Today I Learned...

[FR-S2GT86]

Originally Posted by nextcar

I had an opportunity to see Mike Judge talk about the movie... a true classic. Apparently he painted the stapler red so that it was more noticable.

After the movie was released, Swingline kept getting calls from people asking where they could buy the red version of their stapler. They were totally clueless! Red is now one of their top selling staplers...

I saw Office Space when it originally premiered in the theaters. Me and my old lady were the only two people there that night, and now it's a cult iconic film. Who knew back then?

[JD001]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

My father-in-law worked at a box manufacturing place asan unskilled labourer (packing and wrapping). The place got sold and new management came in and shuffled everybody around. Somehow he got missed and was never assigned a job or even a department. For over 3 years he just walked around the plant with a clipboard all day. They even gave him a raise a year into it since he had been there 5 years. Eventually some manager got around to asking him what he did and when his reply didn't line up with any of the supervisors (all of which thought he worked for another) they canned him.

He missed a trick, he could have got himself busy making Airfix models.. it works!!!

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by JD001

He missed a trick, he could have got himself busy making Airfix models.. it works!!!

He would have just huffed the glue.

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

My father-in-law worked at a box manufacturing place asan unskilled labourer (packing and wrapping). The place got sold and new management came in and shuffled everybody around....

Similar story. A group of us from (ugm) Company A followed our CIO when he went to work for Company B and over time brought a group of us along. Since the company we worked for was going through a downsizing it wasn't a tough conversation.

Of the group of 5 people, 2 of us continued to receive paychecks from Company A. Those 2 (not me) would call every two weeks, say "Hey, you know we don't work for you any longer" and the company would take the check back through electronic deposit, which allows them to do that. After the 3rd time of doing this, both persons opened a separate checking account, submitted through the employee portal to have the money deposited to the new account, then stopped calling. It was 12 months before the checks stopped, and another 2 months before the money all disappeared from the account.

[spcmafia]

Originally Posted by weederr33

So the instance I had last night was playing Insurgency Sandstorm. I went to blow up an objective and accidently damaged some other players. The typical response is "sorry." and then everyone moves on. Nope. Two of these players took the time to each kill me with friendly fire. Then, at multiple points they would run in my line of fire and I'd hit them. They would turn around and blast me till I died. I tried to continue on but they kept trying to kill me. So after that, I just spent the rest of the match destroying them out of annoyance and spite.

Come play WZ Plunder with me! Is not as competitive as playing Battle Royale, is just a way to level up weapons and level fast.

[weederr33]

Originally Posted by spcmafia

Come play WZ Plunder with me! Is not as competitive as playing Battle Royale, is just a way to level up weapons and level fast.

A CoD game?!

[spcmafia]

Originally Posted by weederr33

A CoD game?!

Well... yes... . There's no friendly fire tho lol. Just collect money, kill whoever runs in your way and that's it. No zones, its a more relaxed setting than doing Battle Royale or no Re-spawn type of games.

[ScoobsMcGee]

Today I learned that when you transfer the passenger seat occupancy sensor from a limited BRZ, you have to move both the heated seat pad and the sensor for it to work. I learned this the hard way.

[nextcar]

Originally Posted by ScoobsMcGee

Today I learned that when you transfer the passenger seat occupancy sensor from a limited BRZ, you have to move both the heated seat pad and the sensor for it to work. I learned this the hard way.

"Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first and the lesson afterward." — Oscar Wilde.

[JD001]

Originally Posted by ScoobsMcGee

Today I learned that when you transfer the passenger seat occupancy sensor from a limited BRZ, you have to move both the heated seat pad and the sensor for it to work. I learned this the hard way.

The "hard way"? Suffered from chilblains?

[ScoobsMcGee]

Originally Posted by JD001

The "hard way"? Suffered from chilblains?

Yes, but not related to this.

[weederr33]

Today I learned, you don't fuck with Hepatitis B

[Kaotic Lazagna]

TIL, gas/fuel/petrol is still going up. It's gone up 20 cents a gallon at the same Chevron station I fill up at since my last fill up almost 4 weeks ago.

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by weederr33

Today I learned, you don't fuck with Hepatitis B

A double entendre, my favorite!