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The Office Diaries: By popular demand

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Skalle Pande
Teknisk Forlag
#181 - 2014-08-03 23:18:50 UTC
Ralph King-Griffin wrote:
Bull ****, don't get risk averse on us now.

Buy 50 T1 muffins frosting less cupcakes and take them within her reach...

Seems workable. And then keep the one real muffin just out of reach. Or Camouflage it and hide it in the crowd.

In fact, you might even set a trap: Find some edible and shapable but very gooey, gluey jelly-like stuff, and shpe it up like a muffin and roll it in muffin crumbs and frosting. When Rhonda the Hutt's fingernails reach and grab, she will be out of the competition for half an hour or so while she gets the jelly off her nasty nails...Next time, she might be just that little bit more wary and hesitant and you may get the split second you need to get Mr Muffin out of harms way.
Jamwara DelCalicoe Ashley
New Eden Tech Support
#182 - 2014-08-04 22:27:44 UTC  |  Edited by: Jamwara DelCalicoe Ashley
Skalle Pande wrote:
Ralph King-Griffin wrote:
Bull ****, don't get risk averse on us now.

Buy 50 T1 muffins frosting less cupcakes and take them within her reach...

Seems workable. And then keep the one real muffin just out of reach. Or Camouflage it and hide it in the crowd.

In fact, you might even set a trap: Find some edible and shapable but very gooey, gluey jelly-like stuff, and shpe it up like a muffin and roll it in muffin crumbs and frosting. When Rhonda the Hutt's fingernails reach and grab, she will be out of the competition for half an hour or so while she gets the jelly off her nasty nails...Next time, she might be just that little bit more wary and hesitant and you may get the split second you need to get Mr Muffin out of harms way.


What if you started making Faction Muffins that looked like not-muffins ... for instance, a calculator or a mouse ... that way, after "all of the T1/2 Muffins" had been sold on the market you could flood the market with Faction Muffins.

What if you made a muffin mug and lined it with frosting that took a while to soak through.. you could drink her tears and eat the evidence.
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#183 - 2014-08-04 23:16:38 UTC
Jamwara DelCalicoe Ashley wrote:
Skalle Pande wrote:
Ralph King-Griffin wrote:
Bull ****, don't get risk averse on us now.

Buy 50 T1 muffins frosting less cupcakes and take them within her reach...

Seems workable. And then keep the one real muffin just out of reach. Or Camouflage it and hide it in the crowd.

In fact, you might even set a trap: Find some edible and shapable but very gooey, gluey jelly-like stuff, and shpe it up like a muffin and roll it in muffin crumbs and frosting. When Rhonda the Hutt's fingernails reach and grab, she will be out of the competition for half an hour or so while she gets the jelly off her nasty nails...Next time, she might be just that little bit more wary and hesitant and you may get the split second you need to get Mr Muffin out of harms way.


What if you started making Faction Muffins that looked like not-muffins ... for instance, a calculator or a mouse ... that way, after "all of the T1/2 Muffins" had been sold on the market you could flood the market with Faction Muffins.

What if you made a muffin mug and lined it with frosting that took a while to soak through.. you could drink her tears and eat the evidence.

Did we just invent the covops muffin...I think we did.
Shocked
Jamwara DelCalicoe Ashley
New Eden Tech Support
#184 - 2014-08-04 23:17:59 UTC
Ralph King-Griffin wrote:
Jamwara DelCalicoe Ashley wrote:
Skalle Pande wrote:
Ralph King-Griffin wrote:
Bull ****, don't get risk averse on us now.

Buy 50 T1 muffins frosting less cupcakes and take them within her reach...

Seems workable. And then keep the one real muffin just out of reach. Or Camouflage it and hide it in the crowd.

