Inspired by this thread (Signs you’d like to post in your office), I just wanted to share some of the inspirational pictures I put up in my office. Remember, it’s a medical office in the center of a maximum-security prison. These are seen by patients (inmates) and staff alike. The basic decor is not really designed to please the eye!
Well, I don’t have any signs, per se, as I’m not really a signs kind of gal. I do have a postcard on my bulletin board that reads “The trailer park called. They want their trash back.” I used to have a plaque of sorts that read “This had better be good…” I lost it when I moved my office, which was just as well as I didn’t really like it all that much.
I used to have one which said something like “It may look like I’m sitting here doing nothing, but I’m actually so efficient that I’ve completed all my work”
QtheM, I wish the endless array of doctors I’ve been subjected to lately had posted signs like the ones you have. At least there would have been some evidence that the bloodsucking butchers were sufficiently human to have a sense of humor!
On a barely related note, when working for a company I’m working for is clearly coughing up blood and not long for this world, I have been known to post a framed McDonald’s application with a prominent label “In Case of Emergency, Break Glass.”
I don’t have any, but at a company I used to work for one of the women in Accounts Payable had a sign that said “Shit List” and had ten numbered spaces below it. My name was inscribed in space number one. There were no other names on the list.
In fact I enjoyed (what I thought to be) an amiable relationship with this woman - I think her canonization of me had to do with my practice of walking critical invoices through Accounting.
Over the summer, I visited an office that had pretty much every despair.com poster up on their walls. They also had a big drawing of Trogdor on their whiteboard. I think that would be a pretty cool place to work.
QtM, that last picture scared the ever living f*ck out of me! What the Hell is that? Why would you put such a fear inducing poster on your wall? Is it there so the inmates get scared straight?
I have a sign–well, really just a laser printout–taped to my desk that says:
It doesn’t work. People still ask me questions and don’t pay for them. (Cow-orkers, not customers. Customers can’t even see the sign, because I don’t have a video-phone )
I have this 8 1/2" x 11" sign taped to the front of my letter trays on my desk:
“I’m not sleeping - I’m reveling in my success”
This is only really funny because I’m notorious for power-napping through my 15 minute break, right there on my desk. Break sign goes up - head goes down - reveling commences!
What I have is: “If I don’t look busy, it’s because I got it right the first time.”
I also have:
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[li]“Documenting software is like changing a tire on a moving car.”[/li][li]“Sexual harrassment will not be reported. It will, however, be graded.”[/li][li]“Patience my ass: I’m gonna kill something”[/li][/ul]
I used to have another documentation one, something about requirements and describing the smile on a black cat in a dark room (or something…there was definitely a cat and a room), but I don’t remember it.
I have a card that says: “I’ll try to be nicer, if you’ll try to be smarter.”
A happy bunny magnet that says: “It’s all about me. Deal with it”
Tons of computer related cartoons.
A label on my monitor that says: “The early worm gets eaten by the bird.” I made that after I read it on the SDMB (I work nights, so I thought it was appropriate)
