"One employee, Rhias, wore an impressive variety of black corsets to work every day and kept a mummified dead cat nailed to the wall of her apartment. Her manager, Steve, had a wicker basket on his desk. When subordinates came to ask him something, he would act out lines from "The Silence of the Lambs": "It puts the lotion in the basket! It does this whenever it is told!" Until you put a bottle of hand lotion in the basket, he would not answer your question. "
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Date: 2004-09-20 12:04 pm (UTC)*shudder*
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Date: 2004-09-20 12:21 pm (UTC)(I'm reminded of the anecdote about Wizrds of the Coast, from this article: http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/03/23/wizards/print.html )
"One employee, Rhias, wore an impressive variety of black corsets to work every day and kept a mummified dead cat nailed to the wall of her apartment. Her manager, Steve, had a wicker basket on his desk. When subordinates came to ask him something, he would act out lines from "The Silence of the Lambs": "It puts the lotion in the basket! It does this whenever it is told!" Until you put a bottle of hand lotion in the basket, he would not answer your question. "
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Date: 2004-09-21 04:03 am (UTC)