- DATE:
- September 2026
- TO:
- All callers
- FROM:
- The switchboard
- RE:
- Marlene (return of)
Marlene has returned to the switchboard after a short absence. The hold music did its best.
You remain caller number two.
The Company Archive · Vol. 36 · Est. 1990
Every interoffice memorandum since 1990, in the order Records prefers. Some records are sealed. Most are just filed.
Copy 1 of 3. Copy 2 is with Records. Copy 3 remains at large.
Marlene has returned to the switchboard after a short absence. The hold music did its best.
You remain caller number two.
The Vanilla Department reports that vanilla is coming soon.
Soon is a Company term. It is defined in a binder. The binder is coming soon.
It has come to our attention that adults stopped drinking chocolate milk around 1997. The Company considers this an unforced error. Ours carries colostrum and collagen, so the afternoon glass is hereby reinstated. Participation is voluntary but expected.
The Chocolate Milk Division
A second refrigerator has been approved for the break room.
The first refrigerator has been notified.
Concern has been raised that at midnight the computers will believe it is 1900.
The Company notes that the milk does not know what year it is and has never asked. Preparations are complete.
It has come to our attention that adults have stopped drinking chocolate milk.
The Company has reviewed its options and elected to wait.
See you when they come back.
The Company has acquired a fax machine. Documents can now be wrong in two places at once.
Training is voluntary but expected.
A suggestion box has been installed outside Records. Suggestions are read every Thursday. The box is emptied every second Thursday.
The difference is deliberate.
The Company opened today at nine. Chocolate milk was served at three. Both went fine.
This memorandum establishes the archive. All subsequent events will be filed.
Records
End of open records. A new memo is filed monthly.
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