NSWF.cares Saves Christmas - Other Holidays are Available; In-Character Roleplay Thread
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The Grim Reaper	Dec 5 2015, 05:28 PM Post #1
Posts: 9 Group: Admins Member #11 Joined: Dec 4, 2015	Sender: Richard Abercrombie Recipient: All Staff Subject: Welcome to NSWF.cares and the ELVES! Good morning, everyone! As you know, the start of the 2015 World Fair has taxed the industry of NationStates to its limits. Lights, cameras, action, and everything in between have been called in to man the forts, so to speak. And it looks incredible! Don't you agree? Take a moment to applaud yourselves! But we musn't forget the holidays. And of course, none of you have! That's why you're volunteering with NSWF.cares, the organization that wants to bring a very happy holiday season to anyone who participates in the World Fair! We haven't quite figured out how yet, but that's what this system is for! That's right, as a volunteer with NSWF.cares, you are privy to the Erastide (Local Variant) Email System, or ELVES! The ELVES will let you send messages at the speed of...light, or something, to your fellow volunteers around NSWF.cares. You have all been provided with an ELVES account, which you can use to instantly send messages to other employees. Simply type their name in the Recipient field, and add a Subject Line for good corporate citizenship! If you see "RE:" at the beginning of a subject line in an Electronic Mail you receive, it stands for "Reply" and means someone has replied to an earlier message. If you need to send an Electronic Mail to everyone in a specific department, simply type in that department's name. For example, "Legal" or "Human Resources". You can also send a message to "All Staff", which will include everyone in this office. You may also send mail to multiple people or departments by separating them with a semi-colon. Like so: "Sally Friendman; Legal". I hope you all come to grips with ELVES quickly. You'll be needing it to organize our Secret Santa (other Secret Holiday Giftgivers are available), because you're not just here to save other people's holiday season! This is YOUR holiday season too! Your first task will be to pair off with another one of our helpful volunteers, and figure out what gift to get them. I'm told usually these are done randomly, but I've lost the payroll. I trust you all to quickly and efficiently find a partner without issue! By the way, I'd like to thank my buddies using the NEMS that ELVES is based off, in the North Pacific and Equilism! Now then, get partnering! Richard Abercrombie Management and Security Consultant Edited by The Grim Reaper, Dec 6 2015, 07:39 PM.
FranzRepublic	Dec 9 2015, 08:39 PM Post #2
Posts: 15 Group: Members Member #118 Joined: Dec 9, 2015	Recipient: Richard Abercrombie Subject: How to use ELVES I don't know if you use like I am now, or some other special way. Please tell me soon. Franz, Floor Scrubber
Naivetry	Dec 10 2015, 08:54 AM Post #3
Posts: 122 Group: Members Member #49 Joined: Dec 6, 2015	Sender: Britta Wakefield Recipient: Richard Abercrombie Subject: RE: Welcome to NSWF.cares and the ELVES! Mr. Abercrombie, I appreciate all your work with getting the new system up and running. I do wish you would put as much effort into keeping track of who's on payroll, however. We've already blown our budget for the month by purchasing those new icicle lights for the executive suite, so eight of our employees have to be let go this week. I sent you a memo last Thursday explicitly asking you not to add them to ELVES. But oh well - too late now! I just saw Franz - one of the janitors on that list - accessing the system from the computer in the lobby. Do you know how quickly it's going to bring down the mood when people find out their Santa's being fired? Let's cross our fingers and just hope the NSWF.cares stockholders don't get wind of this. Can you imagine the PR disaster? I hope you realize we'll all be holding you personally responsible for any fallout. Britta Wakefield, CMA Senior Accounting Specialist ------ Sender: Britta Wakefield Recipient: Franz Subject: Secret Santa! Franz, How would you like to be Secret Santa buddies? :))) Britta Wakefield, CMA Senior Accounting Specialist
Small Huts	Dec 10 2015, 04:50 PM Post #4
Posts: 12 Group: Members Member #111 Joined: Dec 8, 2015	Sender: Laurie Mbego Recipient: Britta Wakefield Subject: Icicle Lights Ms. Wakefield, The Icicle Lights are actually a kind donation from the Jenny Lee Foundation. We wanted to get them installed in time, however, and it was agreed to pay for them and await reimbursement from the Foundation. I sent a memo about this to you. If you check the account now you will see that the funds are now there. I implore you to rehire your staff and not to unemploy them directly before the holidays! NFWF.cares simply cannot be such a Grinch. Laurie Mbego, CPM Senior Payroll Consultant
Felis	Dec 10 2015, 05:12 PM Post #5
Alexandrian Feline Posts: 114 Group: Members Member #83 Joined: Dec 7, 2015	Sender: Karen Alto Recipient: Richard Abercrombie Subject: RE: Welcome to NSWF.cares and the ELVES! Mr, Abercrombie I'm sure these emails are plentiful in the workplace as of late but I'd like to thank you for putting the effort in to create ELVES. However, some questions. How is ELVES a better software for staff contact than several other programs that offer similar services, such as nsMail, HotNSteamyMail and HaYoo! Mail? What is most imperative to me is the efficiency of the workplace and avoiding wasting time and I do hope there's advantages to ELVES and that it wasn't a simple waste to say "Hey! We did this!" And on another note! What if one doesn't celebrate Christmas, and find minor offence from this 'Secret Santa', we must be wary of those who use Tumblr - setting them off could be a total and utter catastrophe! If said catastrophe occurs, how will be put it to sleep, the silent lunch-table riots of women in puckered-up dresses all mumbling to eachother when someone's Secret Santa walks by! Again, thank you for the ELVES system and I do hope it goes well. Karen Alto, Main Entrance Receptionist
