From Russia, With Love

AHH! I did it again. I was in a rush to send an email to someone at work and I signed the email “love” instead of “thanks”. Why do I do this? Just last week I sent a form to our tax department and on the note I attached, I actually signed off with a “Love, MBA Cutie.” People at work must think I’m insane. It wouldn’t be the first time, though.

A week into my first job out of college, I get an anniversary card passed to me from the cube next door. It turns out that someone in our department was celebrating their 20th anniversary. In my youthful ignorance, I didn’t realize there is such a thing as a service anniversary, so I signed the card “I hope your love will last forever – MBA Cutie.” Of course, I was thinking this was a wedding anniversary! I asked the admin organizing the event if they were inviting the husband of the celebrator. She gave me a puzzled glance and said, she supposed she could. Ok, that was weird.

The event day came and as I was eating, I heard a speech from our CFO of how much he appreciated the last twenty years of service that so-and-so had provided. WHOOPS! Next the card was read aloud. The most memorable comment was, “Regarding work:
There were a lot of emotions that have surfaced about work for the past twenty years. I can’t really say love was one of them.” I can’t really say that either.