheduled for 1400 on a school day, meaning no children will be able to attend.

Fun!

I haven't laughed that hard in a while. That is hilarious in its absurdity. Would have loved to go just for the spectacle.

 

[rotatores]

My turn.

I have now received a total of 8 emails regarding "Family Fun Day" on Thursday.

"Family Fun Day" will feature a bouncing castle, face painting, and food.

"Family Fun Day" is mandatory for all married Marines.

"Family Fun Day" is a scheduled for 1400 on a school day, meaning no children will be able to attend.

Fun!

Dude...this would make for one awesome day!

 

[Mirror Form]

doh! you guys are relentless. you're really doing a diservice to yourselves by bitching about something as silly as emails . .,

Uh oh, this is CLASSIC insecurity. The emails aren't a big deal, they're just a minor annoyance which are often funny in retrospect. However, your reaction to any sort of negative comments toward the military shows how insecure you are about how "great" mil med is.

 

[edinOH]

IgD,

You weren't by chance at the "Flagship of Navy Medicine" were you?

Reminds me of the POD listing the menu one day in early 1997. I was a corpsman there (NMCSD) back then.

I'll paraphrase but it read something like this....I shi t you not...

In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the galley today will offer the following lunch menu:

Fried Chicken
Collard Greens
Sweet Potato Pie

as well as various other items which I can't recall.

I remember looking at my some of my black buddies and asking them if they had a problem with this. They just kind of shook their heads and laughed, shrugged thier shoulders seemingly with the attitude of "well, what do you say?"

At first we thought it must have been some kind of prank but when we went down there, sure enough, they were serving what they said. And it was in fact MLK day.

 

[Ex-44E3A]

IgD, please don't resort to the nonsensical act of posting emails here; they're foreign to us, taken out of context, and completely meaningless. I know what you're trying to do. You're trying to demonstrate the 'silliness' of military life. Great, point taken, we get it.

You're a doc, you were a mil doc, you have plenty of good experiences to speak of. Stick to that. You can convince people of anything you want by just narrating your own experiences, and what you gained/lost from them. this posting of email makes you look loony . (you're a shrink right? cmon, you know better)

If you've never been experienced it, you may not appreciate the insanity of the email traffic. It's one of those innumerable time-wasting crazy-makers that we all remember so well.

As for sticking to the "good experiences to speak of," you clearly haven't been around here very long. This ain't no rose-colored-glasses milmed cheering section. In case you hadn't noticed, it's no-holds-barred, naked and ugly in here when it comes to discussing the good AND the bad of milmed... so why don't you relax?

And on the subject of inboxes, you should have seen mine when I got back to CONUS from deployments... we're talking thousands of messages, and virtually none of them of any real importance. I spent forever sitting in my office, hitting the "D" key over and over and over...

I figured if it was important, they'd send it again.

Remember "management by walking around" (MBWA... popularized at HP)? Well, we had management by email.

 

[IgD]

It's funny now but in retrospect the leadership has so much power and they are sending out all these unimportant e-mails tasking people to do things. A lot of times the e-mails would have a hostile tone, be condescending and CC'd to lots of people. People would get so worked up over them. E-mail is such bad leadership. If it is so important why don't they call you or sit down and talk with you about it?

 

[pgg]

My turn.

I have now received a total of 8 emails regarding "Family Fun Day" on Thursday.

"Family Fun Day" will feature a bouncing castle, face painting, and food.

"Family Fun Day" is mandatory for all married Marines.

"Family Fun Day" is a scheduled for 1400 on a school day, meaning no children will be able to attend.

Fun!

The crowning achievement of the spammers during my tenure at Lejeune was when my office had the only functioning fax machine in the battalion. I got so tired of guys coming into my office to pick up faxes for the weekend party or some facet of that neverending annoyance that is CFC, that I sent out a battalion-wide email asking that traffic on my fax be limited to official business.

About 10 minutes later I got a fax with an unsigned note stating "Sorry sir, we won't send any more unnecessary faxes to your machine." I have to admit that amused me, until I realized that it meant there was some other bastard in the building who had a fax machine that no one else knew about.

 

[Perrotfish]

It's funny now but in retrospect the leadership has so much power and they are sending out all these unimportant e-mails tasking people to do things. A lot of times the e-mails would have a hostile tone, be condescending and CC'd to lots of people. People would get so worked up over them. E-mail is such bad leadership. If it is so important why don't they call you or sit down and talk with you about it?

You really, REALLY don't want that. I worked for a company where the manager periodically got sick of everyone ignoring his pointless Emails, so he started holding pointless meetings to go over the pointless Emails. We had an entire meeting about how people needed to wear coats because the whether was getting colder (he called this a 'safety issues' meeting). I didn't care much because I was paid by the hour, but the salaried employees found the meetings a bit frustrating.

 

[Founder]

IgD,

You weren't by chance at the "Flagship of Navy Medicine" were you?

Reminds me of the POD listing the menu one day in early 1997. I was a corpsman there (NMCSD) back then.

I'll paraphrase but it read something like this....I shi t you not...

In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the galley today will offer the following lunch menu:

Fried Chicken
Collard Greens
Sweet Potato Pie

as well as various other items which I can't recall.

I remember looking at my some of my black buddies and asking them if they had a problem with this. They just kind of shook their heads and laughed, shrugged thier shoulders seemingly with the attitude of "well, what do you say?"

At first we thought it must have been some kind of prank but when we went down there, sure enough, they were serving what they said. And it was in fact MLK day.

That same exact thing happened in college. I think they were able to change part of the menu. It was absolutely hilarious just to see how oblivious some were.

 

[The White Coat Investor]

The crowning achievement of the spammers during my tenure at Lejeune was when my office had the only functioning fax machine in the battalion. I got so tired of guys coming into my office to pick up faxes for the weekend party or some facet of that neverending annoyance that is CFC, that I sent out a battalion-wide email asking that traffic on my fax be limited to official business.

About 10 minutes later I got a fax with an unsigned note stating "Sorry sir, we won't send any more unnecessary faxes to your machine." I have to admit that amused me, until I realized that it meant there was some other bastard in the building who had a fax machine that no one else knew about.

Thanks for posting that. It made my day.

 

[BomberDoc]

I was forced to rewrite a wing-wide OI by the pinhead O-6 MDG/CC not long before I left... I made sure to include TPS Reports as a quarterly requirement. Apparently the CC either never saw Office Space or didn't read my OI.

 

[Mirror Form]

i think everyone gets these annoying pieces of poo flying into their inboxes regardless of where they work. Im on staff at a major university science department and just got an email with 10 pictures attached of the department secretary staff dressed up in their halloween costumes thanking everyone for having a fun halloween.

Now imagine ten of such emails coming every day not from a secretary, but from the administration at your university.

 

[TheGoose]

touche