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If indeed you are at work.

I hear the sound of a fan and The Pop Group on my ipod. I have a half-full cup of Caffe Trieste coffee.

Jared is on the other side of the divider from me, probably reading conservative blogs or looking at someone's Livejournal.

Down the hall, Jackie is using the envelope-opening machine and Forrest is entering something into a spreadsheet and listening to Portastatic (probably). Michael is not in his office because he is in a meeting downstairs.

― admrl, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I stole this from another board, hope they don't mind.

― admrl, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I think Christian is out today. he just got back from Coachella.

― admrl, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Perhaps the cleaners are emptying some bins.

― jel --, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

a clown with a tire iron is chasing a pack of asiatic jackals down the hall

― Edward III, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I am waiting to start monthend. When I do, I will listen to Laser Guided Melodies. Kati and Karen have just finished discussing how the idiocy of a consultant has resulted in fees not being applied properly, and are now talking about our other colleague who has the mumps.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I am listening to Blaine Reininger and finishing up a bit of coffee. I hear a book truck being wheeled over to ILL; beyond that it's pretty quiet, though it sounds like Kirk is going through some files and Deborah is typing away at something.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

everyone except me has gone home.

― The Real Dirty Vicar, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I've just ended a update-type meeting with my boss. We're the only two in here. I hear nothing but the hum of the ventilation. I'm about to put on Hip Hop Nation and get to work embedding a video on a site.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I can hear the noon bells at First Methodist a couple of blocks away. No music playing here. One of the cats is lurking around my desk. I just got a call from the boss lady with final changes on two ads to be sent to another publication. I will now create press-ready PDFs, if God wills it to be so.

― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Now Jared is asking me about Gordon Brown. I have finished the coffee and am trying to follow printed instructions for formatting this Access file.

― admrl, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

fuck. all.

― blueski, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

The comptroller is in with the Finance Director.

Almost the entire Board, including the owner are standing behind me gossiping about something, but I've got my headphones on and can't hear them.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I am scheduling a flurry of last minute video conference requests. Also, various nefarious undertakings as per usual.

― Michael White, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I am drinking Kombucha and thinking about throwing out the rest of my American Chop Suey. Coworker's Ennio Morricone(?) wafting from headphones

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I can hear the construction people talking in the hallway and a phone ringing in the office next door. I am eating a salad comprised of spinach, broccoli, mushrooms, red peppers, jalepenos, and wasabi peas. My boss is at a meeting so I'm all alone in my "office" which doesn't have any windows. In a few minutes I will most likely look at some job listings online. I need out.

― ENBB, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I am finishing up a cup of coffee. It is quiet in here today as my office mate is (somewhat thankfully) on convention duty, so I'm not being asked incessant questions. It's lunchtime so the place is deadly still--everyone's out, I guess? The a/c is kind of making an annoying wooshing noise, should do something about that.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

they're probably arguing

― RJG, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

"The guy admitted yeah I saw the ball going down so I kicked my feet in the air... that's a heartbreaker... the one time that I did tear one part of a goal post down was when Missouri beat Nebraska.. guarantee that my kid will be a wide receiver... i'm telling you, we've had such great feedback form the guys, saying we're getting so much better, how important the little things are you know, it's a big asset to the club..."

That's what's on my talk radio station right now. Other than that, nothing. No one's in the hall. I don't hear any phones ringing. I'm just sitting here in my office, eating trail mix.

In a minute, I will use the bathroom and get paid for it.

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I wish someone would tidy my desk overnight.

― jel --, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm going to lunchtime yoga. This new teacher is a brute.

― admrl, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link

oh no, office mate has returned. i mentioned him and he appears out of thin air, like he's the candyman. jesus.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I am off today but I am certain my coworkers are now drinking coffee and talking on their cell phones.

― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

The Pop Group on my ipod

okay that's unnerving as i just played half of y.

i am slowly working on a cover story and dicking around on ilx. my officemate is reading comic book message boards, as it is tuesday and there's nothing for him to copy edit. the interns are inputting club and bar information into the website's database. everyone else is either working or taking off as the issue is now out of the door and to the printers. i am thinking about getting a sandwich.

