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This week, we have both Monday and Friday off, making for a rather short week. Since there are only three days off in between two four-day weekends, lots of people are on vacation this week. During lunch today, one of my coworkers made an observation:

Guy: It’s so quiet and empty and easy to get lunch today, it kind of makes you wish for a big layoff…
Me: … That’s going on my quotes page …

Awesome. He’s right, though, it’s pretty nice for it to be empty sometimes, but certainly a layoff wouldn’t be so good.

Overheard today from the stairwell:

Muffled voices from person on “push-to-talk” cell phone.
Guy: I’m sorry, did you say a subpoena?

Most annoying noise, bar none: push-to-talk in a concrete stairwell.

There’s an awesome charity, started by Penny Arcade, called Child’s Play. They are doing some awesome things collecting money and toys for sick kids in children’s hospitals.

Read about them. Donate.

We’re moving cubes tomorrow. All of us but the manager, it seems… hah.

Manager: [exasperated] I’m not moving. I’m not on the move list!
Employee: Isn’t that a good thing?
Manager: No! I’m supposed to be moving! I don’t want to be the only one left over here!

I’m sure they’ll sort it out.

Heard over the cubicle wall today… whirrrreeeerrrrrr…

I got up to inspect. Ah yes, the strange noise would be a coworker flying a battery powered helicopter around the office.

A minor rant: The Subject field in any email should be used to provide a few word summary, not so much a “subject”. I wish they would’ve called the field “Summary” instead. Subjects such as these are not useful:

• plans
• tomorrow
• question
• trouble

Provide a few word summary instead, it’ll make you a much more liked email user.