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  • We get the idea, get the idea, we get it etc.

    Not a cursing out coworkers, but a very funny management issue.

    So with the recent fad known as planking, obviously my work does not want anyone to do it-y'know, safety and all that. ANYWAY...they placed up a sign against planking on the staff exit door (where people arent going to read it), then on the locker-room doors (where we DO read it).

    Here's roughly what the sign says (I'm paraphrasing since I don't have it in front of me)

    Attention staff,

    With the recent craze in planking, we do not allow staff to undertake planking while on the clock. Anyone caught planking or encouraging staff to plank will be severely punished in accordance with store policy. If you wish to plank outside of work, that is fine, but please don't do it in uniform. With the recent craze in planking, we do not allow staff to undertake planking on the lock, anyone caught encouraging planking will also be punished.

    Thank you.

    The bolded parts are pretty much identical. I really don't know why they needed to take 2 sheets to pretty much repeat the same thing

    When I can get a copy, I will repeat it word-for-word.
    The best professors are mad scientists! -Zoom

    Now queen of USSR-Land...

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    This old fogey has absolutely no idea what planking is. I'm presuming it is NOT forcing SC's to walk a plank into a pit of starving alligators?

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    • #3
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planking_%28fad%29

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      • #4
        Quoth Teskeria View Post
        This old fogey has absolutely no idea what planking is. I'm presuming it is NOT forcing SC's to walk a plank into a pit of starving alligators?
        I wish.

        Planking is where you're lying face down in an unusual location and someone takes a photo of you doing so. A bunch of girls at a private girl's school in my state recently got suspended for planking on a flight of stairs.

        I just found it amusing that they had to repeat their point TWICE...
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        Now queen of USSR-Land...

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        • #5
          Why did nobody tell me about this game earlier? I think I could compete rather effectively.

          Rapscallion

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          • #6
            That is one of the most amusing Wikipedia articles ever.

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            • #7
              That has to be one of the most pointless things I've ever heard of.
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              • #8
                I honestly thought this was some kind of trolling when I first heard about it.
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                • #9
                  Quoth XCashier View Post
                  That has to be one of the most pointless things I've ever heard of.
                  That's why I want to participate.

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                  Rapscallion

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                  • #10
                    Well, hey, you could technically do it all you like, since afterall, until someone takes a picture of you doing so, it isn't planking, it's simply lying down.
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                    • #11
                      You mean I have been planking my couch this whole time? Who knew?
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                      • #12
                        Quoth XCashier View Post
                        That has to be one of the most pointless things I've ever heard of.
                        That's pretty much what I was thinking.

                        And Fireheart, my guess is that they repeated it because they're "making a point." As if you couldn't figure that out from the first time they said it, but hey, you know, it's management.
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                        • #13
                          How can you tell the difference between "planking" and "too drunk to roll over"?
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                          • #14
                            The worst thing, and likely the reason the OP's place is making rules, is that there have been a couple of deaths involving planking. The one I remember is the idiot who was planking on the edge of the roof of a building and fell off. Several story drop, if I recall right.
                            The Rich keep getting richer because they keep doing what it was that made them rich. Ditto the Poor.
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                            • #15
                              Planking is old. Vertical planking is the new craze, especially in front of landmarks while smiling.

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