"The Office"

Late yesterday one of the traders in my office was talking to another out-of-state trader about a fund raiser that they had done in their office. They had raised $3000.oo in their office for a charity to watch a co-worker eat everything in the vending machine. Upon telling this story to brokers/traders around him, a broker bragged about how that would be easy and for $3000.00 or even $700.00 he could and would do it. This only provoked men around him to call him out on that statement. Today there has been a pool around the office to raise money so that participant will eat all the food in the vending machine. The conditions are: he has to eat all the food with in the hours of the office and he must keep it all down. If he fails no one has to pay up. There is over 10,000 calories with all the food in the vending machine. The snacks in the vending machine are as followed: an assortment of candy bars & chips, honey buns, pop-tarts, fruit snacks, two types of crackers, peanuts, and gum. I'm thinking that he will regret his decision. It is going to be horrible watching this guy suffer all day long on Friday. (evil laugh)

The point of this story is to tell about the many different events that go on in my office that keep me entertained. If you have ever seen the show on NBC "The Office,"my office is the epitome of that show in a lot of aspects. We are always trying to find small things to entertain us. For example, my friend Martha and I have a little game we call "Who is going to wear the yellow Polo shirt today?" Wagers seem to always be involved with the entertainment. I think that might be a guy think though... March Madness was a huge event. A couple of weeks ago two old men race in a 2mile run around a track. That was pretty exciting. I have this theory that the market is a sophicated game of gambling anyways. Everyone will always stragiges on these games too. Like the vending machine... Some people think that he will be able to do it if eats sugar product and then goes to a salty food (ie candy to chips to candy bar to peanuts). The time and thought that goes into the betting is insane.

One of my favorite things is to how we will pick out oddities about someone and harp on them. Ok...another example, there is a guy in our office that will go up to a mirror everyday to put on carmex, but he puts ton of it on all over his face. Why doesn't he just put it on at his desk if he didn't want to keep it on straight? Oh yeah, there is also the guy that checks his package in the mirror every morning. He thinks he does it discretely, but we all notice. This might not be all that funny to all the readers out there, but if you where here it's pretty funny.

I'm sure you all have funny workplace stories that make work worth going to. It's the small things that make the days last until the weekend. I even play games like this in my personal life... like when another car does something dumb while driving. I like guess whether it was a "old person or cell phone." About 90% of the time it is a old person driving or it is someone on their cell phone. I have even gotten friends in on it now.

Well I guess that is all I got for now... I'll get everyone posted on the vending machine event.