Archive for the ‘Life at Work’ Category
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 ...
Posted in Life at Work | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
DO ME A FAVOR AND SHUT UP - I hate it when people at work make a request of you that's completely out of their realm of ability or responsibility and start it out with "do me a favor." I'm not doing you a favor. I'm doing my goddamn job!
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
Co-worker: ...and now my screen is just black.
IT (on speakerphone): Um, is your monitor on?
Co-worker: Oh... no.
IT (on speakerphone): Then turn it on.
Co-worker: It won't go on.
IT (on speakerphone): Is it plugged in?
Co-worker: Oh... no.
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
THAT WAS EASY - Boy, that was the easiest commute to work I've ever had. Oh, wait, it's because NOBODY IS WORKING TODAY EXCEPT ME. I was really hoping that we'd come into work this morning to find a sign in the lobby saying, "HA-HA! JUST KIDDING! EVERY OTHER COMPANY UNDER ...
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Attention, attention! This is your Fire Safety Director.
This morning, we are conducting fire drills on every floor of the building. Please disregard all alarms at this time until further announcement - unless it's your floor that's having a fire drill. Don't disregard that alarm, but disregard all the others. If there is ...
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
...but it's after 4:00, and this is what my desk should look like right now:
But instead, I'm the only one left working on my entire floor, because my client apparently doesn't believe in things like "holidays." Or, um, "early happy hours on days before holidays."
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
A CASE OF THE TUESDAYS - I am not having the best day. If I hear the words "crisis mode" out of my colleagues one more time, I may just storm out. Also, I am sneezing my head off and my office is about 80 degrees - even with the ...
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
Dear new male co-worker,
Welcome to the company. Here, we consider ourselves to be respectful men. We work in an especially immasculating specialty of an already immasculating field. However, in addition to being respectful to our female co-workers, we need to be respectful to each other. This respect carries across all ...
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Thursday, October 11th, 2007
SIGNS I NEED MORE SLEEP - This morning, while standing in the kitchen in my office filling up my water bottle, I kind of spaced out. My bottle overflowed, and I didn't even notice until water started dripping onto my shoes. Yes, this is shaping up to be a great day. ...
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
Last night, USA Today celebrated their 25th anniversary by throwing a big shindig at Gotham Hall in Midtown. Among the spreads of food, party favors, and bars were six-foot-tall images of USA Today's front page through the years, including this one:
Can't quite make it out? Sorry, the room was quite ...
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