The Top 20 Signs Your Office is Haunted
By 20> Well, *somebody* keeps stealing your Yoo-hoo out of the break room refrigerator.
19> Every Casual Friday when Bob from Engineering breaks out the Hawaiian shirt, the Ghost of Good Taste can be heard wailing from behind the copier.
18> Cat-hating poltergeists wipe the hard drive every time you add another Garfield magnet to your PC.
17> No matter what you do, Windows 98 simply WILL NOT CRASH!
16> You find yourself suddenly covered in slime, and there’s nobody from Marketing anywhere nearby.
15> You hear the blood-curdling groans of endless souls in hellish torment… no, wait, it’s just a standard Monday morning.
14> Craig T. Nelson has to tie a rope around your waist every time you go into the men’s room.
13> Never seems to be enough Green Vomit Cleanser in the supply closet.
12> Every time you answer the red phone in your new office, it’s Nixon wanting to talk to your Dad.
11> The cubicle next to yours is suddenly swarming with hundreds of flies and… no, hold on — it’s just your dead-for-five-days co-worker.
10> You make a fresh pot of coffee, turn your back for a second, and it’s gone!
9> You sell insurance for John Hancock — and he attends most of the board meetings.
8> One little puddle of ectoplasm shows up on the receptionist’s chair and *you* get fired for sexual harassment.
7> AIEEEEE! It’s the Headless Tech Support Man!!!
6> Odd noises, strange scents, suspicious looks — and it’s not burrito day in the cafeteria.
5> Your scary Lon Chaney, Jr. screensaver mysteriously replaced by even scarier Dick Cheney/Junior screensaver.
4> When you photocopy your ass, the ghostly image of another ass appears next to it.
3> Every morning you walk past dozens of pale, bleary-eyed zombies wearing tattered clothes and typing line after line of code without blinking — but they don’t like Ho-Hos and Jolt Cola.
2> You could have sworn you were fellating the President, yet he insists that he did not have sex with you.
1> There’s blood everywhere and voices screaming “Get Out!”, and you’re not a dot-com business.
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