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How To Look Busy At Work

January 17th, 2008 · 2 Comments

On Tuesday, I posted a link to a Wired article giving you tips on how to keep your boss from snooping on you at work.
A reader pointed out that if you scrolled down below that, you’d see a list of tips written by Dilbert creator Scott Adams entitled “Look Busy.”
So, I went to check, and […]

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Tags: ... Or Hardly Working? · My Dumb Office · Productivity

15 Weirdest Work Stories of 2007

December 18th, 2007 · No Comments

My favorite stories are as follows:

Employee eats 32 vending machine items for charity
Four women fired for gossiping
Employee took 1 million screws home from factory
Workers killed after seeking raises

I agree with Fark… it looks like whoever compiled this list just went through the Fark archives. Still, it’s humerous.
15 Weirdest Work Stories of 2007 (MSN Careers)

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Tags: ... Or Hardly Working? · My Dumb Office · Time Wasters

My Dumb Office- The Doors

December 3rd, 2007 · 2 Comments

From Reader Ben in England who captions this: “Unlike all the other doors in the world, this one in my office park has apparently unique functions.”

I dunno. The toilets flush backward in Australia, right? Maybe in England the doors open funny.
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My Dumb Office- Management… A Different Animal?

November 26th, 2007 · No Comments

From Paul, who comments:
So all along I thought that symbol on the right of the sign indicated a person of the male gender but now i learn that it represents another sex entirely… one know as Management.
Are they really a third sex or are they just people with no sex?
Hmmm…

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My Dumb Office- Coffee Police

November 20th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Another coffee post first thing this morning.

Sent in by Leeb27.
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