Email Typo saying “Bare with us this Friday…” has Unfortunate Consequences

The faithful workers at Syrius Enterprises & Technologies Incorporated had little reason to believe that last Friday would prove to be any different than most other “Fundays” (which is what their boss, unfortunately, has named all Fridays)–or that they would be in for the surprise of their humdrum lives.

They were wrong.

On top of all of this, never would they have imagined in a million years that Dink would be the one to surprise them.

Dink Furtlebottom, a seemingly normal human being from great distances was someone who became increasingly eccentric the closer you got to him.  A diligent worker and tireless follower– Dink was one who would go around the mountain to avoid even looking at the cart.  He took things as they came and happily thought of himself as a tiny yet efficient cog in the great machine of industry, and even life itself.

According to his colleagues, he took things as they came– but he also took them literally.  Over the course of his twenty some-odd years in the company, Dink had become the asterisk under the definition of “literal” in the dictionary.

This is why, when his boss sent out a memo addressing the weekly work “party” (which usually consisted of various kinds of chips and a jello mold along with five extra minutes added to their lunch break) asking the employees of SETI to “bare” with them as they needed that time to hold an emergency meeting, Dink followed that memo to the last horrific letter.

Keeping all this in mind, one might be just as shocked as he to find out that “bare” was a typo for “bear” and that, furthermore, it wasn’t a memo about some kind of nationally recognized Go To Work Naked Day.

Unfortunately, his bosses failed to see things from his perspective and couldn’t emphasize enough on his letter of termination that “Dink and his link were no longer welcome on these premises for any reason whatsoever.”

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