Work from Home Reason # 33
I have something like laryngitis or perhaps the bubonic plague. No word yet on whether I will recover or die. If I recover, I’ll write again soon. If not, Jamie will sell IttyBiz to the tinkers.
In the meantime, I offer you this video.
Work in an office? This could happen to you.
(And they ask me why I work from home.)
Back soon. Or not.
What I want to know is why are those people just standing there taking that guys crap? Especially the woman who had the monitor thrown at her. Either put a group beat down on the psycho or get the hell out of the office.
You know those people who always get killed by the monster in the horror movies because they run upstairs and into a tiny closet? Yeah that’s those people standing around in the office watching the guy destroy the place.
@Naomi,
You’ll survive. You’re a woman, which makes you like 10,000 times tougher than any man (!), and since I’ve survived the same plague you have right now, I figure you’ll be back to yourself by tomorrow morning ;)
@Arwen,
I sort of thought the same thing - I mean, sure - it is easy for me to say it sitting here in my nice quiet basement, but if someone throws a monitor at me or someone else in my office, I guarantee it won’t be pretty. I’ve learned many times that you can’t just wait around for the police or the fire department or the paramedics to “save you”.
Did you play the second/update video with sound? There were a couple of zaps after they dragged him from the desk. Who the heck goes to work thinking they’ll be Tazed before their second coffee break?
I’d love to know what was said or done by the guy who got the first blow, if anything. This guy was clearly on the edge, so it may have just blown his own fuse. Frightening stuff.
Hey, I missed you!
Feel better soon.
Hope you feel better Naomi :)
I feel compelled to call ‘bullshit’ on that vid. I don’t know…something about it seems staged to me. That monitor has *no* wire attached when he first picks it up. And I don’t work in an office, but are axes/sledgehammers really lying around like that?
I might be wrong, but in this Internet world, you can’t trust *anything* anymore.
(If it’s real, then holy crap!).
Hope it was as staged as it looked. That office cast had “extra-itis.”
Hope you soon feel better than any five healthy ‘employees’ put together. To twist an old one:
Even the worst day working for myself is better than the best day fishing.
Or something.
I guess once you throw your first monitor, you may as well go all the way and destroy the office… you’re going to get fired/arrested anyway, right?!
Hope you feel better soon!
Feel better soon!
Should have known it was a crazy Russian. I’m counting down to the day I may just flip out and throw around some photography equipment and beat those annoying shoplifting alarms at wal mart with a computer keyboard.
Oops, I’ve said too much.
Oh, Naomi. Thank you. I needed to see that, faked or not. Um, am I the only one who laughed through that? Don’t judge me!
I hope you feel better soon!
You have to recover! I don’t trust those tinkers to help me and make me laugh….
Another bit: Hubby watched it nodding, I watched it with my mouth open. When I said, “Do you know how close I was to being that guy?”, he just kept nodding and said “Ayup I do!”
With relief,
Your Sister in Snot
Naomi, I know what you mean, I’ve been fighting a sinus thing for two weeks. Blegh. Get better, try some chicken soup!
@Naomi- Feel better. I made you a get well card of a post. :) Go see.
No way, that can’t be real. It would simply be too awesome.
Hope you get feeling better soon!
Hope you’re well soon. Interesting video. What is amazes me is all the people watching and making phone videos instead of jumping in and stoping him. What a bunch of cowards.
Hope you don’t die! xoxox
A: Feel better.
B: That’s gotta be a fake, but who cares? So close to reality. And on a serious note, people do go totally f-ing crazy and shot their co-workers, themselves, or malls full of innocent bystanders over getting stressed out.
Here’s to finding a *hopefully* saner path in life…
Hey, I didn’t know you were so sick. I hope you get better soon. Take it easy, hon.
Have to admit I didn’t watch the video. I would rather read your words. Take care and drink a lot of water. No wine!
Men seemed to be able to handle things when we fall ill. Usually. Hell, mine’s outside sawing up a tree limb that fell in our driveway. A manly type of chore. Forget the dishes! Give me fallen tree limbs!
At least you don’t have to call in sick.
Maybe we can amuse you while you are ill. I’ll check back with some chicken soup. E
Naomi, I have something as well, I’m sitting here at 5 am..my grandson is sleeping over..my throat is hurting, I’m coughing and I hope its nothing serious. Hope all is well for you ..hoping I don’t pass this onto Noah…it came out of the blue….
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FYI, Ari Herzog left a comment on my blog saying that it’s a hoax, a viral marketing stunt to promote a movie. Here’s the link:
http://gizmodo.com/5015249/cubicle-farm-rampage-video-was-just-a-viral-marketing-stunt
Naomi, maybe you can explain why this is an effective ad, for those of us who just don’t get it.