Misery

[C&CDean]

I just got this mental image of Norm - with a couple strips of sizzling bacon on his head. I can't stop laughing.

[Sooner_Bob]

Norm, it's just a psychological trick. Keep the workers uncomfortable and they'll be more alert and productive.

Go kick your boss in the knees and report back. We'll wait right here...

OSHA

[Sooner_Bob]

In 1911, Frederick Taylor, known as the Father of Scientific Management, published Principles of Scientific Management in which he proposed work methods designed to increase worker productivity. One of his famous experiments had to do with increasing the output of a worker loading pig iron to a rail car. Taylor broke the job down into its smallest constituent movements, timing each one with a stopwatch. The job was redesigned with a reduced number of motions as well as effort and the risk of error. Rest periods of specific interval and duration and a differential pay scale were used to improve the output. With scientific management, Taylor increased the worker's output from 12 to 47 tons per day! The Taylor model gave rise to dramatic productivity increases.

Is there a guy walking around with a stopwatch?

[Sooner_Bob]

It's management's ploy to shed a few pounds off you overweight, underworked state employees. Just focus on the alphas, ignore the deltas. In with the good, out with the bad. Breathe with me Norm...............

The Hawthorne effect . . .

[BlondeSoonerGirl]

Mmmm, bacony Norm...

[OU4LIFE]

just think if he was Blue, you'd be all over him like (someone I won't menation) on a twinkie.

[Mjcpr]

just think if he was Blue, you'd be all over him like (someone I won't menation) on a twinkie.

I thought you said you didn't drink much?

[OU4LIFE]

in the afternoon.

paym attenshun

[crawfish]

There's a good joke here...."yo mama's so fat, she sweats bacon BO"

Well, maybe not a good joke.

[TopDawg]

There's a good joke here...."yo mama's so fat, she sweats bacon BO"

Well, maybe not a good joke.

Maybe?

[Sooner_Bob]

[Norm In Norman]

UPDATE: it's almost made it's way down to 82. Yee haw. And I haven't got any real work done because everyone else's crap decided to break and the people who should be fixing the problems aren't here today. Besides that, it's hard to think in oppressive heat. When I get asked if my project is done this afternoon, I'm afraid my eyeball might pop out of socket. That's gonna succ. I CAN'T WRITE PROGRAMS AND BE TECHNICAL SUPPORT AT THE SAME TIME! CAN'T YOU UNDERSTAND THAT????

Boy am I gonna take a long lunch today.

[Sooner_Bob]

UPDATE: it's almost made it's way down to 82. Yee haw. And I haven't got any real work done because everyone else's crap decided to break and the people who should be fixing the problems aren't here today. Besides that, it's hard to think in oppressive heat. When I get asked if my project is done this afternoon, I'm afraid my eyeball might pop out of socket. That's gonna succ. I CAN'T WRITE PROGRAMS AND BE TECHNICAL SUPPORT AT THE SAME TIME! CAN'T YOU UNDERSTAND THAT????

Boy am I gonna take a long lunch today.

Might be worth knockin' a few back . . . the afternoon might be bearable from drunkytown.

[BlondeSoonerGirl]

[ou4me]

UPDATE: it's almost made it's way down to 82. Yee haw. And I haven't got any real work done because everyone else's crap decided to break and the people who should be fixing the problems aren't here today. Besides that, it's hard to think in oppressive heat. When I get asked if my project is done this afternoon, I'm afraid my eyeball might pop out of socket. That's gonna succ. I CAN'T WRITE PROGRAMS AND BE TECHNICAL SUPPORT AT THE SAME TIME! CAN'T YOU UNDERSTAND THAT????

Boy am I gonna take a long lunch today.

Whaaaaaaat's happening, Norm?

[Mjcpr]

This will be the best thread of the day.

I can smell it...

I'm afraid you're right.

[C&CDean]

And how sad is that? When the "Thread O' the Day" award goes to something as lame as this, it's a slooooooooooow and boooooooooring day.

[proud gonzo]

you got it

[Mjcpr]

And how sad is that? When the "Thread O' the Day" award goes to something as lame as this, it's a slooooooooooow and boooooooooring day.

Exactly.

[IB4OU2]

And how sad is that? When the "Thread O' the Day" award goes to something as lame as this, it's a slooooooooooow and boooooooooring day.

Hey, I'm tryin'............