The Drink at Work.com Performance Questionnaire
As we near the end of our ninth business quarter (thereby proving the so-called professional pundits wrong by a good 24 months) we decided it was time to take stock of both our content and our service to you, (insert name here).
With that in mind, we introduce our very first Drink at Work.com Performance Questionnaire. Your reply will not only help shape the future of this website but perhaps the very future of business itself (depending on whether or not you actually hail from the future and have come to warn us about market fluctuations rather than, say, nuclear armageddon or the opening weekend box office take for Superman Returns). And to enhance the possibility of your participation, we’ve narrowed down the poll to a single question that smacks both of our crippling insecurity and our willingness to kowtow to even the slightest public pressure. Please take your time answering and remember, website operators have feelings, too.
What Do You Like Most about Drink at Work.com?
A. The soothing white background
B. The striking black typeface
C. The handy scroll bar
D. The occasional Google Ad for "Free Embryo Images Info" or "Rent a Fetal Doppler"
E. The scathing six-part special investigation report on Tories in the European Parliment
F. The humorous ineptitude of the whole operation
G. The humorous naivete of the staff’s belief in the site’s eventual success
H. The humorous absence of any real humor
With that in mind, we introduce our very first Drink at Work.com Performance Questionnaire. Your reply will not only help shape the future of this website but perhaps the very future of business itself (depending on whether or not you actually hail from the future and have come to warn us about market fluctuations rather than, say, nuclear armageddon or the opening weekend box office take for Superman Returns). And to enhance the possibility of your participation, we’ve narrowed down the poll to a single question that smacks both of our crippling insecurity and our willingness to kowtow to even the slightest public pressure. Please take your time answering and remember, website operators have feelings, too.
What Do You Like Most about Drink at Work.com?
A. The soothing white background
B. The striking black typeface
C. The handy scroll bar
D. The occasional Google Ad for "Free Embryo Images Info" or "Rent a Fetal Doppler"
E. The scathing six-part special investigation report on Tories in the European Parliment
F. The humorous ineptitude of the whole operation
G. The humorous naivete of the staff’s belief in the site’s eventual success
H. The humorous absence of any real humor
posted by Francesco Marciuliano at 9:41 AM
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25 Comments:
Toby! You heartless bastards.
The two-drink minimum.
The scroll bar is handy and the white background is soothing, but this is really my only source for fetal Doppler rental advertisements.
All of the above?
Joel Achenbach and his Achenblog has already trademarked "The humor column that dares to not actually be funny." You're working his side of the street.
I. Not knowing how to pronounce "Ces." Is it "cess" or "chess"?
J. Nobody calls him "Fran"
K. And, seriously, I heart TGP!
As a longtime lover of the art of the comic strip, it's my only chance to actually have contact with an actual syndicated cartoonist. (pathetic, huh?).
Seriously, it's on my daily "Must Read" list and the various "lists" that Ces writes have been faithfully emailed around my office (with appropriate credit) to much appreciation. The "Quick Moments with Carol" are funny and the conversations with CES's dad can have me in tears.
On the other hand, the scrollbar is amatuerish at best and is clearly an uncredited ripoff of the Garfield site's scroll bar from 2000-2001. Whoever designed it quite clearly phoned it in (literally) and its pretensions at copying the innovation East European neo-Bauhaus scrollbars are laughable.
pie. I'd like to see more pie.
Pie? I understand that Carol's got her hands in a lot of pies.
I came for the turkey. I stayed for the stuffing.
What I like most about the site is that it's the only website with "drink" in the URL that our corporate Internet overseers don't block.
Sorry, but the scroll bar is teh s uck.
Are we talking about the regular scroll bar on the right, or the other scroll bar for the event listings on the left? If it's the right one, I assume this is a joke, but if it's the left one, then I have to factor that into the redesign.
I was probably referring to the event listing scrollbar. Though I was mostly kidding, it does kind of give me that "frame" vibe that turns me off.
My favorite thing the corporate synergy between your site and www.joshreads.com. This is the new paradigm for e-business.
I'm not letting go of the '90s, bubble burst or no.
the one on the right. I never noticed the one of the left, although now that I look at it, it does have a certain fresh naive quality that is quite charming in an small town way....
Ces, were you some how in cahoots with Brad Anderson from Marmaduke? Look at today's comic!
http://www.comics.com/comics/marmaduke/index.html
oh like so many things. i read the comic every morning along with my other online comic favorites. and i like the cheery drinkers up top. it's a clean and readable site. the content is RAD, especially conversations with dad. there is a fair amount of nostalgia that works for me, as it seems to cover the same years as my youth.
i'm drunk on cough medicine, so i am not sure i am coherent right now. :)
The soothing white background, for sure.
Also, seeing the events in NYC that I will never be able to go to (because of the kids, and the fact that I go to bed at 8pm).
Well I can't list all of the things I like, since that would take way too long. But I do have a complaint. Sometimes when I try to come to the site I get "operation timed out". This is clearly unacceptable. I mean really, you can't expect me to try to start my day without reading Drink at Work. How would I function? It's hard to drive when you're in a fetal position from humor withdrawal. Plus this site is the only thing that makes it possible for me to deal with the fact that my 4 year old insists I watch "The Doodlebops" with her. shudder 3 very perky adults in colorful foam rubber, dancing and singing ... badly. Stop the madness!
I'm liking the whole thing. And this, for me as well, is a site that hasn't been blocked by evildoers who want to see me work. However, I'm blocked from commenting at work because that part is powered by blogger.com. So there are many times when I'd like to participate but I can't. So that'd be my one complaint.
Oddly enough, when I'm at work I can post to my own blog but I can't see the site itself, nor can I add to comments because of the firewall. Go figure.
I'm just grateful this blog exists. And that Carol and Ces are Cards. I love Teenage Girl President.
The soothing white background -- it makes it look like I'm doing something work-related.
You guys are like the New York cousins I wish I had, as opposed to the New York cousins I do have but haven't spoken to in something like 20 years. While unable to select from the options provided in your survey, I nevertheless gladly seize this opportunity to toast you and the many giggles you've provided me since first I stumbled upon your site, gosh, not sure when; must've been drunk at the time.
Cheers!
HI ANY DODY OUT THER
HELLO GOT MILK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is very interesting site...
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