Comment On A Sponsor Thanks & A Fridge Cleaning

Just a thought, but perhaps you should schedule a fridge cleaning more often then once a decade.

It's like th java garbage collector, you try and try but the fridge only gets cleaned when the time is right

Awesome. So the follow up to moving the ads to less intrusive places was to just make feature articles about them. Brilliant!

This looks like a Weird Science Experiment

Me:

Awesome. So the follow up to moving the ads to less intrusive places was to just make feature articles about them. Brilliant!

That would be BRILLANT

{ I had to do it before someone else did }

That's nothing. One of my co-workers had a "burger in a can" on her desk for about a year.

Earlier this week, the botulism growing inside it expanded to the point that the can exploded. violently. There are photos somewhere, but they could never capture the smell.

You tied a post about your sponsors to pictures of mold?

What's the encore, to kick each of their CEOs in the balls?

Me:

Awesome. So the follow up to moving the ads to less intrusive places was to just make feature articles about them. Brilliant!

Careful, your pokemon cursors are showing...

I can observe similar things here in our office. In my opinion it’s pretty depressing that some people can’t seem to manage basic tasks like putting your used coffee cup into the empty dish washer every evening. Some of them even go through the trouble of filling it with water—just to let it stand around like that for days. As if that were any better.

Fridge cleaning and maintenance in general has always been kind of a difficult thing around my company. We had notes on the door that kept threatening that Friday afternoon clean-up was imminent, and all items *MUST* have names and dates on them.

The problem is that no one was specifically tasked with that job, and any eager soul who thought to attempt it was probably daunted by the fact that the fridge was typically stuffed full of food, etc. belonging to anonymous co-workers (there were very few of the mandatory names and dates) who might not be thrilled if someone threw away their lunch simply because they happened to have a particularly busy Friday afternoon.

Eventually, some one bit the bullet, and one Moday morning, I came in an marvelled at the pristine shelves of the fridge.

The notice on the door of the fridge included other interesting "rules" of fridge-sharing etiquete. One was something to the effect of "If you want a snack, please use the snack machine or eat only food you brought. Do not randomly take food from the fridge."

That always made me laugh for 2 reasons.
1) Does anyone actually DO that? Maybe I'm naive, but I can't imagine people being nervy enough to eat other people's lunch simply because they want a snack.

and 2) I think people overuse the term "random." I doubt many people just randomly grab food from the fridge to snack on...."I'm hungry; let's see what's in the cards for me today....oh crap! Ketchup again...why couldn't I have randomly chosen one of those doughnouts over there?"

I thought spore was coming out later in the year.

ParkinT:

That would be BRILLANT

{ I had to do it before someone else did }

What? Show that you cannot spell properly? Why?

vt_mruhlin:

That's nothing. One of my co-workers had a "burger in a can" on her desk for about a year.

Nah, that Paprika is at least four years old...

"It's right here Ray... it's looking at me..."

Sharp Observer who understand English better than You (yes You):

ParkinT:

That would be BRILLANT

{ I had to do it before someone else did }

What? Show that you cannot spell properly? Why?

You're new here.

As for the article, just one word: Eeeeewwwwwww!!!

Yet more proof of intelligent life on Mars. Not one spacecraft have returned any evidence of a mold-encrusted cup of [something that may have previoiusly been] yogurt.

Sharp Observer who understand English better than You (yes You):

ParkinT:

That would be BRILLANT

{ I had to do it before someone else did }

What? Show that you cannot spell properly? Why?

Feel stupid yet?

The real WTF is they didn't just use the 'make clean' command.

ewww . . . just ewww

Man, I bet your sponsors are absolutely thrilled that you put their names right along-side a bunch of disgusting stuff. I now associate those companies with feeling nauseous.

Split these posts, or delete the nasty stuff.

SlickEdit is awesome.

That is all.

Salmonymous:

I did go to the biggest dumpster and put everything in it, hopping it would not go through the metal as well.

Either you were doing it with a certain (unwise in the circumstances) bounce in your step, or you were using some beer preservative?

database guy:

ewww . . . just ewww

Hey! Be nice to the sponsors!

ooblek:

SlickEdit is awesome.

That is all.

SQL Prompt is pretty cool too.

Somehow I hope that these photos weren't shot near my town.

Just think of it... All these years writing complex business logic, when all I had to do was to grab "Iron Speed" and make it generate code for me!

And they even have a free edition. Riches untold, I'm coming!

I would gladly rather see Pokemon cursors than Mandatory Fun Day.

FredSaw:

Sharp Observer who understand English better than You (yes You):

ParkinT:

That would be BRILLANT

{ I had to do it before someone else did }

What? Show that you cannot spell properly? Why?

Feel stupid yet?

See then there's the fact that the Sharp Observer 'understand' English better than you.

But anyway, we used to have this all the time at the old place I worked. Except it would be loaves of bread in their bags. Sometimes I did think about leaving them and seeing whether they would eventually wander off of their own accord.

They didn't, they'd just sit there and smell...

