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No Trail Email

Category: Funny Ha HaOff The Deep End
Posted on: October 14, 2009 4:20 PM, by Dave Bacon

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From the annals of high idiocy, I enjoyed this sequence of emails at BofA:

"Unfortunately it's screw the shareholders!!" Charles K. Gifford wrote to a fellow director in an e-mail exchange that took place during the call.

"No trail," Thomas May, that director, reminded him, an apparent reference to the inadvisability of leaving an e-mail thread of their conversation.
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Shortly after Mr. May's remark about an e-mail trail, Mr. Gifford said his comments were made in "the context of a horrible economy!!! Will effect everyone."

"Good comeback," Mr. May replied.

You have to give Mr. Gifford at least credit for not replying back "OMG Oops!!!" after the first email exchange.

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And to top it all off, the guy misspells "effect".

Posted by: Howard Barnum | October 16, 2009 10:27 PM

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Um, misspells "affect", that is. Or misuses "effect".

Posted by: Howard again | October 23, 2009 11:33 PM

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I'm still waiting for Firefox to underline my homophone or near-homophone errors. They are numerous and increasing in density.

Posted by: Dave Bacon | October 26, 2009 1:16 PM

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