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When you fall asleep while taking a shit in the company bathroom.

  • Capt K
- Capt K - "Prestige is like a powerful magnet that warps even your beliefs about what you enjoy. If you want to make ambitious people waste their time on errands, bait the hook with prestige." - Paul Graham
 
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baloogafishYou turn in your taxi receipts and are confused since you have two receipts from the same day.

Its usually the peanut brained admins that get confused, and they never seem to figure it out even after it happens over and over.

captkWhen you fall asleep while taking a shit in the company bathroom.
  • Capt K

Let me add to that... when you fall asleep while taking a shit, wake up in a panic, leap off the toilet only to realize your entire leg is completely fucking numb, and fall to the ground with your pants at your ankles.... your face pressed against the cold tile floor, you wonder if its possible for you to not get up and stay asleep for another 2 hours without anyone finding you.

 

when you walk over to the female analyst working in the cubicle next to you, grab her by the hair, bend her over her desk and perform a tony danza.

..and then you wake up and realize it was just a Patrick Bateman type dream.

I'm making it up as I go along.

------------ I'm making it up as I go along.
 
When you start hallucinating that there's a dragon in the room and you startle yourself awake.. (this was after 2 consecutive all-nighters)

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
 
vWhen you start hallucinating that there's a dragon in the room and you startle yourself awake.. (this was after 2 consecutive all-nighters)

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

That sounds so different from any story I have ever heard. Dragons. I love it.

 
MachineWhen your eyes are so red that you look like you smoked pot all day with Bob Marley himself.

Pretty sure all my friends outside work think I've become a huge pot head, since my eyes are literally red all the time from lack of sleep and staring at a computer.

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- Capt K - "Prestige is like a powerful magnet that warps even your beliefs about what you enjoy. If you want to make ambitious people waste their time on errands, bait the hook with prestige." - Paul Graham
 
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MachineWhen your eyes are so red that you look like you smoked pot all day with Bob Marley himself.

Pretty sure all my friends outside work think I've become a huge pot head, since my eyes are literally red all the time from lack of sleep and staring at a computer.

  • Capt K

Visine works well, I use now the "Green one" painful but works better than the regular one.

 

You go in to work one day and don't leave until the next day

Either you sling crack rock or you got a wicked jump shot

-------------- Either you sling crack rock or you got a wicked jump shot
 

When you go to leave the office and as you are walking through rotating glass door you hurry up because you think someone is walking in from the other side. Only as you exit do you realize in reality it was just your reflection on the glass...

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