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That | {{a|email|}}That sinking feeling you get when, at 5:55pm on a Friday, an email arrives with this heading and “[[Adding]] [[@]]Mike” — you, of course, being Mike — to an [[email canoe]] that is shipping a ton of brackish water. The top line will sit above forty or fifty lateral feet, if printed out, of undiluted [[tedium]] concerning a never-especially-active account that was closed in 2006, and will usually run as follows: | ||
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To which the correct reply is “on what?”, for you may be assured that whatever time you spend scrolling down the chain will reveal little that can enlighten you as to what the question was, or if there even was a question, but will validate every suspicion you’ve ever had as to the inbuilt and institutional stupidity, ignorance and primordial ''[[fear]]'' that is encoded in your institution’s every impulse and those of each soul who sails in her. | |||
Some [[email]] trails stretch back longer than some of their participants’ careers, or even lifetimes. We know of at least one query about an unclaimed client balance that started in 1994. | |||
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*[[Email canoe]] | *[[Email canoe]] | ||
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