Friday, May 11, 2007

Bulletin board fun

I love the email bulletin boards at work. People having no work always post something absolutely useless over there and it makes for an interesting read when you're looking for some amusement, sucked out of life by the daily madness at work. Ofcourse BB's in places I've worked before are nowhere as nearly hilarious as some of the desi service based IT companies but recently there's been lot of action on the BB at my current workplace.

There's this woman who posts almost everyday with lot of stuff to sell. She includes a long list of DVD's, CD's, books, knickknacks etc and sells them all for a buck each. At the coffee station the other day I overheard some guys talking,"Dude you should see her cubicle. It's all stacked with boxes and sh!t and all day people are walking in and out of her cubicle like its a frikking dollar store!" As if all the unwarranted attention she was getting wasnt enough, she started putting up 'Clothes for Sale' ads too. Everyday she'd put up a new dress/coat/jeans for sale with pictures attached. So now her dollar store was being taken over by a thrift store :) )

The icing on the cake still remained. When she was done selling regular clothes she started putting up wedding gowns for sale! And not one, not two, she put up close to half a dozen exquisite wedding gowns. More gossip followed, the woman in question being genuinely hot good looking. "Dude, why the hell does she have so many wedding gowns and why is she selling them off? Does that mean she's called off her wedding so many times already?!" "Yeah. I dunno why she's trying to sell them man. If she didn't like them why did she buy them in the first place? You think she brought them off the bulletin board from her old company? Hahahaha" "No. Maybe she bought them off craigslist. 'Hmm ... let's see who's selling a wedding gown today. Maybe I can make some money by selling it on the company BB'," (more manic laughter)

Looks like she finally caught in on the coffee station gossip. She's still trying to sell those wedding gowns but now the emails carry a little note in bold: "No, my wedding wasn't cancelled. I'm trying to find the right dress. Wedding gowns are not returnable (even with tags/receipt). "

Oh c'est la vie! I'm loving it :)

2 comments:

Ranjeet said...

Is she really doing business? I mean, her contract should have clauses to disallow any part/full time income schemes, right?

Amit said...

Arre apparently she's cleaning out stuff from her house which she no longer needs. Anyways this is legit since there are a lot of for sale ads on most BB's. Technically it's not business if you're selling used stuff from your own house.