Project Manager Leaves Suicide PowerPoint Presentation

[Sirotnikov]

Project Manager Leaves Suicide PowerPoint Presentation

PORTLAND, OR—Project manager Ron Butler left behind a 48-slide PowerPoint presentation explaining his tragic decision to commit suicide, coworkers reported Tuesday.
Project Manager Leaves Suicide PowerPoint Presentation

"When I first heard that Ron had swallowed an entire bottle of sleeping pills, I was shocked," said Hector Benitez, Butler's friend and coworker at Williams+Kennedy Marketing Consultants. "But after the team went through Ron's final PowerPoint presentation, I had a solid working knowledge of the pain he was feeling, his attempts to cope, and the reasons for his ultimate decision."

"I just wish he would've shot me an e-mail asking for help," Benitez added.

Butler broke his presentation into four categories: Assessment Of Current Situation, Apologies & Farewells, Will & Funeral Arrangements, and Final Thoughts.

According to Williams+Kennedy president Bradford Williams, finalgoodbye.ppt was "clear, concise, and persuasive."

"After everyone left the room, I sat down and went through Ron's final presentation in slide-sorter view," Williams said. "Man, I gotta tell you, it blew me away. That presentation really utilized the full multimedia capabilities of Microsoft's PowerPoint application."

"We're really gonna miss Ron around here," Williams added.


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[Verto]

That's both humorous and depressing.

"Man, I gotta tell you, it blew me away. That presentation really utilized the full multimedia capabilities of Microsoft's PowerPoint application."

[Verres]

****ing sick. Sorry, can't veiw this objectively, just makes me want to vomit.

[Wycoff]

Guys, this is from the Onion... that means that its a joke. No one actually did this, its just poking fun at powerpoint usage in the corporate world.

[alva]

Originally posted by Verto
That's both humorous and depressing.

There's this one too.

"I just wish he would've shot me an e-mail asking for help," Benitez added.

[DRoseDARs]

I caught that too alva.

[DanS]

[Ming]

I just sent the link to my wife, a project manager... I can hear her laughing upstairs... must be looking at it

[Sava]

maybe I should make one of those

[Kuciwalker]

The link REALLY gives it away...

[Shogun Gunner]

I'm in project management myself. This is really very, very funny.

I sent it to several folks in the same line of work -- slam dunk funny.

[General Ludd]

It was funny untill I realized it was from the onion.

[Shogun Gunner]

I can't stop laughing at this slide....

[Japher]

I wonder if they need to fill his position?

[Boris Godunov]

I was about to start checking the local news sites for this, until I saw the quotes from coworkers. They sounded so very Onionesque, I figured that had to be the source...