Can You Relate to Joe?

In Joe Versus the Volcano, Tom Hanks’ character eventually realizes that there is more to life than being stuck in a dead-end job….

February 10 2010 | Office Humor and Videos and Work Related | No Comments »

Real Life Twitter with Dan Gurewitch

Want to see how twitter is really used?  Check out the following, somewhat humorous, video With Dan Gurewitch from College Humor:

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September 30 2009 | Videos | 1 Comment »

Why Do We Love Commercials and Advertising?

Answer: because it entertains us!

Over the years and with the improvements that we have seen in technology, commercials have taken on a mind of their own becoming more creative, catchy and enticing us to watch them all the way through.  However, lately it seems that a lot of television commericals are created so that the consumer doesn’t even know what is being sold until the end of the commercial.  Check out the following commercial to see if you can figure out what is being advertised.

July 08 2009 | Work Related | 1 Comment »

Tales From the Office: What Was That Noise?

Have you ever had a moment at work when you’re supposed to be the only person in the building…or so you think?

What Was That Noise?

Before I had the luxury of working from home, I worked in an office- and because I was usually the first person to arrive, it was my responsibility to unlock all of the doors in the office suite.  Well, on this particular day, I arrived to the office and was ready to proceed with my usual routine of unlocking doors and flipping on the interior lights.  As an added aside, the weather was overcast and rainy, which made the office especially dark when I walked in.

I flipped on the ceiling lights in the hallway and walked over to open one of the office doors when I thought I heard something. I stopped dead in my tracks and turned around to listen more closely.

“Hello?” I asked the empty office suite.

I listened again for a second and didn’t hear the noise.  I shook my head and laughed to myself.  Here I was at 6:30 in the morning talking to myself in an empty office suite.  As I was in the middle of chuckling and putting my lunch in the refrigerator, I heard it again.  It was distinct this time and sounded like someone ruffling through papers.

I could suddenly feel my heart beating as if it wanted to jump out of my chest and run away..and quite frankly, that’s exactly what I was thinking.  However, because of how the office suite was set up, the fact that none of the windows opened AND the fact that I could now definitely place the noise as coming from my office (which was directly across from the one I was currently standing in), there was no way I could exit the building without passing the noise.

“Just calm down; it’s probably nothing,” I said to myself.  I also reminded myself of the fact that right before I accepted this job, I used to be a police officer.

I regrouped and went out to investigate the noise. I stood in the hallway and listened again.  The rustling was louder now.  Because of the acoustics in the office suite, I was no longer sure that it was coming from my office.  It sounded like it was coming from the bathroom; so I bypassed my office and headed to the bathroom where I quickly pushed open the door and flicked on the bathroom lights…Nothing.

Rustle. Rustle. RUSTLE.

It was definitely coming from my office (which I shared with three other people).  I checked my watch.  The next person from my company wasn’t supposed to arrive for another 10 minutes.  I figured, if I got attacked by whatever it was, it wouldn’t be long before help arrived anyway- so I unlocked the door to my office and stood in the doorway for a minute before turning on the interior lights.

The noise stopped. I calmly walked in and looked around.  I couldn’t find ANYTHING. And then I heard it.  It was coming from the corner by the only door to the office.  I was already too far in and was now trapped by an unidentifiable noise.  I looked around me for a weapon…The printer was too heavy and bulky and I didn’t want to damage a computer…Forget it.  I walked over to the doorway again and finally pinpointed the noise.  Oddly enough, it was coming from a paper shredder. I watched as the paper shredder shook and something inside rustled.  Then I noticed something…..

The paper shredder wasn’t plugged in.

I heard a noise from outside of the building and quickly made my exit- all the while pondering the thought as to whether or not a paper shredder could be possessed.  I went outside to see one of my female co-workers walking towards me.  I quickly told her what had transpired and together we both crept stealthily into what was supposed to be an empty office.  When we stood in the doorway, there was no noise at first.  Then, without warning, a violent rattle emanated from the broken paper shredder.  Squealing, my co-worker ran out the front door.  Once one of our male co-workers arrived and we felt more safety in numbers, we had him investigate the paper shredder mystery.  He opened the top to the paper shredder and immediately threw a garbage bag over the rest of it and flipped it upside down.

He peeked inside the garbage bag, and then he smiled.

“It’s just a field mouse,” he said. And then after thinking a moment, he added, “but how on earth did he get into the paper shredder?”

June 17 2009 | Office Humor and Work Related | 2 Comments »