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Simple Rule

If you send me a question via email, expect my response via email.

Too Funny

I love The Onion. Satire at its best.


NFL Players Mentor Troubled Detroit Lions

Is it really that hard?

Email isn't some tricky program from the future, right?

Why is it that people can't check the To:/CC: lines before forwarding something?

Or check it before you walk down to my cube to tell me about the exact thing in that email, just to make sure I don't already know about it. And if I am copied on the email, and you have a question, try replying to all. That feature is there for a reason.

The Coffee Sign

This is the new sign by the coffee maker. it's totally yelling. a loud sign, if signs can be considered as such. bold, all caps, 1 billion pt. type.

We are all familiar with the concept I think - if you use the last of something that is used by others, please resupply. We'll call it the Toilet Paper Principle. Common courtesy. So I think that a gentle, friendly reminder would have sufficed.

My real issue is twofold. First, the directive itself:

• is there supposed to be a constant supply of coffee?
  
• is there a cut off time?
  
• you MUST make a new pot, even if it is 4:45 pm?
  
• how about at 2 pm? big coffee drinkers in the middle of the afternoon?
• do we need to have someone stay overnight to watch the pot?

at what point do you consider the pot empty?

• with less than 1 cup?
  
• btwn 1 and 2 cups?
  
• every last drop goes in to someone's cup?
  
• how much do you dump out to make a new pot?
  

So no, the rule is not simply you empty, you make more.

Secondly, the idea of the "rule" itself:

• who made the rule? The sign is, of course, anonymous. And lacks punctuation. And needs some grammatical help.
  
• can I make a rule? I would love to dictate a lot of things about the coffee here.
• is there a coffee cop that is going to enforce this?
  
• what is the punishment for breaking this rule?
  
• are we becoming a police state in regard to coffee?
  
• should i be worried about my civil liberties in the world of office coffee?

In all seriousness, do we not have more important things to worry about? You took time away from your job to make that sign. Surely there was something better you could have done with your time.

1,000 people

How many people work here? I swear they are all in front of the coffee maker at the same time.

sick of excuses

Have you ever been to a bar or restaurant where they ring a bell when they get a tip? BDs Mongolian BBQ is one of those places. It's fun, you put a dollar in, they ring a huge bell, everyone in the place looks up and knows what's going on.

I think there should be a corporate equivalent of that, except instead of it being for tips, it should be when someone sucks. and instead of dollars, you put in coupons for a beating with that person's name on it. Like dropping in business cards for a free lunch. So every time someone fucks up, you get to ring this huge gong and everyone in the place prairiedogs to see who fucked up. And you get to yell that person's name.

And once a week, we get to draw the name of the lucky winner.