Office Politics - Part 4

I've already chronicled here what happens when we get into some office tussle:

Last Friday ThomasE (@eveilleau) and Thibaut (@tcamberlin) decided to clean the office. Thomas used a paper towel to clean some dirt off office furniture. He then threw the towel at me. I used the dirty towel to "clean" his computer.

 

To which he retaliated by putting fish food on my keyboard.

 

So far, so good - nothing unexpected by our previous standards.

Things started going seriously wrong when Thomas uncovered... 3 packs of M&Ms.

Some context is needed here: each time we buy food for the office, about 20 small packs of M&Ms are included. Each time, about 2 days after the goods got in, there are no M&Ms left. This gives you an idea of how coveted they are. Thus, as soon as Thomas found them, a short struggle ensued which would trigger a series of unfortunate events. Here's how it all happened.

I ran for the M&Ms. Thomas proceeded to hide them in his pants in order to prevent us from eating them, then hid in the restroom. Upon trying to get the M&Ms out of his pants 2 packs broke, sending M&Ms all over the restroom.

     

I'm not sure how events unfolded from then on, but next thing M&Ms were all over JV's (@jvdrean) MacBookPro keyboard.

 

While he usually keeps himself out of office politics, JV couldn't give the outrage a free pass and he directed his wrath at Thomas' computer:

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Well, at least the office is clean now!

Comments

So that's what you guys do when the boss is not around, huh? :P
and I thought we need a manager... it seems you're pretty dangerous when you're left without
@Luanna005 And that was just one day, imagine what happened all the rest of the week :-p

@lucaa mind you, it's the same when @ldubost is in Paris... And it's actually a great way to relieve pressure from employees thus arguably a good managerial practice, maybe you should implement it in Iasi too ;-)

We already scheduled a release candidate for "cand motanul nu-i acasa soarecii joaca pe masa" on Monday. You'll think we are online and spamming the IRC and Skype chats, when actually ...
@oanat I'll be looking forward to your attempt to outshine the Paris Office...

By the way, shouldn't it rather be "When the cat is away the fish are dancing"? The only mouse we had here drowned in my coffee a while ago ;-)

Wasting food and torturing poor beautiful little Macs... Shaaaaame!
And who cleaned up in the end :))? that must have been fun :P

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