Well, I needed a laugh today..

This morning I woke up, I checked my e-mail...there were a lot that went to the trash bin right away.  That's par for the course...and frankly too normal.

This morning I got this e-mail:

I'm apologizing ahead of time for the crappy image quality.  If you have the patience to follow along with this post, you'll understand why I decided to forgo making these images pretty a priority.  Also, I did my best to hide e-mail addresses and names of those involved.  I think someone neglecting to do so when they made the original department e-mail list may have been the root of this problem.  If you've had anything to do with the Division of Biomedical Engineering at the U of S.....you understand the problem....

Anyways...back to the first e-mail.  I was offended, and I thought that using the department e-mail for this was inappropriate.  I think it was even more inappropriate because this e-mail came from a Professor affiliated with the department.  It came directly from them....not through the department Admin Assistant...so they had no respect for the policy.

I shrugged and deleted it.

A couple hours later, this one showed up:

...and 10 minutes later...this one:

...both of these from University faculty (Professors actually).

I guess they BOTH needed to share their opinions on the matter. 

Note the time stamp. About 10 mins later, the Department Head decided to weigh in:

Thank the Lord!! (Pun totally, and ironically, intended.)  I thought it would all be over.  Finally, someone with a little more "authority" weighs in and forever rest your peace....or so I thought...because an apology from the original sender followed:

OK.  I figured that would be the last one.  Someone makes an offensive mistake, someone (and maybe another) expresses their frustration, the person with a little bit of authority steps in to provide a solution, and finally an apology is issued.

Boy, was I wrong.  There was another...

...and another...

...and another (maybe with the first little bit of common sense implied)...

...and another (from the original sender...to explain that they sent it, not the Admin Assistant).

At this point in the day, I had to go to a meeting across town.  So I got in my vehicle, and threw my phone in the glove compartment...because I'm responsible like that and don't like to be tempted to play with my phone while I drive...and went about my day.

When I got to my destination, there were more e-mails!!!  MOAR!!!

This one (from a student...or at least I'm assuming so because it doesn't add to the debate...but I mean, even the previous e-mails from faculty members didn't seem to have any hint of common sense...so I could be wrong):

...and this one (also from a student):

I'm leaving the sender on this one (but no e-mail address) because I want to thank you Nigel.  I want to thank you for putting 9 faculty members in their place and pointing out the obvious:

STOP FUCKING SPAMMING ME!!!

Again...Nigel....thanks!

Note: I didn't even get into the "How I feel about religion" part of the issue, because honestly I'm fucking exhausted.  I've sifted through this crap at least three times...sometimes four or five times just to make sure that I've deleted as many names and e-mail addresses as I fucking could because this was just bloody ridiculous!

Fuck!

I'll save the religious debate for later....maybe...I like to avoid it like the plague...because that's kind of what it is.  There was no pun intended in there.  I'm tired.

ooooo...almost time for Castle....