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I’m sorry that I didn’t
Read that report you wrote
In terms of how to spend last night
It didn’t get my vote

I had a pleasant evening
Went to the pub instead
Returned home rather drunk
And collapsed upon my bed

When I awoke this morning
I was already late
So there really wasn’t time
To read your long mandate

I’m sorry that this meeting
Might seem a waste of time
But am I really guilty
Of such a heinous crime?

I know I should have read it
That’s what you pay me for
But when it comes to writing
You really are a bore

I’d rather face the music
Than have to read that dross
Life is far too short
To always please my boss

But you don’t seem that angry
I don’t think that you can tell
I’ll just smile and keep on nodding
And I think all will be well

8 responses to “Unprofessional? Moi?”

  1. Maybe if all reports were written as poems, limericks or haikus they’d be more fun to read?

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    1. It would certainly take the edge off…

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    weebluebirdie

    As one who often wings such things – and with a talent for management speak when required – I feel your pain. As one who also has to write such things – staying up to midnight to do one, a mere few hours before the meeting it was for, because I couldn’t face it writing the damned thing — I felt pain when the meeting was dismissed when we were two thirds through my eloquence.

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    1. I’ve been there too…

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  3. Do you watch “The Office”?

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    1. I do – both the UK original and the brilliant US version.

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      1. We only get the US version but I’ve heard the UK one is better. I’m addicted to the US one. I’m watching it online, marathon style.

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      2. UK one is different. Both are excellent in their own way.

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