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The Office Diaries: By popular demand

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Tollen Gallen
Glory of Reprisal Enterprise
#221 - 2014-09-08 18:26:04 UTC
I like The Office Diaries.

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Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#222 - 2014-09-09 02:20:34 UTC
Well, Scotty (Long term Section 2 minion, engineer of the Sarcastiship Effortprise) has gone and committed a crime. The crime of Muffin Desecration. As punishment, I will now regale the interwebs with the story that Scotty doesn’t like to hear.. mostly because its true.. partly because of the way I tell it.

I present to the interwebs the tale of: How UaE saved Scotty’s marriage by porking his wife.

Its exactly how it sounds.

Our tale begins a long time ago.. at least 5 or 6 years.. in a far away land called Houston. In this magical kingdom, there was a large hotel where our all-powerful and all-knowing executives gathered men and women from across the states to come together to basically attempt to bore us to death, feed us sub par buffet food, and get us liquored out of minds on the companies account so that they may write off the expenses for taxes.

Scotty and I went to this magical gathering, and brought our spouses along. But you probably guessed that from the title of the story anyways. During the evening of day 1, Scotty decides to partake of generous amounts of free alcohol, and becomes inebriated. That night upon his return to his bedchamber, him and the misses get into an argument. The argument slowly degrades until Scotty decides , stupidly, to drop the bomb of how he slept with his highschool girlfriend during the class reunion 1 month before they got married. BOOM.

Not surprisingly, Scotty’s wife doesn’t take that well. I don’t see why. Anyways, She leaves Scotty in a drunken rambling state and comes to stay in our room. Dear Penthouse Forum… (I haven’t trolled there..yet..)

Over the next few days, their relationship and marriage slowly crumble. The wife is stuck in the room consoling Carla (Scotty’s wife.. pretty sure I mentioned that… nope I didn’t.) While Scotty and I attend the festivities. Scotty is a wreck by day 3, Im a wreck because Ive got the sobbing sisters in my room. At this pont, I could go stay in Scotty’s room and get some sleep.. and possibly some quality spooning.. or I can do my nice guy thing.. and totally take his wife out and show her a good time to get her mind off stuff.

Scotty went unspooned that evening.

I made Carla get all dressed up, and I got all well.. dressed. My wife went to bed. She knew what was going to happen. She was ok with it. (were open like that) I asked around and found the perfect place to take Carla.. a nice barbeque joint. When we got there, I treated her like a lady.. took her coat, pulled out her chair.. oh yeah.. UaE was going to get some tonight. I ordered up some wine (ok.. it was beer.. but for the sake of the story.. it was wine.. romantic wine) and we sat and talked. The waiter came over and took our order (ok.. we ordered at a window..) During our wait I gazed into Carla’s eyes.. and called Scotty a douche. I regaled her with tales of Scotty until .. I porked her. Yep. ALL YOU CAN EAT PORK BARBEQUE BABY!!!!!!! I stuffed Carla good that night.. all night long (not really all night.. the place closed at like 10 or something). Good thing there were wet-naps available.. because her face got messy, all that sauce dripping off her chin..a little dribble down her blouse.. it was some hard work satisfying that woman! I wasn’t just her face I messed up wither.. she got quite a bit in her lap too. I porked her so long and good that she had a hard time walking.. back to the car (because she was full.. wink wink). During the car ride back to the hotel, we talked some more, and we both decided that Scotty was a loveable douche, and that yeah he screwed up, but he was sorry and felt really bad for years about it and that he loved her.

When we got back, she took her stuff from our room and went back and talked with Scotty.. and to this day they are still together.
Reading this back.. it really doenst sound that dirty when you read it. I guess you need to be in person.. because you really need the voice inflection and winking to work it… plus it almost makes me sound like a decent human being.. which would just be awful.

Long story short, I porked Scotty’s wife and saved his marriage.

You know.. this doesn’t seem like much of a punishment. .. the wrath planning machine must work overtime to come up with a plan to get Scotty back.. something to do with his wife isn’t out of the question…wink wink.


Sidenote: Yay! Tollen is back! \o/

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Random McNally
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A Band Apart.
#223 - 2014-09-09 14:34:55 UTC
Came expecting sexual escapades and left hungry.

Curse you, UaE. Where the hell is there a BBQ place open at 9:30 am???

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Graygor
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#224 - 2014-09-09 16:18:07 UTC
Random McNally wrote:
Came expecting sexual escapades and left hungry.

