I'll break this one down quickly A / B style.

A is for asshole. If you are writing emails to tell people where you are going to be and it's for less than an hour, you are a self-important asshole. I'm sorry. I don't mean to be rude or vulgar, but over-usage of email should be such a crime that perhaps in some countries you would be shot for doing it. Furthermore, it's stupid. If you are going to the bathroom, and you actually email someone that--if something comes up, should I come find you and ask you about it? And this leads to bigger and more un-needed corporate government... For example, if you email me and are going to be in the bathroom, and something comes up--and I go find you...and if you are the opposite sex than me, what's the protocol? How should it be enforced? Should I knock on the door outside the bathroom and yell your name?

"Hey Zelda, I know you are busy with your movement on the throne, but the Smith Report is due and they want it faxed over now, and we can't find it?"

Please congratulate me on my 60's/70's-ish use of an office example with the Smith Report thingee. That deserves something doesn't it?

Back to the protocol...

If you are the opposite sex, but your email said where you would be, does this give us "Entry Rights" to engage you in the washroom through the stall door? Perhaps we should color code the priorities and email them with the email so we know protocol. If you are in the bathroom, it's a code red, but if you are in the break room, it's code two, or something like that. Also, if you are around and not at your desk, can we just bellow out your name, or should we use the intercom system?

"HEY ZELDA, IF YOU ARE NOT FEEDING YOUR PIEHOLE IN THE BREAKROOM, PLEASE COME TO YOUR DESK, WE CAN'T FIND THAT ***explivite *** SMITH REPORT! YOU KNOW, THE ONE I BANGED ON THE BATHROOM STALL DOOR WITH YOU ABOUT OVER AN HOUR AGO WHEN YOU WERE ON THE ***explitivie*** TOILET TAKING A ***explitive***?!"


B is for BE Creative.

As for astrology, I believe that you should send these out to co-workers... but do one of two things...

Mix them up so they are not the right month... Give the Taurus the words of wisdom for Cancer. Redefine the entire astrological words for the day for everyone. Mix it up.

OR

Make up one of your own that relates to your coworker so they run over to you later and say how accurate it is...Then continue to do it once a week so by the end of the year, they are praying to the astrological signs with veracity. That's always a fun one.

What a way to act as if you're indispensible...get over it, you're just a number like everyone else

Annoying but funny.

not on computer so it may be difficult.....at least at work!

I could easily be talked into allowing public flogging for people who do this.

That sounds just like those irritating MySpace and Facebook "statuses" (basically a bar at the top of somebody's profile page, on which it is written, for example "ILikePie is - blank", which can be updated at any time for anything that ILikePie is either doing is being) which certain people update every five seconds with irritating and irrelevant information like "Emma is eating", "Vicky is watching TV", "Tommy is in bed", etc...
Either way, unless you want to earn the wrath of most of your co-workers, this is a no-no.

It would be funny, but after constantly doing it, I might become a little weary.

I have a co-worker who actually DOES walk from door-to-door telling everyone everything she is doing. It is MOST annoying!

I'M SORRY, I MUST HAVE GIVEN U THA IMPRESSION THAT I GIVE A FUKK...I AIN'T A SUPERVISOR!

it doesn't do any good....they will come get you in the bathroom

annoying...

F-U

Thats obnoxious

Awesome.

This would be be great for the nosey bas*ards! Pour on all you can!