my co-worker left a poster of a whale on the boss's desk, with a note saying "it's time we learned more about whales"

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my boss is cool though so it's ok.

nonetheless, BEST WORK-EVENT EVER.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 11 October 2004 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

They are a niche market.

― señor citizen (nordicskilla), Monday, 11 October 2004 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

it's time we identified the potential "zap points" in the whale market

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 11 October 2004 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

the same co-worker and I use the word "zap" regularly.

I read this 80s book in my friends bathroom called "How To Win The Meeting", I think it was his dad's, and it had a chapter "How To Avoid Getting Zapped".

Apparently getting "zapped" happens if you suggest ideas in a puny one at a time way, leaving it open for another worker to go "no we should do x......", and ZAP you.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 11 October 2004 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

ON the topic of whales, Nick and I ate at this pizza place on Friday that had a bizarre painting on the wall. When the waitor came over, I casually asked him, "So, excuse me, but is that a picture of a WHALE with UNDERwEAR ON his head??!" And the guy replied, quite bored, "Yes, he's on the menu too." I mean, yeah, of course that's what it would be. ?!?!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 11 October 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the sound of this co-worker.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 11 October 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.the-burrow.freeserve.co.uk/zzap/gallery/logo%20gold%20medal.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 11 October 2004 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Am I alone in not understanding the whale joke?

― Smokin' funk by the boxes (kenan), Monday, 11 October 2004 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think there's a joke as such. It's just funny.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 11 October 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the cut of his jib. He'll go far.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 11 October 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Tomorrow, you should leave a street map of Cardiff on your co-worker's desk.

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 11 October 2004 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

adam, i'm glad you're back to adam.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 11 October 2004 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

it's time Smokin' funk by the boxes learned more about whales

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 11 October 2004 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe you should learn more about different animals each week. I approve of your co-worker.

― Matt (Matt), Monday, 11 October 2004 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

This week is Coypu week at work.

― Matt (Matt), Monday, 11 October 2004 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I just tried googling for pictures of iguanas and one of the first things that comes up is a set of pictures of a naked woman in a bath with an iguana. So wrong.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 11 October 2004 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

It's time we learned more about naked women.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 11 October 2004 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll send you an informative brochure.

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Will a salesman call?

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 07:23 (twenty-one years ago)

if you're lucky.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 07:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Did this co-worker get fired yet?

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Ronan works in a record shop, I reckon firing someone for that would be a little harsh ;)

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

he is a good co-worker.

there is a customer we call "prince charming" because he has a square jaw and a big weird parting in his hair. the day we invented this name I nearly choked laughing behind the counter. I think eventually we will lose this customer because he will wonder what is so funny about him buying records. everytime he leaves we're like "KIND SIR, DIRECT ME TO THE US HOUSE PLEASE, AND I SHALL SPARE YOUR LIFE"

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

x-post, my boss thought it was hilarious.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

At my last job, the CEO was this almost-senile 80-year-old man who would shuffle into the office one day a week, sit in his office with the door closed for a few hours, and leave. He would also get his pornographic magazines (Penthouse mostly) delivered to the office, I guess so his wife wouldn't see them. Occasionally, our office manager would hijack these magazines, cut pictures out of them, and tape them to the President's (different person than the CEO) phone receiver, so that he would see it when answering a (hopefully important) phone call.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Ronan, your Prince Charming story reminded me that my g/f, who works in a recycling/second hand goods store, gets a pair of eccentric old customers, father and son, who arrive in a truck stuffed with junk and then go through the shop looking for more junk. They bring it to the counter, and you have to go through it with a fine toothed comb, because they're liable to hide something expensive in there somewhere - for example, they will buy a wicker basket and stack it with widgets, but if you dig deep they've hidden a power tool at the bottom. The staff have nicknamed them 'Klepto and Son'.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

haha!

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

seven years pass...

these fuckin killer whales imo

― generation lmbo (darraghmac), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 20:47 (fourteen years ago)

Ssshh, they'll hear you.

― trishyb, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 21:25 (fourteen years ago)

the sorrows of young ronan

― mark s, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 21:59 (fourteen years ago)

sssh i'm on a small ice floe don't want these fuckers to hear me srsly shhhhhhhhhhh

― generation lmbo (darraghmac), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 23:11 (fourteen years ago)

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