Get Unhappy!!!

Park’s assessment of morale is exactly right. No one talks about whether employees are happy when they’re actually happy. By the time some higher-up notices that morale is low, it’s already too late. —Save the Assistants

Definitely the next

COLUMBUS, OH—A bravely worded e-mail written by graphic designer Brent Quigley decrying his advertising firm's "complete lack of managerial competence" and its "utter failure to treat employees with respect" has remained inside the drafts folder since it was first composed on Dec. 4, 2007.

"I'm going to send it soon—if not this week, definitely the next," said Quigley, who often opens the e-mail, corrects spelling and syntax errors, and saves the changes before relegating the fearless letter back to his drafts folder....

—From "Courageous E-mail to Boss in Drafts Folder Since December," The Onion

Hair today

"There is a superhero in my office."

Reminder II

"[In] modern Guatemala...Mayans remark that outsiders note things down not in order to remember them, but rather so as not to remember them." —Nicholas Ostler

[from Private Circulation, "The PDF Bulletin for Proposals"]

Reminder

Megan McCafferty, author of the excellent YA books starring Jessica Darling (Sloppy Firsts, et al.), recommends Personal Days on her blog.

Leap year

"Could some clever reader tell me what a quantum leap is and where I can see one performed? Who the chattering classes are and where I can listen to them? And what a learning curve is and how I can climb onto one?" —Counting My Chickens, by Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire

(Via Jenny)

Of course you do!

Do you have time for One Sweet Song?