Surviving the Workday

So Ms T suggested that we select an area of expertise for this blog. It was obvious to me in looking at my collection of links that my specialty should be weird workplace news. Ms T also suggested a regular column. Genius! This will force me to do that writing I’ve been neglecting.

Just look for the red stapler when you want your fix of wacky workplace hijinks. I’m going to aim for every Friday.

This week, I have a tasty selection that actually extends into last week as well:

Naughty Coworkers: First off, we have a Japanese civil servant being punished for “epic porn consumption” on the job (warning: naked man butt in sidebar.) How epic? 780,000 pages in the past nine months. His job must be pretty boring.  I think he needs to go work for Porn for the Blind (nsfw language.)

And then we have the police officer who spanked a female coworker telling her that “If it’s there - it’s only fair that I hit it.” I’d be saying the same thing about his jaw.

This tale of an airline worker showing a noose to a black coworker seemed a bit too extreme to fall under the naughty category, but it’s going there anyway. “Snyder says the airline is stepping up diversity training for workers at the airport.” Ya think?

Rounding out our naughty coworkers (and I use the word naughty with a strong sense of understatement) is the Weather Channel reporter who asked his co-anchor to “lick his swizzle stick.” What is up with these people? Seriously.

Weird Workplace Conditions: A Modesto pharmacy is serving customers on the sidewalks due to a major structural failure inside the building. At least they don’t have to wear a mascot costume.

This busdriver was so annoyed at conditions on her bus–namely, loud children, that she slammed on her brakes, injuring nineteen of them. I’m sure we’ve all had those moments.

Apparently it is not so weird that a number of your coworkers are hungover–or still drunk. That explains a lot.

Insane Administration: Here’s the tale of a substitute teacher who was fired for showing students how to do a magic trick. Word on the street is that Dumbledore has made him an offer.

Ms T passed along a link about a T-Mobile call center that has banned the use of pen and paper, in case people use it to steal secrets. Even personal photos must be laminated to prevent their use as scrap paper. As pointed out in the article, “It’s a good thing that no one working at Tmobile might have access to a small electronic device capable of data input and transmission.”

The Crazies: Here is a bizarre tale of a doctor who impersonated a police officer in order to rescue a prostitute. And then things got weird.

And finally, we’ve got a guy pushing for the creation of a panel to prepare the city for space aliens. I find myself actually hoping he collects the needed 4000 signatures and gets it on the ballot.

That’s it for now, folks. If you want to submit a link for this column, we have a new email address: survivingtheworkday at gmail dot com!

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