Posts Tagged: office
Al Gore’s Office
Check out how cluttered Al Gore’s Office is. (From Time Photo Series.) Nice monitor set-up. That would be awesome.
Read on »Interoffice Games
A list of games to play at work, shamelessly cribbed from Jane McGonigal’s gaming blog, but she received it in e-mail from her mom, so fair sharing must apply. I recognize some of these from some of my other lists of pranks you can play. How many points can you rack up in a day?
Read on »Blue Flat Bear at Work
Fun Things To Do in the Office
Page yourself over the intercom. (Don’t disguise your voice.)
Read on »You Know You Work for An American Corporation When…
You sat at the same desk for 4 years and worked for three different companies.
Read on »New Job Interview Techniques
Take the prospective employees you are trying to place and put them in a room with only a table and two chairs. Leave them alone for two hours, without any instruction. At the end of that time, go back and see what they are doing.
Read on »Systematic Buzz Phrase Projector
Those of us used to writing technical and business reports know how difficult it can be to use just the right phrase to convey the true depth of your topic. Now, professionals and students alike can seem like etymological geniuses, thanks to the "Systematic Buzz Phrase Projector" created by Phillip Broughton, a U.S. Public Health Service official.
Read on »New Medical Leave and Related Company Policies
The following helpful guide has been prepared to help our employees better understand their paychecks.
Read on »New List of Appropriate Language For Work
It has been brought to the Management’s attention that some individuals have been using foul language in the course of normal conversation between employees. Due to complaints from some of the more easily offended workers, this conduct will no longer be tolerated.
Read on »Major U.S. Research University Discovers New Element
The heaviest element known to science was recently discovered by investigators at a major U.S. research university. The element, tentatively named Administratium, has no protons or electrons and thus has an atomic number of 0.
Read on »How To Write A Recommendation Letter That You Don’t Really Mean
Having to write letters of recommendation for people with very dubious qualifications can cause serious legal troubles in a time when laws have eroded the confidentiality of business letters.
Read on »The Laws of Work
When confronted by a difficult problem you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question, "How would Wonder Woman handle this?"
Read on »11 Reasons Why Prison Is Better Than Work
In prison you spend the majority of your time in an 8′ X 10′ cell. At work you spend most of your time in a 6′ X 8′ cubicle.
Read on »Top Ten Signs You Have Joined A Cheap HMO
Annual breast exam conducted at Hooters.
Read on »Quotes Taken from Performance Evaluations
"This employee is depriving a village somewhere of an idiot." "I would not allow this employee to breed." "Works well when under constant supervision and cornered like a rat in a trap." "When she opens her mouth, it seems that this is only to change whichever foot was previously in there."
Read on »Actual Job Interview Excerpts
A survey of top personnel executives of 100 major American corporations asked for stories of unusual behavior by job applicants. The low lights: Said he was so well-qualified [that] if he didn’t get the job, it would prove that the company’s management was incompetent. Stretched out on the floor to fill out the job application.
Read on »My Manager Really Said This
A magazine recently ran a Dilbert quotes contest. They were looking for people to submit quotes from their real life Dilbert-type managers. Here are some of the submissions
Read on »Business Horoscopes
MARKETING: You are ambitious yet stupid. You chose a marketing degree to avoid having to study in college, concentrating instead on drinking and socializing, which is pretty much what your job responsibilities are now. Least compatible with Sales.
Read on »You Know You Work In The ’90s When…
You consider 2nd day Air Delivery and Inner-office Mail painfully slow.
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