Inbound email distributed to the entire staff at a fairly large and stodgy Boston-area non-profit organization:
Hi there,
Can you please tell me if there is a person working there who attends Burning Man Festival? Maybe Deborah? Her name at the festival was Bubbles. I met her when she was serving drinks at the bar… If she still works there can you please pass on my email to her?
Many thanks,
Jennifer
My suggested response: “She probably means the Bubbles who works in Accounting.”
Related:
- my Photography at Burning Man article
Phil, Are you going again this year?
I am going on a cruise with my mom (83) instead! (Dad will hold down the retirement fort.)
At least in a startup environment, everyone knows who the burners are.
Who sends emails like that to someone’s job? I would’ve thought the groups who attend Burning Man would be even more aware of not doing things like that than average.