God Meets Bureaucracy

In the beginning God created heaven and the earth. Quickly he was faced with a class action suit for failure to file an environmental impact statement. He was granted a temporary permit for the project, but was stymied with the Cease and Desist order for the earthly part. Appearing at the hearing, God was asked why he began his earthly project in the first place. He replied that he just liked to be creative.

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The Inevitable Laws of Work

(Because Pinkoy cares about your mental health in the workplace ^-^)

• If you can't get your work done in the first 24 hours, work nights.
• A pat on the back is only a few centimeters from a kick in the butt.
• Don't be irreplaceable, if you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.

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LAWYERS part deux

One of the earliest posts I made was LAWYERS, a hilarious list of things said between lawyers and witnesses in court hearings actually taken down and published in a book called Disorder in American Courts.

Now I'm back with more of these so-called "transquips," this time courtesy of Mary Louise Gilman, the venerable editor of the National Shorthand Reporter who has collected many of the more hilarious courtroom bloopers in two books - Humor in the Court (1977) and More Humor in the Court, published only recently.

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Bringing back those funny call center bloopers

I haven't been going online these past few days and it kind of pisses me off because our ISP disconnected my home internet without any notice at all. Well, it's probably my fault since I haven't gotten around to go to their office and inquire how come we don't receive any billing statements from them yet for quite sometime. But anyway, I'll just get to that as soon as I can. Now with that out of the way (ah, what a relief to have let that out...), I have this to share with you, Pinkoy readers.

A friend emailed me ages ago this collection of bloopers and...well, I just wanted to bring them back because they are just sooo funny! Hope you enjoy reading them.

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Off the Charts... (hospital charts, that is)

And you thought there's nothing funny going on in the legal and medical fields. NOT!

Some few posts ago I published LAWYERS which featured these really funny things people actually said in court. Well, this time I'm gonna share this really hilarious piece about things actually written in hospital charts (y'know that thing interns read when they wanna know how you ended up lying there, what drugs you're currently on and anything else they've put you through until they finally give you your hospital bills).

Here it is! Enjoy!

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LAWYERS

These are from a book called Disorder in the American Courts, and are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now published by court reporters who had the torment of staying calm while these exchanges were actually taking place.

ATTORNEY: Are you sexually active?
WITNESS: No, I just lie there.

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How We Cope At Work (kitty version)

I just got this cool email from one of my college rocker friends. It was so cute and funny at the same time that I just wanted to share this to Pinkoy readers. Interestingly enough, it features these hilarious animated images of music-listening cats in a record store (and I thought Pinkoy was the only human-like cat I've ever seen). And I have to say...to the email author who used these images and relating them to us mortals who are trying to cope with work - brilliant!

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