Appropriate (not a rickroll)

I have to admit, the last one in the series is pretty impressive. I don't think I've ever seen neon-blue mold before (then again, I don't keep expired food for over 3 years).

Me:

Awesome. So the follow up to moving the ads to less intrusive places was to just make feature articles about them. Brilliant!

This would be true only if Alex was running fridge cleaning service ads, wouldn't it?

Seriously, moron. If running a few ads helps keep this site affordable, so what? Don't like it? STFU and go elsewhere.

Oh, and it's brillant, dumbass. Anyone who comes here often knows how to spell it correctly.

carat:

You tied a post about your sponsors to pictures of mold?

What's the encore, to kick each of their CEOs in the balls?

Isn't it a bit presumptuous (and sexist) to assume that the CEOs are male? They could be chicks, ya know.

InnocentBystander:

FredSaw:

Sharp Observer who understand English better than You (yes You):

ParkinT:

That would be BRILLANT

{ I had to do it before someone else did }

What? Show that you cannot spell properly? Why?

Feel stupid yet?

See then there's the fact that the Sharp Observer 'understand' English better than you.

....

He understand it but he dont rite it to goud.

Hey, that "Paprika" container says "Petri" on it, so it's supposed to be used to grow stuff!

Obviously, some of the food came with us.

should be: ...was following us, on its own. feet.

Thank you! I now have something to inspire me to stay faithful to my diet! heehee.

Me:

Awesome. So the follow up to moving the ads to less intrusive places was to just make feature articles about them. Brilliant!

I thought it was odd to post sponsors in a featured article too. It didn't offend me though. Note that they all seem to offer free versions/tools though.

I wonder how many people will read this just before they go to lunch today?

Nice to see that the "Church" of Scientology isn't on the list.

http://www.whyaretheydead.net/

dkf:

Salmonymous:

I did go to the biggest dumpster and put everything in it, hopping it would not go through the metal as well.

Either you were doing it with a certain (unwise in the circumstances) bounce in your step, or you were using some beer preservative?

Hey, dkf! Don't you have something better to do than criticize extremely minor typos in web forums? Like maybe trying to get a life, or find a personality, or at least make one single friend?

Idiot.

Perhaps the OP works in a R&D lab for biological warfare?

The sidebar post was back in March!

This is about as "recent" as most of that food is!

This is a wtf?
Let me take a look in our fridge at work...not..*yeiks*

Thanks, but I got enough of that last time I helped clean out our company's fridges...

BlueCollarAstronaut:

Fridge cleaning and maintenance in general has always been kind of a difficult thing around my company. We had notes on the door that kept threatening that Friday afternoon clean-up was imminent, and all items *MUST* have names and dates on them.

The problem is that no one was specifically tasked with that job

We solved that problem. Everyone who uses the fridge is put on a list, and a rotating roster of people is assigned every other Friday to actually clean out the fridge.

BlueCollarAstronaut:

and any eager soul who thought to attempt it was probably daunted by the fact that the fridge was typically stuffed full of food, etc. belonging to anonymous co-workers (there were very few of the mandatory names and dates) who might not be thrilled if someone threw away their lunch simply because they happened to have a particularly busy Friday afternoon.

Again, we solved that issue. Twice on the day before the fridge is to be cleaned, a reminder is sent to everyone via email that they need to make sure that things are labeled and dated or they'll be thrown out.

On Friday, about an hour before the fridge will be cleaned, a reminder (via network message and email) is sent out again.

When the scheduled time rolls around, anything not labeled and dated is thrown out. No exceptions, no excuses. No label and date, bin it. You forgot to label and date? Too bad. You didn't get there in time after the reminders? Too bad. Better luck next time; hope you pay attention then so it doesn't happen again.

BlueCollarAstronaut:

That always made me laugh for 2 reasons.
1) Does anyone actually DO that? Maybe I'm naive, but I can't imagine people being nervy enough to eat other people's lunch simply because they want a snack.

Actually, it has happened here. Someone will go in to get their (at least supposedly) properly labeled and dated lunch only to find it missing. We had someone here (not sure who, but either they've left or gotten scared of getting caught) who used to steal food so badly that our management threatened to have a security camera placed in the kitchen to monitor the fridge.

We do "staff lunches" frequently here; basically the old "pot luck" type meal where everyone brings in a dish, and a couple of the better cooks will prepare a couple of large main dishes. For example, we had two entire turkeys last Thanksgiving as the main entree, and everyone brought side dishes.

Leftovers from these staff lunches are labeled and dated, and put in the fridge for a secondary (smaller) lunch the next day, so that everyone can benefit from them.

Last Thanksgiving, someone stole an entire bag (probably 5+ pounds) of leftover turkey from the fridge the afternoon of the luncheon; it was discovered when the leftovers lunch was about to be set up the following day.

It really ticks me off when people are uncouth enough to behave that way. Seriously, if they can't afford lunch they can just come see me; I'd rather buy them lunch on my dime than have them stealing from their co-workers.