Dear Members and Constituents,
When I hinted I might be guest writing the weekly donut e-mails
from time-to-time, I didn’t expect to be doing it this soon. Ed is on PTO and
someone needed to let this social network we call the Friday Donut Club
know donuts had arrived. Speaking of social networks, do you ever get friend
requests or invitations to connect from folks you don’t know? If you’re like me,
it happens fairly often. For the most part, when I receive these I am often
compelled to do some research on the off chance I know the person but don’t
remember their name. Then there’s the case of warhad faseel, voice
presidetn at OMRAN (SIC). He is in the real estate industry in
Afghanistan, has 27 connections on LinkedIn and wishes to add me as the 28th.
Warhad’s dominion of the English language notwithstanding (I presume he meant
his title to be “Vice President”), and even though real estate prices in
Afghanistan are probably a screaming deal (in more than one sense of the
word), I struggle to understand what value he thinks connecting with me would
have. Perhaps he presumes I’m in the market for a poppy plantation near Kabul.
(who isn’t?) Is he looking for fiber optic services near Kandahar? He is a 2nd
degree connection, so we appear to have a friend in common but what else might
we possibly have in common that makes him want to connect? The world may never
know. What we do know is Jennifer Torres is filling-in today for Andrea
Pierantozzi (donut girl) –there seems to be a common theme around replacements.
She delights us today with four dozen hand-picked beauties. They’re sitting
pretty at their NEW usual location (just down the hall from where I sit). So
come make a connection with some sweetness.
Happy Friday!
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