FREAKOUT!!!!

Well finally Bob's having another FREAKOUT!! I don't know what it's about (the new seating chart keeps me from seeing as much) but I just heard a really loud "oh jesus" and looked over to see him hitting himself on the head then chewing on his thumb.....sweetness!

Yet another quite day

This whole week has been rather uneventful, I'm not quite sure why, but it's been somewhat disappointing. Not all hope is lost though....I do in fact have something I found rather entertaining to report. It appears as if I'm not the only one that finds a bit of amusement seeing Bob flip-out and maybe antagonizing him just a little.

I believe I've mentioned Bob's parking issues in an earlier entry. As you may remember he refuses to buy a monthly pass and insists on using the parking meter. The beauty of this (aside from him getting tickets and watching him run out to feed the meter) is that he never brings enough quarters with him to work each day. Instead he finds in necessary to raid a cup of change that the boss keeps on his desk. Now in Bob's defense, he does put dollar bills in the cup to pay for the quaters he takes, but this whole process is slightly ridiculous. It turns out one of my coworker thinks this is ridiculous as well. I just learned today that this particular person (when they get to the office before the boss) will do one of two things, 1. take what quaters they can and replace them with nickels and dimes, or 2. just bury the quarters in the bottom of the cup. This hasn't led to a FREAKOUT just yet, but I'm kind of hoping one day there will be no quarters for Bob...that would be funny...and a parking ticket is always good for a FREAKOUT

He's Baaack!

No, not another FREAKOUT (at least not yet.) But the exciting news of the morning is that Alex Ovechkin has returned from the hospital and a weekend of rehabilitation. He's got a cast on his left ankle and a re-constructed right foot with a cast as well. But the important thing is that he's back in action and ready to go! Hopefully Bob will be glad to see his friend back at the office :)

Quiet Rainy Day

So far nothing to report.....at all really. Princess Bob has been pretty sedate today, he has put on his headphones and has had his head down working quite diligently. All I can say so far today is that since he whined about how much he answered the phone last week, my other coworker and I have been keeping track of how often he's answered the phone. We didn't want to continue to over-burden him as we had been with that responsibility. So far it's been 6 answers for us, and 0 for Princess Bob. OOOH....it's sounding like we're still having some issues with the white-out right now but there haven't been any swear words quite yet.......slow start to the week

posting pictures is fun!

the cause of Bob's stress
Spend the extra 48 cents on the nice ones Bob...I swear it'll make your life better!

Getting Some Religion

Got into the office around 10am today after a morning meeting...and we (Bob) were already in the early stages of a FREAKOUT, what's making this one even better is that I've obviously had nothing to do with it, so far the only casualties are a couple containers of white-out. We've clearly established by now that Bob doesn't handle stress very well, I'd probably say that's his weakpoint. So when we are nearing a deadline or have to get some drawings out in a hurry things get a little dicey for Bob......

I sit down at my desk check the e-mail and such, then I start hearing "jesus christ, jesus christ" (a few more times than just that) and then begin hearing things getting slammed on the desk and paper crumpling. Since I'm not suppose to talk to Bob right now, and I don't think he's a real religious fellow, I just have to guess things are not going so well with the deadline and associated work. I'd say he's getting nice and primed for a good old fashioned FREAKOUT at this point. Then...after about 45 minutes of this it happens "god%$%m this stupid whiteout!" a few plasticy sounding thing hit the desk hard and our hero storms off to the break/storage room. Funny thing is...as with most of Bob's issues, this is kind of his own fault. We normally buy like "papermate" or some other type of nice whiteout stuff, but when Bob was sent to the store he took it upon himself to save the office 48 cents on a pack of like 8 and buy the cheap generic brand...how's that working for you today bud?

Bob Tattled

As if breaking my Alex Ovechkin bobble head wasn't enough today Bob tattled on me today, effectively turning our office into a pre-school. It was somewhat hard not to giggle when my boss came to talk to me, but I didn't think that would help my case too much so I had to lock it up a bit. I learned that my failure to answer my equitable share of phone calls as well as my inappropriate use of the Bobble head had led to a work environment that Bob cannot handle. Unfortunately I don't think this had the desired effect Bob wanted for 2 reasons. #1 He learned Bob broke my bobble head...immature too I know....but I thought he needed to be briefed on all the events that day involving Bob. #2 I was simply instructed not to talk to Bob so much right now until he calms down a bit.....giving Bob the "stink-eye" is enough to instigate a level 4 FREAKOUT....and doesn't require talking.

