IBM has secretly replaced our recycling bins with new paper shredders. Let's see if any one notices.
You know it's a slow Monday when the talk about what we didn't do this weekend is replaced with ogling the new office paper shredder. Recently, someone hauled off our nearly 100 gallon locked recycling bin and left in its place a sleek Shredmaster 4550X. This little machine turns old office memos to confetti (did someone say office holiday party!?), CDs to unrecognizable plastic bits, and fingers to dog food.
I'm dying to shred something other than paper, but I have no expired credit cards with me today. I'm thinking of tossing in my employee badge because I can always get another one.
In other news, a co-worker using Lotus Sametime found a truncated away message from another co-worker that read: "@ doctor's appt. Please leave." In fact, the entire away message was "@ doctor's appt. Please leave a message," but we prefer the "Please leave," which naturally led to discussion of the best away messages that we could come up with, such as:
- "I'm out, and it's none of your business where the hell I am."
- "Leave a message. It'll be ignored when I return."
- "At a job interview. Be back later. Maybe."
If you have any snappy away messages, please share them with us. We need some entertainment to make this Monday pass by faster.
Tara Hall | 4 December 2006 01:42:16 PM ET | Westford, MA | Comments (6)
