*headdeask*
Apr. 14th, 2006 04:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trickykittyI am continually amazed at how many urban legend emails get tossed around at work by seemingly intelligent people. Today's message came directly from our Exec, who got it from an Exec at another branch, and was forwarded to everyone with an email at this branch.
Of course, a quick Google search for 90# led straight to my favorite urban legends page. I forwarded the link back to the Exec. I was tempted to forward it to everyone at the branch, but I thought twice about that. For good measure I also used my cell phone to test our own lines - nope, I just get button tones in my ear and then hung up on.
Tuesday's email was about a quest to stop the gas price hikes. Unlike trying to not buy gas on a single day, as emails a couple of years ago were proposing, this one wanted buyers to take control and buy gas that didn't come from the top three companies. "Buy from a different gas station" it proclaimed. "If we no longer buy their gas then they will be forced to bring the prices down to entice us to return our business to them. In this manner we will be taking charge as consumers and forcing prices down." Then comes the pyramid tell-all-your-friends plan - if every person tells 10 people, and those tell 10 people...
Oh, bother. Just typing this out is making my head hurt.
Of course, a quick Google search for 90# led straight to my favorite urban legends page. I forwarded the link back to the Exec. I was tempted to forward it to everyone at the branch, but I thought twice about that. For good measure I also used my cell phone to test our own lines - nope, I just get button tones in my ear and then hung up on.
Tuesday's email was about a quest to stop the gas price hikes. Unlike trying to not buy gas on a single day, as emails a couple of years ago were proposing, this one wanted buyers to take control and buy gas that didn't come from the top three companies. "Buy from a different gas station" it proclaimed. "If we no longer buy their gas then they will be forced to bring the prices down to entice us to return our business to them. In this manner we will be taking charge as consumers and forcing prices down." Then comes the pyramid tell-all-your-friends plan - if every person tells 10 people, and those tell 10 people...
Oh, bother. Just typing this out is making my head hurt.
