Friday, May 27, 2005

No Smoking Please!

The CEO of our company is renouned within the organisation for sending funny emails -- personally -- to his employees. Two days before the company's annual conference in Bangkok last year, he sent out an email to all employees saying that anyone caught in Pat Pong, a seedy, nightlife area in Bangkok will be fired. On the spot. (Why is it that my company's employees have to be reminded not to go to dodgy brothels in Bangkok? Oh, I forgot. He sees the "trash" in the Ivory Tower all the time, he's bound to think that is the norm in the company.)

Yesterday our CEO sent out one of his famed personal emails on smoking after one of the local residents complained about our employees smoking at a children's playground.

(Translated from the original email)

From: CEO
To: All Employees

Subject: **Important Notice: No Smoking Please!**

Hello Everyone.
There has been some claims from local residents of a kiddy's playground who were disturbed by the mountains of cigarette butts left by the nicotine addicts of our firm. The local authorities have notified me that they will be removing the ashtrays from the playground as of June 6th. HOWEVER, I will state that from this day forward the kiddy's playground is a SMOKE FREE ZONE. Even if you take your own ashtray you are forbidden to smoke there. (remember, it is a KIDDY'S PLAY GROUND not a cancer zone for those with a death wish.)

CEO,
DW Company

TOO FUNNY! A CEO of a large multinational company has the time to send funny emails like this!!! Oh and the idiots who need to be repremanded about littering in public? I want to see their faces!! Must admit that I usually delete the 50+ emails that come into my inbox everyday, but this one I will keep in a special folder called "CEO Rantings".

3 comments:

Shamus O'Drunkahan said...

Hilarious! Our CEO would have assigned some flunkee to send something like that. Way better coming from the Man.

Kerry M. Conway said...

hello darles-just dropping in...love yeah girlie!

Anonymous said...

That's the way to go. Finally a nihon shacho san managed to have some common sense and standing by corporate responsibility.........

Pom lover in HK