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Isn't that the country without a government?
/me hears the sound of a million Chinese connections dropping.
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This wouldn't happen to be Alistair Tube sock burn, would it?
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Penal
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Obviously the words in fixed pitch don't fit (they were edited). You could blank out those words and then do madlibs.
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"Derek, we found this bag in a drawer in your desk."
"Really? I was never able to open that drawer, never had a key. Maybe it belongs to <VP Engineering>. He had that office before me."
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Let's get milk-faced and hum like rabbits!
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So is Derek really Liz from "The Porn Guy" last week?
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No, you have an expectation of privacy in the bathroom, and in the drawer. The drawer is there to store private stuff while you're in the office.
This is not to say that the company can't open your desk, especially your old desk, and they don't need a warrant, but doing that is weird and requires justification.
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Don't get me wrong; I hate censorship too. But this was as much a favor to people who read TheDailyWTF at work as it was a joke. Read it; in some cases the "clean" words (in this context) are as bad as the dirty words.
Balloon animal? Sporting goods? Hot dog cart?
Have you no imagination?
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Of course there's a WTF here; it's why the fu** didn't he just call derek in the first place.
Might even get lucky, just had to keep that surprised look on his face.
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LOL, I see what you did there.
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I think the mistake here is assuming it goes away when they leave the computer.
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Bathrooms are a whole different subject that are covered by their own set of laws, for obvious reasons. You can't compare the shitter to your desk drawer and I have to wonder what the hell you've been doing in your drawer to come up with that comparison in the first place. On seconds thoughts, I really don't want to know...
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Regardless, I understand the expectation of privacy. But seriously, if you have something you don't want others to see, don't keep it where others might see it. Especially not in a place shared with others that you leave unattended. I assume Derek had a car. Couldn't he have kept his bag of sporting goods in the trunk?
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From the perspective of someone who's overseen office moves for major businesses, I can tell you that it's normal for the move instructions to say exactly what the state of play is. If desks/pedestals are not being moved, then it's normal to give people a deadline by which they must be emptied and to let them know that they must leave them unlocked and empty by then. If they don't, not only will locks be broken, but the users will be charged for doing so, and for fixing the damage. When you're moving a thousand users, you really hate the few dozen retards who don't clear their stuff away.
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Also, your desk drawer is not private, in general. Anything inside an opaque, closed bag, on the other hand, is. (In the UK.)
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TRWTF is using IT staff as your moving men.
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I havetenderized yourbeef loin. Pray I don't tenderize it any further.
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I saw the easter egg!
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Not calling Derek to open and empty his drawer but
around with a has what BUSINESS justification?Admin
Everyone wants to be a policeman. Go be one, for fuck sake, if you want to, and quit policing what others type (goes for all sorts of media: blogs, email - you name it).
My comment goes to site owner, and not to the author of the quote.
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OK the real WTF is BBCode!
The BBCode for is as concise as color=black;font-family:monospace.
FAIL!
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N fhoznevar.
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Big deal. You guys are obsessed with trivial things.
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OMG Ponies!
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Nah mate, you are.
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Or worse... during business hours.
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IT Staff are smarter and do a better job than moving men who break expensive equipment.
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Agreed. Actually, if this story had a hint of truth, it would involve some guys from the local union threatening to move all of the stuff back, then getting a number of overtime hours equal to however long it took the IT staff to move everything.
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You have unions in #1 capitalistic country in the world. That is the true WTF.
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You are posing as me. That is TRWTF.
Actually, the true WTF is TRWTF.
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See, this is why I don't work for Initec. Just knowing that there is nothing in the employee handbook about hot dog carts would almost compel me to put at least 3 or 4 of them in my work space. I don't know why, I feel like I have to.
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What country are you talking about? China or Bhārata?
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So nobody got a Dexter vibe from the opaque black duct taped bag?
I was relieved to read about its contents!
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America.
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Nah, I live in the U.S., not China. Unless you meant "capitalistic attitude" or something - even then, I'm not really sure.
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