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April 23, 2006
Future Life
I was reading Jeff Ooi's blog on the demise of the Malay Mail as we know it, when I came across the part on NST CEO Syed Faisal Albar's internal memo to staff.
I downloaded the thing and read it. Best part? This:
To the current Malay Mail and Sunday Mail staff who will be leaving us as a result of the Voluntary Separation Scheme, we truly thank you from the bottom of our hearts for the contribution, passion and support.We wish you all the best in your future life.
Faisal has a sense humour, I tell you. Or maybe it was just bad English (he is after all the CEO, not the chief editor).
Either way, I don't think many of those "VSSed" would find the last line funny.
STILL DON"T GET IT? Well, the next time you wanna tell somebody to die and go to Hell, don't. Say, "I wish you all the best in your future life".
You could also use it in the letter accepting the resignation of that deadbeat (get it?) you've been trying to get rid of for the longest time.
"It is our deepest regret that your resignation comes after having spent so many years with the company.
"We wish you all the best in your future life."
Posted by aisehman at April 23, 2006 08:28 PM
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A CEO of a "reinvented" ENGLISH paper using that kind of English, I can see the future life of the "new" Mail is limited.
Posted by: cyleow at April 23, 2006 09:12 PM
"...we truly thank you from the bottom of our hearts (and my political bosses' bottoms too) for the contribution, passion and support..." He must be one of those speaking from the buttocks.
Posted by: thienshingvui at April 23, 2006 09:40 PM
Aisehman, if Faisal has a sense humour,you have 2 senses of humour, I tell you.
Posted by: LC at April 24, 2006 04:47 PM
That's English according to them. No wonder the paper is in dire straits.
It must be cruel to those who took the VSS and NOTICED the mistake in the memo but I'm sure majority of them didn't even realise it. That's what our Universities are producing, myopics.
Posted by: mob1900 at April 24, 2006 06:06 PM
Did the CEO write the memo himself? Down goes his image!
I would have chosen the following:
• We wish you all the best in the future, or
• We wish you all the best in your future undertakings / endeavours
Posted by: dignity2u at April 25, 2006 10:23 AM
it is very sad to see educated people writing in fractured english. what is happening to our education system.
Posted by: jango ang at April 26, 2006 03:31 AM
Shake my head and buttocks.
sigh....
Posted by: atan at April 26, 2006 09:41 PM
a happy afterlife to readers.
Posted by: jango ang at April 27, 2006 06:02 AM