chicken salad lady, part 2: the sausage girls
Thanks to a former co-worker, I bring you a follow-up e-mail to the Chicken salad lady. I think this will speak for itself. Note that the e-mail is verbatim, editing out names and that Sausage girls #1 and #2 are Taiwanese and don’t speak English too well.
Date: Tue 8/7/01 2:02 PM
To: All of US Cupertino Office
From: … (RD-US)
Subject: Re: my lunchThe following also happened on the 2nd floor. We have brought this to
administrative attention and we are patiently waiting for their response:Something hideous happened last Friday. We put some sausages in the 2nd
floor refrigerator in the morning, around 10:30am. By the time we left the
office, these sausages were gone! (These are raw sausages.) This sounded
very shocking to us at first, and then it became really funny, but
eventually made us very concerned after thinking about it. Similar
incidents have happened before and we did not find it very offensive ’cause
we were not the victims of such things. Like long time ago, someone’s
Chinese meat cakes were stolen. And then we heard someone drank someone
else’s SlimFast in the kitchen. We also had people losing their stuff in
their cubicles, these items range from hair comb to stomach medicine. This
made us question the etiquette of our employees.These sausages we had were not expensive items ($17) but this incident
ruined our Friday. It’s just very sad to know that there are thieves among
us. Perhaps the person who took them carried them home by mistake. If
that’s the case, we hope they will kindly put them back. If not, we hope to
bring this incident to everyone’s attention. Yes, we should all remember to
put our names on our belongings in the public area. But we cannot write our
names on every item that might be exposed to others in the office.If something similar happened to you, speak up so everyone at _____ will
become more alert.Sausage girls #1 and #2
You know, somewhere in the Engineering department, there’s a Taiwanese guy nervously glancing around the office, hoarding a Slim-Fast, raw sausage and “Chinese meat cake.” (Oh, so many jokes. SO many jokes.)
