I am a liar who cannot be trusted. After a self-pitying post about how I was going to fail to post anything for the first time in two months, I’ve snuck in before midnight and written something. I have no idea what this is, it fell out of my brain in about 10 minutes, but it is something and it’s late.
The Reply-All Manifesto
Wear the uniform, talk to the right people, keep them sweet.
Learn who everyone supports.
Partake in witty banter.
Reply-all to emails.
Pace corridors with a hurried frown, pen and pad in hand
Click click click click click click the pen in and out.
Agitated urgency.
Deflect blame, proliferate praise.
Reply-all to emails.
Moan about meetings.
Go to all the meetings.
Delegate, distribute.
Reply all to emails.
Extend 20-second conversations to three minutes,
Pontificate, aggrandise,
Banal smalltalk in the illusion of productivity.
Reply all to emails.
Avoid all the work.
Reply all to all of your emails.
Just Punch The Clock 