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The best part is the interview on youtube of the guy (link in wikipedia article) from the Fish market place who says they don't agree with the Fish Factorial videos... I mean, WTF!??
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I don't really get it. Clueless middle management that sucks at reading his/her employees? How is this a WTF? That's an everyday occurrence.
Philosophical psychobabble in 3...2...1: When does an event/attitude such as this stop being a WTF and begin to be an accepted norm...a postulate if you will.
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Oh good lord:
You mean this FISH! stuff isn't made up? You can't make this shit up! (I mean, you can't make up the fact that this FISH! stuff isn't made up)
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Lyle == Michael Scott?
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Isn't that TRWTF? Why do we have to accept crap like this as an "accepted norm" ?
Not flaming you, just wondering why "business as usual" - even when a complete WTF - is just normal and accepted.
The best way - in my very humble opinion - to increase worker happiness and office productivity is to have a relatively low stress environment. And specifically, I mean having managers actively working toward that.
When every request to take time off is met by an interrogation, that's high stress. If your boss is so anal that you can't joke around with him (appropriately), that's high stress.
Even if the job itself is inherently high stress, management can do little things to lower it (free soda, being approachable and easy going, etc. are far better ways to lower the stress than FISH!)
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The shootings will continue until moral improves.
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Increase Productivity Through Demeaning Rewards
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So Long, Lyle, and Thanks for all the Fish!
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What idiot referenced this site? I'm gonna go and change it back. I hate when people screw with wikipedia sites. You are a bunch of stupid jerks!
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What idiot removed my Wikipedia reference to this site? I'm gonna go and change it back. I hate when people screw with Wikipedia sites. You are a bunch of stupid jerks!
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Really, suborbital crowbars are all you should need for office engagements...
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I thought grown men behaving like children and not being held responsible for their behavior was always a WTF.
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maybe this one... long shot
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Anything can be sold to everyone, at any time, by anyone.
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Ah yes, the Catch-22 of philosophical self-consciousness. Once someone tells you how to do it, you can no longer do it. Just as Nietzsche describes how to be the superman in his books, but if you are the kind of person who reads books on philosophy for a guide to life, you will never be the superman.
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I smell harrassment suit coming on.
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While a Nerf missile is not a "dangerous weapon", so Lyle can't be charged with aggravated battery, he's still guilty of simple battery. His victims should call the fuckin' cops. If they aren't willing to bother the police, perhaps they should point out to senior management that productivity increased while Lyle was out of the office, so the company would be better off without him.
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No, wait, that's Siegel I'm thinking of. Sorry, the matching vowels got me confused.
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What? Open and unabashed mockery wasn't the intended result of corporate "team building" exercises?
Fish..... even sounds retarded.
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We had done the FISH philosophy thing at my first job (They came in and gave the seminar to everyone, not just our managers). At the end of the seminar, we all received plush fish to keep on our desks and toss around to one another. Instead of it being a team building activity, my boss used it as a replacement for his phone. You'd have your headphones on, coding away on your project when a fish would come screaming by your head. He wasn't very accurate and ended up knocking over everything on your desk. No matter how hard you slammed your headphones down and intently glared at him; he would still have this dumb look on his face as if he was living out his high school football days.
I can deffinitely sympathize with the OP.
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Since guns were involved, it stands to reason that it's "Fish-BANG".
As for how to deal with Lyle...smuggle a CPS 2000 in. The most powerful water gun sold. Next time Lyle shoots you, pull out the CPS and BLAST!
Be accurate though. The gun launches a litre (2 US pints) of water in just over a second.
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Seriously, if you want to get into an edit war, keep acting like a fool. I'll go and mess up all the wiki pages you've ever edited!
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I think many of these 'team building' ideas are a variant on the cargo cult. During WWII inhabitants of some Pacific islands were fascinated by the Allied soldiers, with their Jeeps, airplanes, and money. After the war and the soldiers departed, they built replica airports, planes etc. to re-attract visitors and business.
