Vendeholt Reacts «PROVEN × 2027»

The email chain below was a disaster. Thirty-seven replies deep, CC’s bleeding into BCC’s, attachments named FINAL_v3_REALFINAL.doc and a poll that someone had started at 2 AM about whether the quarterly report should be blue or gray. Vendeholt had voted for gray. He was the only one.

I’ve been staring at this thread for longer than I care to admit. Here is my reaction, since Carla asked: vendeholt reacts

1. The blue vs. gray poll is a symptom, not the problem. The problem is that we are spending committee hours on a color decision when the actual data in Section 4 hasn’t been verified since before the merger. I know because I checked. It’s wrong. The email chain below was a disaster

He didn’t go to lunch. But he did save the email chain to a folder he called “Wins,” which contained exactly two other messages from the past four years. He was the only one

His boss, a woman named Carla who had long since stopped pretending to read his memos, had written at 9:14 AM: “Vendeholt, can you weigh in here?”