The Week contest: Coworker email

This week's question: A worker on a corporate hiking retreat in the Colorado Rockies had to be rescued after his colleagues allegedly left him stranded on a mountain overnight. In seven or fewer words, write a subject line for an email the abandoned office worker might send to his colleagues on his first day back at work.

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THE WINNER: "To all unconcerned"

Moe Cougher, Olathe, Kansas 

SECOND PLACE: "Re: your recent divestiture effort"

Mike Blauer, Burley, Idaho

THIRD PLACE: "Circling back to why nobody circled back"

Kenneth Burgan, Grass Valley, California  

HONORABLE MENTIONS: 

"You could have just fired me."

Catherine Helton, Poplar Bluff, Missouri

"What'd I miss? Besides heat, food, shelter…"

Jesse Rifkin, Arlington, Virginia

"Great weekend! Let's discuss possible tweaks"

Arthur Mills, Spartanburg, South Carolina

"Amazing! Next time, let's try isolation tanks!"

Ken Liebman, Williston, Vermont

"If that was 'team building,' trade me"

Daniel Hicks, Randolph, Massachusetts

"If you are in accounting, you're fired"

Peter Hancock, Oro Valley, Arizona 

That's not what they meant by “retreat”

Allan Thomson, Gordonsville, Virginia

"I'll be skipping next week's trust fall"

Jeff Morris, Alexandria, Virginia

"Paintball this weekend, anyone?"

Derrick Leasure, Front Royal, Virginia

"New policy on keeping colleagues alive"

Rich Wolf, Westminster, Maryland

"Latest victim of cost cutting rescued"

Brian A. Quinn, White Lake, Michigan

"Lunch is on you guys. Forever"

Jesse Levy, Burbank, California