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05-17-2004, 06:41 PM
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Has anyone ever noticed behaviour at the workplace they find entirely strange and unfathomable?
The office I currently work in is quite small and employs all of about nine people. My work space is roughly near the centre of the one hallway that runs the length of the office. I will regularly overhear my colleagues speaking on the phone to eachother although their respective offices are located within mere feet of one another....  Whatever happened to face-to-face communication....
Other examples? 
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05-17-2004, 08:15 PM
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Whatever happened to face-to-face communication....
| It was lost with the invention of the chair.
Usually though, I just see abnormal behavior as being normal and don't think much of it.
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05-17-2004, 11:44 PM
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The following actually happened to me at my last job.
My boss gave me an assignment, and she asked me how long it would take to finish it. I told her it would take about two hours. I started working on it at 10:00AM. At 10:30AM, she called me and asked if I was halfway done. I said I wasn't quite halfway finished. She said I only had an hour left and I had to be finished by 11:00AM.
I don't know if I would call that "abnormal" because it was pretty typical for her.
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05-18-2004, 02:50 AM
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Some of the most bizzarre behaviour I've ever seen was some people actually working .....  | | |
05-18-2004, 09:03 AM
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Do you guys actually work?
hehehe...
Well, I used to have a teacher who kept speacking from shout to whispers levels, and it was very weirdo.
I'm kinda weird at my job to, cause I keep trying to improve the overall happiness level of the place, placing trust on people's mind. So, I tell jokes, I talk, I teach...
When I left my last team, they kept calling me, telling "Damn, you left and this has become a mess...."
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05-19-2004, 01:06 PM
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Today someone made the suggestion of placing USB webcams for conferencing. I told them we already have a video conferencing system with it's own high speed link. They replied we could use at least use them in house for one on one LAN conferencing. I quickly reminded this person we only have 21 people in this office; you never have to go too far to speak with someone.
also
one of the corporate big wigs recently complained to me they didn't want to deal with spam/virus emails anymore. Actually, his words were, 'I don't want to see them ever again.' I'm not certain he realized how unreasonable his request was. Needless to say, I received a pretty amusing (or perhaps to him scathing) verbal lashing when I told him the answer to his problems lie in giving up email altogether.
and
more often than not I usually lose my pants by noon every workday. While some may view this as bizarre, it just makes me feel free and there's nothing mentioned in the employee handbook about losing your pants at work being a bad thing.
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05-19-2004, 01:25 PM
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| | Quote: Originally posted by Ned Flanders
Today someone made the suggestion of placing USB webcams for conferencing. I told them we already have a video conferencing system with it's own high speed link. They replied we could use at least use them in house for one on one LAN conferencing. I quickly reminded this person we only have 21 people in this office; you never have to go too far to speak with someone.
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| LOLOLOLOL - people and technology....
kinda reminds me of the people that wants e-mails printed out on paper so they don't loose them. Or all other documents for that matter - sure this electronic timeage have really increased the paper usage.
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05-19-2004, 01:28 PM
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Ever seen a 'stuff as much marshmellows in your mouth as possible contest' at work?
I have.
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05-19-2004, 02:15 PM
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05-19-2004, 03:28 PM
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well DW, such items are a hit around the office with the ladies. It's been such a long time since such an item has been discussed around here, it would seem, back in the day, it made quite an impression.
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05-19-2004, 03:34 PM
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| | Quote: Originally posted by Rob-hin
Ever seen a 'stuff as much marshmellows in your mouth as possible contest' at work?
I have. | hehehe...
what do you do for living?
Are you a politician? (no offense meant)
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05-20-2004, 03:32 AM
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| | Quote: Originally posted by Luis Antonio
hehehe...
what do you do for living?
Are you a politician? (no offense meant)
| Nah, I'm still at school.
In the weekend I work as a factory cleaner untill I finish school. Right now I'm also an interm working at a local radio/television station. 
Hopefully I'll be a politician in the future though.  (not really)
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05-22-2004, 01:47 PM
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Okay, I must confess. I am the architect of a good deal of troublemaking on the job. 
It all begins innocently enough, you see. I am chained to a workstation in a sub-building with anally retentive climate controls which keeps one area of the building refrigerator cold, and the other toaster-oven warm. I sometimes fancy rain clouds will form between these two opposing climate zones, drenching the Production managers and Mechanical Engineers in their cozy little cubicles.
So...the day will be limping along, horrible music seeping from the sound system (you know, "Surfing USA", or "Another One Bites the Dust"), being piped to us from some sadistic satellite feed, when suddenly, I will look up from my drudgery, struck by an idea. Two cells away, completely wrapped up in installing microscopic wires between even more microscopic resistors, is a character everyone affectionately calls "Strange Sherry." It's only too obvious to me that Sherry needs something thrown at her. It just so happens that some rather small, foam-tipped q-tips serve as very accurate and stealthy missiles. Throwing one at her, I score a direct hit from 15 yards. Sherry looks up, I whistle innocently. Out of the corner of my eye, I notice another comrade in drudgery, Marsha, grinning at me. So it begins, and soon the entire building is in an uproar as foam-tipped q-tips and curses fly freely. At that point I slip away quietly, off to the component prep area in a different building to check on some of my upcoming work, humming merrily.
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05-22-2004, 02:51 PM
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@Chan,
LMAO! And who would have thought it... you project such an innocent persona! 
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05-22-2004, 03:44 PM
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How about using ICQ to communicate with the guy sitting across from you? The place where I spend the last year or so drudging as a consultant, my closest co-worker was sitting straight across my desk roughly 2 meters/yards away. One of our most common method of communication was ICQ. A third person, an entire 5 meters/yards away was also preferrably reached by ICQ. Mind you, none of us we're talking on the phone or otherwise verbally occupied. It was just the most effective and least disruptive form of communication.
Also, whenever I got bored, I used to drive around a small radio controlled car at the office... My boss gave it to me when I asked for a company car, so I figure I have to put some milage on it to get my moneys worth.
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