# This is why I want to go home early today **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 17, 2008, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883 "2008-07-17T23:24:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883/41 "2008-07-18T19:45:57Z")
[QUOTE=mlees] Doesn’t do squat on my Windows XP work machine. Whassit supposed to do? [/QUOTE] I think it’s supposed to rotate the screen display. I think it depends on your monitor and the drivers installed for it. Does nothing on my 17" HP LCD with ATI Radeon Xpress 200. ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_the_Impaler)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883/42 "2008-07-18T19:50:03Z")
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright] In addition to the jazz quartet, “[The Bobs](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR7HDERBCQE)” are also the two “efficiency consultants” brought in to streamline Initech operations (ie. fire unnecessary people) in the movie _Office Space_. [/QUOTE] Here at my company, a major vendor is Intertech. Man, I hope they had that name long before the movie came out. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883/43 "2008-07-18T19:50:36Z")
[QUOTE=Iggins] Heh. I read this without noticing your user name. I thought you were the “Locator Database Guy”, and this pit wasn’t going to go well for you. 🙂 [/QUOTE] haha, I did the same thing and was wondering why the guy was pitting himself. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883/44 "2008-07-18T19:56:18Z")
[QUOTE=mlees] Doesn’t do squat on my Windows XP work machine. Whassit supposed to do? [/QUOTE] Are you doing it on an Atlon-based machine? It only works if you have an Intel chip. It sets whichever direction you pick as the top of the screen ---
**Author:** ![Dazzling\_White\_Diamonds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/41988e/32.png) [@Dazzling\_White\_Diamonds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dazzling_White_Diamonds)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883/45 "2008-07-18T20:33:00Z")
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright] Are you doing it on an Atlon-based machine? It only works if you have an Intel chip. [/QUOTE] Hmmm - I have an Intel system here at work, and I’m not seeing it. I’ll try it at home - maybe it’s b/c I’m on a laptop here at work that has a dual screen setup. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883/46 "2008-07-18T20:37:24Z")
Maybe I didn’t explain it correctly…? You hit all three at the same time (ctrl + alt + down/left/right … up won’t do anything since that’s the default orientation), just like hitting ctrl-alt-delete. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883/47 "2008-07-18T20:42:04Z")
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**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883/48 "2008-07-18T20:49:48Z")
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright] For a real party, wait till these morons aren’t looking, then sneak up to their desks and hit CTRL + ALT + one of the directional keys 🙂 \*Windows only [/QUOTE] That is the coolest thing my work computer has ever done. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883/49 "2008-07-18T21:02:36Z")
[QUOTE=Ravenman] That is the coolest thing my work computer has ever done. [/QUOTE] Shuts down for the weekend on Fridays, doesn’t it? I’d go with that. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883/50 "2008-07-18T21:08:39Z")
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright] In addition to the jazz quartet, “[The Bobs](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR7HDERBCQE)” are also the two “efficiency consultants” brought in to streamline Initech operations (ie. fire unnecessary people) in the movie _Office Space_. [/QUOTE] If you’re saying that my description of my job makes me sound unnecessary or redundant, then Ha! I spit upon your Bobs! They couldn’t make grass grow around here without me, and let them try! Ha! (Really, I would like to see them try. I think I would die laughing.) (Does this post make me sound too arrogant?) Speaking of meeting rooms, someone decided helpfully to rename all of ours as well, to well-known local landmarks such as Twin Peaks, Fisherman’s Wharf, Union Square and other such nonsense. At least they had a sense of humor, the main conference room in the news department was named Komodo Dragon in honor of Phil Bronstein. Roddy ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883/51 "2008-07-18T21:21:19Z")
[QUOTE=Roderick Femm] If you’re saying that my description of my job makes me sound unnecessary or redundant, then Ha! I spit upon your Bobs! They couldn’t make grass grow around here without me, and let them try! Ha! (Really, I would like to see them try. I think I would die laughing.) (Does this post make me sound too arrogant?) [/QUOTE] At the risk of killing the joke, the reason why it was brought up is that in the movie, they can someone with a job much like yours. His was to take specs or something from the customer to the engineers, and the Bobs asked why the customers just couldn’t go to the engineers themselves, at which point the liaison was just completely stumped. Then laid off. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883/52 "2008-07-18T21:31:46Z")
“Is Feynman in your conference room locator?” “Yes.” “Well, why don’t you let him out?” ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Woo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Woo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Woo)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883/53 "2008-07-18T21:33:52Z")
A transcript of an actual IM conversation between me and my boss recently (he knew I was in a “situation room” but wasn’t sure which conference room and building it was, and wanted to find out the status of the P1 issue I was working on): Boss: Where are you? Me: In John Denver Boss: And ? Me: And it’s dark in here. Boss: Uh huh. Me: Oh, and they cleared the trx tables so we’ll see the numbers move in about 10 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883/54 "2008-07-18T21:54:53Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] “In keeping with our enviroment friendly policies, these maps will be printed on both sides!” Apparently, it wasn’t until they started taping these doublesided maps to the walls that they realized the flaw with that plan. [/QUOTE] Make sure they truly understand that instead of using half as much paper, they ended up using twice as much ink. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883/55 "2008-07-19T01:04:50Z")
Turns out, folks, that Feynman, CalTech physicist and Nobel prize winner, is not good enough to have a conference room in Building 18 amongst more dignified luminaries such as Hawking and Aristotle. Instead, we have a conference room named after presumably prestigious but stealth scientist Feyman. :smack: I am surrounded by incompetence. Hey, **Sailboat**! I am going to start scheduling meetings in the Heisenberg conference room. -k- ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883/56 "2008-07-19T01:16:48Z")
For the Heisenberg conference room, you would either know when the meeting is (but not where the room is), or where the room is (but not what time the meeting is supposed to take place). ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883/57 "2008-07-19T05:30:07Z")
I love the idea of the Heisenberg conference room! It just opens up vistas of unpredictability for me. “Where were you while we had our meeting?” “I was there. Or was I?” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883/58 "2008-07-19T16:01:19Z")
[QUOTE=Larry Muddrom: Larry [Mudd] Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 2:36 PM To: [Boss] Subject: Actual conversation. I do try to keep things as simple as possible for [receptionist]. Here’s a word-for-word transcription of our latest conversation: Larry: Warrington PCI will be sending a courier to pick up this box. I’ve written “Warrington PCI” on it here, see? [Receptionist]: **What’s the name of the company, so I’ll know which box to give to them when they come in the door?** Larry: ……. Warrington PCI. [/QUOTE] (Bolding mine) Now, were I the receptionist I’d be resisting the urge to point out (very slowly) that more than one courier may arrive on any given day, and it’d be nice to know which _courier company_ would be picking up that particular item. :dubious: When I worked Reception I encountered more than one courier who greeted me simply with the words, “Package to pick up” - and no apparent idea who it might be for. (I can only theorise that their courier companies bounced things via the dispatch depot rather than doing a straight run, client-to-client.) ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2008, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883/59 "2008-07-20T01:23:39Z")
[QUOTE=Karen Lingel] Hey, **Sailboat**! I am going to start scheduling meetings in the Heisenberg conference room. [/QUOTE] Hey, that’s better that the Schroedinger conference room, where there’s a 50/50 chance you’ll die of boredom before getting out of the meeting. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2008, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883/60 "2008-07-20T14:24:35Z")
I have been in way too many Schrodinger meeting rooms in my life. My luck’s going to run out some day. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-want-to-go-home-early-today/456883.md?page=4)