1. One of the stranger additions to my vocabulary courtesy of Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day:

eclogue   \ECK-log\   noun
: a poem in which shepherds converse

Pardon my ignorance but I’ve never heard of a poem about conversing shepherds before. There must be a substantial number of them to warrant a word in the dictionary. If you know of one, please send it me. I’m curious.

2. An email of complaint from a peeved employee:

(and I quote…)

Good day!

 Make I request if you can mention it to the Operations Managers to advise Supervisors to have their post shift meeting held in any of the conference room available. Time and again they are having their team meeting in the area right beside my team and veraciously creating disturbance in our pre-shift overtime. Twice had I dissuade them of their noise level but most of the agents seems not to understand the paramountcy of what we do.

A subtle reminder never to hit Shift F7 in rage.

3. True story:

On what seemed like another monotonous day at work, an enraged supervisor runs down the hall after an equally furious subordinate. A stunned silence ensues across the floor. Everyone’s neck was craned to see what the ruckus was about. When the office grapevine is about to get it’s latest addition, we all seem to follow this unspoken protocol.

“Come back here!” she yells. “This is insubordination!” Unfazed, the underling continues to stomp off towards the exit. They disappear around the corner and out of earshot.

Incidentally, this happened on the same day they were giving out free corn dogs to all employees. After the drama died down and people started going back to their workstations, I overheard a colleague say, “I wonder who got her corn dog?”

The sad thing about this is that everybody was wondering the exact same thing.