Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Looks like a porn movie

Lots of fun things were said at work the other day as everybody assembled around my desk (no office yet, the bastards) to watch a video of resident programmer jumping out of dinky plane in Umm Al Quwain (I so wanted to go) (being cheap ain't easy). It would have been played on resident genius' computer but RG forgot to unplug his headphones from his laptop and decided "the sound isn't working".

So there I am, surrounded by 19 men (I counted) looming over me, watching this very fun video (why is it that everything that is air, flight, skydive, helicopter related always has Danger Zone for a soundtrack?) and RG says, in a very loud voice, "that looks like a porn movie" at which point 19 looming men start laughing. Now I don't know if you've had occasion to be surrounded by 19 looming men who are laughing at the same time, very loudly, in a semi-circle with you in the center so I'll tell you wot it's like. Disturbing. The sound waves bounce off of you repeatedly and the impact is enough to start a screaming migraine.

RG also tried to plug his two pin plug into the three pin floor socket using a ballpoint pen. It didn't work. So I handed him my three pin plug. And he used THAT to plug in his two pin plug.

May I also mention that RG has a degree in robotics?

And then they don't understand when I bang my head against the wall and mutter obscenities mixed in with pleas to "make it end, please Lord, let it end".

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

hmmm, did u end up under the desk this time? :-)

Wolfe said...

Look listen, for the last time, I went under the desk for a legitimate reason!!!

But we do have a Dana-type designer only in the sense that he's tall and bald and plays the drums. But he's a sweetheart.