Still not dead.
Scribing at 12:55 p.m. on 2004-09-22
So I thought ya'll would be overdue for some entertainment. But then I thought .. nah, screw it, I'll post instead.
To the lovely people that have inquired, no, I am not dead. To the rest of you, MUAHAHAHAHAH I'm not dead. I thought I'd just pass along a short tale from the Snake Pit ...
So, I walk into the break room the other night to punch in, and I see our bulletin board has changed. Now, I realize you, my little peanuts, have no idea what our bulletin board looked like to begin with (alright, maybe 2 of you little peanuts do, but I am passing this along to the little peanuts that don't) so for those of you I say .. euphemistically .. it was a grand display of employee individualism. One of the guys that works down the hall had started a collage back about the time the local college had their infamous football riots; and he'd cut out various and sundry images of the debauchery and staple them to the bulletin board. Then it branched out into sort of a political statement .. images from the world over in some sort of weirdness or disarray; and the occasional picture of (a very aging, paunchy, and otherwise ill-advised) David Lee Roth (who seems to - what? in his 60's? - still think those leather pants he wore when he was 30 are a good idea). Then other people started to contribute .. everything from pizza coupons to comic strips. (Not mentioning the three pages of anti-smoking propaganda the management had put up there.) It was an interesting little thing to see every evening. Then someone made a very amusing, very quiet little addition. It was a Hagar The Horrible comic strip. Basically, the gist was that Lucky Eddy was talking to Hagar with a fairly large grouping of pissed off guys behind him. He's pointing out that Hagar forgot to give them their Christmas bonus. Hagar replies 'oh, I must have forgotten.' Eddy sez 'Well, when can I tell them to expect it?' and Hagar looks at him blankly and says 'Expect what?'
I thought it was hilarious. Everyone that mentioned seeing it thought it was hilarious. Then, I suppose, Management saw it. Management did not think it was hilarious. They took it down, along with the contents of the entire bulletin board. They 'revamped' .. dontchaknow. Bright clean start, don'tcha know. Then they put up some really nice company propaganda, and left a very very small space in the middle of the board, on the bottom half, with the heading: Employee Postings. Underneath Employee Postings, in parentheses, is typeface almost the size of Employee Postings, perhaps 1 or 2 below it. It said 'All postings must be approved by *insert owners name here*'.
*Mad snickering*
They don't trust us any more to post on the bulletin board in the break room without running it by the owner first. Not even just management; the owner has to give his approval before an employee can post on the bulletin board in the break room.
I thought THAT was HILARIOUS.
Oh, and before I forget, I wanted to share this really cool little thing I found on a Shrub Sucks list I just happened to come across:
