An Internet friend of mine swears this is true, as it happened to him, in his office. He is the de facto computer repairman, only because he has seen the inside of one. One day, his boss asked him to do what he could to repair the cup-holder on the front of his personal PC. A cursory inspection revealed a CD-ROM tray warped beyond repair, and an expensive CD-ROM drive, useless.
I was working in a large Western National Park and a woman who was a notorious chain smoker came out of her office and lit up a cigarette. I said, “What are you up to?.” She took a long drag off of her cigarette and with smoke coming out of her mouth and nose said, “I just came out for a little fresh air”!
A while ago I was received a call from a woman who said that Eudora Pro was showing her password. I found this to be strange, because when you type it in your password in Eudora, it displays asterisks. So when I went over to her office and looked at her desktop. She had renamed the Eudora Pro icon with her password.
Recently the office manager at my clinic decided we are no longer allowed to have food delivered to the hospital during appointment hours. That wouldn’t be so horrible, if appointments didn’t run for 6 hours straight from 2 pm til 8 pm. Sometimes you just don’t have food to bring to work with you from home. And most of the time we’re too busy to go heat something up. We all think it’s stupid, and that it really isn’t presenting us in a “bad light” to clients, which is the OM’s biggest bitch. I can agree that the receptionist gets tied up for about a whole freaking minute and a half while she pays the delivery boy, but jesus! Any thoughts or stories related to Nazi leadership in your workplace?