In fact, you might even set a trap: Find some edible and shapable but very gooey, gluey jelly-like stuff, and shpe it up like a muffin and roll it in muffin crumbs and frosting. When Rhonda the Hutt's fingernails reach and grab, she will be out of the competition for half an hour or so while she gets the jelly off her nasty nails...Next time, she might be just that little bit more wary and hesitant and you may get the split second you need to get Mr Muffin out of harms way.


What if you started making Faction Muffins that looked like not-muffins ... for instance, a calculator or a mouse ... that way, after "all of the T1/2 Muffins" had been sold on the market you could flood the market with Faction Muffins.

What if you made a muffin mug and lined it with frosting that took a while to soak through.. you could drink her tears and eat the evidence.

Did we just invent the covops muffin...I think we did.
Shocked


CovOps Muffin = Muffin with icing posing at regular conscript
Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#185 - 2014-08-05 01:41:07 UTC
First ill start off by saying.. there will not be cov-ops muffins without some form of AFK muffin cloaking. I wouldn't even know how to pull that off. Perhaps leaving an empty package with empty muffin wrappers... naw. Flooding the office with the smell of muffins..but there never being any muffins... that may work... will need to work on this.

Now, in a completely unrelated non-muffin topic (blasphemy), I got to prove a point to the bossman today. Every couple of weeks I'm required to present a report presentation on numbers for section 2. I hate this for 2 reasons. Reason 1 is that it is completely pointless busy work, that is a waste of my time. All of these numbers are very easily accessible through our computer system, and it will even print you out some rather nice looking graphs (hint hint..these are what i use for the presentations). The VP has access to these report at all times, he just refuses to use them.

Reason2 is the main reason I hate this, the VP in charge of this doesnt even pay attention to the presentation he demands we do. He sits there..with a Bluetooth headset on, and listens to something on his smartphone. He doesn't even look at the screens..not one bit. Ive tested this theory by putting small things in the reports that would have gotten a reaction, and random graphs that mean nothing at all. At the end, he just shakes my hand, says "keep up the good work" and leaves. Wasted this time was.

Ive told the bossman about this, and he has never believed me once. Today, I asked him to sit in on the presentation and watch. "don't say a work about what you see..act like its normal." is all I told him. The smile on his face told me he knew was about to happen.

The presentation starts as normal. Within 45 seconds, I see the VP whip out the smartphone and go into la-la land. Slide 3 hits right on time. The title is the only thing intelligible on the screen. Its filled with random words, ASCII phalluses and wingdings. VP is unphased. I continue talking like normal. Slide 4 is a graph..clearly upside down, graphing the progress of tyrannosaurus egg breakfast in relation to money spent on Coca-Cola in the vending machine. Nothing. I say "wouldn't you agree?" to the VP after having said "I feel like chicken tonight", he looks up and says "yes yes, should be fine.". slide 6 is filled with the word "muffin". 210 times. I am now talking unintelligible. During slide 7, recited Liam Neeson's 'TAKEN' phone call, with a picture of a blue line with a heart in it. By slide 10, the bossman is in tears. He's red faced from holding in laughter. Everyone else is puzzled as all hell, half of them with the 'dafuq did I just sit through?' look. Slide 11 is the last one, simply says "don't shake my hand, I didn't wash after using the bathroom, and it was a 2 roller marathon." I bring the lights up, and the VP comes back from la-la dimension . I walk over and hold out my hand. He shakes it. People are in shock. "excellent work, keep it up." is all he says and leaves. Bossman ******* loses it. Hes rolling on the conference room table, beet red faced, tears rolling down his face laughing. People start leaving just mind blown. Not one person is willing to look me in the eye, no one shakes my hand. Good times.

Good news everyone! I don't have to do useless report presentations anymore! Bossman finally sees what I'm talking about and agrees 100% about it being a waste of everyone time. We then had a discussion about what 13375P34K is. Good stuff. Coffey was had. The good stuff.

