DeMotivational

After a conversation last night, I decided to share with you one of my most fantastically Debbie-Downer of all time e-mail convos with a guy I work with...
It was a friday afternoon, and I was just in "one of those moods"...
And e-mail signatures just happen to be a VERY passionately-refuted ill of mine.
The following convo has been edited. ***** appear to protect identity. #### appear to censor.


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From: Matt A*****
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 2:46 PM
To: Megan Breinholt
Subject: RE: Eve

What time do you want me there?

Matt A****
Outpatient Services Specialist
Travel Clinic
801.581.*****
Matt.*****@hsc.utah.edu
“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”

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From: Megan Breinholt
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 2:55 PM
To: Matt *****
Subject: RE: Eve

I can’t believe you have that saying on your signature. Do they REALLY conquer all things? If you have no eyeballs, but want to see a picture… Is enough energy and persistence really going to make you be able to see?
No.

The only thing that comes from persistence is the agitation of other people.

Guess what, people with sayings and doodles and comics and slogans and cartoons and motivational pictures of a baby dressed up like a bumble bee and scriptures all unavoidably involved with your e-mail signatures….
NO ONE CARES!
They just want to know how to contact you.
*gasp*

Ha.


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From: Matt *****
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 2:57 PM
To: Megan Breinholt
Subject: RE: Eve

Well Im pretty offended by your rude comments regarding my signature. Excuse the sh## outta me for me trying to inspire people with my emails!!!


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From: Megan Breinholt
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 3:02 PM
To: Matt *****
Subject: RE: Eve

The only thing signatures like that inspire me to do is gouge my eyeballs out, nail my tongue to my desk, and never want to see an e-mail containing that phrase ever again.
:-D

Have a super nice day!!

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From: Matt *****
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 3:14 PM
To: Megan Breinholt
Subject: RE: Eve

#####.

Matt A*****
Outpatient Services Specialist
Travel Clinic
801.581.****
Matt.a****@hsc.utah.edu
“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”

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From: Megan Breinholt
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 3:21 PM
To: Matt *****
Subject: RE: Eve

No they don’t.

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From: Matt *****
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 3:31 PM
To: Megan Breinholt
Subject: RE: Eve

They do if you’re a good person with a positive attitude.

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From: Megan Breinholt
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 3:54 PM
To: Matt *****
Subject: RE: Eve

My grandma had amazing energy and the most honorable attitude, and persisted with her pancreatic cancer longer than Patrick Swayze was able to persist his.
Neither of them “conquered” it.

Unless by “conquer”, you mean “died”. ?
Maybe you should reconsider the “conquer” part of your motivational, and replace it with something else..
Maybe “helps you deal with”.
Or “makes you a target for”…
Whatd’ya think about that?

Or.

I do understand the many things a good person can accomplish with a positive attitude.
But they can’t conquer ALL things.
As Benjamin Franklin stated, no one will ever be able to “conquer” death or taxes.
THAT, my friend, is a true statement.
You should use that as your Signature Saying.

Or maybe you could reconsider the “all things”, and replace it with, “a lot of things”, or “most things”…
Just some suggestions…
:-D
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From: Matt *****
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 4:05 PM
To: Megan Breinholt
Subject: RE: Eve

Well that all depends on what you view as conquering something. Maybe she conquered it by not letting it wreck her spirits. Everyone dies, so as humans we aren’t really conquered by death unless we let it break our spirits. Otherwise death is just a part of life. So as long as you go out with grace, maybe an “energetic” or “persistent” attitude, you’ve conquered it.

Hey, look, my energy and persistence have “conquered” your ridiculous notions!!


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From: Megan Breinholt
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 4:27 PM
To: Matt *****
Subject: RE: Eve

Oh lordy. If you’re going 12-year-old-girl on me for giving you a hard time, you’ve already wrecked my spirits.

Hey with your energy and persistence, why don’t stop wasting time with my ridiculous notions, and conquer world hunger, world peace, earthquakes in the Sudan, and cancer.
Those are “all things” not yet conquered.

If you’re going to go all philosophical-rhetoric on me in re-defining what “conquer” means, and that you’re “life-altering slogan” is only in reference to “Spiritual” conquering, and are going to completely disregard “ALL THINGS” including physical incapabilities, you need to include that qualifier in your motivational.

“Energy and persistence spiritually and morally conquer all things”.

Or.

“Energy and persistence conquer all things of a spiritual or moral nature”.

+-~* Affectionately*~-+,
-Megs