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

IMDb basically fucked up half of our companies' entries, so I am working on setting that right (to be fair they've been very good about it). Two of my bosses are having a conference call to my right, and I am just about to pack up and head home for the champions league semi.

― Mark C, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

My tea has gone from cooling to cold. I can hear bits of hard rock and commercials and dj voices through the partition from L's desk. S has just gotten in and is clicking away and occasionally humming and making those little generally pleased noises. People are sneezy this morning. R is madly typing (I suspect heavy backspace usage), but at least he is now quiet. He had an earlier terribly condescending and too loud phone call that had me kicking myself for forgetting the sound-occluding headphones. LT, who has the most annoying grating voice on the planet seems to be winding up. Lunch is an hour away; I will think of italian food now.

― Jaq, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

The air conditioner is turned up far too high, there is a pot of coffee on the warmer that has been there since approximately 10 am, I can almost hear one of the employee reviews in the conference room down the hall over the clicking of my typing this.

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm trying hard to eavesdrop on my co-worker and boss in the next cube. Because I am nosy.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link

everyone is leaving except 3 of us

we will leave soon too

― emsk, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm listening to "around the world" and editing my electroma piece.

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link

leigh asked me to make a mock-up of something stupid, i said no, i e-mailed like 30 people random things, and everyone is all teary eyed because this is my last week at work EHEHEHE

― homosexual II, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I have done a full-page full-color ad for an advertiser who's going out of town and wants to see their next ad early. I had to leave gaps for a couple of photos still to come, as soon as I find out who won the Futurity Steer Class at a particular show.

I'm trying to decide if the next project is installing a bathroom vanity, installing a ceiling fan, or computer maintenance.

― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link

i have just eaten a giant sandwich and it's killed my desire to do anything but take my belt off and take a nap. i am listening to d'angelo.

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Almost finished with the monthend downloads and I'm almost dying of the tedium. Then I'm going to eat supper (soup) and start to recconcile these mothers. No one else is left in the office except Christina.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Almost finished with the monthend downloads and I'm almost dying of the tedium.

Oh Jesus I completely forgot I have to do this today before I leave. Thanks Kate.

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Glad my boredom was good for something, Nick! :-)

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Rock, how difficult is it to install ceiling fans? Yes, I've looked on the internets already and it seems very intimidating.

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link

watch out for those electrical bits. and use a ladder or something.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link

guess what guys... we are having a PIZZA PARTY AT LUNCH TODAY!!!!!!

― homosexual II, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link

half-assedly looking for something work-related to do. it's the best, because if i find something that needs done, i am 'taknig initiative,' and if i don't, my boss will tell me something to do, and in the meantime i get to half-browse the internet. listening to bjork single again.

― Will M., Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I just removed 1/10 of an inch off of a table off of some portefueille which was designed by with english titles in mind. I'm actively avoiding both client and vendor on some ETL issues. The guy behind me is planning a trip to BC to ski and the guy across from me is trying to neducate supposed java programmers in India who are working passed midnight their time.

― Mr Noodles, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link

practicing my best knuckleball with stress balls from across the room

― MaGoGo, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link

i want to work where magogo does

― deeznuts, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link

PP, it's really easy! I've done three now over the years, but I was lucky enough to have some coaching from my father, who was an electrician before he retired.

I still have that moment of terror when I touch the bare wires, even when I know the power's off to that circuit.

― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/177/466767125_c036c7f425.jpg

― Edward III, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Hope you have robot insurance.

― Mr Noodles, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link

O**** asks "what do I do with this?" and holds up the poster she made about Sacajawea
S**** tells me she lost the information she researched on uses for whale oil
J***** , hyperactive, is conspicuously fake-asleep eon his desk
M*****, is dismissing the rest of the class for lunch

― remy bean, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 19:01 (seventeen years ago) link

A pretty rare event today as it happens - Annual window cleaning for the entire building! The cleaners have dumped a ratty old rug in the middle of the floor.

A woman I spoke to in the elevator thinks it is going to rain.

