The administrative assistant and her two desk neighbors once sat near Alex, a colleague who chewed loudly and dripped his day-old jelly doughnuts. Their pleas to the manager to put a curtain around his desk were unsuccessful.
That meant they were forced to watch the day that his mess jammed nearly every key on his keyboard. Upon seeing it, the tech-support guy snapped on a pair of latex gloves like a seasoned proctologist and slammed the keyboard hard against the floor. —Jared Sandberg —Desktop dining: good, bad and getting ugly (Baltimore Sun)
That’s why I try to keep a supply of Powerbars in the office. They don’t make crumbs. File this under technology.
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