Okay, this tea probably can’t make you and your coworkers get along better, but it sounds pretty tasty regardless.
[Via Perpetual Kid]
Tag Archive for 'Junk Drawer'
No, it’s not a fancy promotion or incriminating knowledge about your boss’ extracurricular activities… it’s a gun that shoots Post-It notes at people! Let’s all pretend Romy and Michele invented it, shall we?
This is even better than a staple gun – so subtle, so nefarious, so yellow.
The band King Missile thinks that the best way to make up for being underpaid is to steal things from your office and waste time while on the clock.
Come to think of it, they make a compelling argument.
I’m loving (in that “I appreciate its artistic merits” way, not in the “making so little money is awesome” way) this “minimum wage machine” created by artist Blake Fall-Conroy. You can check it out here. This description comes from his website:
The minimum wage machine allows anybody to work for minimum wage. Turning the crank will yield one penny every 5.04 seconds, for $7.15 an hour (NY state minimum wage). If the participant stops turning the crank, they stop receiving money. The machine’s mechanism and electronics are powered by the hand crank, and pennies are stored in a plexiglas box.
Hat tip: Jen Dziura
Are you infuriated by the fact that rich bankers get Washington bailouts and six-figure bonuses while you’re still scraping by? You are far from alone. Tim Hunkin, an English man who runs an arcade in Southwold, Suffolk realized there was a market for people who wanted to take out their frustration on capitalist pigs – so he created “Whack a Banker,” a game based on the popular “Whack a Mole,” where little heads of men in business suits pop out of holes, and you beat the hell out of them with a mallet. Hunkin, who charges a mere 40 pence per turn, is already raking in the cash.
”It’s proving very popular. I keep having to replace worn-out mallets.”
”And, of course, the bankers never really lose. If you win the game a banker’s voice says: ‘You win. We retire. Thank you very much to the taxpayer for paying our pensions’.”
I have got to schedule a trip out there.
There are tons of ways to calm down/feel less stressed at work – taking a break to chat with a coworker friend, listening to music, organizing a company yoga class – but poetry isn’t one I normally think of. A new website called Fiscal Haiku encourages readers to submit haikus about the economy and the current financial climate. Here are a couple of my favorites:
Food court smells so good
But my wallet is empty
It sucks to be broke
Pour water through seives
Wanting and spending money
Yet life can’t be bought
a college degree
can’t afford health insurance
unpaid internship
This is fun! I might have to work on some STA-related ones.
