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Subject:Re: Levity in the workplace From:Alexia Prendergast <alexiap -at- SEAGATESOFTWARE -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 13 Jun 1997 14:11:11 -0400
My co-workers at one of my old jobs used
to like to mess up my office (I used
to be *extremely* anal-retentive about
having "a place for everything and everything
in its place", especially books, arranged by
subject, author, then size. Whenever I took
a day off, I could count on coming back to
some clutter. I'm recovering from that
compulsion now, though -- my office is a
comfortable mess these days.
Also, I have a rapid fire action gun with
soft rubber darts -- in a matter of seconds
I can get 4 rounds off. For a while, at my
last job, we got so paranoid of being attacked
we attached rear-view mirrors to our monitors
so we could be ever-watchful! Also, I'd draw
pictures of recalcitrant developers on my
white board and practice getting the darts
on their noses. ;)
--
Alexia Prendergast
Senior Technical Writer
Seagate Software
alexiap -at- sems -dot- com
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>From: Elna Tymes[SMTP:etymes -at- lts -dot- com]
>Sent: Friday, June 13, 1997 1:24 PM
>To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
>Subject: Re: Levity in the workplace
>
>While we can't afford the expensive practical jokes Sun employees play
>on Scott McNealy on April 1 (such as remaking his office into a putting
>green, complete with sod and a water trap), we occasionally booby trap
>an office...
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