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Making Work Fun
Board: Miscellaneous Oddities
Jun 7, 2007 3:11pm
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So daily I have to come to work. I like my job and the people that wrok for me and most of the people I work for.

But some of the mindnumbing office drudgery that comes with it is awful, and I try to make it fun.

By far my most disliked thing is conference calls.

So here is what I have down. I have a little digital recorder. I recorded the sound made when someone joins and leaves a conference call. I then uploaded them to my computer and made handy little .wav files out of them.

I now play these randomly throughout conference calls. This is great fun. My newest hobby, is disrupting conference calls.

I'm in the process of making a soundboard now with a bunch of different sounds. People booing, people laughing, cheering, a bus horn for when someone throw someone under the bus, darth vader breathing, a baby crying.

I probably won't be posting much on the boards tonight. I'm looking for conference calls to join.

Mr. Yuk
Re: Making Work Fun
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Reply to: #98140 by Mr Yuk
Jun 7, 2007 6:39pm
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I work in a hospital, so that lends well to all sorts of fun...

Make fart noises as you pass an unsuspecting co-worker in the hallway (try not to do it to the same person everytime unless they are really naive). Keep walking like you never noticed.

Pass gas for real and blame it on the patient as you walk out of their room (I have not personally done this one, but many a co-worker have)

Pass real gas in the LOCKED medication room and have another brave soul hold the door shut to keep the unsuspector in (haven't performed personally either)

Get under the cover on the morgue stretcher and flop an arm out as someone starts to roll out of the room. (This one really happened, did not involve me AT ALL... AND got someone suspended)

Place a hard boiled egg in a very confused patient's diaper. (This one, not me again, but got someone fired and now their license is going before the state board of nursing)

All really in fun, but sometimes not so tactful.
Re: Making Work Fun
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Reply to: #98236 by sweet n sour
Jun 7, 2007 6:44pm
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BTW, please keep this one going, I am running out of ideas.
Re: Making Work Fun
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Reply to: #98140 by Mr Yuk
Jun 7, 2007 6:53pm
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I'm on conference calls several times a week. I work from home in the Atlanta area and everyone else is in offices in Chicago and India. I enjoy www.jigzone.com to help my need to multitask during conference calls when I have no laundry to fold.

Amyrica
Re: Making Work Fun
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Reply to: #98237 by sweet n sour
Jun 7, 2007 6:54pm
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We also have a running email called "The Bevism collection"

Bev is a wonderful trainer and close friend, but she says some of the stupidest things sometimes.

So we named rediculously stupid things Bevisms and keep a little chronicle of them. Here are some of them:

"I lost my keys again, I've got to stop putting them in my pocket."

"You don't need your cellphone, I know Dan's number by heart. Wait, let me look in my cellphone."

" Will you interview this guy for me, he reads really well, except that it sounds like he has a mouth full of spit"

"What does that strawberry aquafina taste like?"

"We have a rep in Aliquippa who is bilingual in a few languages."

"I was laying in bed sleeping. I couldn't sleep."

Mind you, these are just a few from a list of 100's, But by far my favorite is:

"My baby's ill, she can't breathe and she has a temperature, they think she has eczema."

Mr. Yuk
Re: Making Work Fun
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Reply to: #98241 by Amyrica
Jun 7, 2007 11:37pm
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www.jigzone.com </quote

That's a good one. Have you put that on the new board? Cool Website of the Day

This is a funny thread. I'll have to ask the nurses some things to add for y'all.

I've been lucky to never have to do a conference call. But, then I have to go to inservices that have nothing to do with my job. Which is worse?

janet, BF
Re: Making Work Fun
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Reply to: #98300 by Blooming Flower
Jun 8, 2007 12:28am
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Quote I've been lucky to never have to do a conference call.


I used to work at a company that produced videoconferencing software. While I was with them, my daughter Katie was born. So, while we were at the hospital, we got to set up a videoconferencing system there, and "broadcast" a meeting to the company (both coasts). Not the actual delivery, mind you, but a few hours later, we "introduced" our daughter to the company. There were about 20 or so people in the conference room at work watching and talking and asking questions. The fun things you can do with videoconferencing, though... I was holding the baby, and showing her to the camera, and then we panned over for a few seconds to my wife. While the camera was on her, I swapped out the baby with a doll wrapped in a blanket, then panned back to me. I chatted for a few minutes more, then pretended to sneeze... and dropped the doll. The looks on the faces on the other side of the screen... priceless!

