Arbeitgeist
I’m not saying that my place of work is haunted, but the knowledge that my predecessor passed away in the chair I’m sitting in makes me perhaps a bit more sensitive to the strange things that go on here. Here’s a running list.
Media Jumping
Film or paper will sometimes ‘jump’ out of their receptacles and fall onto the floor. Yes, film is a wiggly slidey beast prone to slipping all over the place, but the paper is more difficult to explain.
The 2 Left Rule
This is the most bizarre and consistent oddity. Every single night we have to work late, it’s the last two pieces of the job that fail - preventing us from leaving on time. 98/100 pages of film processed and then we run out of media, or there’s an error outputting the final two. Every. Single. Time.
Power Voodoo
Some mornings my computer is off. Some mornings it’s on. Sometimes the monitor is off, but the CPU is on. Ditto for the Mac. Maybe the janitor shuts it off?
The Missing Poster
So she had this Johnny Depp poster on the wall. Nothing wrong with that, except we had a bunch of investors through, so I thought maybe I should take it down. No sense wasting a good pin-up, so I put it aside to bring it home to Mom. I put it inside a stack of papers so I wouldn’t forget it. About halfway through the day I went to retrieve it, only to find it missing. Not in the papers, nowhere near my desk and after a thorough search its status is officially ‘disappeared’.
Bent Paperclips
Bent paperclips have started appearing in all sorts of odd places, including areas that there’s no way they could get to - like inside the imaging case and such. Sure I bend paperclips from time to time, but there’s no way I’m putting them where these puppies are being found.