Friends and Kitties!
Sheebie here.
As you know, I'm a lucky soul who enjoys my job...and here's a small example of why that is:
The LOG.
Which is rich soil for sowing silliness, something you get a lot of when there's a bunch of insane intelligent people minding the store like my co-workers.
Please embiggen for better reading--and check out my two posts midway...and the responses I got from the operator on the next shift!
The "Number Nine" post...long story. Do any of you remember "Revolution No. 9" by The Beatles? Well, any time somebody backwashes filter number nine it's traditional to drone "number nine...number nine...number nine..." in imitation of that track. Then, a few weeks ago one of the operators (Thomas) started quietly having fun in the log, recording filter backwash numbers in Spanish, Roman Numerals, etc. We've been going back and forth with this and never saying a word, so I've been WAITING to have filter #9 pop up on my shift *just* so I could make this log entry--combining the best of two inside jokes! Thomas couldn't restrain himself the next day and broke our omerta to say he had mightily enjoyed my entry. And that another operator (Mike) had commented--icing on the cake.
The entry below that one refers to this:
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Bruce appeared on one of our graphics last Thursday and I DIED laughing as soon as I saw him...we had a shark in the wet well graphic on the old computer system and I guess some things never change--we're kind of anal like that here--somebody must have been feeling lonely and requested another shark.
Apparently Mike was on a roll bored stiff that night because he commented not once but twice on that entry!
::guffaw::
It's good to have fun at work.
Happy Sunday!
XX Sheebie XX
Brilliant! Utterly brilliant. Well, that's what Äiti says and as you can imagine she would indulge in such pranks.
ReplyDeleteBruce looks like a friendly sort. Is there a little Nemo nearby ?
It's great that you can have fun at work AND that you have co-conspirators
ReplyDelete>>SNORT!<<
ReplyDeleteBack in the olden days, when my human worked in film editing, they sometimes had fun like this!
ReplyDeleteI only WISH I had had such intelligent and creative co-workers... ~ TBT
ReplyDeleteyep, that was creative fun! Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteHahahaha!! AND no one said anything .... til now!!!!! The Staff says her guffaws would have been heard all the way to Alaska!! :)
ReplyDeleteTeeheehee!
ReplyDeleteJane x
Oh that IS funny! Did they ever get that echo fixed?? *giggle*
ReplyDeleteIt's nice that you can have fun like that but in an adult way. . . .
That does sound like fun to do. Nothing better than a bunch of people having fun together. Take care.
ReplyDeleteEveryone needs a little fun at work .
ReplyDeleteIt's quite therapeutic :)
We think Bruce is a hoot!
ReplyDeleteI gotta get a job that's more fun.
ReplyDeleteSounds like you work with a great bunch of people. Even Bruce looks like he is smiling.
ReplyDeleteLove it
ReplyDeleteIt's good that everyone has such a good sense of humor.
ReplyDeleteGreat you have fun at work.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful work place where serious work is enhanced by everyday
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No wonder you love it
Hugs madi and mom
fun co-workers make all the diff. All companies would benefit from this kind of productivity!
ReplyDeleteHa ha ha. Sometimes the peoples at the Human's work do crazy email stuffs like that. The Human wishes ALL the emails was like that!
ReplyDeleteHilarious! What does WR stand for? Maybe work order?
ReplyDeleteI wish we could have fun at work, but we've been told that "work is not supposed to be fun". Sigh...four years, six months, and 7 days.
LOL! I love how nobody said anything until now. What fun. Levity makes a big difference in work.
ReplyDeleteThe night shift, we can imagine can get pretty boring, so suspect a little humor can make the time go by a little faster. We are, however, disappointed that your Mom wouldn't let any of you do a selfie today. We guess she could have submitted Bruce. MOL! XO, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth and Calista Jo
ReplyDeleteDat's purretty funny. Yous night folks can get up to sum no good. MOL
ReplyDeleteLuv ya'
Dezi and Lexi
Its good to be crazy --- er have fun at work! Makes life worth living!
ReplyDeleteBruce looks just like my human brother Alex's Dad!
Kisses
Nellie
Are they hiring? I could use a job in a place like that. :)
ReplyDeleteIsland Cat Mom
Is great to have fun anywhere. I think Pop has more fun at this job than his last one.
ReplyDeleteThat's the only way to survive work--to have some fun with co-workers. I send emails to my buddy in the next cube over when the conversation around us gets weird. At least I know it is not just me.
ReplyDeleteMy mom-person say´s it does help to be a crazypant at work :)
ReplyDeleteXOXO
You are very fortunate indeed
ReplyDeleteMOL! Whatever makes the time pass, right?! This reminds our mom of when she was in high school and had to outline every chapter in her U.S. History book for homework. She and her class mates started thinking that their teacher didn't actually read all of the outlines, so they started inserting random and silly sentences - like "The polka-dotted horse galloped through town on a Tuesday with a pink elephant behind him."
ReplyDeleteThe teacher never noticed - Mom got A's on all of her outlines!!! MOL MOL!
You guys are HILARIOUS!! Awesome workplace!
ReplyDeleteAh the Dad loves this. He has some of same with others at the old deep mine but has to keep it on IM.
ReplyDeleteOf course he remembers
3^2 rebmuN
3^2 rebmuN
3^2 rebmuN
Me I pass
Timmy
"Fish are friends, not food!" MOL! Love Bruce!
ReplyDeleteDo I remember the song Revolution #9??? (Says the woman with cats named Ringo and Sadie.) LOL
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