Seminar 'psychologists' see workplaces that are (for a variety of subtle reasons) very productive, and they pick on some stupid trivial characteristic and try to replicate that, thinking that will somehow transform the workplace. Duh, doesn't work because they simply did not understand what was going on. (School uniforms are another area where this mindless fix has failed miserably)
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We used to have nerf fights in the office. Two things changed that.. First, Nerf released the Storm -- a 32 barrel fully automatic weapon that literally buried the target in nerf softair projectiles.. and second, that the Storm sounded like a 'Ma two' 50 cal machine gun.
After a couple of localized firefights, managers of nearby teams began to complain that we were making too much noise.
Years later, all the teams and combatants are gone (new teams, different jobs).. but I still keep my clip-fed semi-automatic in the top drawer just in case.
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You know, I'm thinking that eventually, it's all going to culminate in James and Lyle dropping trou and kicking off a full-frontal dickwaving contest.
Though, I'd rather not have any confirmation of such an event, were it to actually occur.
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the real WTF is that there is this a large amount of people claiming that "this is in fact the real wtf".
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But he's so good at it!
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Where's the wiki article about douche? Someone needs to add a picture of Dude.
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Is this actually a real story? I'm quite confused here...
I'm hoping that wasn't a real story. And that Lyle isn't a real person.
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I think that James W should make up better stories, stuff that will make me laugh and cry. These storylines from old 'The Office' episodes just don't make it for me. :-(
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Heh, Works for me! http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/meet-the-disintegrator-24-barrels-of-rubber-band-minigun-madnes/
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I'm liking this... maybe it'll become a series. I hope James can enjoy the battle for sanity as much as Lyle enjoys the battle for supremely ultimate management awesomeness... what a goob.
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I love how the page hasn't been touched in months. But today there are 13 edits! Granted the reference to thedailywtf.com didn't belong.
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At a place I used to work a few years ago one of the marketing guys happened to have a 4' long plush catfish that he had bought for his kid but decided to bring into work for some reason. Now, as I am sure many of you know, the only obvious use for such a toy is to see how people react to a giant, soft, stuffed fish flying into their cubicle with no warning.
Not quite the edible goodness that is Pike's Place, but needless to say we made quite a few good memories with that fish.
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Actually, Wikipedia says that it's the best idea ever, ESPECIALLY when Lyle is doing it. That's because Lyle is a better Wikipedia editor than you'll ever be!
Who is awesome? Lyle is!
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Ack. Lyle can bash Lyle better than you.
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A symptom of Americas gun culture?
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http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Douche I find uncyclopedia much more reliable than wikipedia
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My sons go to a primary school that uses the Fish philosphy. I'm not sure what that implies about the school or about Lyle, but they aren't allowed to shoot each other!
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People that believe in violence should be shot.
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And this story is interesting because .... ?
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The real WTF is that this was on TDWTF just a few months ago.
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Damn, and I was trying to use my X-Ray vision all day long! Nietzsche, YOU LIAR!
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You could become the ubermench playing computer PVP games. PVP hard core versus PVE carebeanism == Kant moral versus cristian moral
With carebeanism, you make other people become weak and suffer, and that what Kant really hate. A computer game with a PVP enviroment make you strong, and make you be happy against the odds. So make you a better, but maybe not good in the cristian way.
Almost the 60% avoid PVP enviroments, and feel that PVP enviroments are wrong, because theres not protection for the weak in the form of the strong being punished for his strongnest, punished by itself, or by the system.
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Nah, 60% avoid PVP environments because they prefer to stick to non-PVP areas before they are strong enough not to get killed several times in a row. Are lions hunting right after they are born? Not really. They need protection until they get strong enough to protect themselves.
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Please don't feed the trolls. If you ignore them, they eventually go away.
Dude apparently figured out that there were other places here to troll than the forums (where he's been trolling for a week or so). Hopefully, if we pay no attention to him, he'll wander off back to his usual place at lolcats or whatever.
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The real WTF is that some moron who posts under the name anoncow can't figure out that it wasn't; another post about Lyle was. In fact, this article contains a link to it, dumbass.