WHOA! Busted on the e-playa at work...

ZaphodBurner · Post by **ZaphodBurner** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 3:45 pm

So I started this GREAT job in June, accepted with the stipulation that I get BM-week off.

Five minutes ago I'm sitting in my shared office in the middle of sanitized, sterile business-casual Dilbertworld corporate heck (in hell they charge for coffee.) A senior network engineer is chatting with my coworker and I, in a fit of chronic attention deficitness, completely forgot that we had dignitaries in the room. So I popped up the e-playa, reading a private message about my (joking) OuijaBong concept, and all of a sudden from behind me I hear:

"So...you going to Burning Man this year?"

Aw, FUCK! Busted by one of the uberprofessional higher-ups, the suits, surfing the internet at work--a Burning Man site no less...

Me, in a fit of honesty: "Yep."

Him: "Have you seen the Gerlach webcam today?"
Me: Whatthe... "Uh, well...yyyyeah. In fact, I have. Are *you* going?"
Him: "Of course I am. This will be my 10th year."

This whole weirdass circus just never ceases to amaze me!

-c

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 3:48 pm

Did you ask about Tuk Tuk!

ZaphodBurner · Post by **ZaphodBurner** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 4:04 pm

theCryptofishist wrote:Did you ask about Tuk Tuk!

*confused newbie stare*

Uh... No?

-c

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 4:07 pm

tuktuk the heroine of this site. the old scooter/metermaid thing that was parked across from the camera last week. her fan club is weeping...

ZaphodBurner · Post by **ZaphodBurner** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 2:26 pm

Apparently Gerlach is experiencing nuclear winter right now, or Mt. Mazama blew up again and crater lake is falling on them. The Gerlach cam view is spooky.

Update: The coworker who saw me surfing the e-playa came just came into the office dropped off a bag containing a 3D slide viewer and a notebook of images from various years. "Don't show these to anybody around here," he said.

C'est la vie say the old folks...

-c
I must now flog myself for assuming he was just another corporate good ol' boy.

5x5 · Post by **5x5** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 2:43 pm

hehe. it leaked out to my supervisor (a cool guy) who never heard of it, and after looking it up online said he'd be there if he didn't have young kids at home.

leftbraindp · Post by **leftbraindp** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 4:04 pm

That's awesome...

Okay, my work story:

I got hired in a small (6 people) graphics department in December and basically told my boss before I got hired I would be gone the week of BM... told him why, no problem (knew beforehand he was cool that way)... After about 3 months, my boss got fired (!!!) and they brought a new guy in the next monday... so I had to tell this guy I didn't know that I would be gone that week (just to make sure, ya know?) and of course he asks me where I'm going... I tell him and his response is "we should all go and make it a graphics department trip," then tells me he's always wanted to go and asks what it's like...

Just goes to show you can never tell

But I love pleasant surprises like that.

~c

leftbraindp · Post by **leftbraindp** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 4:44 pm

That's awesome...

Okay, my work story:

I got hired in a small (6 people) graphics department in December and basically told my boss before I got hired I would be gone the week of BM... told him why, no problem (knew beforehand he was cool that way)... After about 3 months, my boss got fired (!!!) and they brought a new guy in the next monday... so I had to tell this guy I didn't know that I would be gone that week (just to make sure, ya know?) and of course he asks me where I'm going... I tell him and his response is "we should all go and make it a graphics department trip," then tells me he's always wanted to go and asks what it's like...

Just goes to show you can never tell

But I love pleasant surprises like that.

~c

geekster · Post by **geekster** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 5:23 pm

I was at work last week and was talking to our #2 finance guy who tells me that our corporate recruiter goes to BM. So I would imagine being a burner wouldn't be a problem at all as far as getting hired with us. Went over and talked to the guy a little, I had never met him (when I hired on, we were too small to have a recruiter).

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 11:44 am

Everybody at my work must think I'm this excited about a "trip to Alabama"...They keep asking me when I'll be "going to Birmingham."

TheJudge · Post by **TheJudge** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 4:25 am

At my work, I'm the resident information guru about BM. Whenever someone has a question about the event, they come to me. It usually involves me dispelling rumors about naked, drug-filled raves or something.

Post by **Eric** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 7:21 pm

TheJudge wrote:At my work, I'm the resident information guru about BM. Whenever someone has a question about the event, they come to me. It usually involves me dispelling rumors about naked, drug-filled raves or something.

Funny, I'm the guru at my work and I fuel the rumors about naked drug-filled raves. Most of my co-workers are less adventurous than me and it keeps them from cluttering up the playa.

(yes- I give good information to the people who really ask, but most of them just want me to agree with their disinformation, so I do. *heh*)