Motivational posters

[misterx]

As part of the redecorating scheme at the incubator, they have festooned the walls with motivational posters. You know, like this one:


"If you're not riding the wave of change...you'll find yourself beneath it."

That one is hanging across the hall from my door. I have to look at it and it's vaguely threatening message every time I go out.

I wonder how long it would take them to notice if I replaced it with this:




Love,
misterx, primed with two cups of coffee, so I can stay up for sick kid

Comments

[ruralrob.livejournal.com]

Hey, that second one definitely belongs in my old office . .

You clever thing, you!

[faerylepdoptera.livejournal.com]

haha thats awesome.. something I would do! when they notice.. what? who on earth could have done that!?

[misterx.livejournal.com]

the thing is, if I get started, I won't be able to stop. it's happened before. it isn't pretty.

[faerylepdoptera.livejournal.com]

haha back when i worked in hell aka GE I switched 20 of the paraphernalia around the building, I cant remember the campaign it was the imagine or creativity crap.. so I did just that haha it took them 2 months to notice

[misterx.livejournal.com]

I was less subtle when I worked at this company called D.R. Allen and Assoc. Boss was self-absorbed prick. The secretary and I started creating these top-ten lists, like they do on Letterman, except they were about the company and the boss. Stuff like "Top Ten Ways McDonald's would be Different if Owned by D.R. Allen and Assoc"... 10. Ball pit on playground replaced with snake pit. 9. mcdonaldland cookies would come in the shape of gin bottles. 8. The golden arches would be referred to as "the golden frowns", etc. They were stored in the "shared documents" folder on the file server. Also other things like do a global search and replace for the phrase "D.R. Allen" and replacing it with "D.R. Alien".

I didn't leave on good terms. Boss storms into my office with all these printouts of top ten lists. He shakes a fist full of them at me. "WHAT IS THIS?!?!" "Just some humor, boss." "HUMOR? YOU CALL THIS HUMOR???" He starts reading the lists with this hissing, deranged voice. He gets about halfway through the third one and I can't stand it, I bust out in rollicking laughter. "YOU THINK THIS IS FUNNY!?!?" he shrieks, his voice cracking. "Why yes, actually I do. I think it's fucking hilarious." "YOU'RE FIRED!" "I quit months ago, you just never quit paying me." I had a new job that afternoon.

[faerylepdoptera.livejournal.com]

haha I love lettermans top ten.. awesome..

man you really have to be able to laugh at yourself..

there was this time a few months before I left that the manager I was sleeping with bought me this really creepy pink bunny that had a wreath on its head, it was naked norman, people kept kiddnapping him, sending him to me via inter-office mail wrapped in cellphane, bagged in the freezer, hung from the ceiling tied up on my chair, mummified... haha it was a conspiracy, I later found out it was a crime ring operation, made a power point presentation with the pics i took, but I never finished as I weas let go and had to delete everything, i also lost the only pic I had when I was bald, well slightly fuzzy then.

It was good times.

[ms-kayla.livejournal.com]

and me, i have bad dreams of watching clouds turn into twisters. i really think i have an irrational fear of tornadoes. but anyway, i know those posters. they put them up at one of my mom's old jobs and she HATED them. she was forced to pick one (the least hokey/freaky/annoying one she could find) for her office. of course, any intelligent person should hate those things. they're so UNmotivating. morale must really be going down the toilet, huh?

and that's my 2 cents. sorry you gotta be faced with that big ass wave that's about to drown you every time you get up. : \

[misterx.livejournal.com]

Having been through three (maybe four) of them, I have a rational fear of them.

The presence of the posters really makes me wonder how the administrators perceive those of us who actually work.

[morbidlybella.livejournal.com]

Brilliant.. ty for the first laugh of the day.

[misterx.livejournal.com]

:)

[ceruleanfire.livejournal.com]

I love it..I want one :P