Fuddland
We’re having the server room next door to our office kitted out, after it’s been sitting empty for over a year. This task apparently involves lots of banging, crashing, shouting, singing tunelessly along to the radio, and more banging. Obviously this in no way affects me because it’s not like I need a nice quiet environment in which to work and think. I just like to spend my day composing sarcastic emails, like the one I just sent to all the lecurers who sit, insulated from the outside world, in their cosy offices on the floors above the postgraduate room.
Idea for a new “reality TV” show
Office Swap: the Applied Maths professors and the postgraduates from a Midlands University Mathematics Department swap offices for a week, during which time extensive work is being carried out in the room next to the postgraduate office.
The professors will be tested to their very limits as they attempt to undertake their work with the office being used as a public thoroughfare. The first task will be to come up with a reason why the corridor that runs just alongside the office cannot be used as, you know, a corridor.
The next task must be deciding which is more annoying: having to continually get up to open the door for the people who have forgotten the code, or leaving the door propped open and enduring the continual yet inexplicable beeping from the so-high-tech-it’s-never-bloody-worked alarm system just outside. The only catch is, if you do prop the door open, you have to leave a few laptops lying around unsupervised.
The afternoon brings a disco theme as the light-switches are turned on and off randomly whilst the new switches are tested, to the tune of whatever pap chart music is pumping from the radio in the next room. You may dislike it at first, but the fumes from the glue-gun or whatever it is will soon send you into a dizzying high and you just won’t care anymore.
Coming soon to a cable channel near you.
Comments
meesh | 2004 / 11 / 05 – 11:31
handbags at dawn!
Brown | 2004 / 11 / 06 – 22:14
Bet you didn’t expect to be given Monday off as a response to this! Good work!
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