Sometimes my job rocks :)

[Fritzo]

I'm covering for a supervisor on the night shift tonight. Since I don't get overtime, HR let me take the day off, then come in for 6 hours at night and get credit for 8.

I walk into the office, and our marketing guy comes up as I walk into the door: "We have a new client that's running a home theater show at his store, want to come? You're the expert in this stuff and I need to fit in."

Sweet!

I took off for 2 hours of eating shrimp and cheese, drinking wine, and seeing some of the COOLEST home theater and automation systems I've ever seen. They demoed a Mitsubishi LED TV with a built in 18 speaker sound bar---that thing is now officially on my "Will buy within 12 months" list.

Anyway, I'm now back at work half drunk, full of seafood, and neffing on ATOT for 2 more hours

 

[eldorado99]

Sounds pretty sweet!

 

[Kadarin]

Nice!

 

[vshah]

well done indeed. here i am, sitting in an empty office, waving my hands like a madman every 5 minutes so the lights turn back on. officially jealous!

 

[richardycc]

a company that needs a night shift supervisor that also has a marketing guy and his new client does home theater stuff...what the heck does your company do?

 

[zerogear]

well done indeed. here i am, sitting in an empty office, waving my hands like a madman every 5 minutes so the lights turn back on. officially jealous!

I do that when I'm using the bathroom in my office. lol.

 

[bobdole369]

What kind of home automation stuff was there?

 

[Fritzo]

a company that needs a night shift supervisor that also has a marketing guy and his new client does home theater stuff...what the heck does your company do?

We sell business services as well as being a national ISP.

 

[PhoKingGuy]

well done indeed. here i am, sitting in an empty office, waving my hands like a madman every 5 minutes so the lights turn back on. officially jealous!

This happened in one of my old co workers offices, so he bought a model train and put a long thin dowel on it with a piece of paper attached to the end of it and had it go around in a circle. It was hilarious.

 

[Crono]

In my day, we just neffed at work... and we liked it!

</nef>

 

[Fritzo]

What kind of home automation stuff was there?

Stuff like this:

http://www.control4.com/residential/products/interfaces/7-portable/

 

[rcpratt]

well done indeed. here i am, sitting in an empty office, waving my hands like a madman every 5 minutes so the lights turn back on. officially jealous!

I can only hope you watched The Office last week and are kidding.

 

[vshah]

I can only hope you watched The Office last week and are kidding.

nope... after 6 the lights switch to motion sensing.

 

[olds]

Mitsubishi :thumbsdown::thumbsdown:

 

[SacrosanctFiend]

Woohoo...your HR department apparently views you as non-exempt and the company is reaping the benefits of classifying you as exempt...and you think it's awesome! Win for HR.

 

[Goosemaster]

Mitsubishi :thumbsdown::thumbsdown:

 

[Crono]

Mitsubishi :thumbsdown::thumbsdown:

What's wrong with Mitsubishi?

Their TVs are pretty reliable and a good value, in my experience.