I knew it! I knew it! Now this study proves it!



From BBC

" Some computer keyboards harbour more harmful bacteria than a toilet seat, research has suggested.
Consumer group Which? said tests at its London offices found equipment carrying bugs that could cause food poisoning.

Out of 33 keyboards swabbed, four were regarded as a potential health hazard and one harboured five times more germs than one of the office's toilet seats. "
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"Research by the University of Arizona last year found the average office desktop harboured 400 times more bacteria than the average office toilet seat. They also found that, compared to men, on average women have three to four times the amount of germs in, on and around their work area. "

THERE! PROOF! Just because women use creams and other stuff does not make them cleaner, it is in their genes, that is why women need men to disinfect them ;p

For the full article, here is the link and also here
Purgatorian Post #1263

Today I am at my desk and I have been whistling several things

- " My milkshake brings boys to the yard.."

- Old Iraqi National Anthem

- " Santa is coming to Town"

- " Final countdown"

- " B I N G O, B I N G O, B I N G O and Bingo was its name-Ooooooooo"

Purgatorian Post #1224

One of my friends decided to make a career shift and change to another company. She was telling me that management were upset, and that her old boss lady came to her from a long distance overnight just to make her stay. Of course she failed, but while talking to her, an idea came to me, the P.S.S. Employee.

Me: So what happened with the lady from (@@@@@@)?
Her: Nothing
Me: So she did not entice you to stay with her womanly charms?
Her: She does not have womanly charms, she is as old as my mother.
Me: Does not matter, even older women have womanly charms. I bet if they sent you a male model, you would have stayed.
Her: ?
Me: Its a pay-for-stay Hooker, hired by the company to fix things.
Her: LOL!!

Ok now based on that conversation, here is how things started moving in my head to that tangent. A while back I saw the George Clooney Movie, Michael Clayton, where his role in the movie is the fixer, he fixes things for the company. He does not sleep with people, but he fixes things. While talking to the lady, my brain cell associated with movies, went there, passed by the Karl Wolf "Africa" sexy model in yellow bikini, then back to work, and the concept of a Pay-Per-Stay Hooker came.

The PPS Hooker is a company employee, who must have features that make men or women go WAWA, and good conversation skills, good human interaction, and in the worst of situations, be ready to entice people to stay in the company by offering them "special services", when money, position and everything else fails. We all know humans are weak, maybe some Marvin Gay Healing is all they need.

Are you ready for the next step?

Purgatorian Post #1211

I am sure many of you while writing documents or answering messages for work use shortcuts, to simplify long words or common expressions that are known to people who work in a specific field. However, many of us fall in a trap of using internet expressions, which are these days common as proper expressions to some, but still can create confusion.

For example, you include expressions such as brb, bbl, thx, btw, lol, and huh (yes last one is an internet expression for you know who), and your older non-internet saavy fellow worker reads it and gets:

a) confused
b) shocked
c) understands but ignores
d) annoyed
e) laughs secretly that they know what it actually means

My question is, when you do such things, does it make you less professional or is it accepted these days that many of the Generation X (and the one after it, do not know what they call them) just express themselves in such manner?

Purgatorian Post #1169