Curse you, UaE. Where the hell is there a BBQ place open at 9:30 am???


In Houston. Duh. Roll

And great story UAE. The story, the twist, the sauce... oh the sauce.

9 and a half thumbs up. It would be ten but alas there was an incident with a chef knife and a reenactment of the knife hand scene from Aliens.

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Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#225 - 2014-10-09 22:13:38 UTC
Ugh.

We had a company-wide shake up a bit ago. So where to begin..

Apparently we had an 'efficiency expert' come in as a consultant a while ago. We all know how I feel about consultants.. anyways, it came down from the powers that be that there were 'redundancies' in the staff of all the offices. What did this mean to us? We lost a full 15% of our workforce.

The office lost some people, a lot of people. The stress of letting so many people go gave bossman a mental breakdown. So many people he had known for a long time. He ended up taking almost a month off work. Poor guy. Being the most senior section supervisor, I was selected to take over in his absence as interim floor manager.

The power.. the delicious delicious powerrrrrrr...

... but the downside was the fact that I now had twice as much of my own work to do (thanks in part to the decimation of Section 4, and the loss of Steve's minion, and shifting of workload from another floor partially to ours) which needed to be delegated to the rest of Section 2, while I now needed to take on the bossman's responsibilities. So many many long nights trying to catch up.. I found myself mentally worn out beyond words. I have a new respect for Bossman's role here, although I will admit that his job was much easier before the purge.. so.. yeah.

Anyways, Hes back. Finally. I can now go back to my own job. Although I did spend the whole morning showing him some of the new processes that had been implemented in his absence. Its like a vacation now! Having to restrain my inner troll for such a long period was beginning to degrade my soul. But I handled it well.. like a boss you might say.. pun intended of course.

I think Ive gained a little respect in the company now, especially on this floor. People no longer look upon me in fear, and the tone of voice the management uses with me is much nicer. Im not sure if that's a good thing. There needs to be a little fear.. and loathing by the management.

At this point, I don't know what to do now. I got used to the increased workload, now what ive got doesn't seem like so much anymore.

Tommorow is Pie-day. Hopefully its something tasty.. although it is Becky Resident Militant Vegan *****'s turn in the pie rotation.. so.. not sure if what to expect.. must.. try.. to keep.. expectations low...

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

Tollen Gallen
Glory of Reprisal Enterprise
#226 - 2014-10-10 17:36:08 UTC
SadWhat?Ugh





I like Lego.

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Stay Frosty.
A Band Apart.
#227 - 2014-10-10 17:40:37 UTC
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
Ugh.

We had a company-wide shake up a bit ago. So where to begin..

Apparently we had an 'efficiency expert' come in as a consultant a while ago. We all know how I feel about consultants.. anyways, it came down from the powers that be that there were 'redundancies' in the staff of all the offices. What did this mean to us? We lost a full 15% of our workforce.

The office lost some people, a lot of people. The stress of letting so many people go gave bossman a mental breakdown. So many people he had known for a long time. He ended up taking almost a month off work. Poor guy. Being the most senior section supervisor, I was selected to take over in his absence as interim floor manager.

The power.. the delicious delicious powerrrrrrr...

... but the downside was the fact that I now had twice as much of my own work to do (thanks in part to the decimation of Section 4, and the loss of Steve's minion, and shifting of workload from another floor partially to ours) which needed to be delegated to the rest of Section 2, while I now needed to take on the bossman's responsibilities. So many many long nights trying to catch up.. I found myself mentally worn out beyond words. I have a new respect for Bossman's role here, although I will admit that his job was much easier before the purge.. so.. yeah.

Anyways, Hes back. Finally. I can now go back to my own job. Although I did spend the whole morning showing him some of the new processes that had been implemented in his absence. Its like a vacation now! Having to restrain my inner troll for such a long period was beginning to degrade my soul. But I handled it well.. like a boss you might say.. pun intended of course.

I think Ive gained a little respect in the company now, especially on this floor. People no longer look upon me in fear, and the tone of voice the management uses with me is much nicer. Im not sure if that's a good thing. There needs to be a little fear.. and loathing by the management.

At this point, I don't know what to do now. I got used to the increased workload, now what ive got doesn't seem like so much anymore.

Tommorow is Pie-day. Hopefully its something tasty.. although it is Becky Resident Militant Vegan *****'s turn in the pie rotation.. so.. not sure if what to expect.. must.. try.. to keep.. expectations low...

Uh oh. I can see future UaE posts going something like...