In victory, Mr Muffin recited slide 6 over the speakerphone. Nobody gets it, the sound of bossman's laughter echoes from the corner office. OHL is surprised I still have a job, as I did all of this against her will. And here I was thinking the force was strong with that one.

Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?

Jamwara DelCalicoe Ashley
New Eden Tech Support
#186 - 2014-08-05 01:49:33 UTC
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
First ill start off by saying.. there will not be cov-ops muffins without some form of AFK muffin cloaking. I wouldn't even know how to pull that off. Perhaps leaving an empty package with empty muffin wrappers... naw. Flooding the office with the smell of muffins..but there never being any muffins... that may work... will need to work on this.

Now, in a completely unrelated non-muffin topic (blasphemy), I got to prove a point to the bossman today. Every couple of weeks I'm required to present a report presentation on numbers for section 2. I hate this for 2 reasons. Reason 1 is that it is completely pointless busy work, that is a waste of my time. All of these numbers are very easily accessible through our computer system, and it will even print you out some rather nice looking graphs (hint hint..these are what i use for the presentations). The VP has access to these report at all times, he just refuses to use them.

Reason2 is the main reason I hate this, the VP in charge of this doesnt even pay attention to the presentation he demands we do. He sits there..with a Bluetooth headset on, and listens to something on his smartphone. He doesn't even look at the screens..not one bit. Ive tested this theory by putting small things in the reports that would have gotten a reaction, and random graphs that mean nothing at all. At the end, he just shakes my hand, says "keep up the good work" and leaves. Wasted this time was.

Ive told the bossman about this, and he has never believed me once. Today, I asked him to sit in on the presentation and watch. "don't say a work about what you see..act like its normal." is all I told him. The smile on his face told me he knew was about to happen.

The presentation starts as normal. Within 45 seconds, I see the VP whip out the smartphone and go into la-la land. Slide 3 hits right on time. The title is the only thing intelligible on the screen. Its filled with random words, ASCII phalluses and wingdings. VP is unphased. I continue talking like normal. Slide 4 is a graph..clearly upside down, graphing the progress of tyrannosaurus egg breakfast in relation to money spent on Coca-Cola in the vending machine. Nothing. I say "wouldn't you agree?" to the VP after having said "I feel like chicken tonight", he looks up and says "yes yes, should be fine.". slide 6 is filled with the word "muffin". 210 times. I am now talking unintelligible. During slide 7, recited Liam Neeson's 'TAKEN' phone call, with a picture of a blue line with a heart in it. By slide 10, the bossman is in tears. He's red faced from holding in laughter. Everyone else is puzzled as all hell, half of them with the 'dafuq did I just sit through?' look. Slide 11 is the last one, simply says "don't shake my hand, I didn't wash after using the bathroom, and it was a 2 roller marathon." I bring the lights up, and the VP comes back from la-la dimension . I walk over and hold out my hand. He shakes it. People are in shock. "excellent work, keep it up." is all he says and leaves. Bossman ******* loses it. Hes rolling on the conference room table, beet red faced, tears rolling down his face laughing. People start leaving just mind blown. Not one person is willing to look me in the eye, no one shakes my hand. Good times.

Good news everyone! I don't have to do useless report presentations anymore! Bossman finally sees what I'm talking about and agrees 100% about it being a waste of everyone time. We then had a discussion about what 13375P34K is. Good stuff. Coffey was had. The good stuff.

In victory, Mr Muffin recited slide 6 over the speakerphone. Nobody gets it, the sound of bossman's laughter echoes from the corner office. OHL is surprised I still have a job, as I did all of this against her will. And here I was thinking the force was strong with that one.


If I end up getting fired soon I'll be sure to post some things for you :D
Debora Tsung
Perkone
Caldari State
#187 - 2014-08-05 06:41:02 UTC
My sides hurt now, but it's a good pain. Big smile

Stupidity should be a bannable offense.

Fighting back is more fun than not.

Sticky: AFK Cloaking Thread It's not pretty, but it's there.