-wassamatta_u
Re: Making Work Fun
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Reply to: #98303 by wassamatta u
Jun 8, 2007 12:34am
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OMG That is just too funny!!
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Reply to: #98140 by Mr Yuk
Jun 8, 2007 4:19am
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I probably won't be posting much on the boards tonight. I'm looking for conference calls to join.

You can join mine. Topic: Project launch reviews (office meaning - Review the contract that my company has with the customer, identify any risk that there might be, schedule delivery of wind turbines from manufacturer to job site and a bunch more crap) (My meaning is ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ nap time!!!)
I mostly just chat online and read AQ posts when I'm on a call.
Just got an email and I have 20 release meetings in the next 30 days so PLEASE give me a copy of your wave file I'll have lots of fun with that because 1 guy always asks who just joined or who dropped the called.
Re: Making Work Fun
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Reply to: #98236 by sweet n sour
Jun 8, 2007 5:02am
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Quote I work in a hospital, so that lends well to all sorts of fun...


Glad (or maybe appalled?) to see that hospital "humor" is universal.

I was working in ICU one day and a patient was compaining bitterly about his whole experience there; one of the RN's dropped a nasty SBD in the guy's room and he added to his litany "And another thing- it smells like SH*T around here!".

I'll take hospital drudgery over conference calls and meetings any day- meetings make me want to start screaming and that would just get me fired.
Re: Making Work Fun
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Reply to: #98313 by oread
Jun 8, 2007 5:29am
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Quote (My meaning is ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ nap time!!!)


Luckily, we only do this once a year. Recurrent training. An 8 hour session is required by the FAA. So we open and close all the doors on all the aircraft we are trained on and refresh our first aid. That takes 1 maybe 2 hours. The rest of the time is a struggle to stay awake. The key, the instructors have found is to troop us in and out of different rooms for different "modules"

I have fallen asleep a couple of times over the years! I usually do the USAToday Crossword puzzle, but that has been really easy lately and barely takes me an hour to finish. This year I had a book to read. My friends and I also take in a lot of food. Munchies and Candy.

-Amanda from Seattle
Re: Making Work Fun
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Reply to: #98336 by Amanda from Seattle
Jun 8, 2007 9:37am
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I much prefer conference calls to actual face-to-face meetings. In a meeting, one must keep eyes open, and pay enough attention to respond when called upon directly. In a conference call, with the phone on mute so the key board strokes can't be heard, I can go on with whatever "real work" (define for personal reality) needs to be done, and only occasionally take the phone off mute to say things like "yes, I think that will work," or "you might want to think about this or that before you finalize that decision." A conference call is not at all disruptive to my day (except when I forget I'm supposed to paying attention and get up and leave my desk).

A.
Re: Making Work Fun
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Reply to: #98303 by wassamatta u
Jun 8, 2007 12:23pm
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wassa said: "I was holding the baby, and showing her to the camera, and then we panned over for a few seconds to my wife. While the camera was on her, I swapped out the baby with a doll wrapped in a blanket, then panned back to me. I chatted for a few minutes more, then pretended to sneeze... and dropped the doll. The looks on the faces on the other side of the screen... priceless!"


*bursts of laughter*
are you fliipin' serious man?
you did this?
*shaking head*
what kind of mind thinks this stuff up ahead of time...when you are actually having a new baby?
WOW!

you rock!

dixie
Re: Making Work Fun
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Reply to: #98455 by Dixie
Jun 8, 2007 6:54pm
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what kind of mind thinks this stuff up ahead of time...when you are actually having a new baby?


UMM....Dixe....we are talking about Wassa here.......

Shiloh
Re: Making Work Fun
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Reply to: #98591 by shiloh
Jun 8, 2007 7:03pm
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so this is why Katie turned out to be the lone letterboxer among her siblings...it wasn't actually a doll...wassa dropped her on her head, thus renedering her sane.

night writer
Re: Making Work Fun
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Reply to: #98736 by The Wolf Family
Jun 9, 2007 6:05pm
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Those are all funny. I agree in your line of work you do need a way to blow off steam. I have an Aunt that used to work as a social worker for kids and some of the stories I have heard are shocking.