Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Dodging a Major Bullet
Getting dumped via email, phone, or PowerPoint is happening with astonishing frequently. Over the past few years, I've heard of quite a few instances of email, bullet-point breakups. It's the new age equivalent to the "Dear John" letter, I suppose -- the gutless, cowardly way to put an end to a personal relationship.
Apparently, people took the movie title "10 Things I Hate About You" a little too seriously.
If you've never seen the Laura Boles Breakup PowerPoint online, let me summarize it: it's a 16 slide, mean-spirited PowerPoint presentation that follows the Microsoft templated format of "Communicating Bad News". You can picture it: bullet point lists of Laura's flaws, graphs to represent her mood swings, etc.
I can't link to it because this is a G-Rated site, and there's some mild PG stuff in there. If you really must see it, Yahoo! it.
Know this: if someone uses technology to end a personal relationship: he or she is good riddance. So you got hit with an onslaught of bullet points in PowerPoint, email, what have you.....the worst is over.
You dodged the one major bullet that counts, my friend! ¶ 9/27/2005 03:35:00 PM
Getting dumped via email, phone, or PowerPoint is happening with astonishing frequently. Over the past few years, I've heard of quite a few instances of email, bullet-point breakups. It's the new age equivalent to the "Dear John" letter, I suppose -- the gutless, cowardly way to put an end to a personal relationship.
Apparently, people took the movie title "10 Things I Hate About You" a little too seriously.
If you've never seen the Laura Boles Breakup PowerPoint online, let me summarize it: it's a 16 slide, mean-spirited PowerPoint presentation that follows the Microsoft templated format of "Communicating Bad News". You can picture it: bullet point lists of Laura's flaws, graphs to represent her mood swings, etc.
I can't link to it because this is a G-Rated site, and there's some mild PG stuff in there. If you really must see it, Yahoo! it.
Know this: if someone uses technology to end a personal relationship: he or she is good riddance. So you got hit with an onslaught of bullet points in PowerPoint, email, what have you.....the worst is over.
You dodged the one major bullet that counts, my friend! ¶ 9/27/2005 03:35:00 PM
