Ross Perot walked in around 16:00 with 6 huge 'bodyguards'.
He fired about 100 people on the spot.
Leaving about 12 of us to run an entire data center.
"Larry, it's just that simple."
Posted on 02/18/2005 7:36:30 AM PST by TXBSAFH
What is the funniest or wierdest thing you ever saw or heard at work?
For me it happened about 9 years ago. I worked construction in my 20's. I had several crafts, on this job I was employed as a pipefitter. I was stand next to my foreman when the General foreman come on the radio with a message to him. This was heard by all the foreman and others. This was a large job with maybe 50 with radios. (A bit of pertainent information, a section of pipe is callled a jiont of pipe.) He said, "Bob I just dropped off an 8 inch, 40 foot joint on the west side of the unit. Get on it is a smokin' hot job."
Some of the retorts on the radio were. "That is on heck of a marley."
"Talk about an employee incentive program."
"Can we have OT on that too?"
HAVE FUN!!!
Haha, yea, the wanna-be moderators are fun to watch. They get so uptight about everything.
I especially love the users who do nothing but go around posting the "How to Make a Vanity" link.
You have to love it when employers bounce paychecks.
Just an observation.
Fortunately, the judge was a very cool dude (Clinton appointee, even). He thought it was funny as well.
"OMFG U N00B, WTF R U DOING POSTING VANITY IN THE NEWS/ACTIVISM!!"
One morning around 3am I was diagnosing a cable problem under the floor at a data center. While crawling around down there, negotiating all the cables, I noticed that the open tile was put back leaving me in the dark, on my stomach and under several racks of computer hardware.
I started screaming for someone to get me out and all I heard back was something that sounded like "Mother of Mercy" in Spanish. Fifteen minutes later the floor opens and there are two policemen, guns drawn yelling at me to come out with my hands up.
ummmm ok
Cause and effect. =P
There is only cause to make fun of such people because they do, in fact, exist.
hehe
The President taught me about pre-emption. Just see #24 I think....
Gad, I've seen those floors open, and it would not be amusing to have that happen.
As I walked down the pier toward my ship, returning from overnight liberty, I watched an enlisted man sweeping the foredeck of our destroyer. He worked his way up to the bullnose and placed the end of his broom in his palm and launched it overboard as far as it would go.
BTT
Sex in the parking garage in the middle of the afternoon.
Pictures?
Sorry. We didn't think of that.
Shameless!
...pictures?
Sorry, we didn't have our minds on capturing the experience for eternity. It happened a long time ago and I would have lost the pictures by now anyway.
The scary thing is it happened to me a second time, about 3 years ago, working on a short-term contract with a consulting company in northern VA. They were one bounced check away from me demanding hand-delivery of a cashier's check or legal action. I note that not long after my contract, the company went out of business.
;P
Just playin'!
Next day, he hops in again. Asks me to notarize something else. I ask for his i.d. He kind of grimaces and says he forgot it at his apartment. I tell him I can't notarize anything without it. He starts going on about how much trouble it is to get to his apartment and back to our office without a car. I sympathize, but tell him again that I can't notarize anything without an i.d.
Exasperated, he finally says, "Lady, I was just in here the other day! C'mon! How many one-legged niggahs you have hoppin' through this place?"
I notarized his stuff.
Hope I didn't offend anyone; those were his words, not mine.
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