Thursday, February 14, 2008

You complete me.

I know it's corny but hey what the hell, that sums it all up and I like it.
Happy Valentine's Day :)

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Office Quips

1. When I joined work, we were a fairly small start up. In our company we have a tradition of the new hires being taken out for lunch by the CEO in order to acquaint her with them. Usually the new hires receive a mail from the CEO inviting them for a casual lunch. A new hire, one Mr. V reads this mail for a lunch invitation by our CEO and is extremely shocked.

Mr. V replies:

Dear Ms.CEO,
I appreciate your interest in getting to know me well but you see I am a married man with two children. I cannot do this to my family. I would be grateful if we could drop this idea and not take this any further.
Sincerely,
Mr. V

CEO replies:

Dear Mr. V,
It's perfectly ok. I too am married with two children ;)
Sincerely,
Ms. CEO

2. During an office lunch party:

New hire: Hi, I am Mr. A
Mr. T: Hi, I am Mr. T
New hire: So how long have you been working here?
Mr. T: I have been working here for the last 4 years.
New hire: Wow that's a long time to work for a start up.
Mr. T: Yes, unfortunately I am the founder so I have to.
New hire: #@*&#

Warning: Item 3 is strictly PG-17

3. Our company does something called search keyword optimization that is we optimize the revenue generated for keyword when its bid for in search engines. Recently we had an adult content oriented client. I cannot name who the client is since I will be breaching the confidentiality agreements of our company but I can tell you that they are quite famous. I enjoy bragging to my friends that I indirectly work for this company.

Conversation about the performance of this client as you can understand can lead to very awkward situations. Here are some of those priceless moments. I tell you it takes extreme control to keep a straight face and not laugh when someone says

a. Big b00b$ isn't performing well.
b. P0rn screwed us.
c. Let's take le$bi@n g@ngb@ng as our case study.