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# The board's gone weird...
so I'll share with you the email I've just recieved...

Our company now has to comply with 'Tone of Voice Guidelines'
(, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 14:11, archived)
# As long as it's a sexy tone, I don't see anything wrong with this

(, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 14:13, archived)
# If by sexy you mean corporate
then yes
(, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 14:16, archived)
# O_o
What the fuck is that?!
(, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 14:13, archived)
# Fuck knows...
the accompanying 'handy sized' PDF was just words placed in a lovely corporate style.

It's basically saying we should all 'talk' the same way in communication (spoken, written etc).
In other words, act like a bunch of manager-speak corporate robots.

I hate my job
(, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 14:16, archived)
#
(, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 14:19, archived)
# ^this^
it gets more and more like Inatech daily
(, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 14:25, archived)
# Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to think of a corporate phrase which is seemingly innocuous
but actually means "eat shit and die"
(, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 14:20, archived)
# Just walk in to HR and in your best robot voice announce
"This work unit finds the new tone of voice 'guidelines' ridiculous, patronising and vaguely crypto-fascist. This work unit cannot comply.'



(, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 14:22, archived)
# When they give you a job you really don't want to do, say
Error: unrecognised or incomplete command line
(, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 14:24, archived)
# hahaha you work. you get crap heaped on you.
(, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 14:26, archived)
# Ooooo better idea...
create some 'Treating your co-workers like grown, adult, human beings guidelines' and email them around.
(, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 14:27, archived)
# this I like
(, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 14:40, archived)