It's things like this that make it best I never work in the office again.

[Chantry]

 

[Alpo]

Two things make me believe that was a setup - that he was in on it.

 

One was the size of the thing he was covering the lid of a can with. It wasn't big enough. If there been a real live fuzzy mouse in there it would have run out the gap.

 

But the main thing was when he released it. If it was me I would have just dropped the cardboard and let whatever that was in the can fall out. Or just drop the whole thing and let little gray brother run off. That "carefully setting it down and sliding the cardboard out from underneath" - I ain't buying that.

[Matthew Duncan]

I personally know of no female that would respond as that lady did.  They would scream and run away from the mouse.

[John Kloehr]

10 hours ago, Alpo said:

Two things make me believe that was a setup - that he was in on it.

Let's add it being an empty garbage can, not even a liner... In a medical office. And the camera in the office was too perfectly set to be security footage. Not sure if he was in on it.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

7 hours ago, Matthew Duncan said:

I personally know of no female that would respond as that lady did.  They would scream and run away from the mouse.

You never met my wife.

[Chantry]

11 hours ago, Matthew Duncan said:

I personally know of no female that would respond as that lady did.  They would scream and run away from the mouse.

 

It was a computer mouse and they were playing a joke on the doctor.

[WD Farren]

Being retired, I find I truly miss the work.
And do not miss the management or office stupidity.
At all.

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

I'm reminded of a time when I worked in an office full of women.  One day, being of a whimsical nature, I placed a small, rubber mouse atop the battery-powered wall clock - "Lookit here, gang!  'Hickory, Dickory Dock, one mouse ran up the clock!'"  A few chuckes, and a bunch of shaking of heads at the silliness of the resident male.

 

Then came a day a few months later when one of the ladies, Tish, came boiling out of the server room and made a bee-line to my desk.  Upon her arrival, she proceeded to chew me out something royally - much worse than my now-"ex" ever did.  

 

So, I watched in uncomprehending astonishment, as did everyone else in the room.  Finally, I suggest to her that I had absolutely no idea what might be the root of her displeasure.  Well, she kicked it up a notch and started in afresh.  When someone else in the room asked the same thing, she blurted "HE PUT A MOUSE BY THE SERVER JUST TO SCARE ME!! I'm TIRED of your CHILDNESS!"

 

Uh... no I didn't.  I didn't do that.

 

"Oh YES you did!" she retorted.

 

So, en mass, the entire staff followed the irate gal into the server room, where she assumed a ramrod-straight pose and pointed a sharp index finger and bellowed "SEE?" as she pointed to a spot in front of the server control.  We all looked... and sure 'nuff, there was a mouse.  Who immediately woke up and looked at Tish as if asking "What's up?  Can't a mouse-dude catch a nap without all this screeching?"  Which of course the assembled womanly mass immediately joined in on.

 

Of course, it fell upon me to capture the hapless critter and transport him outside to the bushes.  

 

And as a aside, many years later, as I was clearing out my desk on retirement day, I remarked "Oh!  A dead mouse!"  Naturally, all the wimmin shrieked.  And when I pulled out a computer mouse by it's wire and held it aloft, they were not amused.  

[WD Farren]

More proof that stupid cannot be cured.

[Sedalia Dave]

11 hours ago, WD Farren said:

More proof that stupid cannot be cured.

 

Stupid can be cured. HOWEVER, the cure is almost always fatal.