Can I talk to everyone who works in an office for a minute.

(PsychoChomp, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 9:24, 6 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

ok

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 9:25, Reply)

I'm in an office
I turned up with red hair this morning which they all think is very odd.
( Peej, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 9:25, Reply)

Well if it's your pubes and you're walking around
with a skirt on, hitched up at the front, then I can understand.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 9:26, Reply)

Do you work here?
Stop spying on me!
( Peej, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 9:27, Reply)

Never!
said with a bass flourish
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 9:28, Reply)

hello

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 9:26, Reply)

I'm the only one in it,
but it's still an office
(Bazongaloid, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 9:28, Reply)

Me too.
It's lonely at the top.
( girlinthehole, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 9:29, Reply)

If you rely on figures and statistics for your job:
Just because some statistic make you look bad doesn't mean they're wrong.
Just because you think you've found an example of one error, doesn't make the whole thing wrong.
Learn how to use dates in excel retards.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 9:28, Reply)

Oooh, and
An automated SQL query is about 6 billion times less likely to be wrong than "what you think it should look like"
(PsychoChomp, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 9:30, Reply)

Good start to the day...
One mistake doesn't make something wrong, however I would then double check the rest of the work as it obviously hasn't been checked properly.

How can someone not write dates?
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 9:30, Reply)

I should specify it's user inputted data with about 6000 active users.
1 mistake is not a big deal.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 9:32, Reply)

(oh and the mistake they found was clearly marked TESTTESTTEST)

(PsychoChomp, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 9:33, Reply)

"not a big deal/almost impossible for it not to occur"
As with computers it's generally not the system/program/code that is wrong, it was the inputs. I have learnt this lesson painfully.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 9:35, Reply)

I often have to deal with the "it's bad, it must be wrong" thing
I get people asking "why is it like that?" and try to convince them that "because that's how it is" is the only answer.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 9:31, Reply)

My boss is like this about stocktakes.
I've lost count of the number of times I have been forced to say 'just because you don not like the figure you are looking at, this does not mean it is wrong' you witless cretin.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 9:57, Reply)

I work in and office with 5 other people
and we have to keep our stats up by doing loads of work. But we never have to use excel. Wooyay. Also, there's biscuits. Its Friday so soon Dan will go and get a bacon sandwich and bring back loads of hash browns because he flirts with the girl in the canteen. She did it a couple of times and is now stuck, every week she provides us with a stack of freebies and one day she will probably get fired for theft. We will feel terrible but only because the free hash brows will stop.
( Peej, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 9:32, Reply)

You know she wipes her minge with them first?

That's why they don't need salt
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 9:33, Reply)

Tha'ts why they taste so good

( Peej, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 10:01, Reply)

Has somone upset you?
Did they supress a Zero?
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 9:32, Reply)

I am the sad geek in my office and have four .45 scale lightsabers on a shelf behind my desk
We have a resident "know it all" student who keeps coming in and talking bollocks about how much he knows about networking. We know its bollocks because he is always wrong. He just came in and pointed at the lightsabers and said "Nice sonic screwdrivers! I love Dr Who!"
( Peej, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 10:00, Reply)

Perhaps he's a comic ironic genius.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 10:02, Reply)

No, he really is a cretin

( Peej, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 10:04, Reply)

The question is, who is gayer here?
The grown man with the Star Wars toys in his office, or the kid who has got his nerd programmes mixed up?


*flicks the V's*
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 10:12, Reply)

Toys! How dare you! They are .45 Collectable Replicas!
and I did admit to being the office geek.
( Peej, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 10:19, Reply)

No offence like!
I don't want to get strangled by your Simpsons tie when I least expect it.....
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 10:43, Reply)

I don't wear a tie
I can wear what I like to work. A couple of the techs here look like they're tramps so I always look well dressed compared to them.
( Peej, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 11:18, Reply)