So once every year one of the state insurance commissioners sends out emails promoting their yearly meeting. I just received this year's email.
As part of the email advertising this "can't miss" event, they include a list of the awards that will be given out at the summit. You know, the John Borton Award: "Awarded to the male demonstrating the best sweater collection"; the Shaver Award: "Awarded to the male participant who does not wear pants throughout the summit but who carries it off in such a way that few notice or even care.", etc.
A couple of years ago, the awards section included the "Commissioner X Award." Its description read: "Awarded annually to the female attendee with the biggest boobs who wears low-cut apparel throughout the summit." (I'm not making this up or parphrasing. That is a verbatim quote.)
There was a "replace message" that went out a few minutes later but one of my colleagues is that incredibly annoying guy who has an empty email box and who reads everything immediately. So that habit finally paid off and he forwarded the email to a # of us.
Every year when I get the invite I wonder what the back-story was on that email. Maybe the guy (I'm guessing it was a guy; let me know if you think that's really a stretch) who wrote it was going through a rough patch and just didn't care any more? Maybe it was a bet between former deputy commissioner of insurance @Shaver & newly promoted deputy commissioner of insurance @miktimrob ? Maybe former commissioner @cmfenner was just free-associating at his desk and hit "send" without really coming back to reality for a moment.
Anyhow, in these times where career civil servants are catching a lot of abuse, just keep in mind that hey, they're people too. And, apparently, a few of them are both funny and deeply disturbed -- which I dig.
(With respect to my description of the conference as "can't miss," it was ironic. There isn't anything in insurance that's "can't miss." In fact, there isn't anything that you can't miss multiple times that they won't eventually explain to you anyhow. I've organized my entire career around that proposition and it's helped me to rocket right to the middle of American life.)
As part of the email advertising this "can't miss" event, they include a list of the awards that will be given out at the summit. You know, the John Borton Award: "Awarded to the male demonstrating the best sweater collection"; the Shaver Award: "Awarded to the male participant who does not wear pants throughout the summit but who carries it off in such a way that few notice or even care.", etc.
A couple of years ago, the awards section included the "Commissioner X Award." Its description read: "Awarded annually to the female attendee with the biggest boobs who wears low-cut apparel throughout the summit." (I'm not making this up or parphrasing. That is a verbatim quote.)
There was a "replace message" that went out a few minutes later but one of my colleagues is that incredibly annoying guy who has an empty email box and who reads everything immediately. So that habit finally paid off and he forwarded the email to a # of us.
Every year when I get the invite I wonder what the back-story was on that email. Maybe the guy (I'm guessing it was a guy; let me know if you think that's really a stretch) who wrote it was going through a rough patch and just didn't care any more? Maybe it was a bet between former deputy commissioner of insurance @Shaver & newly promoted deputy commissioner of insurance @miktimrob ? Maybe former commissioner @cmfenner was just free-associating at his desk and hit "send" without really coming back to reality for a moment.
Anyhow, in these times where career civil servants are catching a lot of abuse, just keep in mind that hey, they're people too. And, apparently, a few of them are both funny and deeply disturbed -- which I dig.
(With respect to my description of the conference as "can't miss," it was ironic. There isn't anything in insurance that's "can't miss." In fact, there isn't anything that you can't miss multiple times that they won't eventually explain to you anyhow. I've organized my entire career around that proposition and it's helped me to rocket right to the middle of American life.)
