Hi hon, sorry but I’m going to be late for dinner tonight. The boss is really hounding me for that report on the differences between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. Probably will be home around midnight.

Hey everyone, Stacy’s birthday card is making the rounds. When it reaches you, please include a three-paragraph essay on what work-place friendship means to you. If you do not site your sources, you will not receive a piece of cake.

This rendering for the new hydroelectric dam is spectacular. I especially love the use of rotelle pasta for the turbine.

Jonathan, can you send me some flight options for the conference in Toronto next week? And throw in some information about tribes native to the southern Ontario region. Thx!

Appreciate everyone jumping on this Zoom call. I’ve just sent over the meeting docs. Please read the instructions silently as I read them aloud.

Linda, this cost projection analysis is so insightful and detailed. However, you did not write it in approved No. 2 pencil, so please clear out your desk and be out by the end of the day.

Welcome back, Mia. Would you care to explain why you didn’t take a single Flat Stanley picture during your maternity leave?

Morning staff, just letting you know that IT will be coming by to install Mavis Beacon on your desktops shortly.

A reminder for everyone to label your lunches in the kitchen fridge and to please specify if your food contains glucose, fructose, or galactose.

Accounting is a bit short-staffed this week, so we’re going to divvy up tasks. Bob, Katrina, and Nicholas, you take numerators. Carol, Joan, and Enrique, you’re on denominators.

I know you all have a lot of questions about the merger. Will there be downsizing? Is my pension safe? Could they shut down our branch? Let me start by addressing the most pressing question first: how exactly do plants turn sunlight into energy?

After 48 years of business, we have been ordered to cease operations by the Security and Exchange Commission. Seems we accidentally skipped over the Exponents part of PEMDAS.