regulars worked at the same company.

I shudder at the thought. Never mind.

pissing contest?

sharkfish would win if it were standing up.

No, you guys wouldn't invite me to the pissing contest.

We'd have to call the company Brownian Motion.

Morning meetings would consist of an opening penis or anus joke.

"would"?  Don't they always, anyway?

sharkfish,
> regulars worked at the same company.
Fuck all would get done ... we'd all spend our time on CoT [just like now] - the only difference would be is after spending the day calling the person in the next cube a moron ... you could finally just reach over the wall and give them a good fucking ::wallop::

I can almost hear muppet pitching a bitch about idiots not replacing the water cooler jug...

...and what kind of boss would you have to be to hire any of us?  Heh.

Actually, we're hiring.  There's a handful of people here I wouldn't mind having on board.

"the only difference would be is after spending the day calling the person in the next cube a moron ... you could finally just reach over the wall and give them a good fucking ::wallop::"

Some of us would actually get into fistfights.  It would be beautiful.  Black eyes and everything.  Lawsuits.  Lovely.

"He said my code sucks and then my fist found a path to his face."

it would be worse than ::shudder:: seeing pictures of each other ... it'd /totally/ ruin the wondrous images that I have of the CoTers today.

Meh, I think everyone here is probably a wuss in inverse proportion to their persona's bravado.  Jeeze, I think I'm the only one here who's actually killed... err, forget that last part.

> Some of us would actually get into fistfights.
brought on a vision of you kicking the crap out of muppet because he was chucking a wobbler at the water cooler  :-D

You know, I almost lost it today because someone took my lunch out of the microwave before the timeer went off.

I think that is provocation enough to kick anyone's ass.  Trouble is, there's that thing we call "office decorum".

Plus I'm supposed to be middle/upper middle class.

sharkfish,

That sucks. You should kick his/her ass!

You send out an all staff email after lunch saying "whoever took my lunch out of the microwave had better go get tested because I think I have herpes."

Yeah well, I saw her.  My desk is around the corner and through a conference room from the kitchen.  But I know it was less than the 4 minutes I entered.  So when I went to the kitchen to pick up my lunch, she looked guilty.  And pretended that the timer went off already. 

People like that make you go postal, eventually. One of those every week, and you are a candidate serial killer.

Lunch thieves are evil.

They should all be taken out back and shot.

>> You know, I almost lost it today because someone took my lunch out of the microwave before the timeer went off.  <<

Oh, that would set me off.

Take it out because it's done and you're waiting to use it, and the owner is nowhere to be found.  Sure.

But to take it out because you can't be bothered to wait for the "ding!" is passive-agressive.



Either that, or you ate someone else's Lean Cuisine that day.

If only they paid us for those golden nuggets of wonderful insight that happen so seldom.  And of course, paid us for the drivel that happens normally, to get to those nuggets.

Of course, this is entertainment, so that won't happen.