eHowler

On the e-mail client at work, most of my incoming messages appear as little white envelopes, but once every now and then a red envelope creeps in. Red e-mails are just my boss’ way of telling me that she wants something “immediately” instead of “right now.” But for my first couple weeks of work, the red envelopes never failed to shoot a trill of horror down my spine. Momentarily paralyzed, I faced a horrible dilemma: If I opened a red envelope, would my boss’ gigantically magnified voice boom through the entire floor, berating me for a typo on my TPS report? If I ignored it, would my monitor explode?

Every day, I’m sort of disappointed when neither one happens.