December 2010
43 posts
A few thoughts on a Wednesday afternoon
Thought #1 -
Contrary to popular belief, rice is not easy to eat in the car. With a fork. While you’re driving.
Thought #2 -
Why is this random person texting my cell phone pictures of a “beautiful rest stop in Alabama?” I don’t have them programmed in my phone, which makes me think it’s a wrong number. I mean, I have EVERYONE programmed in my phone. Even the...
You know what’s awesome?
A buzz on a Tuesday night.
You know what sucks?
A buzzkill that same night.
I’m gonna put this out there early:
For every spam text message I receive from “friends” wishing me “happy holidays” or Merry Christmas, God kills a kitten.
Want to be nice? Pick up the phone and call.
Want to be cheesy? Type “Merry Christmas” in your cell, and hit “SEND TO ALL.”
Just lettin’ you know.
Don’t you hate when you’re feeding paper in your printer, and you aren’t done, but your printer thinks you are, so it starts making noises, excited that it has paper again?
Man, that pisses me off. It’s so presumptuous of it.
Sometimes, when that happens, I pull the drawer back out so the printer spool can’t grab the paper. I totally fake it out, and I laugh.
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I received a box of cookies from a vendor I reguarly deal with.
I put them out on the front counter for the 3 of us girls in the front office to enjoy.
MY FREAKIN BOSS TOOK THEM HOME LAST NIGHT.
You have no idea how pissed off I am right now.
My PT’s office had Christmas music on today.
I did my exercises to “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy.”
It was awesome.
Whenever someone says "don't go anywhere" on the...
juliekraut:
Here’s a piece of advice: When your office has a holiday party and as an ice breaker, everyone is asked to write the worst holiday gift they ever got on a name tag and wear it around, writing “World Peace” will not be as funny to your boss as it is to you.
I burst out laughing at this.
Girl power
Helen Mirren may be my newest favorite person:
“It creates even more pressure on women, and I certainly don’t want to be a part of that,” she explains. “I’m not beautiful; I clean up nice. Why don’t we talk about the fact, for example, that I just did ‘Arthur,’ and the cinematographer was a woman, the film operator was a woman, the whole camera team were women?...
Guiness Book... where are you?
I have called 1 customer a Tool (behind his back).
I’ve called 1 co-worker lazy (to his face).
I’ve called 1 vendor sneaky (in an email).
I’ve called 1 vendor insipid (via phone).
And all before 10am.
That’s GOT to be a record.
Wrong number
Yesterday, my phone rang three times with a phone number that was 1 digit off of my own phone number.
After the third call, I got curious and hit “call back.”
A woman with an accent picked up the phone. I couldn’t pinpoint where she was from.
“Um, hi. Someone keeps calling this number…” I began.
I was interrupted. “No! No no no no, not me.”
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And we wonder why we're in this position in the...
I handle the HR for my work.
Yesterday, a guy came to serve us papers to start garnishing wages from an employee.
That employee already has wage garnishments for the U.S. Treasury/IRS, by the way. And if his kids weren’t 18+, I’m sure he’d have child support payments, too.
The employee comes up to me this morning and says: “I got a phone call from a lawyer yesterday. ...