Wednesday Whine Session: The Office Smoker
Every day I rush to work — a rat in a race of all mankind. Sweating, pushing, shoving, I hustle to the office to get there on time. After I grab the morning coffee I always notice "Mark" with his jacket on, heading OUT of the office. I'm trying to focus and get my day started while Mark has a different plan in mind. Mark is smoker. Now don't get me wrong, I have nothing against smoking, nor fellow co-workers that smoke. I am simply jealous. Jealous in the fact that Mark can take 4-5 ...
Water Cooler Talk: The Oscars
[caption id="attachment_2229" align="alignleft" width="219" caption="Did you stay up for the strange text screens after the credits? I did."][/caption] I couldn't tell if 'Terminator 2" being on TNT before the Oscars last night was a good sign or a bad sign. It was a good sign. Overall, Terminator 2 made way for a rather entertaining Academy Awards. I feel like the Grammys have it so much easier. Because those people are live performers by trade, they can do what they do to entertain us between awards. But the Academy Awards had me going the whole time. If you missed it, here are 13 talking points ...
Sheep Submission: A Summer at Leisure World
Laura Prangley Location: New York, NY Job: Comedian Web site: http://www.lauraprangley.com Laura Prangley is the host of "Too Soon?" A monthly comedy show in Manhattan. Visit her Web site for a calendar of Laura's upcoming gigs. It was the Summer of 2003: the last summer before graduating high school, the summer I started socially drinking underage (sorry Mom & Dad), and the summer I had my first office job. While my other friends were making minimum wage ($5.75 at the time) as camp counselors, lifeguards, and restaurant workers, I was to making a whopping $8.11 as a “real estate re-sales assistant.” In my mind, I was ...
Sheep Submission: Tales From the Mailroom
Selena Coppock Location: Brooklyn, NY Job: Editor, comedian Web site: www.selenacoppock.com Selena Coppock is a standup and sketch comedian, writer, and lover of 80s power ballads. She has been featured in the Boston Comedy Festival, was named the Best of the East in the Detroit Comedy Festival, and has been seen on FOX and ComedySmack.com. For three summers during high school and college I worked in the mailroom of a Boston law firm. The name of this firm is irrelevant (cough*rhymes with Moley Moag and Melliot* cough) because these stories really could have taken place in any mailroom, at any law firm, in ...
Sheep Shout: Snookie Shop!
Just because ‘Jersey Shore’ Season 1 had its finale doesn’t mean the fun has to stop. A genius has decided to carry on the legend of Snookie with this brilliant Web site. If any of your...
Pointless Office Meetings Cost Money Too!
We’ve all sat through those painful meetings that never seem to end. The ones where too many people are invited, everyone has an opinion, and you leave the meeting wondering what was actually...
5 Reasons Why You Don’t Want to be the First in the Office with an iPad
If you’ve been living under a rock lately, you may have missed Steve Jobs recently announcing the new Apple iPad. It’s big, its bright, and it’ll be very tempting to snatch one up pronto. Before...
Infographic: Early-Bird Taxpayers
With the next tax season sneaking up on us, we found this infographic by TurboTax rather appropriate. According to the chart, early taxpayers are among the most likely to get refunds. On top of...
Opening Nude Photos – Can It Wait Until After Work?
It was a normal Monday morning. I got to work 10 minutes late, had a cup of coffee, checked email, and began easing into things. First task of the day: Have Brian process my...
Top Super Bowl Commercials Worth Talking About
So this morning we told you one company we felt wasted $3M on its Super Bowl spot. Here are a few that we here at TCS thought were great: Google, who rarely advertises, hit a home run...
Case of the Mondays: Feb. 8 – Worst Super Bowl Commercial Edition
Like all men, we at The Collared Sheep love Fourth Meal. Taco Bell has been a rock in my late night food rotation for years, but one area the company did not reign supreme (pun intended)...
Super Bowl Boxes – Do I have a Chance?
Everyone is familiar with the Super Bowl box pool at the office. You buy random boxes on a 10×10 grid, numbers between 0-9 are then drawn for the top row and left column, and...
Corporate Cuts: Please Spare the Bathrooms
I understand the need for corporate to trim the fat. In the two years I’ve been with my company, we’ve gone from being a husky male to emaciated. There’s no more personnel to cut, so corporate is...