Nice day at work today. Rhonda the Hutt was pleasant and I brought in a flower to show how much I appreciated her contributions to the success of my day.

New found appreciation for Becky's Vegan treats.

Otherwise, a quiet and uncomplicated day.

(shudder)

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Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#228 - 2014-10-10 19:22:57 UTC
Random McNally wrote:
Rhonda the Hutt was pleasant and I brought in a flower to show how much I appreciated her contributions to the success of my day.


I can guarantee with 100% certainty that this will never happen. Unless it was a gag flower that shot lemon juice.. or the liquid from a skunk's musk gland.. ok.. I can say with 90% certainty that this will never happen..

Quote:
New found appreciation for Becky's Vegan treats.


Her palette is quite.. bland. Shes not one of those gourmet Vegans that you see on TV who can make a black bean patty taste like the best burger you've ever had. No. The pie was awful. It was like eating mung bean custard in a cardboard crust... but without the custard.. it was certainly mung though..

Quote:
Otherwise, a quiet and uncomplicated day.

(shudder)


Yeah. pretty much ::shudder::
A boring office like you see on the TV is what I can only imagine my personal hell would be.

Well, I violated our office policy on personal phone calls this morning. It wasn't really a personal call. It was a census taker.. or survey person. I normally don't answer them, buuuut I was slightly bored and burping up sawdust pudding and figured I could humor the poor sap on the other end. It all went well until they asked how many children I had. Of course I answered 2.5. 2.5 is still the average right? So then that question slowly digressed into an exploration on how we only had half a child. You see, when we were picking out our child from the catalogue, we forgot to uncheck the "remove all earthworm DNA" box. I mean, it seemed like such a silly thing at the time. Until the fateful day where the kids were all playing on the combine. (for this, pretend we lived on a farm.. with a cornfield.. which required a combine..) and our youngest decided to show off her elite harvesting skills by starting up the combine while Jerry (fictional future half child) was playing atop the blade assembly. One thing led to another and Jerry was chopped in half. Thankfully that earthworm DNA thing didn't happen afterall.. or else we would have ended up with 4 kids. Now Jerry is our half child. Come to think of it.. maybe the earthworm thing DID happen because he does have 2 little tiny leg stalks starting to grow. The convo got really strange when I came to the realization that the lower half of Jerry may be regenerating somewhere. I asked the poor guy if he had heard any reports of a pair of legs with a tiny little torso out and about, to which he finally hung up on me. How rude. What if Jerry had been real? Couldn't that guy show him at least a little respect by hearing his father out about his life story? The nerve of some people. I would have totally listened to a census taker's story about his earthworm hybrid child who got chopped by a combine.

Anyways, the bossman stood behind me and listened apparently... aaaaand yeah. He laughed, pointed out the "no personal phone calls" policy, and went back in his office. Im glad I could make him laugh.

Well, its almost time for me to go and catch an earful from the VP upstairs. I apparently did something wrong.. cant imagine what.. and he needs to 'speak' with me. Im sure this will end well.

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

Iain Cariaba
#229 - 2014-10-10 19:34:46 UTC
I'd missed this thread while you were temporarily upper management.

Welcome back.
Random McNally
Stay Frosty.
A Band Apart.
#230 - 2014-10-16 16:14:58 UTC
So.....

details on the arse chewing?

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The Troll Bridge
#231 - 2014-10-17 19:05:16 UTC
Random McNally wrote:
So.....details on the arse chewing?


Do one thing wrong, that in reality not one person explained how to do right, while doing a job that youre not used to, while filling in for someone, and it didn't really effect ANYTHING.. and apparently VPs lose their freaking minds.

It was literally nothing. After a lively discussion (read as 'performance critique' aka 'what you did wrong because I said so'), I pointed out that the error doesn't effect anything important (or unimportant.. or anything at all really..) and could have been easily corrected. It was an honest mistake in an otherwise flawless execution of a company role.

The good (?) news is that I am not the official backup for Bossman, and im on the list for a management position when one opens up. Seeing of course that part of our workforce was recently labeled as redundant and was let go, I doubt we will have any openings soon. I have mixed feelings on the subject. Pay increase = good, Asshattery decrease = bad. Sigh.

Anyways, back to our irregularly scheduled program.

