Some bosses treat interns like crap–yelling at them, throwing stuff, or firing them in front of the whole company. But William F. Smithson went one step further than that.
Smithson worked for a company that manufactures sports scoreboards. An intern named Jason Kyle Shephard, who was working in the South Dakota office, was sent by the company on a business trip to Philadelphia. According to Philly.com:
Later that night, Shephard sat talking about girls and drinking Gatorade in the Delaware County home of a coworker. The 23-year-old had no way of knowing his drink had been spiked with the date-rape drug GHB, that there was a sex den in the basement, and that a third man was in the home.
Shephard never lived to see the Philadelphia sites.
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If you work in an open office, like I do, it’s sometimes a little jarring when people just stride up to your desk and catch you mid-project (or, um, mid-blogging) and catch you by surprise. It makes you feel like you have no privacy and does nothing to shield you from annoying coworkers. So, somebody out there invented a thing called The Cubicaller. While the idea behind it isn’t terrible (why not have a doorbell so you’re not totally taken by surprise when someone wants to stop by your desk and talk about something), is the best way to fix the problem really to install a bell? Think of all the annoying sounds in your office already: do you want to add a “quack quack,” car horn, or foghorn noise to that?
That said, you can listen to all of the sounds if you need a good laugh.
Or, for more humor, try their list of alternatives to the Cubicaller, such as “knocking” and “saying excuse me.” It’s actually hilarious, intentionally or unintentionally.
Have you ever thought, “you know, my boss is totally psycho, but I wish he’d be more psycho?”
If so, well, have I ever found the job for you. Professional trainwreck Courtney Love recently posted on her blog that she’s looking for a new personal assistant. She wrote that she’s hiring a videographer to record the process of making Hole’s new album (”to document our studio as we go in wedsday, and i have ALOT of work to do til then and i wont just hand this to hbo or bbc 2 or bravo and god forbid not vh1!”), and a housekeeper (”no superfans please. and its very good money. btw the housekeeping part just early hours”) as well as a PA.
Still interested? Here’s how she describes the position:
and am looking for a young PA type someone whor eally wants to get nto the film business cos as we startramping up pay some dues with me for a few months and you can be on this HTH movie
Her original MySpace posting is here and not for the faint of heart.
Competitive, televised office karaoke.
To quote from the press release for the show, which is hosted by Mel B and Joey Fatone:
In each episode, Brown, 32, and Fatone, 31, surprise employees at two separate workplaces with impromptu vocal auditions. They then pick the five best singers. The makeshift groups are trained by pros to perform a song-and-dance routine and compete in front of a studio audience.
The show will air on TLC and has not yet been assigned an airdate. To make up for the horrifyingness of this post, please enjoy this picture of the very funny and charming Mel B and her obscenely hot Dancing with the Stars partner, Maks, with a special cameo by Maks’ butt. You’re welcome.
