Thursday, August 04, 2005

Consequences of Extreme Conferencing

In my office, our conference rooms have clear plastic "sheaths" on the walls, ostensibly to hold announcements. The only thing that has ever been in the one in the main conference room my team uses is an outline of "Conference Room Etiquette." The thing consists of a medium sized list of dos and donts with a picture of a happy little garbage can with arms at the bottom. The whole thing essentially equates to "Keep The Room Clean." No one ever reads the thing. People tend to keep the conference room clean anyway, but no one reads the etiquette sheet.

So, several weeks ago, I changed it.

I duplicated the entire thing fairly poorly, with a different font, and a different happy garbage can. I kept most of the list intact, but added:

  • Do not leave vomit on the conference table
    and
  • Human waste in the carpet should be removed using water. NO DRY CLEANUPS!

    No one has noticed. The sign is at eye-height for a 5'2" person, right by the door. Everyone probably looks at it as they're leaving. But they don't read it, I guess. Or they think it's relatively normal to vomit on corporate conference tables - just frustrating when it isn't cleaned up afterwards.

    I'm tempted to escalate both the messaging ("THIS ROOM RESERVED FOR BLOOD VENGEANCE") and the proliferation of the etiquette sheet, but experience has shown that such a plot gone awry is a clear path to getting fired. A joke that only I would laugh at probably isn't worth it.

    Probably.
  • 2 Comments:

    Anonymous Anonymous said...

    I hope some day soon you'll do a full documentation of some of your other practical jokes (which make this one seem like a random act of kindness).

    Before your anonymity fades anyway.

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