Most Awkward Moment of 2006 (so far)
When I had to e-mail a colleague at another institution and ask if another colleague I've been corresponding with for months and months now was a woman or a man.
and the answer to your unasked question: woman
and the answer to your unasked question: woman
posted by vixen @ 2:23 PM
8 Comments:
At January 04, 2006 2:34 PM,
Phil said…
I think we need more detail. Why did you ask?
At January 04, 2006 2:44 PM,
vixen said…
because i was hot for them.
long story short: my legal department needed to send her a letter and were wondering how to address it (she has a very uncommon name).
At January 04, 2006 6:04 PM,
Phil said…
I wasn't sure if it was a voice issue or a name issue.
It would have been great if you had just sent it "Dear Sir or Madam".
At January 04, 2006 7:48 PM,
vixen said…
see...those legal people. so picky!
At January 05, 2006 10:23 AM,
Matt said…
I shouldn't worry; we live in enlightened times and men and women aren't ashamed of being mistaken for one another anymore. At least, thats the way things are in metropolitan Europe, man.. its anything goes here: last friday I saw a man not wearing a tie accompanying a woman who was smoking a cigarette and not wearing a hat. I suspect them of being tourists from Bohemia (very likely since it is now in the EU)(well, probably, its in the Czech republic or Slovakia or somewhere, and those guys are all in the EU these days).
At January 05, 2006 2:15 PM,
vixen said…
no tie and no hat?!?!?
did you point them out to everyone on the street?
At January 05, 2006 3:44 PM,
Matt said…
no, but I did write a letter to my member of parliament, asking him to send gunboats to bohemia.
All to no avail; it is landlocked.
At January 05, 2006 4:07 PM,
vixen said…
bastards!
don't they know that this problem could spread???
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