Some time back G worked here, and he had an odd pet peeve. He would get annoyed when A would cut paper using scissors rather than the paper cutting machine; the noise bothered him. Naturally, this led to A finding any excuse to cut paper around G. I didn't realize this until one day I was teasing A about his cutting of a great deal of paper last ( Read more... )

Happy New Year everyone ( Read more... )

While discussing 3rd grade writing and spelling, as my coworker is one who does lunchtime tutoring once a week at an elementary school, the conversation shifted to handwriting. Then to how cursive was a mysterious foreign language to us as we grew up that one day we'd learn. From there we started to talk about bad emailing and excessive uses of ( Read more... )

*walks int to SG in her chair talking to AY*
Me: Oh no, don't move. That's okay. I can just leave. Sorry, couldn't co to work. Someone was sitting in my chair.
*SG moves back to his desk and I sit.*
Me: It's still warm.
AY: Is that a good thing or a bit creepy?
TN: And it still doesn't roll ( Read more... )

I was listening in on two coworkers discuss some project.

AY: I figured it was a more productive use of my time doing something else.
SG: Surfing the internet is a more productive use of your time.
Me: *As AY walks by back to his desk* [sing] The internet is really really great...
AY: *pauses* [hushed singing] For porn
Me: I've got a fast ( Read more... )

Work can be fun.

Coworker 1: *points to referenced document in memo* Talk about Back to the Future.
Me: Hm?
Coworker 1: It's mis-dated 20,000.
Me: I think you should leave it. [Dramatic voice] In the year twenty thousand...
Coworker 2: [Dramatic voice] In a world... without tacos...
Me: Only one man stood for all that is beefy goodness. And they ( Read more... )

I despise the Livejournal video/popup ad. As a paid member, I don't have to see it more than once, that one times being when I first visit livejournal.com to login, but once is already too much. For five to ten seconds I must wait for the video to load and the X to appear, and during that time my displeasure builds. Ugh ( Read more... )

Today I was shown this site.

some of the notes found here aren’t really passive-aggressive even by our generous standards. some of these notes are really more aggressive in tone, and some of them are more passive - polite, even - but they all share a common sense of frustration that’s been channeled into written form rather than a direct ( Read more... )

There is "inside the gate" and "outside the gate parking" at the Company. The former is restricted to managers, customers, van and car pools, "senility pass" holders -- the nickname given for those who have been with the Company for 25 years or more -- and those with a limited temporary passes. The latter is for everyone else. Over the years, ( Read more... )

AA: I'd ask JD to come but he doesn't like Thai food.
Me: What! JD, you don't like Thai food? You Communist!
AA: ooh she called you a communist!
JD: Hey TN is the one wearing a red shirt.
TN: It's a Wisconsin shirt.
Me: So he's a Wisconsin Communist. [to JD] You... heathen!
AA: Are communists atheists? A heathen communist makes sense then.
Me: He ( Read more... )