Funny jokes never die

Some jokes will always be funny, and once such joke is "that's what she said." (another one would be jokes about EdGrimley's mom). Here is a compilation of The Office and all the "that's what she said jokes."



True Story: I was teaching one day and the students were working on a quiz and one kid just wasn't working. I went up to him and said "Kerry, get to work, you can do this." He then said "It's not hard, its just long." Another student almost immediately said "that's what she said." I could barely hold in my laughter.

Juking the stats

Here is another true story from work that seems like it was taken directly from an episode of The Office.

Towards the end of each year each school has a survey online that is suppossed to be taken by as many staff, students, and parents as possible. They ask questions like do they enjoy coming to work, do they fell safe, do they feel supported and appreciated, etc. You take or you don't, but they would like as many as possible to take it. I took it in about 8 minutes.

Today at this meeting, it was my job to just once again mention to staff to take it please. I mention this and immediately a staff member has a comment. She is upset that after you answer all the questions, it takes you to another page asking questions about gender, race, and how long you have been at this school. It says that this page does not affect the results, its just for calculation purposes or whatever. She argues that when she got there she canceled out of the survey because she thought who ever looks at these results could easily identify her. She said that she would mark that she teaches English, is white, female, and has been here 8 years; and she is the only teacher that fits this profile. She didn't want to complete this survey because someone could identify her.

At this point I tell her to just give the school and administration great marks on the survey that way if she was identified ( which she never would be), they would see that she thinks great about the school and administration. She then said that if she did that she would invalidate the whole survey, and all the results would be useless.

I then suggested to lie about her demographics on the last page, mark that you are male or have been here for 4 years instead of 8. She then said that this would also invalidate the whole survey for everyone. At this point I gave up. So her decision was to just not take it. Wouldn't this invalidate the whole thing just as much? Would it really be the end of the world if someone identified her survey. Again this would never happen because a computer is calculating these results and then posting them in a pie chart.


Here is a funny skit from SNL on Saturday

So scared.........................

Sometimes reality is funnier than anything on a sitcom. Today we had something at work that I thought should could right out of The Office.

We have had an older version of Internet Explorer for over 3 years. (I think it is something like version 6). Because of blockers and locks it is impossible to download a newer version or download another browser (I have tried to use Mozilla, and no go). So basically everyone is stuck with the older Internet Explorer. No big deal. Then today when I got to work and powered up my computer, I noticed that we now had the newest version of Internet Explorer (finally we have tabs).

You would have been shocked at how confused people were. Before school even started I got 4 phone calls asking what was wrong, why did Explorer look so different. On the old version there was a shortcut on the top toolbar to take you to your e-mail. People were lost without it. They actually had to make an announcement through the entire building so that people knew that everything was still the same, you could still check your e-mail. We had a meeting during the day, and people were outraged, they thought their computers were against them. People were actually complaining and looking to write central office to get the old version back. After school a coworker ran into my room in hysterics asking about "what are these tabs? I click on a link and it doesn't open another window, it opens this tab, what am I supposed to do with that?"

Relax people, it's called technology. We are still far from computers over taking us and enslaving us like in The Matrix, but with more people like my co-workers, we might not be that far away.

In this post E.R. world

Now that the TV show E.R. is over (never saw a single episode), more people will have to turn to the harsh realities of their own lives. Here is a real situation that occured at my job yesterday.

A coworker of mine came into my room and said he had to show me something in the copier room. I went in there with him and the printer (which is for everyone to use) was just printing, and printing, and printing. My co-worker said he printed two pages and has been in here for almost 10 minutes waiting for it. Finally the printer stops printing what it was printing, and prints his stuff. We look what was printed and it was 125 pages of all the foreclosed homes in Wisconsin. (Editor's note: I was not on the list, sweet.)

My coworker thought this was a ridiculous waste, which it was, so he left a note:

"Really?Really?"
Is printing 125 pages necessary? Is this even work-related?
How about we all do our jobs instead of wasting company resources."

About 1 hour later the person who printed this sent out an e-mail (by the way we correctly guessed who did it). Thee-mail basically said that no one had the right to tell them what is work-related and what is not. (This person teaches English). They said they were not in the wrong, blah, blah, blah. Earlier this year, right before the election the same person printed 45 pages of a Barack Obama blog. Some people just never get it.

Why can't people just shut their mouths and do their jobs? I mean is it that difficult? Also, why send out that e-mail? Why make it everyone's business?

It reminded me of an episode of The Office earlier this year in which Pam puts up a not by the microwave because people keep leaving it filthy and no one cleans it. After she puts up the note people are angry at her note, not that people were leaving the microwave dirty. Her coworkers wrote comments on the note and even called an office meeting about leaving notes.

Good medicine

I was going to have a post about all the Super Bowl commercials, but really didn't have the time to get my anger juices flowing over them yet, maybe later in the week.

However if you missed the Office last night after the Super Bowl, you missed a treat. Here are the first 5 minutes of the episode in which Dwight sets up a fake fire to see if everyone knows what to do.



I really don't know what he wanted them to do; the doors were locked, the phone was disconnected. It does lead to some funny stuff. I love using the copier to break down a door, the overhead projector through the window,Kevin raiding the snack machine, and Oscar crawling in the drop ceiling.

Great lines: "Stanley, Barack is President. You are black Stanley." ~Michael
"The fire is shooting at us." ~Andy after Dwight lights some firecrackers.

Give NBC credit for this. The Office is a hilarious show, but its rating are just okay. They are trying to take the millions of people who were watching the Super Bowl and immediately show them how funny the show is. This episode started about 2 seconds after the post game. If you didn't have a chance to change the channel, you would quickly see a great scene that shows how funny The Office is. The great thing about the show is that you can just watch it, you don't have to know any back stories or anything. Just sit back and laugh

Real Olympic Events

I don't blog about the Olympics because all in all I don't really care. I love freedom to much to even watch other countries try to compete against us in random sports. However online there are 2 clips from The Office that would make the Olympics more interesting.