Vultures at work
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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
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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Boro_Bob wrote:
We call them the marketing department,
Maybe you need to get an exterminator.
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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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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
eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
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.
And then you had turkey for dinner, right?
regards, Paul Watson Ireland FeedHenry needs you
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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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'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
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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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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And then you had turkey for dinner, right?
regards, Paul Watson Ireland FeedHenry needs you
eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
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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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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
My desktop background is a photo of turkey vultures I shot a few weeks ago, perched in a tree near our southern powerline river crossing. There are about 70 of them who make their homes in or near two burned out trees on this site, and it's a perfect backdrop for vultures. One day when I have a website up and running again I'll post the photo.:-D
"...a photo album is like Life, but flat and stuck to pages." - Shog9
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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
Roadrunners, quail, vultures, coyotes, wild pigs, tarantulas, rattlesnakes, giant toads and various big, ugly insects.
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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
Joe Q wrote:
Does anyone else have any interesting creatures show up at their work?
Oryx, A bobcat was spotted today, Rattlesnakes, Shrikes, Vultures, eagles, hawks, mice with and without hantavirus, rats with and without plague, horses, turrantulas, mosquitos with and without West Nile virus, wasps, yellow jackets, horse-flies, and killer bees. is that enough?
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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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.;)
Hindsight is a wonderful thing. :laugh:
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