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Tuesday, 8 October 2002
Help, I'm Being Held Prisoner in a Hotel With 50 Engineers!

I had one of the strangest conversations in my recent memory today. This guy from South America wanted to know what you call the device that makes holes in paper. "Uh, we call that a three-hole punch." "Oh, that's what it's called in Spanish, too!" However, the actual conversation took ten minutes.

The engineers ate all the food at the lunch buffet before we could get any lunch, I've been at work since 7:30 AM, and I'm tired of wearing company logo shirts. They make me feel like a corporate tool. Yeah, I know - bitch, bitch, bitch.

Posted by ginevra (link)
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I came across this the other day, and it's perfect for those days when you feel like a corporate tool:

The briefcase

I was thinking this might make a good gift for Sev for Christmas, but I don't think they'd let him carry it to work.
Posted by Darren on 9 Oct 2002 05:13
Hilarious! If only engineers had a sense of humor.
Posted by Ginevra on 9 Oct 2002 07:17
*chuckle* I want one of those, except in a laptop-carryall model.

What I want to know is: What stirred the guy to inquire about three-hole punches in the first place? (Yes, these are the questions that kept me out of the really good schools.)
Posted by GreyDuck on 9 Oct 2002 13:46
I'm still not sure! He started by showing me some handout we had given them all, and he was (I think) asking if I had a three-hole punch - even though the handout was already three-hole punched. Very strange.
Posted by Ginevra on 9 Oct 2002 16:24
Engineers, particularly electrical engineers, can sometimes to be too clever for their own good:

Take this for example.

Posted by Darren on 10 Oct 2002 13:42
Drat, let me try that one more time.

Here.
Posted by Darren on 10 Oct 2002 13:46
That's funny 'cause it's true! I would hate to see what people would think if they went into my house without me around to explain things.
Posted by Ginevra on 29 Oct 2002 12:47