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    Joe Q
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    Literally, not figuratively. While some places have mice or ants at work, we have Vultures. They show up everyday in the atrium of one of the buildings at work. We’re not sure why they started showing up, they just did. When vendors or customers come in it seems like they all get a tour of the Vultures if they're on the ledge at that time. While some speculate that it’s because it’s around Performance Review time, I think that they just feel at home with our companies management style. :laugh: Does anyone else have any interesting creatures show up at their work? Joe Q

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      Literally, not figuratively. While some places have mice or ants at work, we have Vultures. They show up everyday in the atrium of one of the buildings at work. We’re not sure why they started showing up, they just did. When vendors or customers come in it seems like they all get a tour of the Vultures if they're on the ledge at that time. While some speculate that it’s because it’s around Performance Review time, I think that they just feel at home with our companies management style. :laugh: Does anyone else have any interesting creatures show up at their work? Joe Q

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      We have lots of spiders and wood-lice (pea-bugs). The spiders eat the wood-lice and leave the carcasses dotted around the floor. The web-wrapped carcasses are especially prevalent in the corners where the cleaners don't often go. Needless to say, the spiders grow very big. ChrisB

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        Literally, not figuratively. While some places have mice or ants at work, we have Vultures. They show up everyday in the atrium of one of the buildings at work. We’re not sure why they started showing up, they just did. When vendors or customers come in it seems like they all get a tour of the Vultures if they're on the ledge at that time. While some speculate that it’s because it’s around Performance Review time, I think that they just feel at home with our companies management style. :laugh: Does anyone else have any interesting creatures show up at their work? Joe Q

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        Anna Jayne Metcalfe
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        Joe Q wrote:

        Literally, not figuratively. While some places have mice or ants at work, we have Vultures.

        I thought you were referring to the personal ethics of some of the staff at first...:->

        Anna :rose: Currently working mostly on: Visual Lint :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.

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          Literally, not figuratively. While some places have mice or ants at work, we have Vultures. They show up everyday in the atrium of one of the buildings at work. We’re not sure why they started showing up, they just did. When vendors or customers come in it seems like they all get a tour of the Vultures if they're on the ledge at that time. While some speculate that it’s because it’s around Performance Review time, I think that they just feel at home with our companies management style. :laugh: Does anyone else have any interesting creatures show up at their work? Joe Q

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          Frank Kerrigan
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          Maybe the vultures know something you don't, do they give you the evil eye ?


          Blog Have I http:\\www.frankkerrigan.com

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            Literally, not figuratively. While some places have mice or ants at work, we have Vultures. They show up everyday in the atrium of one of the buildings at work. We’re not sure why they started showing up, they just did. When vendors or customers come in it seems like they all get a tour of the Vultures if they're on the ledge at that time. While some speculate that it’s because it’s around Performance Review time, I think that they just feel at home with our companies management style. :laugh: Does anyone else have any interesting creatures show up at their work? Joe Q

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            RC_Sebastien_C
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            Joe Q wrote:

            interesting creatures

            Project Managers

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              Literally, not figuratively. While some places have mice or ants at work, we have Vultures. They show up everyday in the atrium of one of the buildings at work. We’re not sure why they started showing up, they just did. When vendors or customers come in it seems like they all get a tour of the Vultures if they're on the ledge at that time. While some speculate that it’s because it’s around Performance Review time, I think that they just feel at home with our companies management style. :laugh: Does anyone else have any interesting creatures show up at their work? Joe Q

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              We have these strange noisy creatures. I am not even sure what they are. They walk two legs and seem to spend most of their time talking gibberish into their phones. They seem to be pointless, but harmless, and we have herded them into one corner where they seem content to stay most of the time. We call them the marketing department, and sometimes we throw peanuts at them.

              Words fade as the meanings change, but somehow, it don't bother me.

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                Literally, not figuratively. While some places have mice or ants at work, we have Vultures. They show up everyday in the atrium of one of the buildings at work. We’re not sure why they started showing up, they just did. When vendors or customers come in it seems like they all get a tour of the Vultures if they're on the ledge at that time. While some speculate that it’s because it’s around Performance Review time, I think that they just feel at home with our companies management style. :laugh: Does anyone else have any interesting creatures show up at their work? Joe Q

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                Paul Watson
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                Foxes, badgers, cows and hunting dogs. Had em all wandering around the building, getting into the parking lot etc. Pretty weird for a city boy working in farm land I tell you. None of the native Irish at work seem to notice them.

                regards, Paul Watson Ireland FeedHenry needs you

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                eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.

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                  Joe Q wrote:

                  interesting creatures

                  Project Managers

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                  Joe Q
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                  OK, now that's scary!

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                    Maybe the vultures know something you don't, do they give you the evil eye ?


                    Blog Have I http:\\www.frankkerrigan.com

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                    Frank Kerrigan wrote:

                    Maybe the vultures know something you don't, do they give you the evil eye ?

                    Hmmm...now that you mention it, they do stare at me as I walk by.

