Office Gripes

If you don't enjoy watching "The Office" on NBC, it's probably because you don't work in an office. Things on that show seem so ridiculous, but in actuality, those things happen every damn day. Want examples?


We have a fridge in our kitchen here at work. It has an ice maker. Someone here decided it didn't make ice well enough or didn't make it fast enough, so they bought a separate ice maker. This ice maker works ok, but it doesn't exactly freeze the ice as well as the fridge freezer does. So when you throw the cubes into the freezer, it just all freezes together in one giant clump that nobody can use. So if you want ice, you have to freeze your damn hands trying to break off a chunk, or risk serious injury by stabbing away at the block with an ice pick. Apparently nobody else has an issue with this, because this whole retarded cycle happens on a daily basis. I don't know if people think fridge ice will make them sick or something, but I drink a 32 oz nalgene bottle of tap water with fridge ice every day, and I've missed exactly one day in almost 2 years here due to illness. That occurred before I started drinking water every day.

We also just hired a lady. I'm not sure what her job is. So far all she's done is read accounting books and ask questions. And print emails. Every email she gets. At least twice a day I walk over to the printer to pick something up, and she's printed out an email. Some of the emails I can understand having a hard copy of....stuff that pertains to certain accounts, policy changes, etc. What I don't understand is printing out an email that says "The building will be closed Nov. 12 in Observance of Veteran's Day," or "so and so will be in late. She had a dr's. appointment," or "please join us in welcoming our newest hire, who starts next monday!" Does this make any sense? Is she keeping a file of all correspondence? If so, isn't that what an INBOX is for? I'm so confused.

Still time to make guesses on the baby's gender, height, weight, and D.O.B....we've had about 12 people make guesses so far...don't be left out!