Damn kids. Imitating everything they see on TV. Murder. Drugs. Rapping McDonald’s ads.

A rap by four teenagers at a McDonald’s has gotten them a bad rap in one Utah city. The teens were cited by American Fork police earlier this week for disorderly conduct after they rapped their order at a McDonald’s drive-through.

Why? Gotta be the best thing to do in Utah. Seriously, is this THAT big a deal they had to call the Mounties or whatever the lawman rides in Utah?

Spenser Dauwalder said employees at the restaurant told him and his friends they were holding up the line and needed to order or leave. The 18-year-old said nobody was in line. He and his three 17-year-old friends left without buying anything.

Hey kid! You are holding up the line! My seven wives and I are starving!

McPrank: 4 teens cited for McDonald’s rap (MSNBC)

Excellent post from the Business Pundit regarding 8 Most Epic Abuses of Work Email Ever. Of those eight, three were caused by the dreaded REPLY ALL button. It’s done more harm than good.

Got a good “Reply All” story. Leave it in the comments.

8 Most Epic Abuses of Work Email Ever (Business Pundit)

The work poop. At past jobs I would hide in the restroom. Nap. Recover from hangovers. Read magazines. Sometimes actually go #2. At one point I moved my desk into the bathroom but got reprimanded by HR for using too much TP as note paper.

Some people do waste a ton of time making a ton of waste. Just how much? Ask Workpoop.com.

Have you ever wondered how much money you make each year just by pooping at work? Well, we here at workpoop.com have thought the same thing and have created the poop calculator. Once you have entered in the appropriate data just click the ‘Calculate Poop Pay’ button to see your annual earning for pooping at work. It’s as easy as one, two, poop.

My annual pay for poop? $4875

This means I not only need to incorporate bran into my diet but I’m underpaid.

Both really shitty thoughts.

More crap to think about:  Do You Poo at Work? (Because Maybe You Should)

This post about the toilet bowl coffee mug had the workers at Rage all chatty. Is that the worst coffee mug ever? Everyone chimed in and sent around pics of ugly mugs, dirty mugs and mugs with tasteless sayings (something about a penis and hard drive–can’t recall).

It begs the question; do you have an ugly mug? Got a horrendous mug you use around the office just because you don’t give a crap what anyone thinks? We want to see it.

Enter the Minimum Rage Ugly Mug contest.

Step 1- Become a fan of Minimum Rage on Facebook by clicking here. If you are already a fan, well done, move along to Step 2.

Step 2- Post a picture of your ugly mug to your Facebook page and add Minimum Rage as a person in the photo. The uglier the better. The dirtier the better. The crappier the better. We will check out the picture and add it to the contest.

Step 3- Sit by your computer and wait. We’ll choose our favorite ugly mug, post it to Minimum Rage, and the winner will receive a $25 Amazon gift card. Second and Third place winners will also receive prizes.

Contest deadline is November 15th.

Blockbuster has to be a boring, dead-end job. Who rents movies anymore? Actually, I know who does and frankly those people scare me. Down to the core.

So can you blame a Blockbuster manager for wanting to play games to pass the time? Games like “Be Kind, Rewind My Peesh Peesh” and “Show me your boobies to become assistant to the assistant manager“.

A Schaumburg woman is suing Blockbuster for sexual harassment after an alleged series of events, including being asked by her boss to show him her breasts, which she did on two occasions, and then being passed up for a promotion and later fired.

A second time. A. second. time. Like the silly sign says “Trick me once, shame on you. Trick me twice….”

Let’s see how the smooth talker duped his prey.

Perrier made numerous inappropriate comments such as “anytime you want three inches for three minutes. Perrier called plaintiff into his office to go over computer training files but there was only one chair in his office.  Perrier instructed plaintiff to sit on his lap and she “reluctantly, sat down but immediately got up.

No mention of cutting out the bottom of the popcorn bucket and putting it on his lap. EXTRA BUTTER!!!

Blockbuster boss asked to see breasts for promotion (Chicago Now)

Honestly, I feel like I write about Wal-Mart every day. Does anyone NOT work at Wal-Mart? So what’s the latest from the land of the blue vest? Over zealous security guard plays out cop fantasies and gets canned.

Josh Rutner said he was just doing his job as a Wal-Mart “asset protection officer” earlier this month when he chased a knife-wielding theft suspect across the store parking lot. Rutner said it boiled down to doing what was right or following policy. For him, it was an easy choice.

They even have a picture of the thief. Wait. That’s the security guy? You’re kidding. How does he afford such beautiful jewelry on his salary? Oh, his boo works at the Plumb Gold kiosk.

Some guys have all the luck.

Wal-Mart fires employee for chasing after thief (Ocala.com)
Walmart Fires Security Guard For Chasing After Shoplifter Like He’s In A Cop Movie (Consumerist)

This is part three in a ten part series helping reduce the rage in your workday. To read more about the series, click here. Click here to subscribe and don’t miss a post.

The rut. The routine.

“Corporate accounts payable Nina speaking. Just a moment.”
“Corporate accounts payable Nina speaking. Just a moment.”

You hate your job because of the monotony. The repetition. Doing the same thing day after day, week after week  and year after awful year. Many would argue “well that is what a job is! You’re paid to complete a certain task.” You can’t argue logic. You can, but you’re wasting your time. You’ve got invoices to file!

Your job might not be as life-draining if you had a shake-up. Something different to pass the time. Ask anyone who actually loves their job, bet one of the parts they enjoy most is that “it’s something new every day.”

What if you had something new every day? Not from your position but doing other things within the company. Here are some ways to learn new things around the office.

Read the rest of this entry »

The office coffee mug. Holder of lukewarm, dollar-store, office-brewed coffee and dirtier than the new girl in accounting. It would be healthier to drink from the toilet. Get your head out of the bowl, I was kidding.

How about just drinking from a coffee mug that looks like a toilet?

This silly toilet-shaped mug holds up to 12oz of your favorite hot beverage and will make your co-workers do a double take. The hand painted Toilet Mug makes a great gag gift for any coffee or tea lover, and will gross out anyone who has a weak stomach. For extra laughs, fill the toilet mug with hot cocoa and marshmallows and serve it to your Grandpa. Put unwrapped tootsie rolls in it and watch your dinner guests scratch their heads in disbelief! Serve the kids cereal in it for before school laughs, or fill it with a hot fudge sundae the possibilities are hilarious!

Wow. Someone in the copy department has a SERIOUS poop fetish. I know the fetish has an actual technical name but there are just some things that don’t need Googling.

Thanks to the gents at Tasty Booze for bringing this to our attention. Pervs.

The social media train. Climb aboard or get run over. Choo choo. Ten ways to use social media to get job. Most important is Step 6: Follow the right folks. Don’t follow this guy. Real jackass.

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No supporting causes on the Springfield Mass Transit District’s time. Take your Breast Cancer Awareness stuff elsewhere.

A Springfield Mass Transit District bus driver received a one-day unpaid suspension recently for wearing a pink tie to help raise awareness for breast cancer. The driver had to serve the suspension, but his action also led to the SMTD agreeing that employees could wear pink on Fridays in recognition of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October.

O…M…G..SUPPORTING CANCER RESEARCH WITH A TIE. The nerve! Trying to add to his lovely transit uniform. This isn’t Project Runway. The transit people had to make an example of him then make themselves look like the good guys by announcing “every Friday employees can wear pink.”

Really wish I could make a joke here but sometimes the actions of people are the real laugher.

Bus driver disciplined for wearing pink tie (SJ-R)