This has led me to a few conclusions....(yet another numbered list in this entry)

#1 Bob is a communist - he believes everyone in the office needs to answer the phone an equal number of times during the day. This ties into his frustration over the dish situation in the office (he believes we should all take turns doing all the dishes rather than each of us just doing our own as we use them) Bob, give my regards to Fidel!

#2 Bob is actually a cross between Dwight and Andy from "The Office." Earlier I thought there were just some parallels to Dwight, but the shocking display of violence I witnessed today made me think he may actually need anger management....much like Andy.

#3 Bob may need a stronger dose of Nicotine gum, clearly he's still a bit jumpy...or he could just go back to smoking two packs a day...that was nice because it got him out of the office every hour or so.

I'm suppose to sit down with Bob and the bossman sometime soon now...at least it will be good for another entry here and hopefully some more laughs!

FREAKOUT!!!

Bob's ears must have started burning as I typed that first installment of the day, no sooner than I finished typing it up did the phone ring....and with that went Bob's hope of a gold star....

Bob answered the phone this time, so I was pretty excited and proud of him. To show my appreciation, I made my Alex Ovechkin bobble head bobble and nod in approval....and as you may have guessed by now...Bob did not find that very amusing and took his anger out on Mr. Ovechkin by grabbing him and throwing him to the floor. FREAKOUT!!!!!

Working on a Gold Star

It's almost 3:00 and I'll tell you what....Bob's been on pretty darn good behavior so far, there's a chance he might actually earn himself a gold star today. Right now the most likely cause of a FREAKOUT would be if his favorite baseball team (the Indians) loses their game against the Yankees....a former Indian's pitcher is pitching for the Yankees this afternoon which has upped the stress level of this game about 800% for Bob......he's monitoring the box score on the Internet....looks like one of his players was just caught stealing....that cause a bit of pinching of the bridge of his nose between the eyes...the stress level is building as this game goes on I think, but luckily his team is still ahead 1-0....now the question is do I start rooting for the other team? Or is this Internet baseball watching worthy of a write up?

Bob's looking out for me

This wasn't really a FREAKOUT...but it was odd behavior, so I figure it's fair to document.....

Bob got the mail today for the office (but still refused to aswer the phone...go figure) and I saw him flipping though one of the magazines we get at the office. As I'm sure you've figured out by now, it's not like Bob just to do things normally...so I'm not overly surprised to see him ripping a few pages out of the magazine, so I kept going about my work. About 10 minutes later (maybe it took Bob time to try to come up with something clever to say I really don't know) he slides one of the torn out pages over to me and says "here ya go" which for 10 mintues of thought I had hoped would be a lot more funny. On my desk is a picture of a lady and and article about her jewelery making business. Apparently Bob is concerned about my personal life and feels this lady is someone I need to date...cool thanks for the tip Bob, glad you're looking out for me. As you may imagine, I found the whole thing a little odd, usually when a guy coworker sends you a picture it's straight out of Maxim or the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue...but not Bob...this lady wasn't gross or anything, just kind of normal looking, not something you would really expcet to be torn out of a magazine (think housewife in a tv commercial)...so when I asked him that if he was really looking out for me to hold out for some ladies of that caliber I was informed I am a 12 year old....makes sense to me!

April 15 - Luchtime

Maybe it's the rain, or maybe he just got a good nights sleep, but nothing major to report so far today other than a mid morning sprint out to the parking garage to feed the meeter.....I did give him copies of the "write up" forms though I thought that was a pretty nice gesture, it may have even diffused the stress a little because I got a laugh out of him. At the moment it's just Bob, myself and another coworker in the office, so we've been taking turns calling the office phone and hanging up as soon as Bob answers, mean yes....but it's pretty funny and it's giving me good practice at not laughing (biting my lip) haha we'll see how long this lasts today...

Write Up!!

