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Do you have a "thing" at work?

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SunnyD

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Our latest "thing" at work is the 5 second movie clips on Youtube. Today, I got to thinking... what would Dragonball be like in 5 seconds... EVERYBODY at work concurred, and Youtube confirmed.

What's your office's "thing"?
 
there is this old guy on our floor that apparently doesnt have a sphincter. whenever he shits the bowl gets covered in his filth and he doesnt clean it :/
 
Whenever our boss or supervisors send out an email to the group about something we reply to all 1 picture that makes fun of whatever the email was about. For instance my sup. sent an email that said "its going to get ugly around here..." and showed a link to really bad weather heading our way. I replied to all with a pic of him from his flickr account and said "TOO LATE!" underneath it.

Things like that make it fun.
 
We found this opened, rotten jar of mayonaise 4 years ago in the broom closet. I like to hide it in my coworkers' desk drawers. They don't know where the smell is coming from, but never think to look in their own desk! So as soon as they leave the room, I run in and grab it....and hide it somewhere else.

This has been going on for a few months.
 
A few weeks ago I was working on a project with a coworker (he's systems and I'm software), along with my project manager and a few other people. He was making fun of "my" application (playfully - we crack on each other all the time) - I say "my" because I am merely updating already out-of-date, crap software, so I have no emotional attachment to it at all - I just want to get it to work.

So he says something along the lines of "I want this software not to crash every time I click this button," along with a laundry list of other things that are obviously wrong with it - some of which are entirely out of my control.

So I responded with "well, it's nice to want things."

Everyone thought it was funny, and now "it's nice to want things" is the phrase of choice when people make unnecessary (or unrealistic) requests - which at this place, is just about daily.
 
Used to at my old job, we had a lot of stuff like that. Unfortunately I don't have that kind of camaraderie at my current job. I pretty much come to work, work, and leave. I miss my old co-workers. 🙁
 
whenever a PC is left unlocked we get together and change right/left mouse click, change the resolution, font size, change the setup of the dual monitors so you have to go to the other end to get across, install a FF script so 1 in 100 page requests will error out, used a FF script that would add random words like "fo realz!" at the end of paragraphs (coworker thought our homepage got hacked and almost sent a ticket in), disconnect ethernet cables, put tape under mouses, turn phone/speaker volumes way up, change screen contrast.

Some bigger ones for birthdays: covered a cubicle in post-it notes (everything), turned everything upside down on another, on my birthday everything was covered in plastic wrap.

We also have 6 nerf guns that we randomly shoot people with. Very funny to hit someone with a dart when they are coding.

On april 1st, someone changed the handle of the fridge to the other side (the one with the hindge) so you couldnt open it. I put a "microwave usage chart" near the microwave to "track our employees carbon footprint" - and people used it.

there are more that I'm probably forgetting.

Oh - the massive massive amounts of lolcat pictures that get sent around that pertain to a situation.
 
Originally posted by: ducci
A few weeks ago I was working on a project with a coworker (he's systems and I'm software), along with my project manager and a few other people. He was making fun of "my" application (playfully - we crack on each other all the time) - I say "my" because I am merely updating already out-of-date, crap software, so I have no emotional attachment to it at all - I just want to get it to work.

So he says something along the lines of "I want this software not to crash every time I click this button," along with a laundry list of other things that are obviously wrong with it - some of which are entirely out of my control.

So I responded with "well, it's nice to want things."

Everyone thought it was funny, and now "it's nice to want things" is the phrase of choice when people make unnecessary (or unrealistic) requests - which at this place, is just about daily.
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guess you had to be there 🙂
 
Gay jokes and our sippy cup planner occupy our time at my job. 😛

edit for clarification: I work with rednecks. If one of them is having a rough time, I ask them if they need a hug. The usual reaction is a complete fit on their part and it's hilarious. 😀
 
We have a director here who has his name in his email sig in 48pt font (only his name and the rest is in 10pt). So everytime we say his name in meetings you have to scream it like his sig. Stupid I know but it's funny to us.
 
We jump on each others computers if they arent locked and send out email like "Tomorrow im bringing donuts". Crap like that.
 
Originally posted by: Gnrslash4life
We jump on each others computers if they arent locked and send out email like "Tomorrow im bringing donuts". Crap like that.
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people do that here but send people love notes
 
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