Mr Muffin got into the holiday spirit this week. Pumpkin Streusel, while delicious and festive, also tends NOT to hold up to the rigors of muffin characterization. After only 10 minutes of really just god awful online holloween and thanksgiving jokes in a german accent (or some weird amalgamation of German and Dutch..it was really hard to tell at times), Mr Muffin's head crumbled in mid sentence and my desk was ruined by streusel. As an appropriate funeral for our short lived comrade, we feasted upon his corpse in an effort to gain his power. I decided that this doesn't violate the rules because he was already dead, therefore all of section 2 got a piece, and I think we are all slightly better people because of it.

Albert was almost deemed our first true casualty of Doughnut Thunderdome this week, as while during the battle, he thought he was having a heart attack. It turned out to be nothing. Gas or something. I don't know. Dammit Jim, Im an asshat, not a doctor! anyways, Albert is fine. I really kinda wish that I could have said someone died during Doughnut Thunderdome though.. that would have sounded badass, and highlighted how violent it can really be in there.

Today OHL provided the pie, and it is AWESOME! mostly because I got a WHOLE sweet potato pie ALL TO MYSELF. Im eating this whole thing today.. I don't care what people think. Its happening. Orgasmic moaning noises shall be made, pie shall be savered, and the world shall make slightly more sense.

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

Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#232 - 2014-10-27 19:37:10 UTC
Do you know who I am? Do you understand the hell that I can bring down on you? I eat people like you for breakfast. Look at you.. weak.. trembling.. in awe of my power. I will crush you.. destroy you.. I will utterly pulverize you, mix you with brown sugar and a dash of cinnimon and some butter and sprinkle you atop my brethren. There is no where you can hide.. no where that my influence cannot reach you. I am the all seeing pastry of your nightmares. I will haunt your dreams.. torture your waking thoughts.. ravage your memories. I am the muffin.. Mr. Muffin.

Kelly the new transfer from the Portland office stood shocked. She had no clue how to react to such a powerful presence. She had mistakenly made a snide remark to a greeting by her new overlord before turning around. Now.. she had come under the full attention of the one person in this place she must never cross...

A hush fell over the nearby sections. There was no way that this poor newcomer could have known the seriousness of her transgression... now.. people listened as Mr. Muffin laid down the rules that she will now live by. Slowly.. and quietly.. punctuated with dramatic pauses.. with a slight hint of Willam Defoe. The consequences for not following the rules was wrath.. he would leave the specifics up to her imagination.. and perhaps the tales spun from past victims.

How could this muffin be so cruel, yet the person holding him be so nice? Is this the carrot and the stick? The good cop bad cop? IS THIS MAN INSANE??!?!! It must be all of the above. Why would any company put someone like this in charge? Did I make the right choice in transferring here? These were the questions burning behind her eyes. Questions that I would leave up to her to answer.

The man and his muffin returned to their fortress. Upon resuming their respective thrones.. began to chuckle.. louder.. and louder.. until they both were laughing the evil laughs of office villainy..

Visibly left in a daze.. Kelly sat silently.. staring at her computer screen. The overlords henchman, or rather second-in-command, went to her side. Quietly they discussed among themselves the unwritten rules of the territory, above all else never to eat or attempt to eat of the muffin..

Welcome to hell, Kelly... or as we all call it... another day at the office.

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

Debora Tsung
Perkone
Caldari State
#233 - 2014-10-29 07:21:45 UTC
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
Welcome to hell, Kelly... or as we all call it... another day at the office.

Hell hath no fury like that of a chewed on sentient muffin. (︺︹︺)

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.
#234 - 2014-10-29 11:13:50 UTC
In the Halloween season, I think Mr. Muffin should dress up in a cape.

Either a vampire cape, or a victorian half cape.

Mr. Muffin will gain evil cred by dressing in a cape.

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Tollen Gallen
Glory of Reprisal Enterprise
#235 - 2014-10-29 18:18:45 UTC
Random McNally wrote:
In the Halloween season, I think Mr. Muffin should dress up in a cape.

Either a vampire cape, or a victorian half cape.

Mr. Muffin will gain evil cred by dressing in a cape.



Evil Dr jeckle Muffin!






I like Beef.

Zimmy Zeta - I f*cking love martinis. the original ones, with gin, not that vodka martini crap. Your old Friends can use me for 7 days, free!!!

Random McNally
Stay Frosty.
A Band Apart.
#236 - 2014-10-31 12:12:48 UTC
Tollen Gallen wrote:
Random McNally wrote:
In the Halloween season, I think Mr. Muffin should dress up in a cape.

Either a vampire cape, or a victorian half cape.

Mr. Muffin will gain evil cred by dressing in a cape.



Evil Dr jeckle Muffin!






