reading

bedroom stories from the tube matthew sharpe bathroom the reader bernhard schlink car/walk flaming iguanas erika lopez

listening

office resigned .|. free-for-all michael penn car you've come a long way, baby fatboy slim .|. trainspotting soundtrack living room apple venus volume 1 xtc

surfing

brand x   the message came from out of the blue: Brand X welcomes you into its clutches.

1999 april 21

the new guys

...or why i dread going into the office these days.

when i first started working for the most dysfunctional company in the world, it was great fun. i knew quite a number of the people socially and there was a lot of laughter in the office. we were famous for our nonsensical email threads, threads that lasted for months, sometimes with month long breaks between entries. the most famous of these were "nice hair," in which jeff would offer to buy you new music if you had it, and "too many daves," bemoaning the fact we had seven daves in a small office at one time, and suggesting alternate names for them. it was silly, but it was fun and no one ever complained about it. it was a good stress buster too -- when working fourteen hour days, sometimes you just need to stop and be silly once in a while.

obviously, those days are long gone.

From: head veep weasel from hell
To: entire office
Subject: Test your IQ on your lunch hour

This is a fun little Densa quiz, to see just how "densa" you are... :-)
Betcha no one gets the butcher shop question.
http://www.densa.com/densa1.html

From: claire
To: head veep weasel from hell; entire office

oh please, if you don't get the butcher question, you obviously never spent time on a playground as a child.

:)

c -- 12 of 12, a genius, as usual.

yes, i resorted to a smiley, but if i don't add them i am subjected to lectures about my attitude. double-bigass sigh.

From: head veep weasel from hell
To: claire; entire office

No way. OK, did you take the other Densa tests as well? Care to publish those scores?

From: new test geekiot
To: head veep weasel from hell; claire; entire office

Did take the common sense test on how not to flood everyone's email though.. care to see the results?

From: new tech support geekazoid
To: new test geekiot; head veep weasel from hell; claire; entire office

If you do answer all questions designed to fool the masses of American society in a manner which satisfies the creator, you may be one who will fail miserably with survival tactics common within other indifferent yet "intelligent" societies...what's baseball and what is a butcher anyway?

To take the test for some, is an insult, to others it is an ego boost.

If you feel insulted by the Densa questions, take great pride in feeling that way.

From: claire
To: the last remaining cool people in the office [2]

a couple someones just failed the "if you can't be amusing in email then you're crap" test...

i officially ban them from my office and its stellar view.

did the weasels forget to tell the rest of us it was hire the humourless month?

brilliant in a sea of darkness, claire

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