As director of communications, I was asked to prepare a memo reviewing
our company's training programs and materials. In the body of the memo I
mentioned the "pedagogical approach" used by one of the training manuals.
The day after I routed the memo to the executive committee, I was called
into the HR director's office, and told that the executive vice president
wanted me out of the building by lunch. When I asked why, I was told that
she wouldn't stand for perverts" working in her company. Finally, he showed
me her copy of the memo, with her demand that I be fired, and the word
"pedagogical" circled in red. The HR manager was fairly reasonable, and once
he looked the word up in his dictionary and made a copy of the definition to
send back to her, he told me not to worry. He would take care of it. Two
days later, a memo to the entire staff came out directing us that no words
which could not be found in the local Sunday newspaper could be used in
company memos. A month later, I resigned. In accordance with company
policy, I created my resignation memo by pasting words together from the
Sunday paper. (Taco Bell Corporation)
Aranuil This has to be you Sir
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