Is it just me, or is there something seriously wrong with this product name?

I just overheard someone talking about a customer initiating a complaint by “sending me an emo.” My first thought was Man, was the customer that whiny? “You’ve undershipped me, our production line will surely go down, my father never loved me, and now I won’t even have my manager’s substitute approval, I’ve got no reason to go on living.”It was ( Read more... )

This morning, during a discussion of pleasant workplaces, I described a customer as “a snowflake - the good kind.”
“Is there a bad kind of snowflake?” asked a co-worker.
Realizing that not everyone in the world uses LiveJournal, and just might not know the word speshul, gave an example: “Valerie.* Valerie is the bad kind of snowflake.”
“Valerie is ( Read more... )

After ebenbrooks' Zen posts, I feel compelled to contribute two of my favorites:

As a student swept in front of his temple, he noticed a boy running toward him as fast as he could. The student called out, "Where are you going?"
The boy barely panted, "Where the wind takes me," before sprinting out of sight.
The student felt angry for having no comeback. ( Read more... )