As soon as I thought that being busy around reality, I won’t have much time and drive for this place, one and a million ideas start knocking into my head, begging to be typed…Not a good sign, eh? Definitely not from a business point of view…oh, well…I promise I will do some work…but let me at least share this one first.
To start from afar, our company has changed the contract with the office cleaning company from this year…And that created an unexpected problem…new cleaners are too good and when they clean the office after working hours, when everyone has gone, they collect ALL THE COFFEE MUGS to wash them up.
Now the funny bit. They do not take the mugs back to the desks, but leave them in the kitchen…washed, of course. Which is very nice of them. The next funny bit. Since we’ve got two kitchens on different floors, different mugs appeared to be taken for washing up to the different kitchen each different day randomly, of course…Now imagine the morning chaos, when all of our staff are now getting fit running through staircase backwards and forwards in a search for personal mugs. And this has began only from today, as when we came back from holidays two days ago, nobody realised the reason why they couldn’t find their mugs and for the day our mailing list was overfilled with desperate e-mails “anybody seen my mug anywhere, please? Followed by the description of the favourite thing…” it took us two working days to finally figure out where all our mugs gone.
And so now in complete despair, we announce a competition for a best Mugtracing
Device, that would help our mugs to find their way to their beloved owners.
So far the options suggested:
• Barcode tags on the mugs, and security gates at the door of each office, so that mug won’t get carried away from it.
• Soundrecording chip that tells whoever pick up the mug “put me down, you, bastard” (with a slight variations of the recorded message)
• The last and so far the best plan was – to install a GPS thing to trace the missing mugs around the building
As you can see being so desperate now, we are opened to any suggestions. So if you have an idea – post it here please. Help the workers to be happy again…
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I just feel I MUST add this following the comment:
it is scientifically proved, that COFFEE is - what keeps sysadmin species alive and sane in a world of the IT-insanity. Without 8-10 cups of coffee a day sysadmin is - a Dead Sysadmin. There is only one love for non-tech world that we cherish with all our hearts - The Coffee Mug. This is our most precious possession. Take it away from us - we will die in the corner of a server room, helplessly muttering "ctrl+alt+del"
Computer - you can reboot, rebuild or kick in anger and it will work, trust me. Without The Coffee Mug you won't be able to lift your finger to type the commands...Yes, I would write an Ode To The Coffee Mug, if I'd only could write odes...