The list for December 6, 1996
The Top 15 Signs You Have Nothing to Do at Work
- You find yourself looking forward to your next random drug test.
- You’ve already read the entire Dilbert page-a-day calendar for 1997.
- The only activity on your calendar? Tuesday/8:00am — Discuss Melrose Place at the water cooler.
- You discover that staring at your cubicle wall long enough produces image of Elvis.
- You’ve actually figured out a way to get Gilligan off that island.
- You decide to see how many Mountain Dews you can drink before the inevitable explosion occurs.
- Wake up, fix Tipper her breakfast and kiss her goodbye, then back to bed.
- Over 200 alphabetical, notated, and cross-indexed submissions to today’s Top Five List.
- People only come into your office to borrow pencils from your ceiling.
- Your employer lets you listen in on his calls from the president.
- You *knew* that guy who hired you to find his wife’s killer looked familiar.
- No longer content with merely photo-copying your ass, you now scan it and enhance it with Photoshop.
- After months of taking frequent breaks, you now require only a single can of cola to belch the names of all seven Dwarves.
- Your title? Hooters Employee Continuing Education Coordinator.
And the Number 1 Sign You Have Nothing to Do at Work…
- The 4th Division of Paperclips has overrun the Pushpin Infantry and General White-Out has called for a new skirmish.
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CREDITS
Selected from 128 submissions from 44 contributors.
Today’s list authors were:
- Kris Johnson, Burbank, CA — 1 (1st #1!)
- Sterling Smith, Houston, TX — 2
- David G. Scott, Kansas City, MO — 3
- John Voigt, Chicago, IL — 4
- Lee Oeth, San Diego, CA — 4
- Jeff Downey, Raleigh, NC — 5
- Paul Seaburn, Houston, TX — 6
- Greg Pettit, Houston, TX — 7
- Jeffrey House, Detroit, MI — 8
- Ed Smith, Chattanooga, TN — 9
- Michael Wolf, Brookline, MA — 10
- R.M. Weiner, Brighton, MA — 10
- Tisha Stacey, St. Paul, MN — 10
- Kris Kettner, Fond du Lac, WI — 10, Topic
- Aaron Milenski, Oberlin, OH — 11
- Paul Paternoster, Redwood City, CA — 12
- Steve Hurd, San Ramon, CA — 13
- Barbara McMahon, Ann Arbor, MI — 14
- Kermit Woodall, Richmond, VA — 15
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