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Welcome to the OfficeOne Watercooler! Add this page on your favorites and check back often, this area of the site is updated regularly. Recent News OfficeOne Grand Opening featured in the Fort Wayne Chamber Daily Dose. One-Liners If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would produce enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning. "Statistics indicate that as a result of overwork, modern executives are dropping like flies on the nation's golf courses." ~ Ira Wallach Office Slang Bookmark - To take note of a person for future reference. “After seeing his cool demo at Siggraph, I bookmarked him.” Cobweb - A WWW site that never changes. Cube Farm - An office filled with cubicles. Dead Tree Edition - The paper version of a publication available in both paper and electronic forms. Egosurfing - Scanning the Net, databases, etc., for one’s own name. Idea Hamsters - People whose idea generators are always running. Irritainment - Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying, but you find yourself unable to stop watching them. The O.J. trials were a prime example. Mouse Potato - The online generation’s answer to the couch potato. Ohnosecond - That minuscule fraction of time during which you realize you’ve just made a terrible error. Open-Collar Workers - People who work at home or telecommute. Prairie Dogging - When something loud happens in a cube farm, causing heads to pop up over the walls trying to see what’s going on. Tourists - Those who take training classes just to take a vacation from their jobs. “There were only three serious students in the class; the rest were just tourists.” Best "Out of Office" Automatic Email Replies Thank you for your email. Your credit card has been charged $5.99 for the first 10 words and $1.99 for each additional word in your message. The e-mail server is unable to verify your server connection and is unable to deliver this message. Please restart your computer and try sending again. (The beauty of this is that when you return, you can see how many in-duh-viduals did this over and over.) Did you know... Mesothelioma lawyers, consolidate loans and refinancing mortgage are three of Google's most expensive keywords? Henry Ford was the first billionaire in the US? There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar? American Airlines saved $40 000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class? On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag over the Parliament Building is an American flag? The harmonica is the world's best-selling music instrument? Green color was chosen for the paper currency in the U.S. because green pigment was available at that time? 7-Eleven is the largest retail chain in the world? Hong Kong has the most Rolls Royce's per capita in the world? Iced tea was first served at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. A British businessman wanted to increase tea sales in America? If MySpace was a country it would be the 11th largest? The number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the worlds population? Every single possible 3 character.com domain has been registered? A rollercoaster has no engine? In 1943, Thomas Watson (the chairman of IBM ), predicted that the future market for computers should be only five computers? |
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