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                      Joe Q wrote:

                      Literally, not figuratively. While some places have mice or ants at work, we have Vultures.

                      I thought you were referring to the personal ethics of some of the staff at first...:->

                      Anna :rose: Currently working mostly on: Visual Lint :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.

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                      Joe Q
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                      Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:

                      I thought you were referring to the personal ethics of some of the staff at first

                      Maybe I should have said Literally AND figuratively.;)

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                        Literally, not figuratively. While some places have mice or ants at work, we have Vultures. They show up everyday in the atrium of one of the buildings at work. We’re not sure why they started showing up, they just did. When vendors or customers come in it seems like they all get a tour of the Vultures if they're on the ledge at that time. While some speculate that it’s because it’s around Performance Review time, I think that they just feel at home with our companies management style. :laugh: Does anyone else have any interesting creatures show up at their work? Joe Q

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                        Oh, there's so many jokes that could be made there! "Those vultures are our management advisors." "Meet BOFH[^]'s special envoy." "Management has no soul so the vultures come because they think they're dead." etc. ;P The animals that come around here are a dog and 2 cats. :-) I work at home and they keep me company. :cool:

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                          We have these strange noisy creatures. I am not even sure what they are. They walk two legs and seem to spend most of their time talking gibberish into their phones. They seem to be pointless, but harmless, and we have herded them into one corner where they seem content to stay most of the time. We call them the marketing department, and sometimes we throw peanuts at them.

                          Words fade as the meanings change, but somehow, it don't bother me.

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                          Joe Q
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                          Boro_Bob wrote:

                          We call them the marketing department,

                          Maybe you need to get an exterminator.

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                            Boro_Bob wrote:

                            We call them the marketing department,

                            Maybe you need to get an exterminator.

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                            We've tried it in the past, but they are like cockroches. For everyone you smash to a bloody pulp, another two just seem to appear in their place.

                            Words fade as the meanings change, but somehow, it don't bother me.

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                              Literally, not figuratively. While some places have mice or ants at work, we have Vultures. They show up everyday in the atrium of one of the buildings at work. We’re not sure why they started showing up, they just did. When vendors or customers come in it seems like they all get a tour of the Vultures if they're on the ledge at that time. While some speculate that it’s because it’s around Performance Review time, I think that they just feel at home with our companies management style. :laugh: Does anyone else have any interesting creatures show up at their work? Joe Q

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                              Last place I worked had 2 or 3 wild turkeys that roamed around the parking lot. Sometimes they'd gang up and attack cars as they tried to leave.

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                                Foxes, badgers, cows and hunting dogs. Had em all wandering around the building, getting into the parking lot etc. Pretty weird for a city boy working in farm land I tell you. None of the native Irish at work seem to notice them.

                                regards, Paul Watson Ireland FeedHenry needs you

                                Shog9 wrote:

                                eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.

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                                RC_Sebastien_C
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                                Paul Watson wrote:

                                badgers

                                Well, thanks to you too! Now we're even :) :badger: :badger: :badger: :badger: :badger: :badger: :badger: :badger: :badger: :badger: :badger:

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                                  Last place I worked had 2 or 3 wild turkeys that roamed around the parking lot. Sometimes they'd gang up and attack cars as they tried to leave.

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                                  Paul Watson
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                                  And then you had turkey for dinner, right?

                                  regards, Paul Watson Ireland FeedHenry needs you

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                                  eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.

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                                    Last place I worked had 2 or 3 wild turkeys that roamed around the parking lot. Sometimes they'd gang up and attack cars as they tried to leave.

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                                    Joe Q
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                                    managements way of keeping you at work.

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                                      Oh, there's so many jokes that could be made there! "Those vultures are our management advisors." "Meet BOFH[^]'s special envoy." "Management has no soul so the vultures come because they think they're dead." etc. ;P The animals that come around here are a dog and 2 cats. :-) I work at home and they keep me company. :cool:

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                                      Joe Q
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                                      First, thanks for the link to BOFH, it looks pretty goos. Second, I thought of a lot of the jokes, too. That's why I posted it! :laugh:

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                                        We've tried it in the past, but they are like cockroches. For everyone you smash to a bloody pulp, another two just seem to appear in their place.

                                        Words fade as the meanings change, but somehow, it don't bother me.

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                                        Joe Q
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                                        Maybe if you wear clown shoes you can get more at one time!

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                                          Literally, not figuratively. While some places have mice or ants at work, we have Vultures. They show up everyday in the atrium of one of the buildings at work. We’re not sure why they started showing up, they just did. When vendors or customers come in it seems like they all get a tour of the Vultures if they're on the ledge at that time. While some speculate that it’s because it’s around Performance Review time, I think that they just feel at home with our companies management style. :laugh: Does anyone else have any interesting creatures show up at their work? Joe Q

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                                          Stuart Dootson
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                                          Joe Q wrote:

                                          Does anyone else have any interesting creatures show up at their work?

                                          Squirrels, sparrows, dead mice, fleas...OK, that last one isn't proven - just very strongly suspected.

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