Photographic Chronicles of Delightful Workplace Nonsense

My workplace is quite unique, the other people employed within it being no exception. It is not your standard retail store and we all have unusual personalities. I enjoy having my own brand of absurdism and some of us share a really abstract, dark sense of humor, which makes for some very strange pranks on each other. View the pictures below for a full dose of the sweet madness.

"I am here to protect you from the terrible secret of space": One of my coworkers likes to draw random faces on the daily to-do lists in my department, then one of us usually adds on a body, accessories, and a caption/word-bubble or two. This one is both a reference and a tribute to this obscure internet phenomenon.

One of my dearly-missed coworkers created this mixed-media face just for me, I especially like how she created the jawline from random mathematical problem sets.

A spoon that one of my coworkers purposely rusted as a prop and tribute to Salad Fingers, specifically in reference to this episode where our noble hero expounds upon his affinity for rusty objects, specifically spoons.

Spongebob has obviously been VERY VERY naughty!

Squidward, wearing a lovely feather & bow headpiece, accompanied by a random girlfriend supplied by my buddy Dan.

"Telekrinkulum": Once in a while it is nice to confuse people by writing an emphatic made-up word on a specific date on the department calendar....

...and then offer a confusing clarification by giving the word it's own separate holiday.

A sign that has been hanging in my department for a long time.

I really can't offer a valid explanation for this one, it's totally random except for the fact that 'Feathers' happens to be a fan of Stanley Kubrick, his garb and commentary reference the movie A Clockwork Orange

Even aquatically-necrotic, tire-sitting murder victims can enjoy the fresh, bold taste of Mentos™.

More references to Salad Fingers

Various employees' representations of other employees

To the casual observer, all of this probably looks like the work of a bunch of criminally insane freak-shows, but really folks, where would we be without a bit of nonsense in our lives!!??? :)

Operation Banana Prank

So, my buddy Dimitri and I had the day off on Friday and we were really bored (and I mean really REALLY bored). So we decided to go back up the mountain on the north side of town to find the odd little shack that we accidentally discovered while lost in the woods last year (mentioned in this previous blog post). We have since determined that it is not the home of a mentally ill homeless person, but the frequent meeting place of a few outdoorsy locals who (judging from the copious amount of empty liquor bottles lying around) like to go up there once in a while for a wild night of drinking in the wilderness... on the front of a steep, rocky cliff no less (hmmm.. is this safe? lol). Just for giggles, we decided to do something to mess with their heads, so we brought along a plastic banana upon which we wrote in permanent marker,"Thank you for the wonderful acomodations, though your staff needs a bit more training in how to brew a good cup of Darjeeling," and we left it sitting on their wood stove. We did not touch or remove any of their belongings and we don't expect the prank to be understood or make any sort of sense, we just wanted to do something that would leave them trying to figure out what the heck their camp was used for while they weren't there. We decided to take the main trail back down the other side of the mountain, which turned out to be mostly ice. I forgot to wear my yaktraks (incidentally, a product which I VERY HIGHLY recommend for anyone who is serious about winter hiking) so I ended up slipping and landing directly on my coccyx on a softball size rock. I didn't break it, but now I am reminded of the fall whenever I go from a sitting to standing position. Karma for the prank I guess :-p.

My town framed by trees and rays of sun, this particular hike always offers awesome views.

Dimitri and I

The cabin, whoever built it did a great job building a solid structure out of odd scrap materials and cut saplings, rather ingeniously constructed.

The insides of the camp.



Weapon: Banana, Objective: Confusion
(Why? Because a plastic banana is, by nature, amusing and it is one of the last objects that one expects to find at their camp site.)

Mission Complete

Side note: this prank is pretty harmless and mild compared to some of the evil high jinks I pulled when I was a bit younger.