Before you get all breathless telling me about the 100th cube to be filled with packing peanuts or the guy who pointed all of his wifi-sucking neighbors to Kittenwar.com, let's get one thing clear:
April Fool's Pranks Are Played Out
Like the 10,000th time you've heard 'Achey-breaky heart' or the Macarena...it's one of those traditions that refuses to die. It's like someone showing up to the baby shower with jello salad - everyone knows and hates jello salad. Even the guy who made the jello salad hates jello salad. So why are we doing this? "I dunno...we've always had jello salad on April 1st."
I love office pranks - don't get me wrong. I came back from vacation to find that everything in my office had been turned upside down. Chair, computer, docking station, printer, paper trays, pencil jars - everything was upside down. I laughed, they laughed and then they let me put it all back together. The knuckleheads who don't know when to give it a rest are the ones that make me crazy. They have all kinds of time and energy to fill a cube with those Chucky-Cheese plastic balls but they can't get their work done!
If you don't want to be on my personal layoff list - do yourself a favor: take that energy and put it to some good use. If I'm paying you by the hour - don't try to bills one or six hours to 'overhead' while you located 300 cubic feet of packing foam.
About Me
- Tim Woolery
- My job title is 'IT Manager' for a Financial Services Company in the Silicon Valley. I've been doing IT for 13 years and I've learned a lot both technically and professionally. This blog is about sharing what I have learned.
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