I was going to post these in my upcoming blog but it's been delayed and my job at this place is now over so there's no reason to hold onto 'em any longer. So I was working a contract job for about a month and a half at this medical patient accounts place, designing their intranet from scratch. They sat me in with all of the people who answer the phones and have really crappy jobs. I took some pics of the area when nobody was watching because I just had to show you living proof of what they call "
FISHITUDE". Don't ask me how, but they felt that by hanging tons of inflatable fish from the ceiling, employees would have a better attitude towards their job. Hence they call it "
FISHITUDE".
First off, here's my computer with my customized Mr. Anderson desktop. I actually spent a while getting all sorts of spiffy icons and skins for all sorts of shit on that computer. Oh the things you do to kill time when you're waiting for a department to get back to you with content for their section of the intranet...
Ordinarily, red white & blue streamers would make sense... if it was the 4th of July. But these were hanging up this entire past week and one day all the people were wearing uncle sam hats and bandanas 'n shit. Nobody seemed to have any reason for it either. I also heard some of them talking about a tropical shirt day and a mexican hat day and other shit. They were very VERY excited about the possibility of wearing new costumes to work. Creepy.
Exhibit A: Inflatable fish and a happy paper sunshine hanging from the ceiling nearby.
Exhibit B: Widest shot of the area that I could get without being seen. Notice how many fucking fish are hanging from the ceiling? And that's like only 1/8th of the floor I was on. They even draped a hula necklace around one of those inflatable fish. MADNESS!
Exhibit C: My personal inflatable fish that was hanging above my desk. After a few weeks of working there I swear the thing was watching me. Oh how I wanted to whack that fish like a pinata. Actually, there is a fish pinata hanging up in there too... go figure.
Anyway, I didn't see any proof that "
FISHITUDE" made people work harder or like their jobs any more. I think it just made them all crazy.
-RoG-
p.s.: I slapped a Kneel Before Zod sticker on my computer on my last day. Gotta mark my territory.
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