I wish that writing this blog (or really writing in general) made me one million dollars a year.
Cue Dr. Evil, ala Austin Powers:
Alas, writing does not pay the bills and I must work for a living. I’ve shared the glamour of my working gig before, but it’s time for an update on my workplace.
Here are some entertaining quirks at work. Or, in a less catchy way that doesn’t sort of rhyme, here are weird things at my workplace.
Spam faxes
Does anyone still fax? Seriously, I can’t tell you the last time I faxed. But every morning on our copy machine I see a pile of spam faxes from roofing companies and strange banks.
“Wow, let me call AAA Roofing because I got this fax that says they are amazing and give them thousands of dollars!” said no one ever.
Free Books
I work in academia. Which is as boring as that sounds. The “Free Books” table that popped up in our breakroom further illustrates the excitement of where I work.
This book, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, has been free for about 9 months. What? No takers? Shocking.
Can someone put the latest Janet Evanovich or Mary Higgins Clark book there, please?
Disgusting communal kitchen
If you have ever worked in an office where more than 1 person shares the kitchen, then you know my pain. But because I work in academia (see above), the rotting food in the fridge is quicker to smell. Because less preservatives and more farm-to-table gobbledy gook.
And even though people around here are supposedly smart, they are still too dumb to know how to wash their dishes.
Your mom doesn’t work here, folks. See that sponge? Use it!
So that’s the glamour of my workplace. What about where you work? Do you still send faxes? Do you have a personal fridge tucked away in your office so Janet doesn’t stink up your lunch with her tuna fish sandwich?
Have you ever experienced the delight of mushrooms sprouting from your workplace’s bathroom wall? That was memorable. Especially in winter when you could see your breath as well. Bonus – two for one. This was in Mom’s Asian antique store at 10th and Granville. The building has since been torn down which is a real shame. It would be such fun to now pop over there and harvest free ‘shrooms instead of forking out the big bucks at my grocery store …
Ha ha ha! Leave it to you and Frankie to one-up me in the weird/quirky workplace race!
Those mushrooms give a whole new meaning to the farm-to-table, organic, non-GMO movement.
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Ugh, the kitchen! Blech.
Also, when are faxes just going to go away? Hello email and scanning, right?!
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Soooo weird that spam faxes even exist in this day and age. Just send spam email like every other sketchy company! 🙂
Oh my goodness! If I don’t know better I’d think you had been in my office kitchen.. Love this post!
I think all office kitchens must be the same level of yuck!