Humor In The Workplace

[Brie]

I'm in the Navy, which means I have the privilege of getting locked in a floating prison for nine months out of the year. That being said, we have to find ways to make our time more enjoyable, as not to jump ship and swim back to land. Lucky for my my Chief and DIVO were both huge Star Trek fans. This lead to many Star Trek related jokes and conversations. The best one I can remember is when I jokingly printed out a picture that had Kirks face on it and it read "It's dangerous to go alone take one of these" and it had pull tabs below with red shirts on them. My chief and officer were so amused by it they ordered me down to the media department to get high quality versions of them printed to hang all over our shop. Most people didn't get the reference, but those who did LOVED it. I'm curious if anyone else has a similar story of a workplace of nerds coming together to be goofy and awesome!

 

[BeatleJWOL]

That's some nerd fusion going on there. Grok it!

 

[1001001]

I'm in the Navy, which means I have the privilege of getting locked in a floating prison for nine months out of the year.

Is it a......





Nuclear Wessel?

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

I'm in the Navy, which means I have the privilege of getting locked in a floating prison for nine months out of the year.

Is it a......





Nuclear Wessel?

Unfortunately I don't work with any Trekkies or geeks, shame really.

 

[IrishNero]

Me neither. Not that I'm interesting in actually engaging my co-workers in conversation.

I retired from the military. It's a different world out here. Enjoy the camaraderie and friendly banter while you can, Brie. I really miss it.

Guess that's why I still keep my uniforms in the closet...next to my Next Generation uniform.

 

[bbailey861]

After almost 37 years in, I'm retiring from the Army in June. Throughout that period, there has been a lot of Star Trek related humour, both light and dark. The most prominent thing that comes to mind right this second is: "I wish Scotty would beam us the <F> out of here", with variations of that same theme, whenever things were less than pleasant. Dark, to be sure, but it lightened things up.

 

[B.J.]

Love the story, but this...

Most people didn't get the reference

...concerns me! How do people not "get" redshirts?

 

[Brie]

I'm in the Navy, which means I have the privilege of getting locked in a floating prison for nine months out of the year.

Is it a......





Nuclear Wessel?

hahaha this...this made my day

 

[Timewalker]

...I jokingly printed out a picture that had Kirks face on it and it read "It's dangerous to go alone take one of these" and it had pull tabs below with red shirts on them. My chief and officer were so amused by it they ordered me down to the media department to get high quality versions of them printed to hang all over our shop. Most people didn't get the reference, but those who did LOVED it. I'm curious if anyone else has a similar story of a workplace of nerds coming together to be goofy and awesome!

Over 35 years ago, I started working backstage in the theatre, on the properties crew. One year we did Kiss Me, Kate (a musical about a group of actors putting on the Shakespeare play The Taming of the Shrew). The first scene involved a clipboard with some typed papers (presumably production notes), and since the audience would never see what was on them, I decided to have some fun.

I typed out some of the funnier memos from The Making of Star Trek (the Stephen E. Whitfield book) in which Gene Roddenberry, Robert Justman, and Gene Coon were discussing such weighty topics as "typical Vulcan names" (Spirk, Spork, Spilk, etc.) and getting metric terminology right.

One night the clipboard disappeared from the props table, and I found some of the actors gathered in a huddle by the back door, reading the memos aloud and having a good laugh.


A few years later we did The Sound of Music, and the telegram Captain Von Trapp received directed him to report for duty aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise, rather than the place he was supposed to go...

Love the story, but this...

Most people didn't get the reference

...concerns me! How do people not "get" redshirts?

Some people don't. Back in 1990 or so, our local Star Trek club went to a fabric store to buy material for our costumes. We'd designed a hybrid of TOS, Next Gen, and the movies (we weren't too concerned with canon). We found some really nice fabric in a variety of colors, but it frustrated the salesclerk that we flat-out refused to buy anything red.

Clerk: "Red would look great!"
Us: "We can't wear red - everyone who wears a red shirt ends up DEAD!"
Clerk:

 

[Ryan8bit]

My boss is a big TOS and TNG fan, so we often share inside jokes about it, and no one else really has any clue.

My favorite was that we had a difficult client that wanted his photographs to look like he was 10 years younger and about 50 pounds lighter, and he wasn't satisfied with the results. I photoshopped him onto a Pakled that said, "Make me not fat." It didn't help that he already kind of had a droopy face like they do.

The Pakled sayings are pretty constant here.

 

[Brie]

It always surprises me how few people get the red shirt reference

 

[Cyke101]

I'm not in the military, but one time my former assoc. director (fellow Trekkie) stepped into my office and asked me if I could test out some audio on my computer. I have earbud headphones that wrap around the ear.

For some reason I didn't remove the headphone jack from my monitor. I turned on the soundfile and was too lazy to put both headphones into one ear, so I only took one headphone and pressed it into my right ear with two fingers. While pressing the earbud, I turned my head to face her and confirmed that we were indeed receiving audio.

Of course, after about a couple seconds of silence, we both realized that I had just pulled an Uhura at my desk. The muffled smiles were just priceless!

 

[Brie]

That's some nerd fusion going on there. Grok it!

Right! I loved it! all the people in media were like...Uhhhh you need how many of these...and WHY?

Is it a......


Nuclear Wessel?

Hahahahaha yes it is

Guess that's why I still keep my uniforms in the closet...next to my Next Generation uniform.

HAHA Oh my gosh I do too!!!

After almost 37 years in, I'm retiring from the Army in June. Throughout that period, there has been a lot of Star Trek related humour, both light and dark. The most prominent thing that comes to mind right this second is: "I wish Scotty would beam us the <F> out of here", with variations of that same theme, whenever things were less than pleasant. Dark, to be sure, but it lightened things up.

Yeah I feel ya on that.