Archive for the ‘Life at Work’ Category
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Office Manager #1: Hey! I have a great idea for how we can "go green!"
Office Manager #2: What's that?
Office Manager #1: Let's get rid of all of our paper cups!
Office Manager #2: Brilliant!
Office Manager #3: But we have a lot of visitors to our offices! Clients! Vendors! Business partners! What will ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
The past few days have reminded me that we're coming up on my least favorite season: summer. It's the season when I sweat just by stepping outside. Heck, I can start sweating just sitting at my desk. It's hard for anyone to keep cool once it starts to warm up, but ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
I know I've mentioned this before, but I thought I worked with a bunch of clever, competent, college-educated individuals. But after seeing this sign posted in our kitchen this morning, I'm starting to think twice about that.
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
If you're a salesperson, and you're cold-calling me, and you only leave your name and phone number in my voicemail, without any mention of where you're from, who you're representing, and what opportunity you're pitching to me, why would I have any reason to call you back?
For example, I've gotten ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
I live in an area of my office where there are three men and nineteen women.
Because of this, I have been given the responsibility of killing the friendly roaches that have decided to call our office home in the past few days.
I've killed three today alone.
"Just scream if you need ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Our company has hired a boatload of new people over the past month or so. Our floor has doubled in its capacity just since January. Unfortunately, it appears the vending machine company was not made aware of this.
And in the bottom, the only thing left are Lorna Doones. I didn't know ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
I work with a group of college-educated, bright, innovative people... who don't know how to use a toaster, apparently.
Suddenly, the fact that they don't seem to understand simple restroom etiquette makes much more sense.
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
And, to make matters worse, it's misspelled. Now I'm enraged, and I still have to pee!
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
Paper coffee cup handles: You should never trust two flimsy pieces of paper to protect you from a scalding hot beverage. Plus, these things are sharp and can give you a paper cut if you're not careful.
This particular cup gave me a burn on my thigh when I lost my grip on ...
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
From: Office Services
Recipients: All Staff
Subject: Heat
Date: 11:04:01 AM 01/02/08
Welcome, and Happy New Year!
As you may have noticed, we are experiencing problems with the heating system in the building today. We are working on the problem. Please bear with us.
From: Office Services
Recipients: All Staff
Subject: Heating system update
Date: 1:16:45 PM 01/04/08
We understand ...
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