70% of business emails is just waiting for the other person to confirm one thing so they can get back to you and then you confirming something so you can get back to them and then going back and forth confirming things until one of you either dies or kills the other in hand-to-hand combat
so some of y’all have tagged this with the most glorious passive-aggressive office frustration ever and it’s so cathartic to see, because we’re all suffering here, we’re all in adulting hell together, let it all out my dudes
and there’s this
WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING IN ACADEMIA
often in academia there’s no compulsory retirement, so instead of being all peace out at age 65, an emeritus professor has the legal option to retire directly into the grave at 87, which is how the whole department knows about it.
i still think academia is the real world profession that comes closest to its discworld counterpart: your best chance of career advancement is for someone at the top to finally die, but in the real world poisoning them is not fair game.
i'll apple your turnover 