I like Beef.

Exactly.




I like Tollen Gallen.

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Indahmawar Fazmarai
#237 - 2014-10-31 14:52:12 UTC
Debora Tsung wrote:
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
Welcome to hell, Kelly... or as we all call it... another day at the office.

Hell hath no fury like that of a chewed on sentient muffin. (︺︹︺)


Muffin is not amused.
Random McNally
Stay Frosty.
A Band Apart.
#238 - 2014-12-23 12:23:08 UTC
Necro'ing an incredible thread to have our forum supervillian repost again!!

C'mon man, it's the holidays and you got nuthin'??

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Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#239 - 2014-12-23 19:33:58 UTC
Ok Ok Ok.. so many mails on this! Now a Random fueled thread revival!

TOD Holiday update!!

It was cozy where I was. Nice and warm. Everything I wanted was right there. It was like being in the womb again. But then.. it happened. I saw a light at the end of the tunnel... or the hallway on the next floor up... and I was dragged, kicking and screaming (literally) into it. Soon I was slapped with reality and welcomed to the new world.

Forcibly promoted. Under protest! (not kidding, there is actually a line in my file, not that im admitting to sneaking into HR to hand write such a thing...)

I was sat down in front of the VP. Not really a uncommon occurrence, never a pleasant one.. always with that damn overuse of cologne though.. ugh. So much.. his whole office just REEKS of it. Its Armani something something dark side something. Beats me. I don't use cologne. Anyways, he gave me a choice.. Minneapolis or Portland.

Whhhyyyyy...

I refused. Im not moving. I like my throne right where it is thank you very much.

"This is happening, come to peace with it."

Stunned silence. How could I be speechless at a time like this? After some negotiating, we compromised. I get a whole floor of my own right here. One floor down from where I was.

2 days later, Scotty was given the reigns of Section 2, and I was moved into my new office overlooking new territory full of new faces (at least new to me..) with a new sign on the door.. with my name and the dreaded title of FLOOR MANAGER upon it. Some tales of my exploits had reached my new serfs, but alas, it was gong to be a steep learning curve.. for both of us. HR saw my transfer papers come in and prematurely celebrated.. but I got to go in and dash their dreams when I pointed out the small line where it showed the move was one floor down.. NOT SEVERAL STATES AWAY. Oh the looks on their little faces were priceless. You are stuck with me HR lady.. I will be the ever-present thorn in your side.

That was over a month ago. Has it really been that long since I wrote one of these?!??!! Jebus. No wonder I kept getting poked over this!

Fast forward to this weekend. The company Christmas Party.

No. No shirtless tie bandana Chris Farley Chippendales table dancing for me this year.

Scotty and I did get hilariously.. plastered.. and partook of the Karaoke. Never before has such a tonedeaf version of Ebony and Ivory been done. It then digressed into office chair jousting using pieced together lances from wrapping paper tubes. All of this.. in front of my new underlings who stared in disbelief and horror. Scotty won Office Chair Jousting because I fell off the horse due to a bad push/spin by the wife and Lindy. I needed 2 people because I wanted my horse to be speed tanked. I had the speed.. and was definitely tanked.. but failed to compensate for the office constantly turning left for some reason. Probably had nothing to do with the booze and all to do with why Lindy was on the ground red faced and laughing. My back still hurts from the spectacular cartwheel I did when I dismounted the horse gracefully as a gymnast.

So as I walk in the building on Monday, exBossman is standing there just shaking his head and doing the whole nosebridge pinch thing. Ah memories. As I stroll onto my floor, people are just looking at me with those disapproving looks that people can get at times like the ones that happen when your boss loses a medieval office sport of his own creation to a measly Section scrub. Im pretty sure that was it. Anyways, I rallied the troops for our year end dash, and we all got down to it. They still respect me.. mostly. I respect me.

The new year will bring changes to this floor. Muffin Mondays will be implemented, as well as Pieday. Ive been told I cant raid upstairs anymore, but so far that hasn't stopped me from acquiring a confectionary sidekick, although he has had to tone it down because reasons. WHY ARE YOU FORCING A GROWN MAN TO GROW UP? Damn you executives for ruining my life! Ill make you rue the day you promoted me! Rue it! Ruuuuuuuuuueeeeeee!

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

Iain Cariaba
#240 - 2014-12-23 19:43:20 UTC
Look at it this way, UAE. The increase in pay due to the promotion will provide increased funding for future shenanigans, if such shenanigans require funding.