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Stay Frosty.
A Band Apart.
#188 - 2014-08-05 11:30:50 UTC
Debora Tsung wrote:
My sides hurt now, but it's a good pain. Big smile

Concur. They should make a reality tv show about where you work....

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Senstara Nightwhisper
Tsuifuku
#189 - 2014-08-05 12:14:24 UTC
I read this while on a conference call.... I laughed so hard and had to make up an excuse for what I found so funny... As I'm sure Eve-Forums would not count as a logical excuse.
Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#190 - 2014-08-11 22:34:07 UTC
The Toilet Knight Rises

From: ***** , ****** [*****@**********.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 7, 2014 11:13 AM
To: All Floor 2, All Floor 3, All Floor 4
Cc:
Subject: Floor 4 Executive washroom issue

Guys,
This has got to stop. For over a week now I have had to hear whoever it is in the executive washroom making the Batman voice. Always from a locked stall. I don't know who it is, but this needs to stop. I know you all believe that this is funny, its not. I would like to believe that we run a mature workplace environment, but it is now obvious that there is someone who wants to be a child.

So far no one has seen who this "Bathroom Batman" is. The cameras in the east hallway of Floor 4 have all been turned away from the bathroom area, so we do not have footage of who this is. The security guard posted in the hallway has not seen anyone who is unauthorized use the washroom. If you know who this person is, please let HR or myself know immediately. If you decide to turn yourself in, we may disregard the violation of moving the security cameras. Keep it up, and there will be consequences.

At bare minimum people, I would like to see this behavior stopped.

****** *****
Vice President, Marketing


Now.. I don't know who this 'Caped Crusader of the Crapper" is, but he isn't the hero this company deserves, he is the hero this company needs. If you are reading this, you are my hero, and im frankly a little jealous that you did this and not me. Please, teach me your ways! If I could move like a freakin ninja through this place, the things I could get away with..

I want to be... your Robin. Without the tights, without the 'holy (something relevant to the situation), Batman!' and something muffin related. I will not have any name that ends in 'Boy' either. You know what, this needs to be a partnership, I don't feel that im sidekick material, as my talents would be wasted.

Signal me, and I will meet you. Any time, any where. You can find the Muffin-signal on my desk, next to the monitor. Just shine it at the ceiling and ill see it, possibly because its the muffin signal, possibly because you would literally be standing in front of my desk when you did it.

If you aren't a hero, but a villain, I have that covered too, so yeah, wither way, we got this. For proof of my villainy, please see the pages of this thread. I may have some names for evil organizations picked out, and may already have appropriate t-shirts made. Bad guys do that, I checked.

Now, back to todays regularly scheduled programming, already in progress.

Well, of course theyd give me damn chocolate muffins today. Knowing full well that I have Batman on the brain, they would do this. Its a trap. Im on to you.. you want me to go all batman voiced with the muffin so you all can say its me.. I see through your plans!!! Well I will not give you what you want! I will go with other Muffin personalities! Maybe ill go with Bruce Wayne muffin.. yep.. no one would suspect a thing.

I didn't go with Bruce Wayne muffin.

I sat there and stared at the muffin.. waiting for the muse to strike, waiting for inspiration! Show me what you are to become! And then.. Lindy ate it.

You little *****.

Sat there with a smug look on her face while she did it too. Don't you know I will destroy you? Don't you know that I will soon know Batman? Don't you know, that I totally licked that muffin?

Yep. Licked the muffin. I do that now. It keeps the Rhonda at bay. She wont eat a licked muffin.. but a Lindy will.

You ate a licked muffin, and now, everyone knows it.

Well.. everyone who matters knows it. So like 20 people know it.

Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?

Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#191 - 2014-08-12 00:52:12 UTC  |  Edited by: Jonah Gravenstein
I like OHL, she is fearless.

