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I Believe You Have My Stapler
yack0 writes "After three years of demand and countless calls, emails and letters, you can finally buy a Red Swingline Stapler. Hooray! As noted in this wall street journal article and confirmed by this page at the Swingline Stapler web site you can now pick up a Red Swingline stapler for merely twice the price of a plain black stapler. However, a colleague of mine says that the online order form is reading around $16 for his right now. Now all the cubicle dwelling prairie dogs can get one step closer to burning down the building." The red stapler has become some sort of cult icon at this point.
is black and shows up on radar smaller than a pelican. Only $56,000 each.
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
Yesterday he had 4 bosses/managers/etc come tell him the exact same thing --- that he didn't correctly stow away his oscilloscope in the proper location; but he didn't cause he wasn't finished working with it yet! Truly an Office Space moment.
Slydell: So we just went a ahead and fixed the glitch.
Lumbergh: Great.
Portwood: So um, Milton has been let go?
Slydell: Well just a second there, professor. We uh, we fixed the *glitch*. So he won't be receiving a paycheck anymore, so it will just work itself out naturally.
Porter: We always like to avoid confrontation, whenever possible. Problem solved from your end.
i was told i could first post between the hours of 7 and 8 pm... sharon posts while she files, so i don't see any reason why... i'll burn down the building.
MARIJUANA, SHROOMS, X: ONLINE?! - E
I'll just post a link on /. and burn down your web server....
Sig? What sig? Do I have to have a sig!?!?
I believe my favorite line would have to be:
PC Load Letter! What the fuck does that mean!!
strychnine in the guacamole.
--bpl
follow the IMDB link to learn about Office Space.
PETER GIBBONS
'So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's me on the worst day of my life..'.
Office managers are putting on their O-face. You know: Oh! Oh!
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Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!
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I work at motorola. Motorola is undoubtedly a huge source of inspiration for things like Office Space, and *especially* Dilbert. During out "Employee Well-Being" week they showed Office Space in one of the break rooms. It created anarchy when people saw the reality of their office lives!
Ph33r m3!!!
Yeah, and my new Martha Stewart Signature Mug has a big cult following too, but somehow i doubt such a worthy item will see the light of slashdot day.
Staplers, people. It's a frickin' story on a STAPLER. I don't care how interesting the design is or how much of a cult following it has. IT'S A STAPLER!!! Oh, that's right... It has wireless LAN access and a 30 Terabyte disk, right? Imagine a beowolf cluster of these!!!
Flame it, troll it, overrate it or mark it redundant, but damn, what a waste of news space.
You need a FREE iPod Nano
Seemed the other way around to me. 15 minutes of that boy meets girl crap, except it was better, because his pickup line was "do you like kung fu?".
What?
Hell, Lumbergh fucked her...
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Hey, Peter, forget this article, check out what's on Channel 9!
and definetly one of the funniest. The more i watch it the less funny it is, but it still holds a place near to my heart. Even today, the Swingline symbolizes the oppression and greed large entities can have upon smaller ones. Then again, it could also symbolize how simple pleasures can keep us from burning down large office buildings. And also that you'll be treated like shit wherever you are. Even in mexico with lots of money.
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The Onion:
Apple Employee Fired For Thinking Different CUPERTINO, CA--
Brent Barlow, 27, a software analyst and beta-tester at Apple Computer headquarters in Cupertino, was fired Monday for "thinking a little too different." Full Text
How about a bit of common sense?
Ask yourself this, how many squirrel weddings have you been invited to?
How likely is it that the squirrels in the movie were married?
Woe is me.
Errr, so the pre-WWII workplace insisted on multicolored objects?
Seeing as color wasn't invented until the late 1930's, how could it?
Here's the funny thing about Livingston's Band of Brothers performance. I heard an interview with him on a Philly radio station and he commented that after the first few episodes of BoB aired, his agent started getting calls from scouts asking "Wow, Rob was great in Band of Brothers. But can he do comedies?"
Heh.
I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep Dracula and Superman away.
"Has a case of the 'Mondays'"... .....
Has anyone ever said to you "Looks like someone has a case of the 'Mondays'"?
Naw. No. Shit, no, man. I believe you'd get your ass kicked.
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Have you read the moderator guidelines? Well, have you, PUNK? (and I want a Karma: Gnarly option)
Posting as an AC for obvious reasons.
The obvious reasons being, ironically enough, cowardice and selfishness.
so if you could just move that article to the end of the posts, that'd be greeeeeaat, ok. Thanks a bunch /.
The Adult Happy Meal - "I'm lovin' it!"
It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care..