So at the end of a long, frustrating day at work (cubicle reassignments, short tempers, big-shot new salespersons, managerial short-sightedness) how fun is this:

I round the corner, computer chassis in hand, and look at the new decorations on the window of the Traffic department’s office. Big sheets of white paper with drawings and numbers all in red. Ah, they’re goal thermometers for three of the sales teams. You’ve seen them before, nothing special about them… Wait a minute. They’re kind of… wide. And the mercury bulbs are shaped… oddly.

And as these thoughts cross my brain, the KKSN/KRSK Sales Manager calls out, “Those are thermometers, right Karel?”

“Um… no they aren’t, Steve!”

That’s right, folks. The goal charts for Kisn, Rosey and Sunny are big red penises.

The poor unfortunate lady in the Traffic department who sits in that corner of the office has already stuck things to her side of the window to obscure the, ah, view. Later on the much-put-upon Traffic folks and I had a good laugh about how this proves that the Sales department is just a bunch of dicks.

There are worse ways to end a long week of work than to share a laugh with your coworkers, especially if other coworkers provided the joke.