The Communicator

When I worked at U-Haul, there was a Customer Service newsletter called "The Communicator" that was done by people within the department. It was a single page, very dry piece of garbage. I quickly joined the team, starting as a copy editor, to contributing writer, finally becoming the Editor. This turned into a newsletter that was both highly informative and extremely funny, as you will see:

Articles:

All the serious articles worth mentioning...since the bulk of them dealt with proprietary information, or info that anybody outside of U-Haul would find disinteresting and worthless, there's not much here.

Humorous Articles:

These are mostly parodies and attempts at humor

The Official "Huh?" Column:

This was one of my favorites. Essentially, there are a lot of psychotic U-Haul customers out there; when we received a very "interesting" call from one of them, it became fodder for The Communicator.

Overheard:

These were little snippets that were spread as sidebars throughout The Communicator. These are statements that were overheard in the office, and, taken out of context, are hilarious.

Epithets:

Just something else I thought humorous...the original Editor, Dan, never relinquished the title of "Editor-in-Chief", even after he became simply a contributor. As a running joke, we continually came up with different job titles for me, listed here:

	Garrett Murphy, thinks Y2K is a question
	Garrett Murphy, The Phantom Editor, an iconoclast who marches to the beat of a different drummer...
	Garrett Murphy, Just Some Guy
	Garrett Murphy, his ever humble whipping boy
	Garrett Murphy, the man who would be king of the Kentucky Fried Chicken empire
	Garrett Murphy, probably the only person in the known world who thinks it should be allowed to bite someone’s ears in a boxing match.
	Garrett Murphy, the Wolf boy that once danced Swan Lake at the Metropolitan
	Garrett Murphy, formerly the Plaid Power Ranger
	Garrett Murphy, who wept when Red Skelton died
	Garrett Murphy, the Egyptian God of Corn Bread
	Garrett Murphy, the inspiration for the Tom Cruise character in Top Gun
	Garrett Murphy, projected to go in the first round of the next NBA draft.
	Garrett Murphy, of the Hill People
	Garrett Murphy, still wondering what the heck a monkey-faced dog is
	Garrett Murphy, always the bridesmaid, never the bride
	Garrett Murphy, just a child, an innocent child