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Dec. 15th, 2003 02:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zyzylyA post I read a few minutes ago reminded me of something I did a number of years ago, when I was working in an office with a bunch of other educators. One of my coworkers was really annoying, and I couldn't stand her. She was nit-picky--she would return my work with all sorts of little notes about how she thought it should be, and she wasn't even my boss.
She always kept her desk neat--nothing ever out of place, everything in symmetry. It drove me nuts.
One night, after everyone went home, I moved everything on her desk to the opposite side--everything was still in place, but in a mirror-image. When she came in the next day, she looked slightly rattled, but never picked up on the fact that things were different.
A week later I moved everything back to the way it was. I did this a couple of times. She never seemed to consciously connect to the fact that every monday her desk stuff had migrated.
I would have kept it up indefinitely, but they closed our department, and I ended up working here. I like everyone in my office now, and we are all big slobs, so I've never been able to try it again. It would make a cool psychology experiment.
She always kept her desk neat--nothing ever out of place, everything in symmetry. It drove me nuts.
One night, after everyone went home, I moved everything on her desk to the opposite side--everything was still in place, but in a mirror-image. When she came in the next day, she looked slightly rattled, but never picked up on the fact that things were different.
A week later I moved everything back to the way it was. I did this a couple of times. She never seemed to consciously connect to the fact that every monday her desk stuff had migrated.
I would have kept it up indefinitely, but they closed our department, and I ended up working here. I like everyone in my office now, and we are all big slobs, so I've never been able to try it again. It would make a cool psychology experiment.
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Date: 2003-12-15 03:25 pm (UTC)(laughing all the way...)~paul
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Date: 2003-12-15 04:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-15 07:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-15 08:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-15 09:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-16 12:16 am (UTC)I was so sad when he died. I have a memorial on the wall in my office.
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Date: 2003-12-16 07:21 am (UTC)Oolong, the Pancake Bunny
Date: 2003-12-16 01:09 pm (UTC)His name was Oolong, and he was the pancake bunny.
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Date: 2003-12-15 07:58 pm (UTC)(but i think as anal as she is, she will notice)
*she's a nurse
;)
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Date: 2003-12-16 03:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-16 06:34 am (UTC)Pig
Date: 2003-12-16 06:09 pm (UTC)Beryl
Re: Pig
Date: 2003-12-16 06:36 pm (UTC)You have made my day! Thank you!
I'll send it via email.
Awwwwww.......
Re: Pig
Date: 2003-12-16 07:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-16 07:06 pm (UTC)(And in honor of Oolong (and your next new addition):
pancakes
Date: 2003-12-17 07:16 pm (UTC)Re: pancakes
Date: 2003-12-18 08:16 pm (UTC)