Freed Roger wrote:People camping out for IKEA or Chick fila grand openings or the latest Iphone are strange. Then again, I camp in the woods for the [expletive] of it.
i'm friends with someone getting a free couch tomorrow for waiting in line and she's been posting nonstop from facebook about it.
i'd definitely wait in line for a year of free chick fil a though
Jocephus wrote:a co-worker was fired/asked to resign today. there wasn't a scene or anything but sure does change the atmosphere, at least for today.
for the good or the bad? Was it a surprise? I remember losing a well respected engineer from our group at HP once. There wasn't a hint of bad performance or anything and then one day he was just gone and nobody was talking. To this day I don't know what happened there. I assume a major breach of corporate HR policies of some kind.
Jocephus wrote:a co-worker was fired/asked to resign today. there wasn't a scene or anything but sure does change the atmosphere, at least for today.
for the good or the bad? Was it a surprise? I remember losing a well respected engineer from our group at HP once. There wasn't a hint of bad performance or anything and then one day he was just gone and nobody was talking. To this day I don't know what happened there. I assume a major breach of corporate HR policies of some kind.
it was definitely a surprise. for the good or bad? thats tough. the individual wasn't bad or rude or anything but probably was one of our weaker links and ultimately it would have been on performance (processing paperwork type job). it was weird 'cause the staff got wind around 9:30ish and the individual wasn't gone until about 12:30 (was in boss' office with HR, etc for awhile)
A friend of mine got called into a top executive's office this morning. Apparently someone pooped in a common area of our building. Somehow they determined when it happened even though no one witnessed it. So they tried to blame him for it since he showed up on camera five minutes after it supposedly happened in one of the three possible exits from this large area. I feel like maybe you should be a lot more certain than that if you want to accuse someone of taking a dump on the floor.
Michael: I am Pam. Spicoli guy. Oh, God. Names, numbers. Okay. [walking into office] Whoa! God! Yuck, yuck. Yuck. Yuck!
Pam: What?
Michael: Wow! What happened in there?
Pam: I don't know.
Michael: There is stink in there, my God! What is... what is that?
Pam: [looking at pile on Michel's carpet] Oh... I don't know.
Michael: Is it a bird?
Pam: No, I don't think it's a bird.
Michael: Oh, God! How could that happen? How could... right in the middle of the carpet.
Kevin: What's goin' on?
Michael: Um, somebody vomited right in the middle of the carpet in my office.
Kevin: [taking a look] I don't think that's vomit.
Michael: Check it out.
Kevin: Me?
Michael: Check it out. Don't be a wuss, just get... no, I'm not holding your coffee.
Kevin: Oh, that's ridiculous.
Michael: What is it?
Kevin: Michael. [tapping on door]
Michael: What is it? No, just tell me what it is.
Kevin: [pounding on door] Michael, I ... I ... I gotta get outta here. I can't hold my breath that long.
Pam: Open the door up!
Kevin: It smelled terrible.
Pam and others: [after going in to check out the smell] Phew. Oh! No, mm-mm. [leaving quickly]
Michael: I cannot believe a pipe burst and left that in there.
Toby: That's no burst pipe.
Michael: How do you know that? What is it, then?
Creed: Hi guys. Somebody makin' soup?
Michael: [as cleaning lady with mask leaves] Here she comes. All cleaned? Great. [walks into office]
Dwight: [coughing] It's still stinky.
Michael: That is worse.
Dwight: She probably scrubbed it into the fibers of the carpet. Total permeation.
Michael: [while in his reeking office] I am a big Fear Factor fan. I'm a big fan of anything Joe Rogan does, actually, so this is sort of like my audition tape. Um... [clearing throat] I can't stand it [gets up to leave], I can't stay in here another second. No!
Michael: [on phone] Yes.
Todd Packer: Hello, yes. I'm looking for a gay nerd named Michael Scott.
Michael: Who is this? How did you get this number?
Packer: Your mom, you gay nerd!
Michael: Oh my God. Packer. Packster. Whacky Pack. How you doin'?
Todd: Hey, did you get that package I left for you?
Michael: Uh... no. Did anybody see a package here today? No. How big was it?
Packer: It was pretty big.
Michael: Really?
Packer: Yeah.
Michael: Did you see a big package? Where did you leave it?
Packer: Left it in the middle of your office.
Michael: Really? Guys, did you see a big package in my office?
Roy: You mean the thing?
Packer: [laughs uproariously]
Michael: Are you kidding me? Oh!
Packer: Special delivery!
Michael: That was Packer! Oh, you're... you are dead. You are dead, my friend! That is hilar... Oh, God! Of course it was you.
Packer: Sit on the throne, Michael.
Michael: Oh. [laughs and claps] Yeah, yeah! Oh my God. It was Packer!
Nearly 20 years ago some laptops came up missing from a storage area at the company I work for. So of course security and some other guy nobody had seen before interviewed every one of us who worked second or third shift and ran background checks on us again. I felt really nervous when they asked how I thought somebody might go about stealing one because the answer was easy. Most of the time the door to the storage room was WIDE OPEN all day so whoever it was probably just walked two feet into the area, grabbed what they wanted and walked out with whatever in their bag. The door was freaking locked at night so they were barking up the wrong tree with us on second shift. Of course everybody on second shift was new, at the bottom of the pay scale like cleaning crews/shipping and mainly minority.
Don't know if they ever caught the person but I was kind of offended that they went with the full court press against us who where there at night when common sense would dictate that it would be much easier to slip out with the stuff in the late afternoon when there are more people flowing out through the front door and the room was unlocked. I'll never be convinced that there wasn't some profiling going on there.
They did get to fire one person because of that ordeal though. Seems they didn't do a thorough enough background check on one of my co-workers. She was a sweet older lady. Nice as can be. Did her job. Got along great with everyone in the group. Seems she probably should have checked off the felony box on her application though. She helped break somebody out of a federal jail and hid him. I think it might have been her son's father. I only learned that a couple of years later from another lady in the group who ended up marrying a guy who grew up with the woman who was fired and he eventually told her the background.
We had always wondered why her son was just a knucklehead. Turns out he got it from his bad --- mom!
