you've got mail

Do you work in a large company? Or a young company? Or a small company?

If you're answer was yes to any of the questions, then I am sure you are familiar with the concept of "office forwards" - i.e - random, often uninteresting, mostly useless bits of internet junk floating around that inevitably finds their way into your mail boxes from people you hardly know (& who you would hardly want to know)

The last week or two has seen a sudden upsurge in these irrascible mails. Oftentimes, you want to send that urgent email that you were supposed to send 3 weeks back, but just when you hit the "send" button on your outlook or lotus notes, there's a sign that tells you an email of substantial size is being downloaded. It could be 2 or 20 minutes depending on the size of the junk that has been shot at you. Finally after having tapped your fingers to oblivion, you open the mail to find its a "fwd" most often with weird ape photographs, embarassing things to do to your office colleagues (which you never will do), or "management" jokes aimed at your boss (obviously Scott Adams hasnt been discovered by these neanderthals) or a bunch of Asian kids in pain...I mean c'mon people! Get a grip!

After having thought about it some more, I think these mails are a part of the "annoyance" strategy employed by co - workers. You know..we have various annoying co workers such as "hammer head bob" or "topper - that's nothing!" or sour puss etc (all dilbert characters) so these guys represent the "junk co-workers' inboxes people"...I have finally uncovered you people! Scott Adams may not have found out about you guys but I guess that's because he left cubicledom much before the internet became the info/junk highway it sometimes is today.

Thank God for Gmail's spam filter.