I am back from yoga and I hurt in my knee.

― admrl, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I still have that moment of terror when I touch the bare wires, even when I know the power's off to that circuit.

-- Rock Hardy, Tuesday, May 1, 2007 1:51 PM (1 hour ago)

forget it PP. NO BARE WIRE TOUCHING

― sunny successor, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link

if I remember our marriage vows correctly, that is.

― sunny successor, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

That must've been the part I recited phonetically.

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey, I'm pretty sure I'm still alive.

― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Rock Hardy wants to tell you all that he's still alive.

― Jennifer Love Hewitt, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link

til the next fan install! remember it only looks easy on "Sell This House" because they have Roger Hazard to guide them

― sunny successor, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.aetv.com/sell_this_house/images/castDetail_image_roger.jpg

― sunny successor, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm not there, but i imagine stet is being cross, and everything else is going to shit.

― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link

3/4 of the way through Accounts In Recc. Chemical Brothers on the headphones. Cleaning lady in the kitchen running the dishwasher and mopping the floor. Maths trance achieved.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm being cross. The press are complaining that sport haven't sent any pages. All ours are gone apart from the front and politics. Lord Browne has quit. The Scottish elections are getting to a fever pitch of dull.

Everywhere across the office small pockets of people are grousing about how shit everything is, after a day of meetings about how shit everything is, thanks to money-grubbing US corporate overlords.

― stet, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 20:27 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.lavssf.com/assets/castDetail_image_roger.jpg

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link

we're practicing the virginia reel for our country fair

― remy bean, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link

NO BIG BEAR WIRE TOUCHING
(xpost)

― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm about to go home. My page isn't showing up correctly in Firefox but inexplicably it is in IE. Don't care anymore. I've done nothing for the last 45 minutes and my brain is fried. A firetruck just went by and it looks like it's going to rain.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Our email went down but now it's back up. My boss has deemed 3pm to be "snack time".

― admrl, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I had some leftover peppers from a lunchtime excursion to quiznos and I have hidden them in my coworker's office. I predict the smell will take a few days to set in.

― mh, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 21:38 (seventeen years ago) link

cake!

― will, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Other co-worker is eyeing my yoga bag suspiciously. He totally thinks I am a gay, foreign socialist.

― admrl, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link

wait you're not?

― river wolf, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link

zing zang!

i am unemployed. right now i am at a public terminal in the library, avoiding an organic chemistry problem set and debating another cup of coffee

― river wolf, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link

It's L's birthday! He's 40. There was cake and singing in the break room. Now there is general hilarity in the next row over of cubes. I have !!! on my headphones pretty loud to escape from it.

― Jaq, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link

HAVING A COOKIE courtesy of KRISTA'S LAST DAY

― homosexual II, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link

place of work = my apartment, as i finish packing for my move

― get bent, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link

every goddamn body is in the pub on their break, while I eat mcdonald's that I had to skip an entire queue of gig-soaked 15-year-olds to buy.

― stet, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

wait you're not?

Adam is more of a green than a socialist, no?

― Michael White, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link

watching this page update:
http://www2.indystar.com/images/graphics/2004/0322_falconcam_2.html

Office mate is gone and the office is fairly dark due to weather and the fact that most everyone else has gone home. I can hear clicking coming from one room over, a coworker trying to finish up something late. No banging around from upstairs, so they must be gone as well. A voice coming from down the hall, late in the day chat.

Damn I need some music.

― patita, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 22:18 (seventeen years ago) link

It's very quiet right now, in contrast to earlier this morning when everyone in our open plan office was trying to yell at once.

The sun is shining outside with a very clear blue sky.

lots of clickey noises

i'm waiting for a conference call to start, i have just got myself a brew.

― Ste, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 09:15 (seventeen years ago) link

nothing is happening really
for months I've been paid pretty much to do nothing, just sit here waiting for the work to pick up

― klankton, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 09:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I am copying my work for the week off the CD that they gave me in work yesterday and onto my PC.

