Tag Archive for 'sports'

So we just found out that every March a bunch of basketball teams play each other and stuff, and a lot of  people like to bet on it. It’s like the Oscars, but with less pretty gowns, and it lasts more than just one night. Also, apparently, it’s destroying your office. Or so says Yahoo, who claims that “March Madness” causes businesses across the country to lose more than a billion dollars’ worth of productivity. While some claim necessity is the mother of invention, we here at STA think that most modern technological advances are the result of people slacking off. Witness this one:

The good folks who run this thing have even programmed a “boss button” which allows the worker watching whether George Mason can upset Notre Dame to, with a single keystroke, dump the screen when their supervisor comes by looking for their TPS report.

No wonder we are in a recession.

Can we have a boss button even though we’re using it for non-sports-related purposes? We have important eBay orders to make!