I just got this email from my new boss:
Could you please send me a brief introduction to yourself (ie: background, experience, past jobs …) so that I may introduce you to all other teams?
Is there a good way of saying that I wasted time on DIS for 2 and a half years while slowly being promoted for some unknown reason?

Just use those words
It could be funny. People like funny
They don't like funny here
they don't even seem to like talking. I'm beginning to think some people here might actually be dead, I've been here 4 days and I haven't seen them move once.
Just put greater emphasis on the non-work side of things then?
I was told I was in line for a promotion in the New Year but I think someone has finally realised that would be a mistake
What
like tell them I really enjoyed drugs until my doctor told me to stop?
No, use it as...
an opportunity to claim accomplishment for all your hopes, dreams and ambitions in life that probably will never happen. Claim you supported The Pixies and met Mandela.
Hmm...
Maybe I could just copy Mandela's biography from wikipedia and replace his name with my own
say you had some
"downtime in Peru"
Say your weakness
Is tight pussy and borbon biscuits.
that's really embarrassing.