The Grim Reaper	Dec 10 2015, 11:09 PM Post #6
Posts: 9 Group: Admins Member #11 Joined: Dec 4, 2015	Sender: Richard Abercrombie Recipient: Franz Floorscrubber Subject: RE: How to use ELVES That is, indeed, how you use ELVES! Welcome to the team! I assume Accounting has already introduced you to the special arrangements made for our new educational work placement? Just contact Britta Wakefield and ask about the 'unpaid internship' option which will be the crucial next step in your employment with us. Richard Abercrombie Management and Security Consultant Sender: Richard Abercrombie Recipient: Britta Wakefield Subject: RE: RE: Welcome to NSWF.cares and the ELVES! Oh, don't worry! Upper management has payroll all under control. I've already sent for an archival copy, so you don't even need to have a new one patched through to me. I'll just fill in the details as we go. There may be a few gaps in the budget as a result of the mismatched payroll, but I'll be pulling the requisite strings to secure those gaps for the foreseeable short-term future! Unrelated note: I've been advised by upper management that we are to start an unpaid internship program immediately. Good luck with that! Richard Abercrombie Management and Security Consultant Sender: Richard Abercrombie Recipient: NSWF e-Library Helpline Subject: Ticket for Support #4512 - define 'unpaid intership' Hi I just need a definition of the phrase 'unpaid internship'. Would also like some references as to how to start an unpaid intership, and if possible the results for search queries 'legal ramifications of unpaid internship', 'selling points of unpaid intership'. Thanks, Richard Abercrombie Management and Security Consultant Sender: Richard Abercrombie Recipient: Karen Alto Subject: RE: RE: Welcome to NSWF.cares and the ELVES! Thank you for commenting! As I'm sure you are aware, ELVES is one of the most effective e-mailing service systems available at the corporate level. Designed with the support of numerous, capable sponsors, including but not limited to "North Pacific Advertising Solutions Inc.", "Equilism Branding and Marketing Corporation", "Greater Dienstad Tourism Board", and "Montresor Data Analytics", ELVES is both the cheapest AND the most effective software we have available to us! Built from the ground up to incorporate the non-specific holiday ambitions of this brave and noble organization, ELVES almost literally perspires holiday spirit, whether you are celebrating Christmas, Hannukah, or an early Chinese New Year. Certainly, the use of the phrase 'Secret Santa' is a controversial one for members of our community that hold religious or cultural views not encompassing the celebration of Christmas. In that respect, we do not expect our employees to refer to each other as 'Secret Santa', and encourage them to use alternative, similar names where appropriate. For example, someone celebrating "Hidden Hannukah" may wish to partner up to share in "Tight-Lipped Tzedakah" (charity), or someone celebrating "Quiet Kwanzaa" may work with their partner to create a bilateral "Unknown Ujamaa" (family-hood, referring to a particular socialist economic system closely associated with Kwanzaa). As a Security consultant, it is important that dissent exceeding the free and fair use of different words for identical corporate responsibilities - for example, failing to partner up, or failing to give a culturally sensitive or financially adequate gift - be immediately reported to me! Thank you for your assistance in this matter, and thank you for using ELVES! Richard Abercrombie Management and Security Consultant
Naivetry	Dec 13 2015, 05:59 AM Post #7
Posts: 122 Group: Members Member #49 Joined: Dec 6, 2015	Sender: Britta Wakefield Recipient: Richard Abercrombie Subject: RE: RE: RE: Welcome to NSWF.cares and the ELVES! Good luck? I hope you aren't implying that I will be somehow responsible for these interns. The last thing Accounting needs is to be surrounded by MORE incompetence. Please recall that any changes to the FY2015 budget as approved by the Board will need to be listed in Form 63A, justified in Form 63B, signed by all appropriate Level 2 managers within 5 (five) business days, and filed with Accounting within 48 hours of signing, after which all the usual rules for documentation apply. But I am sure you remember the process. Britta Wakefield, CMA Senior Accounting Specialist --------------------------- Sender: Britta Wakefield Recipient: Laurie Mbego Subject: RE: Icicle Lights Dear Laurie, I'm afraid I've checked the numbers, and they simply do not add up. I attach our FY15 4Q projected and actual budgets for your reference. Please see line item I4580: XMAS DECOR EXEC STE on p. 87 and expense approval request forms 20(b) no. 77992 and 78003. Now compare listed receipts 19250, 19251, and 19254 in Appendix L with the attached reimbursement documentation. It seems the Foundation mistook the commas in our receipts for decimal markers. They are based in Bigtopia, after all. The hazards of international commerce? Now, I understand that people may be upset, what with the holidays and all, but that's neither here nor there. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but we're not getting out of this one. Unless you want to organize another bake sale? Britta Wakefield, CMA Senior Accounting Specialist P.S. Yes, someone did in fact submit TWO forms 20(b) for this - and got them signed! You and I both know the issues we've had this year with 20(b) approvals; I don't think I need to name names. Attachment [2.4 MB] FY2015Q4final_DO_NOT_EDIT_BRUCE.xlsx Attachment [88 KB] frm20b_77992.docx Attachment [174 KB] frm20b_78003.docx Attachment [5.6 MB] FY2015_receipts.zip Attachment [24 KB] FY2015_reimbursements.zip Edited by Naivetry, Dec 13 2015, 06:43 AM.
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