Hi Tim,
Remember me? I bonused [your client] some ads for Christmas? 🙂
There schedule ends January 31st. So, I thought you would want to renew especially since the location in [city] is somewhat new. What are your plans for [client] for 2010.
Maybe we could get together with a phone call?
Hi Daily Blur Reader,
Would you mind momentarily standing in for the rep whose email just arrived in my inbox?
I didn’t ask for your bonus ads. You just told me you were going to do it out of the kindness of the station’s heart. Guess not. Now, you’re trying to use them against me? How many ways does that suck?
You used the wrong form of “there.”
You’re presumptuous without offering solutions.
My plans are none of your darned business. We’ve never met. In July, I bought a one-off schedule from the woman you replaced in December.
Two days ago, you left a message on my home phone letting me know you’d like to “get together to figure out how you can help me help your client.”
I don’t know. Maybe it’s not that big of a deal. I think the punctuation-smiley-face-thing boiled me over.
But I don’t email angry. In fact, I don’t respond to an email like this via email. I’ll either call or ignore you. I’m not sure yet.
But I had to type it out of my system. Thanks for letting me vent.
Yours in passive-aggressiveness,
Tim
UPDATE: As requested by a smart person in the comment, I wrote an alternate take on this email.
I am ROLLING over this! I get emails and voice mails like this all the time and I feel the same way. Way to put into words exactly how I feel every single day! Thank you for the laugh–needed it today!
PS–I was snickering over the smiley face punctuation comment from the guy who tends to abuse the privilege in his own communications. =)
A call to your home phone is the topper: Guess he/she thought it appropriate to reach you “their”…
Bonus karma points for not resorting to expletives.
I totally relate to your frustration. But, I’m curious, what SHOULD have this sales rep done to keep the pathways open and their station on your radar screen for future buys?
Whatever are you talking about? 🙂
Thanks for stopping by, Lorraine. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to get back to wishing I’d written most of your posts … #sigh #writerenvy
Once a journalist, always a journalist, Joey. Great question.
And the subject of a forthcoming blog post … which I plan to finish as soon as I stop drooling over the new iThingie …
LOL. I just ran down the jet way to log in and read..Let me not get on the soapbox for this…but suffice to say…I hope I have no typo’s in this email…and you are having a better day now that you are vented…
lol.. wut r u talking about? Wuts wrong w/ smiley faces? =(
Signed,
The younger generation.
P.S. Wuts the 411 on this email thing? Is that like my pops 8-track player?
I just wrote an alternate reply. I put together a quick draft and made one quick round of edits. It’s the email that would have gotten her my time.
http://bit.ly/9f2gQg
Michael,
Your comment appears to be typo free. Final analysis is pending.
Yours,
Newton Whiteknuckle
Ombudsman, The Daily Blur
Hey Smrty Pnts,
Get off my lawn.