Posts Tagged ‘work’

Posted on June 23, 2006 - by snipe

Technical Emergency

So a girl I work with just came running into my office, trying desperately to be discreet but clearly panicked. She was asking where to find an image on the hard drive that hasn’t been saved specifically, but that was emailed using Outlook. I offered to help her find it, and she quietly said something about how it wasn’t a work-friendly picture and she wanted it off the hard drive ASAP. So I’m digging around in her hard drive, and I find it before very long. Apparently she had been to a sex toy party recently, and a friend emailed her a photo of her posing (clothed) with a *gigantic* pink dildo. Considering she works in Human Relations, I can see how it would be problematic.

Posted on June 22, 2006 - by snipe

Screwing Off at Work

Ran across this on the b3ta newsletter:

When I was a travelling sales rep, I used to be sent all over the country to the most god-forsaken places on earth. To combat this, I devised a somewhat ingenious solution: I stayed at home. My boss would regularly phone me while I was ‘in my car’ to check how I doing, so I recorded a sample of my car engine noise, complete with a couple of indicator clicks and engine revs on my laptop, which I could start at a moment’s notice while the phone was ringing.

Excellent. Well, it was until my doorbell went during one such ‘trip’. I told him it was a warning light on the car as the engine kept overheating. Later on I had to actually work for 2 weeks because my boss needed the laptop for a presentation. A little while afterwards, I was up to my usual tricks when I should have been working… The phone goes, so I quickly reach for the shortcut on my desktop to the recorded car sample. Imagine my horror when I find it has been replaced with one of my boss saying ‘you’re fired - now fuck off’.

Never lend your boss your laptop.