Humor by <strong>Nightwire</strong>5605 Complaining About Personal Problems5640 Miscellaneous Unproductive Complaining5701 Not Actually Present At Job5702 Suffering from Eight-Hour Flu6102 Ordering Out6103 Waiting for Food Delivery to Arrive6104 Taking It Easy While Digesting Food6200 Using Company Resources for Personal Profit6201 Stealing Company Goods6202 Making Excuses After Accidentally Destroying CompanyGoods6203 Using Company Phone to Make Long-Distance PersonalCalls6204 Using Company Phone to Make Long-Distance PersonalCalls to Sell Stolen Company Goods6205 Hiding from Boss6206 Gossip6207 Planning a Social Event (e.g. vacation, wedding, etc.)6210 Feeling Sorry For Yourself6211 Updating Resume6212 Faxing Resume to Another Employer/Headhunter6213 Out of Office on Interview6221 Pretending to Work While Boss Is Watching6222 Pretending to Enjoy Your Job6223 Pretending You Like Coworker6224 Pretending You Like Important People When in RealityThey are Jerks6238 Miscellaneous Unproductive Fantasizing6350 Playing Pranks on the New Guy/Girl6601 Running your own Business on Company Time (See Code#6603)6602 Complaining6603 Writing a Book on Company Time6611 Staring Into Space6612 Staring At Computer Screen6615 Transcendental Meditation6969 Beating off in Broom Closet7281 Extended Visit to the Bathroom (at least 10 minutes)7400 Talking With Divorce Lawyer on Phone7401 Talking With Plumber on Phone7402 Talking With Dentist on Phone7403 Talking With Doctor on Phone7404 Talking With Masseuse on Phone7405 Talking With House Painter on Phone7406 Talking With Personal Therapist on Phone7419 Talking With Miscellaneous Paid Professional on Phone7425 Talking With Mistress/Boy-Toy on Phone7931 Asking Coworker to Aid You in an Illicit Activity8000 Recreational Drug Use8001 Non-recreational Drug Use8002 Liquid Lunch8100 Reading e-mail8102 Laughing while reading e-mailAirplane JokesOccasionally, airline attendants make an effort to make the“in-flight safety lecture” and their other announcements a bitmore entertaining. Here are some real examples that have beenheard or reported: “There may be 50 ways to leave your lover,but there are only 4 ways out of this airplane...”22<strong>•</strong> <strong>February</strong> <strong>2012</strong>
Pilot - “Folks, we have reached our cruising altitude now, soI am going to switch the seat belt sign off. Feel free to moveabout as you wish, but please stay inside the plane till we land... it’s a bit cold outside, and if you walk on the wings it affectsthe flight pattern.”_____________________________________________________And, after landing: “Thank you for flying Delta BusinessExpress. We hope you enjoyed giving us the business as muchas we enjoyed taking you for a ride.”As the plane landed and was coming to a stop at WashingtonNational, a lone voice comes over the loudspeaker: “Whoa, bigfella. WHOA!”_____________________________________________________After a particularly rough landing during thunderstorms inMemphis, a flight attendant on a Northwest flight announced:“Please take care when opening the overhead compartmentsbecause, after a landing like that, sure as Hell everything hasshifted.”_____________________________________________________From a Southwest Airlines employee.... “Welcome aboardSouthwest Flight XXX to YYY. To operate your seatbelt, insertthe metal tab into the buckle, and pull tight. It works just likeevery other seatbelt, and if you don’t know how to operate one,you probably shouldn’t be out in public unsupervised. In theevent of a sudden loss of cabin pressure, oxygen masks willdescend from the ceiling. Stop screaming, grab the mask, andpull it over your face. If you have a small child traveling withyou, secure your mask before assisting with theirs. If you aretraveling with two small children, decide now which one youlove more._____________________________________________________Weather at our destination is 50 degrees with some brokenclouds, but they’ll try to have them fixed before we arrive.Thank you, and remember, nobody loves you, or your money,more than Southwest Airlines.”_____________________________________________________“As you exit the plane, please make sure to gather all of yourbelongings. Anything left behind will be distributed evenlyamong the flight attendants. Please do not leave children orspouses.”_____________________________________________________“Last one off the plane must clean it.”_____________________________________________________And from the pilot during his welcome message: “We arepleased to have some of the best flight attendants in theindustry ...Unfortunately none of them are on this flight...!Heard on Southwest Airlines just after a very hard landingin Salt Lake City: The flight attendant came on the intercomand said, “That was quite a bump and I know what ya’ll arethinking. I’m here to tell you it wasn’t the airline’s fault, it wasn’tthe pilot’s fault, it wasn’t the flight attendants’ fault.....it was theasphalt!”_____________________________________________________Another Flight Attendant’s comment on a less than perfectlanding: “We ask you to please remain seated as CaptainKangaroo bounces us to the terminal.”<strong>February</strong> <strong>2012</strong> <strong>•</strong>23