Communication Chaos Gifts

"How should I know what I'm thinking? I'm not a mind reader."

Lynching on social media

'When we get there let me do the double talking.'

'How fast can you hype?'

"And isn't it time we replaced the worn-out, meaningless cliches in our mission statement with some dazzlingly new meaningless cliches?"

A Copy Editor and His Dog

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"Damn - another letter to the editor."

Even more of what people say (and what they really mean)

"What's going on Jen? Why didn't you respond to my kissing emoji?"

'What a CV - if you can write memos like this you'll go far in our organisation.'

'Answer these constituents letters. Tell them to go to hell in a nice way.'

"He sits there all day waiting to chase the email man."

Fred's new phone plan included unlimited Dada.

"Well, after ad school, our Timothy made a 6-second Ad that nobody saw."

"How's this for transparency: Our product isn't organic but our bullshit advertising it!"

"Ugh—someone in the group chat must have seen a squirrel."

"You wake up after 100 years and the first thing you do is check your phone?"

'I thought people were quite receptive to the change seminar.'

'Can't we handle this through more impersonal channels like text messaging?'

'My ring-tone's inaudible to humans.'

"I thought that modern communications systems were meant to be more efficient...That they would cut down on waste and duplication."

'How fast can you hype?'

Antler Buzzers.

Is there a spin doctor in the house?

"Oh...Hi Bob, listen buddy, I'm in a meeting right now, I'll Caw you back."

"I'm not spinning - I'm contextualizing."

Aluminium Henge

'To make sure I get noticed I always talk in a big bold typeface.'

'Uh, yeah, the picture resolution is great.'

"Did you speak to our client in Australia?"

"Oh, and add a couple of intentional typos to my weekly email update...I want to appear warm and authentic!!"