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Dan Looks at Office Toys

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the you'll-put-your-eye-out dept.

Daniel Rutter writes "In a move that's made me wonder afresh whether I'm actually living this life or just dreaming it, I've just put up a review of a bunch of office toys. Two rubber band guns, a pneumatic ping-pong ball launcher, a bubble gun, some iridescent bouncing putty, a frickin' CROSSBOW that shoots sucker darts, and a couple of high-flying ring-ins that aren't really suitable for indoor play at all."

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  1. Huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wait, didn't all the .com's go out of business because of this crap?

    I dislike work as is, do I really need someone shooting darts at me?

  2. Not to be mean or anything. by /dev/trash · · Score: 2, Insightful
    This isn't 1999, and some people who are qualified and didn't work for a dotcom still can't find jobs, even after 7 months. Maybe I am bitter since a group of programmers I worked with used such toys and escaped the lay off. ( Well okay I'm not bitter, they're not really programmers, just asp and VBscript monkies.)

    But anyway, play your games, but don't be surprised when suddenly your revenue per employee number is just not cutting it for the quarter and that's the reason they give when they 'right-size', even though your department has been trying to hire 10 people for 3 months.

  3. Does it bother anyone else? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Employees running the halls with rubber-band guns while the executives stuff their pockets with options, expense accounts and investors' money, and HR refuses to hire anyone?

    Or are they just thumbing their nose at everyone?

  4. Mod that guy up! by fmaxwell · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That was a +5 insightful/funny comment if I ever read one!

    For you folks that haven't looked lately, the job market for computer professionals is in the toilet. Restored arcade video games, all the free soda you want, bringing your pets to work, dressing like a you're at a Grateful Dead concert, and running around the office like a kid with ADD who forgot their Ritalin is out. Companies can hire professionals that look, dress, and behave the part. If you refuse to work somewhere unless they have a shiatsu massage chair, then apply at Brookstone because you're not going to find a tech job that does anymore.