Is It Friday Yet?

Choice quote from today’s Art of Manliness article, “So You Want My Job: Juggler”:

“One year later I moved to the Big Island of Hawaii to live at a juggling commune.”

I believe I’ve discovered the source of half the (why God why) PowerPoint slide shows my father forwards for my amusement: Corrupted-files.com. Like the name says, they offer deliberately corrupted Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files that you can use as a delaying tactic while you scramble to get your homework done.

Come for the funny/disturbing story about castrating sheep, stick around for some wise ruminating about dirty jobs: Mike Rowe speaks of hard work to an auditorium full of people who can afford $4000 conference tickets. (video, about 20 min.)

Apparently, trading stocks is a lot like tech support.

The Brokers with Hands on Their Faces Blog

Confirming the obvious, researchers at Frankfurt University have determined that “being friendly against one’s will causes nothing but stress.”

They cite flight attendants, sales personnel, call centre operators, waiters and others in contact with the public for extended periods of time as being at risk of seriously harming their health.

Psychologists at Frankfurt University said the fake friendliness led to depression, stress and a lowering of the immune system itself, which in turn can trigger more serious ailments.

What really happened to the once mighty AT&T.

Overheard in the Office features little snippets of conversations, well, overheard in the office:

Co-worker #1: User Name is your username, and Password is your password.

Co-worker #2: That sounds easy enough.

Co-worker #1: .And if you forget, I have it on a yellow stickie.

A tip for writing stronger prose with the help of the AutoCorrect feature in Microsoft Office: I Hope I Kinda Might Perhaps Won’t Write Like This Anymore, Maybe.

An enterprising office drone has made a “Work Blind” for his cubicle, a vinyl curtain printed with a photo of himself hard at work at his computer.