Is their any. Sometimes it feels like the only thing people don't do is crap on there desk.
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Always crap on someone else's desk.Originally posted by mall View PostIs there any. Sometimes it feels like the only thing people don't do is crap on there desk. -
Someone literally stole 'my' chair - it was a gifted hand me down from someone who procured a new one. Came in one morning and it was gone - not on the office floor. I wish I could I say I wasn't, but I'm pretty pissed off about it tbh.Comment
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*theirOriginally posted by mall View PostIs there any. Sometimes it feels like the only thing people don't do is crap on there desk.Comment
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Why are you feeling other people's desks? But do please tell what else you have felt on their desks.Originally posted by mall View PostIs there any. Sometimes it feels like the only thing people don't do is crap on there desk.But I discovered nothing else but depraved, excessive superstition. Pliny the youngerComment
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At one client I had my monitor stolen while another guy got his chair stolen.Originally posted by vwdan View PostSomeone literally stole 'my' chair - it was a gifted hand me down from someone who procured a new one. Came in one morning and it was gone - not on the office floor. I wish I could I say I wasn't, but I'm pretty pissed off about it tbh.
I went around the floor but no one had my monitor same with the chair.
So we ended up sticking labels to our equipment in discrete places. After that nothing was removed."You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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Just had enough of the "open plan office". Or maybe I just hate people.
To quote the film City Slickers "If hate were people, I’d be China".Comment
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Just moved to new client offices. Open plan, hot desking. It's great. Spent the first ten billable minutes adjusting the chair.Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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*theirOriginally posted by mall View PostIs there any. Sometimes it feels like the only thing people don't do is crap on there desk.Originally posted by Stevie Wonder BoyI can't see any way to do it can you please advise?
I want my account deleted and all of my information removed, I want to invoke my right to be forgotten.Comment
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