Your Batman side kick name should include the words Muffin, and Muncher

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Graygor
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#192 - 2014-08-13 00:47:17 UTC
God i missed these.

Keep up the good work.

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A Band Apart.
#193 - 2014-08-13 11:47:28 UTC
Hmmm, I'm sensing a double standard here.

While I would never discourage OHL partaking in a slow and sensual devouring of my muffin, I seem to recall a fair amount of hostility with Randy the Pornstar and muffin consumption.

To thineself be true, is there something we need to know about? Why is OHL allowed to get into Mr. Muffin's wrapper with no incredulity?

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Debora Tsung
Perkone
Caldari State
#194 - 2014-08-13 12:02:46 UTC
Random McNally wrote:
Hmmm, I'm sensing a double standard here.

While I would never discourage OHL partaking in a slow and sensual devouring of my muffin, I seem to recall a fair amount of hostility with Randy the Pornstar and muffin consumption.

To thineself be true, is there something we need to know about? Why is OHL allowed to get into Mr. Muffin's wrapper with no incredulity?


I believe there are certain levels of personal awesomeness involved.

While Randy the Ponstar had an awesome level of roundabout 1 - which means his failures and/ or accidental successes actually raise the level of awesomeness of OHTER people - OHL might have an awesome level of at least 3 which means her successes might or might not temporarily increase her own level of awesome.

In combination with certain muffins and/or batman voices this might lead to a temporary awesome micro singularity of tremendous proportions.

I suggest to watch that person closely and record everything she does on video. In High Definition.

Stupidity should be a bannable offense.

Fighting back is more fun than not.

Sticky: AFK Cloaking Thread It's not pretty, but it's there.

Random McNally
Stay Frosty.
A Band Apart.
#195 - 2014-08-13 12:07:20 UTC
Debora Tsung wrote:
Random McNally wrote:
Hmmm, I'm sensing a double standard here.

While I would never discourage OHL partaking in a slow and sensual devouring of my muffin, I seem to recall a fair amount of hostility with Randy the Pornstar and muffin consumption.

To thineself be true, is there something we need to know about? Why is OHL allowed to get into Mr. Muffin's wrapper with no incredulity?


I believe there are certain levels of personal awesomeness involved.

While Randy the Ponstar had an awesome level of roundabout 1 - which means his failures and/ or accidental successes actually raise the level of awesomeness of OHTER people - OHL might have an awesome level of at least 3 which means her successes might or might not temporarily increase her own level of awesome.

In combination with certain muffins and/or batman voices this might lead to a temporary awesome micro singularity of tremendous proportions.

I suggest to watch that person closely and record everything she does on video. In High Definition.

While I cannot argue that there may be an awesomeness level difference, it still doesn't address the double standard.

Photographic evidence required.

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Debora Tsung
Perkone
Caldari State
#196 - 2014-08-13 12:09:07 UTC
Random McNally wrote:
Photographic evidence required.

I support that, we should start a petition.

Stupidity should be a bannable offense.

Fighting back is more fun than not.

Sticky: AFK Cloaking Thread It's not pretty, but it's there.

Random McNally
Stay Frosty.
A Band Apart.
#197 - 2014-08-13 12:11:39 UTC
Debora Tsung wrote:
Random McNally wrote:
Photographic evidence required.

I support that, we should start a petition.

Just dont let Legal know about this. I'm sure that posting photos of muffins on the interwebs would cause potential work complications.

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Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#198 - 2014-08-14 17:43:11 UTC  |  Edited by: Unsuccessful At Everything
The Stanley Parable

I think almost every place of employment has a worker like Stanley. His name is actually Stan, that’s his full name. Its not short for anything. He hates being called anything else, therefore I call him Stanley, or Stanford, or some interesting mashup of Stan and other names. Im getting off track here. Anyways, I can guarantee that every place of employment has a Stanley. Stanley is what I like to call a ‘Stir-stick’. Why a ‘Stir-stick’? Because the only way to explain most office environments is to consider them governed by Fluid Dynamics. Stanford is never happy with what he has, the grass is ALWAYS greener on the other side. Stan Franscisco has always been like this, and im a tad used to it. Stanson has friends in other companies, and he likes to pry info about their pay and such from them, just so he can drama the office with tales of ‘how bad we have it’ and ‘how its never been this bad’.

