Almost my first full month in my new job after resigning as a police officer last month. It’s a great job when there’s things to do, when things are slack this is what I am doing.
Internet surfing on a slack Friday. Nobody wants to start anything, so we are staring at the ceiling, making personal calls and since the boss has been out for the week, a general atmosphere of office anarchy has set in.
As of 10.30 am, I have completed a set of five different animals out of paper clips- a lion, camel, bear, dinosaur and elephant. I am about to build a companion ark out of the remainder of the paper clips on my desk.
Is anyone else having this kind of morning? Still, it beats chasing down assholes high on meth. I guess I can’t complain.
Employee has a startling adeptness for internet surfing on Slack Friday. I had my doubts, and thought he may actually try to get some work done, but I am most pleased. Since adopting Slack Friday in favor of Casual Friday, my department has met the projected 20% reduction in productivity, thanks in large part to Bluepony.
Employee is also a self starter, and needs little supervision. Without even being asked, the employee single-handedly shouldered a paper-clip animal project, and has at the writing of this memo completed 5 animals and is proceeding to build a paper-clip ark. If it weren’t for the omission of a paper-clip aardvark, I would recommend a promotion immediately.
“…And God said
Get some green alligators, and long-necked geese,
Some humpty-backed camels (Bluepony: Check!) and some chimpanzees;
Some cats (Bluepony: Does the lion count as a cat?) and rats and elephants (Bluepony: Got 'em!) and sure as your born,
Don’t you forget my unicorns!”
Bunnygirl, love to, but I opted to spend a longer gym period out of the office before I went totally bonkers.
Waverly, you sound frighteningly like our HR representative. They all like to talk like that. I’m saving your statements so that I can give them to my boss, just in case he thinks I’m a slacker.
I also found out that you can build the superstructure of the ark with some business cards. I just need some office-type material to cover the paper-clip framework of the ark.
I’m thinking I have too much free time on my hands now. I can’t ask my fellow cubicle dwellers their personal opinion since one is playing Minesweeper and the other is off on a 3-hour smoke break.
Bluepony It’s not far off from some actual reviews I have seen. Then there is the story of the guy who used to climb up to my companies roof to hide and sleep for half the day. I think he was commended for never having a negative impact and seldom complaining.
You can create cool things with some index cards, paper clips, small magnets (from hobby motors), a small toy motorized car, unused and used staples, etc. We had our own little auto course through the office.
Completed outer hull of ark using old index cards and some scotch tape-- actually all of remaining tape in my co-worker’s tape dispenser. She might be pissed at that, but I think this nifty little model boat might change her thoughts about her pilfered desk supplies.
Took the End Of Day Office Wastebasket Free Throw Championship by an easy ten points but came up a distant fourth in the Minesweeper Finals.
