E-mail Chains, email chains about fantasy sports, email chains about real sports, email chains making fun of people we work with, email chains making fun of each other, email chains discussing various game plan strategies for adult co-ed recreational sports, email chains about upcoming events, email chains about various ailments, email chains about gambling, and email chains about just plain nothing.
Here's the thing, when you're a regular internet scavenger, like myself, there are just some days where your usual rotation of sites either just aren't giving it to you, or its 11 AM and you're so unmotivated at your job that you've already scoured your daily batch of sites.
Those days, I need the e-mail chain, its about the only thing that'll get me through the horror of my fluorescently lighted mid-size cube. Doesn't matter that it's all fluff, bullshit, sports, ragging on each other, griping about our own jobs with the secret hope that the corporate filters are picking it up and we’ll get unceremoniously let go with severance. It's just something to kill some time.
But lately I've run into a problem. One of the members of my core daily e-mail chain (who'll remain nameless, but its Penny Packer), recently got a job that he doesn't hate...he doesn't even dislike it from what I can tell, which is just plain odd to me. I previously assumed everyone hated their job as much as I hate mine...But I digress. Anyway this anonymous friend (pennypacker), got this new job requiring travel across the country every few weeks. Which at first made the Maestro and I very skeptical. Was he going to be able to hold his own on our chain? Was this the end of the super-chain?
The chart up above is something I created for our chain yesterday, detailing the level of fun Pennypacker has brought to our chain since beginning this traveling routine of his. The vertical axis lists weeks 1-3, the horizontal, our level of fun. As you can see, Penny started off weeks 1 & 2 on a Cam Newton making his rookie debut, like high. Just previously unseen levels of slacking production that we couldn't believe. In week one he clocked a 9.7. Highest on record. Started all kinds of sports debates out of thin air, and presumably spent all of his free time (time he should have been working) on researching topics for the e-mail chain. He largely held this production through week 2, just like Cam Newton.
Then week 3 came. And he crashed. Just like Cam Newton (are you seeing the correlation? Good, because I have no idea where this post is going). So I created the above chart to demonstrate this. I told Penny, look, just come to play. You can turn this around. Cam came back for a dynamite statistical week 4. You can do it too. Just try and finish this week strong and roll it into next week. He came back bitching about 12 hour days, 20 hours of travel a week, blah, blah, blah. Look, I get it, even Cam Newton had to subdue himself in week 3 so his team could get a win, I get what you're doing. Just know that we're counting on you to reverse the trend next week and get back to your e-mail chain dominance...It's been boring as hell this week.
PS: This post did not go at all like I intended it to...I have no idea how I ended up here.
