post ridiculous work related things here

[minxnim]

i used to catch clients stealing all the tampons out of the machines at my office.
the thing is, they were free so it's like, why do you need like 25 of them? are you going to sell them?

 

[minxnim]

here's a ridiculous thing about nix's job: IT'S NOT IN NYC WTF

 

[avi]

I don't exactly have a well-defined job right now. I've been hired to help admin this database/CMS conversion project, but my role isn't very well defined. I just spent the last 3 days in meetings trying to figure it out, but it's still up in the air. I guess I get to be assigned to other tasks today, but I'm not even sure it'll be stuff I know how to do (or can fake).
My week so far:
8am-3pm: meetings
3pm-10ish: back at the hotel, coding for the other projects with the shades drawn

Coming up: travelling back to the SF bay area for August to cover graveyard shift at my old job. Why did I accept that? jeez

 

[lizard]

maybe there's a black market for tampons.

 

[xfer]

the KD van has a train with a joint-smoking wizard conductor leaning out the window painted on the side

 

[minxnim]

needs cowbell

 

[mariovanpeebles]

My buddy at my old job got drunk on Wild Turkey a couple weeks ago, and sold his car for 2 oz. of weed.

 

[avi]

I am stuck in Vancouver for one more day with nothing to do. I'll probably end up spending many extra hours at the airport. yay.

 

[Nut Butter]

Go climb Grouse Mountain or something, geez. I wish I was stuck in Vancouver with nothing to do...

 

[avi]

I am severely limited by a distinct lack of money and transportation

 

[mindspell]

Go see the heroin addicts then. It's free and it's creepy!

 

[minxnim]

if i had known you'd be stuck avi i would have arranged for my friend thomas to go pick you up and take you out

 

[avi]

yeah, I wish I had known in advance too. The fates conspired to delay the shipment of an important server so I have absolutely no work to do.

 

[Josh Seipp]

ridiculous: the fact that I work about 8 hours a week and peoplethink I'm doing an awesome (or at least good) job

 

[minxnim]

josh, pretty much the same here. i space out for hours and everyone just thinks i'm mulling over important engineering problems.

from my sister's job: her employee has 29 pair of sneakers under her desk. TWENTY NINE.

 

[minxnim]

when my new boss laughs he sounds EXACTLY LIKE winnie the pooh in the olderish cartoons it's unbelievable how much he sounds like him.

 

[Nut Butter]

Now THAT's awesome.

 

[chupe666]

at my last job, the first year i worked my ass off, providing for high visibility to superiors. my review was so-so, because they only remembered the bad things that happened. the second year, i did practically nothing (was looking for a job in StL most of the time) and got an awesome review & raise. as long as they didn't hear anything, they assumed you were doing great. so nobody did anything. like, a SQL Server to Oracle conversion took over 3 yrs

 

[0sm0se]

My coworkers in the lab took lunch without me. That wouldn't be ridiculous except I expect them to get me before lunch because we've done it that way for the entire summer. I mean, there are only 6 of us, I'm sure they noticed someone was missing.

 

[minxnim]

ugh osmose that happened to me at my last job i was like wtf??