The Open Letter
Dear intern who hogged the one good computer all damned day, the computer shared by the eleventy billion research assistants and other interns, even though you were only checking the library’s online card catalogue, a task that can be accomplished on any one of the FOUR community computers nearby, forcing me to stare at the doc computers until my eyes bled from waiting for the fucker to load only so it could crash on me three times and encouraging the fantasizing about strangling you a little bit,
GET OFF. SHARE. MY FUCKING GOD, YOU ARE NOT ALONE HERE.
Sincerely,
Melissa
August 23rd, 2006 at 5:27 am
Did anybody TELL the intern that she could do her thing somewhere else? I work for a non-profit and we have interns and workstudy-types and other assorted students forced upon us. Every semester I am reminded of just how young and dim some of these people can be. You just have to spell it out for them or the halls would be filled with blood (ala THE SHINING).
August 23rd, 2006 at 8:02 am
Oh sweet mother of pearl, I know EXACTLY what you’re talking about!!!! That is the point in time when you should have gone down to Gallery 224, grabbed that lovely Mughal ivory fly-swatter out of its case, journeyed back up to Curatorial, and beat the living daylights out of her. Yes: Melissa, with the fly-swatter, at the Curatorial table. It’s like Clue.
August 23rd, 2006 at 8:49 am
LMAO @ Melissa
August 23rd, 2006 at 9:10 am
I’m sharing the computer right now with my husband who is on vacation for ELEVEN DAYS.
God help me.
August 23rd, 2006 at 1:09 pm
Get off the f****** computer so she can get her work done and then BLOG… yeesh!
August 23rd, 2006 at 5:01 pm
Sayre, it’s very clear and the interns get tons of training in policies each summer. Also, me and eight other people asking her for it would at least make her wonder at some point I would think.
Theresa, YES. I need to remember the luscious fly whisk for these situations. That thing is amazing and would certainly do the trick. Very much like Clue, only hotter.
Mamatulip, I’m reading your lovely encounters with the vacationing husband cracking up.
Nikki and E, ahahahahaha!
August 23rd, 2006 at 8:41 pm
I love you. Rant on!
August 24th, 2006 at 9:52 am
Some people never seem to learn to share… And it DOES make you want to slap them upside the head! Did you silently will a pox upon her? You should have!
August 24th, 2006 at 9:57 pm
Your letters to annoying people are hilarious. I get such a kick (of recognition) out of them. Keep ‘em coming, even though I am sorry it means that you will need to deal with more morons.
August 26th, 2006 at 3:35 pm
Send the f*^king intern for coffee!!!
November 5th, 2008 at 2:32 am
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