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How
to Make the Most of the Two Weeks Between Giving Your Boss Notice
That You're Leaving and Giving Everyone the Finger as You Run Out
the Door with a Garbage Bag Full of Blank Recordable Discs and Three-Prong
Surge Protectors
Francesco
Marciuliano
"Yeah, I took all the Post-It Notes. I needed to
leave dirty limericks on every coworkers monitor."
"I
had to unplug my office phone to make room for the Easy-Bake
Oven. Cupcake?"
"I
feel like dancing. Clear the conference table."
Ah, the two weeks after giving your employer notice. A time
to lose the formality and forgo the inhibitions. A time
to freely share your thoughts and frequently offer blunt
advice. A time to drop your guard, dump the pretense and
shit over every single person who has ever irked you, provoked
you or simply sneezed in a manner you always found "too
cute." A good time indeed.
Now,
most career experts would no doubt caution you to use this
brief time to maintain crucial business contacts, conclude
any unfinished business and bid a fond adieu to coworkers
and supervisors alike. They would certainly point out that
corporate circles are nothing more than high school cliques
with the means to pursue litigation and that news of your
unseemly behavior will quickly spread, leading to a poor
standing in your chosen profession. And they would surely
mention that it is far better to leave your former manager
in good spirits, rather than leave them in a race for their
life due to an unleashed rottweiler in the office hallway.
We
at Drink at Work.com are inclined to agree with the career
experts. But we also know what its like to get so
aggravated at work that you piss away an entire day reflecting
on what you could accomplish with just a Fungo bat and 15
minutes with the new parent in the next cubicle over who
now uses the word "poopy" as frequently as the
word "the." We also know both the temptation and
exhilaration of acting on your basest impulses, especially
when the worst possible outcome is getting a police escort
from a building you were planning on leaving anyway but
hadnt yet scored the ride to do so. So to that end
we offer you the following "projects" to help
you not only kill the two weeks after giving notice but
also put an end to years of work-related frustrations
that
is, until youre set up in your new office:
- Take
a bite out of everyones lunch in the pantry refrigerator.
Follow it up by writing concise reviews of the meal on
each bag, ranging from "Yummy!" to "Had
to spit it back."
- Look
at pictures of your coworkers kids with a far more
critical eye, citing not so much insufficient photography
skills but rather their poor choice in film subjects.
- Use
your office chair as a means of transportation, as a shopping
cart between trips to the stationery closet and as a battering
ram.
- Interrupt
important department meetings by blurting out, "Hey,
I just had the sexiest idea
"
- Determine
which looks cuter dressed in a bunny outfit, the copier
machine or the vending machine.
- Whenever
a coworker brings up their religious convictions in polite
conversation respond, "Dude, my god could so kick
your gods ass."
- Lighten
the mood and level the playing field with spot-on imitations
of every single senior executive with a physical disability.
- Whenever
a department manager makes a corny joke slow-clap for
15 straight minutes.
- Say
"Watch out!" instead of "Excuse me,"
"Jump back!" instead of "You dont
say" and "Kiss my fat ass!" instead of
"I thought it would be nice to tear up the office
carpeting and expose the hardwood flooring underneath."
- Try
a different style of clothing each day at the office,
from "business casual" to "beachwear"
to "astronaut."
- Whenever
a coworker asks why youre leaving the company quickly
turn around and exclaim, "Its you, okay! Its
always been you! Ever since the first moment I laid eyes
on you during orientation its been you! AND IT KILLS
ME TO SAY IT!!!"
- Forgo
the Xerox machine by making copies of important business
meeting documents with Silly Putty instead.
- Try
to start a conga line with every person who passes by
you in the hallway.
- Should
your boss make a rather incisive remark, say "Well,
you put a hundred monkeys in a hundred offices for a hundred
years and one of them is bound to say the right thing."
- Shout
"Make it spicy!" during brainstorming sessions.
- Spend
your final workdays making "Lite Brite" designs
with the floor buttons on each elevator.
- On
your last day, give each of your coworkers a great big
hug as you say, "Working with you guys has been a
remarkable experience and the lessons I learned here I
know I wont soon forget. But now its time
for me to head out that door, go home and wash off this
sticky layer of chocolate fudge I poured all over my body.
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