Wacky workplace "amenities"

[Warrior Poet]

"stitch 'n (talk)" with harsh deadlines

What is a "stitch 'n (talk)" ?

 

[Xath]

Really stitch, and something that means "talking" that rhymes with stitch. It's a fairly common term around here for any time women get together with crafts and talk about stuff.

At home, the neighberhood women get together once a month and bring knitting or scrapbooking, or photos to organize, etc. They sit around for a few hours, eat food, and talk about their husbands and kids.

So that's kind of what I do. Execpt there's not always food and talking. We do alot of sewing though.

 

[Warrior Poet]

Really stitch, and something that means "talking" that rhymes with stitch.

Gotcha. Thanks for the clarification.

Warrior Poet

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

If one calls my company's headquarters, there's a themesong.

Ugh. They've got this on our "hold" line. Remixed versions of the "aural signature" that is used in all of our ads. They used to be fairly decent - versions by the Nelson Riddle Orchestra, Ry Cooder, other folks you'd have heard of. But the last batch are horrendous. There's one that sounds like a bad Prodigy ("Firestarter") knockoff.

 

[DaveStebbins]

Not exactly weird, but I have worked in two offices which had showers, but no offices that actually had working showers.

All three buildings of the complex I work at have working showers in the basement bathrooms (we also have some in the chem labs, but that's a different matter).

I've used the showers in every building because I either walked or rode my bicycle to work for about nine years, and my office has moved around a bit. In the building I work in now, it is very convenient because those bathrooms are just across the hall from the fitness area, which has a few treadmills, a couple steppers, an orbital, four or five exercycles and a half dozen weight machines. I try to take advantage of the free fitness area during lunch at least three times a week (and also on weekends). It's a major contributor to me losing twenty pounds this year.

-Dave

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Eau du Toilet

ROFLMAO

You keep this up and you should change your custom title to "Now with more SNARKINESS"....

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Or it wants to cover up whatever other sounds are coming out of the stalls.

There are certain noises that only loudly played heavy metal will cover up.....

 

[Finster]

I once worked in an ancient office building next to an air-force base, built during the late fourties-early fifties. Most of the building was empty as the company had "down sized" shortly before I was hired. Part of my job was to gather the production reports for the factory we managed. The records were kept in empty offices down the basement. I had to go down and get them. Alone...

Down in the basement were large openings in the walls that looked like tunnels (3 in all). They were closed of with heavy steel gates from floor to ceiling. A constant breeze blew out of them. They were unlit. They were CREEPY. Later I found out that these were indeed tunnels that travelled underground for about one half of a mile and let out in the lower levels of the nearby air-force base. Some kind of bomb shelter was located in between.

 

[Aeson]

I wish I had a company to work for. Then I could (talk) about its amenities.

 

[Arnwyn]

The records were kept in empty offices down the basement. I had to go down and get them. Alone...

Down in the basement were large openings in the walls that looked like tunnels (3 in all). They were closed of with heavy steel gates from floor to ceiling. A constant breeze blew out of them. They were unlit. They were CREEPY. Later I found out that these were indeed tunnels that travelled underground for about one half of a mile and let out in the lower levels of the nearby air-force base. Some kind of bomb shelter was located in between.

This is likely the coolest post I have read in a long time.

That's just freaky, man.