Yes I am aware of the double meaning and –just you stop going there. I received an e-mail at work with the subject line: Are you single? I thought it was spam, but wondered how spam got into my usually spamless work in-box. Then I noticed the sender was also a company employee –so I opened it.
I was actually being asked out on a date via e-mail. What does one do in such circumstances? I can tell you that I felt guilty and started hunching over my monitor to hide the dirty little secret that in box now contained. I acted absurdly. Every time a work colleague marched buy my desk I would start in my seat and spin wildly around to greet them with a manic grin. I stuttered and acted all weird –as if everyone could see the subject line: “Are you single?” like a flashing dancing Jesus screen saver.
I awkwardly blurted out my situation to a few close work friends like a teenager at a locker gab fest. Good Grief –I was acting like a freak. Now I know this guy’s technique is a tad shrinking in the violet department and I do find that a bit tough to overlook, but I also thought it took kahonas to actually write that e-mail; at least one anyway. So now I am supposed to go on a date with said kahona man.
I don’t kinda know who he is. He works with a college and we only see each other in passing. I can understand his frustration with the completely anti-social corporate cubical environment. We could never have had a work related reason to really meet.
But there is always the elevator for the brisk and awkward intro –or the water cooler for the precisely timed stalker individual. So –yea, I can understand why he decided on an e-mail approach, but a subject line like, “Are you single?” come on.
I think I would have preferred another approach. It’s kinda like Lavalive now at work. Maybe just symptomatic of brain death by cubicle.
This song sums up life in a cubicle.
(i know my “similar links” are a bit off on this article -sorry)
Wow, those cubicles look like a scene out of office space. I guess that’s why I have never really worked for a large corporation.
I agree Mr. kahona man could have used a little more tact in his email. Perhaps a subject title like “Do you want to go for coffee” would have sufficed.
I would say something funny, BUT it’s just damn too easy, damn you. It’s like taking candy from a baby. LOL.