Speak and Adapt

Who can be this chipper on so much lack of sleep? I’m amazed sometimes at what I’m able to handle. Though, I’m wary of the possibility that I might seriously crash at any time now. Considering the fact that I will not only have my kids until next Friday, I will also have little Sadie with me this weekend. Hopefully, sleep can wait.

I finally remembered the word that was on the tip of my tongue yesterday as we were discussing made up words that don’t make any sense whatsoever. That word is, ‘re-occur’. It is used in my office so much, I could scream. There is NO SUCH THING!!! It’s ‘recur’. As in, I keep having this recurring dream. Get it right, people. But this leads me to two real words that were used at my office, but incorrectly and very humorously…

1 – Ovulating Fan – We’re not quite sure what this means for a fan, but when we had water on one of the floors, an employee stated we needed to get an ovulating fan placed in the hallway. No one corrected her, but my boss in hindsight thought it would have been funny if someone had told her to make sure plastic is layed down for protection.

2 – Incontinence – Never trust MS Word’s auto-complete, folks. One individual wanted to type, incompetent, but MS Word didn’t think that’s what he wanted. So, when the president reads the report and asks if that’s the word he wants to use, after explaining the definition…pretty embarrassing.

Then I topped my morning off with conversations about Capital Punishment (which I’m all for, the more torturous the better) which led to psychological warfare. But not before my morning shocker…

Upon arrival, I needed to print a few documents that were to be sent to some potential members. I decided to print them from our copier down the hall as opposed to the printer in our area because of quality. I go to pick them up and notice that there is already a piece of paper in the output tray that would need to be moved. I pick it up, turn it over to see who it might belong to, and… holy crap. It’s an 8x10 of an S&M ‘outfit’, let’s say, on a mannequin. Now, exactly what would you do in my shoes? Another supervisor on my floor and I decided we’d just take it to my boss to see if we can check the print logs to see who did it. During our search, however, the three of us were trying to rationalize the reason for printing something like this at work when I noticed some microscopic print on the one side of the photo. I could barely make it out, but it was recognizable as the name of the daughter of one of our coworkers. Don’t be scared by that, but the pieces started to fall into place from there. This particular photo (or the real thing) was what this individual based a sculpture off of. We had recently seen the sculpture for an art exhibition, so we were putting 2 & 2 together. But still…holy inappropriate at work, Batman. Wow.