NERF War

Sometimes I feel like this is happening in my office. Unfortunately without the NERF guns.

Office Bestiary

Common Sense Tips for the Office Worker

This article has a good set of tips for maintaining your reputation and your job if you are an office worker. Honestly, most of them apply widely in life, anyway, so all of our readers may find it interesting.

7. Get it in writing.

Email is one of the single greatest inventions ever in corporate accountability.

If there is ever a doubt in your mind about what you’ve been tasked to do, get it in writing. Sometimes people make judgement calls on the fly when they’re pressed for time. More often than not, when they are proven to have made the incorrect call, they will turn to you and ask you why you did that (idiot!). So having their instructions in black and white will save your ### a hundred times over the course of your career.

Be aware there are a few non-family-friendly words in the article, but they are mostly in context.

Word Document Gives Hackers Access to State Department

This seems amazing to me and yet it shouldn't surprise me with all of the extra features and integration with its other products that Microsoft includes in Office. Apparently, a state department employee opened up a Word document they got in e-mail and it leaked information to hackers.