Group emails are huge here in the office. People send around the most random emails to 'all staff'. Most often it is some chain email to make a wish come true ('don't scroll down, this is truely spooky, first keep a number in your head, the phone will ring, make a wish, now scroll down, it will come true soon, really really, but only if you send this email to a million people' or some variation to this theme).
Sometimes the emails are about how vitamine C prevents headaches, menstrual cramps as well as typhoid. Or a warning how snakes hide in your toilet, crowling through the pipes in your house. Also very popular, something religious about the Almighty. ' Send this email to all your friends and God will give you lots of something'. Like love, blessings, money etc.
This morning one of my favorite colleagues sent us all the email below. Thought it gives a nice inside in the stage of women empowerment and the need for some more feminsm here...Happy women's day!
Dear Colleague Men,
As usual, we the men in the GC Office did not make any plans to celebrate our colleague women this year. If the opportunity is gone, at least do not forget to do something special for your woman when you get home this evening. I am suggesting a few tips:
When you get home, give her a warm and affectionate hug. And if you are not as old-fashioned as me, add a good kiss (before you sit at the TV or read the newspapers)
Better still, join her in the kitchen to help prepare the evening meal (at least this once). Do it with all your heart and do not ask too many questions, simply obey orders!
Better still, ask her to vacate the kitchen, to go and relax in bed with a glass of chilled wine, whiles you practically take over preparing the meal (even if it turns out tasteless and indescribable)
Better still, take her for an evening walk, and surprise her with a dinner she will never forget (though not in the negative sense),
When you are finished with serving her dinner (at home or at the restaurant) prepare the bath for her to have a warm bathe (but resist joining her, spare her for once, you naughty boy)
Then while she is in the bath, take time to write a note on a little card using your own words to let her know how much you cherish her and love her (do not buy a ready-made card)
After she has read the card, help her dress up and sit her down in her favorite couch to watch her favorite movie or soap opera (even if Barcelona is playing Chelsea). For once, pretend you also enjoy the soap, even if you can hardly understand what is going on.
And whiles she is watching the TV, and her mobile phone bells in the bedroom, go and pick it and send it to her in the sitting room. However, if you find yourself struggling to know which of her 9 (nine) handbags contains the screaming phone, simply hang all the bags on your shoulders and carry them to her. She will definitely find the bag which has the phone, and she will also thank you for all the GARGANTUAN efforts you have made to make her feel like a woman!!
Cheers to all the women around, but please do not pass on this e-mail to my wife!
Rgds
Charles