No, I haven't been written up yet, I think Bob has given me yet another chance...however after discussing this with a few friends, I decided Bob might need an official "write up" form so he can make this "write up" official when it finally happens. Here are the two forms....I figure I'll be thoughtful and give Bob some options

April 14, 2009 - 12:15pm

Looks like today may be a fun one! No sooner did I finish typing my last entry when Bob walked back to his desk from the printer and informed me that was my last warning. If this "harassment" about the phone continues he will be "writing me up" and turning that into the boss. My laughter at that comment probably didn't help the situation too much, but I really couldn't help myself on that one. I then learned he was serious and I've just sealed my fate with said write up. The stress of that confrontation must really have got to him because he put about 4 pieces of nicotine gum in his mouth after his lecture.....if this "write up" really happens should make for an exciting installment later!

April 14, 2009 - 11:58am

Well it only took about 1 1/2 hours of Bob being back in the office before his first little melt-down...I'm hesitant to call in a FREAKOUT because it was a farily small little episode.

Our office is somewhat of a "studio environment" we don't have a secretary or admin or anyone who answers the phone, it's kind of a group responsibilty. Usually we take turns and share the responsibilty, one of those concepts we all should have learned back in pre-school.

The phone rang several time before another coworker picked it up. (I was on another line already) I glanced up over our desk divider (it's not quite a cube) and Bob told me I was "f#&$ing insane and he doesn't have to answer the phone every g*&d#*n time it rings" Well Tuesday is off to a good start. I wonder what would happen if I actually asked him to answer the phone?

Mondy, April 13 2009

Well, our hero is still out of the office today, I'll have to see how the drive back went tomorrow...it usually makes for an intersting story. Since no FREAKOUTS have occured today (well I'm sure one occured, but probablly somewhere along I-70) I have decided that I will share a story from a past FREAKOUT to keep some interest in Bob here and to keep me in the habit of posting.

I'll call this event "Parking Meltdown #1" It was the first of many parking related "incidents" involving Bob. Our building has a parking garage, like many garages is costs money to park in our garage. Most people prefer a monthly parking pass, however Bob deemed this useless, he preferred to pay on a daily basis. Well, as often happens we needed to run some office related errands that required a vehicle which led to this particular FREAKOUT.

We're a small company and don't have in house computer people, so when one of our computers breaks we need to take it to the computer shop we use. The shop is about a mile or so from the office, which is kind of a long walk when trying to carry a computer. The bossmen asked Bob to drive us to the shop to drop off the computer...he agrees and off we go down to the parking garage..so far so good. All is going nice and smooth until we reach the attendant station. Since we were leaving the garage and had no monthly pass, we'd have to pay the $6 early bird parking fee. That was apparently an unacceptable option, I figured out this was unacceptable after Bob infromed me "this is bull$h&* I'm going back to the garage you're gonna have to figure soemthing else this isn't gonna work!" So before I had a chance to reach for my wallet I was instructed to get out of the car with the computer and that I'd have to walk to the shop or find another way to get the computer there. As soon as my feet hit the pavement, his car is in reverse going back down the ramp. After walking back up to our office and a short discussion with my boss we decide the stress of re-parking and needing to spend $12 for the day is apparently too much for Bob to handle. Another coworker and myself manage to pull together $6 and take her car to the computer shop.....disaster averted.

Friday, April 10 2009

Bob went back to his hometown for Easter so he's not in the office today. So since I just started posting, I'll have to start with yesterdays FREAKOUT. He was a little concerned that taking off Friday and Monday wouldn't go over so well with the bossman.....clearly taking two of your 10 vacation days is a reason to be fired. I guess between taking a job-jeapordizing Easter vacation and needing to prepare for a 7 hour drive home, the stress was too much to handle a slight computer issue and the daily FREAKOUT occured....

After hearing "godd*#$%" I realized I was in for a treat, I look over to see the mouse being pounded on the desk and some additional "godd$*#%" occured. Never one to let this go to waste, I decided to inform Bob that pounding his mouse was clearly the best way to solve his computer woes. Then in a brilliant move, he reverted back to 4th grade and threatened to tell on me. "do we need to go talk to the boss?" Well no Bob we don't but you do what ever makes you happy. He then refused to anwer the phone at his desk the rest of the day. Happy Easter Bob!

The beginning

This was inspired by a rather high-strung and stressed out coworker, usually a few times a week (each day if we're lucky) he has an incident that involves swearing at the computer, hitting himself on the head and general behavior indicative of a melt-down or good old fashioned FREAKOUT

We'll call him Bob so as not to have him read this and start a FREAKOUT of epic proportions.