I know what youre thinking at this point. “UAE, you have no right to be upset about drama! You cause so much of it!”

I good sir or madam, am an Office Villain. I do not cause drama, I create masterpieces of office wrath! Ok.. the whole ‘This pie contains lard’ prank may have caused drama, but it was entertaining drama! Not this ‘sew hate and discontent in the office because entitlement issues’ thing that Stanford and Sons does. Call me a hypocrite, don’t care. There is a difference, sometimes its subtle, but its there!

Anyways, back to Stanson, and the laws of Office Fluid Dynamics.

So, Stir-stick has got the majority of the floor up in arms. I cant walk 3 feet in any direction without hearing a conversation about ‘how bad it is here because we can get paid X amount more over at [other company]’ and ‘over at [other company] they get [things] and we don’t! Rabble Rabble Rabble.”(Im starting to think this is why I hate Highsec so much.. because this actually sounds a lot like.. nevermind, that’s another thread.) Its gotten pretty bad at this point. You can literally feel the dread in this place. I know that Stanlets (French pronounciation) claims about the other company are pretty much bull**** (ive been courted by this same company several times.. and I know what they actually pay and what they actually get.). Bossman and I had a pow-wow about this this morning (made me miss damn Doughnut Thunderdome!) and weve come to the consensus that Stankly is just trying to get a promotion or a raise but making it sound like hes underpaid. (interestingly, our company pays 6% higher than the ‘other place’ in a side by side comparison of similar positions). Bossman is going to squash this **** tomorrow morning. I cant wait.

To be honest, im not sure how the Office Fluid Dynamics thing really came about. It’s a term Section 2 and the Bossman have come up with over the past few years. I guess the only real definition would be that if one person is going a bad direction strong enough, then regardless of the other peoples orientation, they will eventually start going the same direction. Does that even make sense? Its really the only way I can explain it. So you can see why we would call Staniel a ‘Stir-stick’.
I guess the difference between Stanson and me would be (wait.. did I use Stanson already.. yep. Oh well..) that I do what I do out of “content creation” .. and sometimes boredom, vengeance and laughs, he does this out of love for drama for the sake of drama. Plus, im content with my job, and what I have, and don’t care what shade the grass is on the other side, because I at least have grass.. and if Stanielle keeps it up, im sure he wont have any of those things for much longer.

Ugh. Now that that’s all of my chest..

Im deciding what to do with OHL. As it has been pointed out, I didn’t let Randy The Pornstar get away with eating his supervisor. This is true. Now, she has argued her case against wrath but pointing out that the muffin had not yet ‘become’ a Mr Muffin at the time of devouring by my own admission. Yes, she used this thread against me.. dammit. I believe shes trying to skirt the unwritten Section 2 rules by using a loophole. Shes devious like that. Im very conflicted at this point. Especially because shes trying to buy her way back into my good graces with promises of her grandmother’s World ******* famous Sweet Potato Pie. On one hand, she deserves wrath.. she knew what she did.. with that smug smile while nom nom nom on a blank muffin.. but then again.. I do love that pie.. and I do approve of bribery with pie.. so I don’t know what to do.

Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?

Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#199 - 2014-08-14 18:06:36 UTC
Pie is the answer, it is always the answer.

Cake, on the other hand, is a lie; a dirty gurt one.

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A Band Apart.
#200 - 2014-08-15 11:24:38 UTC
Hmmmm, pie.

Pie vs. a blank slate muffin. An...UNmuffin.

Pie vs. UNmuffin.

OHL.

You have my axe.

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