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-- Anonymous@4:02 p.m., commenting on my video about what a Wall Street analyst learned on this blog.
Friday, November 14, 2008
Practical jokes we enjoy playing on our colleagues
-- Anonymous@4:02 p.m., commenting on my video about what a Wall Street analyst learned on this blog.
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Our managers are leaving empty boxes in each other's offices. i.e. here's your box, pack up, you're gone.
ReplyDeleteTotally gallows humor, but as our directors aren't telling us anything, we only assume it's us going out the door.
What else can you do? No good to sit and cry about it. Might as well enjoy your possible last days with the people who made it bearable.
Here's another one (he, he, he).
ReplyDeleteWe have a big bank of newsroom staffers' mail boxes, slots really, loosely arranged in alphabetical order.
I'm stopping by the office Sunday night and leaving tri-folded pink pieces of paper in every third or fourth box.
Two words: "Whoppee Cushion"
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