The dogs are asleep in their beds in the sunshine, and the cats are running around in the back garden. People on the radio are talking about the huge wood henge that's just been found where they're going to drive a motorway through the Tara valley, and I'm waiting for the postman to come so I can then go and have my shower.

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 09:21 (seventeen years ago) link

You shower with your postman?

― C J, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 09:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I am munching on wine gums, making bank payments, chatting to my mum about the Eurostar prices and checking ILX. My dad's playing a game and checking his email. Employees are doing some work I am not interested in. I think Studio Brussel is on. Crap Streets derived dribble muzak.

― nathalie, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 09:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I am quite possibly the only person around in any of the offices on this whole corridor at the moment. I am drinking coffee, listening to Ken Bruce on the radio, emailing a friend of mine attempting to offer him some long distance sympathy over his recent relationship break-up, surfing ebay and buying some sizzix dies for my cardmaking obsession, searching Freecycle to see if anyone is giving away anything interesting, reading some work emails and ILX, and filling in my expenses from last month. It's sunny outside, and through my window I can see a man on a tractor-mower cutting the grass of a football pitch.

I have work to do, but I'm not in the mood for it today.

― C J, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 09:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Absolutely nothing. I can hear some tweety birds outside. Oh wait, someone's just come back from the shop, I hear a plastic bag rustling.

Oh, someone's checking their voicemail and just hit speaker on their phone, har har. But then they turned it off.

Someone several cubicles away just sneezed twice.

― rener, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 09:41 (seventeen years ago) link

You shower with your postman?

Yes. And then I put him in a room with the other postmen. Some of them are very old.

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 09:47 (seventeen years ago) link

But clean.

― C J, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 09:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I have just moved desks. I have now unpacked and have a stack of four tea crates behind me. My new colleagues seem v silent and the only sound is the sound of typing. I have a window seat now with a view of our car park, a David Lloyd sports centre and the BMW car factory where they build the Mini.

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:02 (seventeen years ago) link

A child just walked past my office. This isn't an every day occurence but it was kinda freakish. Then I saw this thread.

― the next grozart, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Right now : Beryl is talking to a man wearing shorts. Someone is watering a large plant near me. I am wondering if my colleage Esther has moved her desk further away from me - and why. A Spanish lady called Sylvia is keeps saying 'I don't neeeeeed your help anymore' on the phone. There is someone from downstairs grumpily wandering around asking if someone has seen the digital camera that belongs to his department. Mrs. Dr. C has just rang to say sorry for ~~being a stroppy cow~~ having a row about mobile phones this morning (see other thread). I have already proof read a zillion bits of PR and Marketing guff and I am wondering if I should go for a run at lunchtime.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:10 (seventeen years ago) link

my colleague Tim has just said hello and welcome to the 2nd floor and Trevor the phone man has said my phone should be delivered to my desk soon. Good! I'm expecting a call. The girl sitting opposite me has a v scary scowl, the furrows of which resemeble a ploughed field.

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:16 (seventeen years ago) link

the fashion writer and the magazine designer are comparing notes. they are both lovely and i like them.

the good-looking bloke from graphics, who may or may not have slept with the fashion writer, is texting someone.

the arts editor looks like he is working hard, but might just be sorting out plans for later, when we go for a pint with a mutual friend i haven't seen since 1996. i am excited about this.

my boss is talking to the union FoC.

i am posting to ILX when i should be drawing a news focus page, worrying about a features page, and hassling said boss about pictures and copy for both.

― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 12:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Through the open window I can hear the noise of a building site about 100 yards away. In the main office, people are speaking in low voices, which almost undoubtedly means the Director is getting a slagging. Up the other end of the corridor, 3300 letters are being printed off and I'll shortly have to go and help stuff them into envelopes so they can be sent to Malaysia. I may be procrastinating slightly just now.

― Madchen, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:21 (seventeen years ago) link

every time something the slightest bit interesting happens on the street in front of my office, we crowd around the window and chatter about it. just now, it was a city employee draining a fire hydrant, disgusting reddish-brown water spilling all over the street. it gets pretty boring in here.

― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:24 (seventeen years ago) link

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