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Here are a few posters that I would like to post up in my office. The first one being my favorite of course. Follow the link below to find others that may suit you or the people around you much better

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I'm gonna get you youtube'd today cuz it's Friday and you ain't got shit to do!

Collection of the best clips from Office Space one of many inspirations for all of us!

Best Buy to help keep worker bees buzzing?

Source - CNN Money

"With a classic flextime structure, workers arrange their schedules with their boss in advance. But under a program called Rowe, for "results-only work environment," the boss has no say in scheduling and can judge employees only on tasks successfully completed - even if none were done in the office. The five-year-old plan now covers 60 percent of the employees at Best Buy's corporate headquarters near Minneapolis.

And by all accounts, it's working. Employee productivity has increased an average of 35 percent in departments covered by the program."

"The company says turnover costs - recruiting, training, and loss of operational time - are $102,000 per blue shirt, or about 250 percent of their salary."
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Really random Microsoft worker? I suggest a life in politics post-MS career

Source - EWeek

"I have been here [in Redmond] all day long, and I have seen very few escalations come through from our field. But it is early, so we may see more tomorrow and the next day. But today we have not been flooded with requests for information and guidance or help," M3 Sweatt, the chief of staff for the Windows Core Operating System Development Group, told eWEEK.

But, that being said, Microsoft was already working closely with its enterprise customers to ensure they had what they needed.

"Some of them are happy, some of them are not. But we are working with them as best we can to make sure we are addressing their issues," he said.

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Few problems here...

1) The guy is named M3 Sweatt? That sounds like a posting name on some BMW forum, not something you would see on a birth certificate. Let's hope that one is a typo.

2) Maybe no one was escalated to your department because you don't field complaints? The problem wasn't with the patch itself as much as it was the amount of patches and the fact you guys waited less then a month before the DST to release a patch. As if the US government waited until Feb. 10th, 2007 to make the decision. Also, I highly doubt that every user that had this issue was going to call Microsoft. Why bother? They have IT to yell at that kind of stuff for. Or a tech savvy relative. Even if every IT prof in the country called Microsoft it wouldn't be a fraction of the REAL AMOUNT of people mad about this. Personally if I had to call you for every complaint I personally recieved from another user I would have dialed over 175 times on my own. That is just for users on the westcoast I spoke with. Many people echo what was being said by other people in that interview about calendar issues.

3) Or better yet it wasn't escalated to you because IT corporate worker bees like myself figured out that patches were applied but machines did not have 'automatically adjust for daylight savings time' checked? Pretty sure that could be turned on by the patch somewhere for those who did not have it checked.

4) Maybe no one was in the chat because they have given up on Internet Explorer and use Firefox, a browser that Microsoft does not support on any of their sites. Sorry but I rather not use Microsoft web sites then have to close Firefox to launch Internet Explorer 6 or 7.

Stupid IT Question Of The Day

Names have been changed or edited. Yes..this is a real engineer with a REAL degree....


******Mr. Corporate Worker Bee checks voice mail**********

Engineer: Hi Mr. Corporate Worker Bee, this is *****...I see video on the online training course but I do not have any sound can you please give me a call back.

******Mr. Corporate Worker Bee dials office*********

Mr. Corporate Worker Bee: Hi engineer this is Mr. Corporate Worker Bee.

Engineer: Hi Mr. Corporate Worker Bee, I see the video come on but there is no sound. Does this have sound?

Mr. Corporate Worker Bee: Yes the video has sound. Do you have speakers?

Engineer: *in very confused tone* I need speakers to get sound?


That is it for this installment of 'Stupid IT question of the day" be sure to check in again for yet another awesome IT adventure with yours truly.

Man that is a wicked hawiian shirt!

Who doesn't like to be tossed a bone right? I know there are people out there who LOVE buy one get one free deals from various companies. Shit, I love when the Improv hooks me up with 4 free tickets as long as each ticket holder buys two drinks at 10 a pop! We feel like we are getting something special so in turn it makes us feel special. In my opinion, the top bone thrown to us corporate worker bees is good ol 'Casual Friday' or as I like to call it Crappy Hawiian Shirt Day. Forget Cake Day or the summer picnic. Two cheers for Crappy Hawiian Shirt Day!! Does this fall under the 'we are getting something special so we in turn feel special' category? I think it does! Nothing says thanks for working until 11 every night this week while ignoring your children or loved ones more then the ability to trade in your solid blue button up shirt for a button up shirt that has slot machines and cherries.

Let's not forget how important this day is in corporate America. In fact, this day is so important in corporate America that 'Casual Friday' is actually mentioned as part of the recruitment/hiring process. To the genius in a suit who thought of this day to boost morale in place of higher wages, better benefits, and a better working environment, I salute you!! Thank you. My buddies and I will smash our Corner Bakery cups together at lunch in a toast just for you!

Cake Day!!!!

Cake and an office go hand in hand. Cake is now a staple of your diet thanks to your fellow co-workers. Every few weeks an excuse comes up to eat cake. Stephanie's son finally learned how to wipe his own ass at the prime age of 6. Blanche go pick up a cake for 3:00 break!! Summer starts in 2 and a half weeks? Muhfucka where is the carrot cake at? Now there is nothing wrong with cake itself. Cake is good from time to time. Sometimes you need that sugar rush to be able to finish up the spreadsheet you've been working in all day. So you ask, where is the real problem? The problem is the women in the office who constantly complain about gaining weight because of treats brought into the office while at the same time shoving icing and chocolate mousse down their throat. Shame on you aging 60 year old woman who so badly wants to be 25 again, put down the cake and quit bitching!

Office work?

SIGH...that is all.

Cartoon of the day

Why the Internet keeps corporate workers sane

Why is the Internet the greatest thing to hit the office? Because workers get to waste time playing games, chatting, or reading personal email. Before the
Internet what did the peons around the office do? They constantly
worked. There was no alt-tabbing between the latest sports news and
some half ass spread sheet. There was constant busy work. Busy work that everyone was trained to do in public school. Work that causes postal workers to well, go postal. All corporate workers feel a little better at the end of the day knowing they get paid shit an hour.....but of those 8 hours an hour was spent fucking around on the Net. The Internet keeps office workers, who otherwise would flip out, sitting in their cube clicking away at the latest shitty flash game instead of stealing, shooting, and gossiping in the office.

What job number do I bill songs to, Mr. Upper Mangement?

On the first day of work,
my asshole boss sent to me
A 500 page report to photocopy.

On the second day of work,
my asshole boss sent me
Two pointless tasks,
And a 500 page report to photocopy.

On the third day of work,
my asshole boss sent me
Three paper cuts,
Two pointless tasks,
And a 500 page report to photocopy.

On the fourth day of work,
my asshole boss sent to me
Four angry engineers,
Three paper cuts,
Two pointless tasks,
And a 500 page report to photocopy.

On the fifth day of work,
my asshole boss sent to me
Five gossiping office hens,
Four angry engineers,
Three paper cuts,
Two pointless tasks,
And a 500 page report to photocopy.

Monday again...

Yes oh yes. Monday morning. After slaving all last week only to burn most of the weekend recharging the batteries it is time to work. Everyone's favorite day of the week. You know the day where every non-starbucks-loving-son-of-a-bitch wants to smash every coffee drinking prick co-worker's skull in when they say 'hay wake up buddy, we got up at the same time and im awake'