Buttons

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Button, Button, Who's Got the Button? That's a game my grandma and I used to play. Well, now I'll be playing a new button game. At work, I am known for collecting buttons but these have been approved buttons from the company and vendors.
Tomorrow I am going to start wearing a different un-approved button each day and see what reaction, if any I get. This may be a short-lived game depending on management's reaction. There are some buttons I still should buy at some point like one that said
"If I'm not fired yet, then can I have the day off?"

The button I will start with on Saturday 4/7 will be:
"A Monkey Could Do My Job, But He'd Want Better Pay"

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Feel welcome to post your own buttons and stories :-)

[Mike (the Paladin)]

That should go over well.... really, I'm sure management will love it.

Is your resume in good shape?

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

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[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

They probably won't even notice. I wore the 99 cent cookie button and my co-workers/managers didn't even know that the bakery had those buttons, so I will just tell them that the Natural Living Department gave me this one.

[Jackie]

This is gonna be fun.
There's a lot of funny buttons out there.

I wonder how this one would go over at a job? Perfect to wear at Walmart. lol

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Wal-Mart is banned from my city. I know it is banned from other cities also. I watched a documentary on Wal-Mart very interesting.

[Jackie]

I hate that store, it's not banned from my area, but that doesn't stop me from banning it for my family.

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

management did not notice my button today. Nobody noticed it unless I pointed it out. Most of my co-workers thought it was funny (only one person said I was going to get myself in trouble) and I said to keep it a secret and not to tell management.

The funny thing is I was in three direct conversations with key management today, twice being with the store director who noticed that my new Sketchers Shape Ups made me taller than him (it's kinda fun to look down on him) but he did not notice my button.

Back in February, one of my co-workers gave me a button that said something about "Kiss Me I'm Old and Harmless" I wore that button for half of my shift but I was getting kissed too much (I am not a touchy feely type of person) so I gave it back.

Time to draw tomorrow's button out of my magic sack...I will be right back.

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

The button for Easter Sunday 4/8 will be:
"Never Underestimate the Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut"

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Today when I showed one of my co-workers my button, he thought it said Honkie instead of Monkey.
To celebrate the success of my Monkey button, I purchased a pint of Ben & Jerry's Chunky Monkey and ate it all on my walk home.

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

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[Jackie]

Interesting that management didn't notice it. I think lots of people are oblivious to what's around them. I'm one of them on most occasions.

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

I very rarely go to Wal-Mart. It's too much trouble to get there since it's in the neighboring towns :-) but I don't like Target either (we do have one of those in Boulder), but I can't take all that red. Two days ago I went with my Dad to Costco, but things there are just a bit overwhelming - everything is so over-sized!
(but I picked up a few books so that made things okay)

[Jackie]

Books help any situation!

I don't like any of those stores, all cheap crappy products that break. It's a waste of money, I'd rather spend a little more for a well made product that will last.

We have a similar store to Costco, called BJ's, but it's more than a half hour away, not worth it to me.

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

I agree with all that. In Boulder we like smaller, local stores. I went to Pearl Street Mall on my day off (after Costco) and visited the Art Co-op and Art Mart picked up a few items, it was fun. There's always a nice feeling of being on Pearl Street in Downtown Boulder. I take the bus there so I don't have to worry about parking and it's very peaceful.

[Jackie]

It must be a lovely place to live.

[Becca]

Dustin Crazy little brown owl wrote: "The button for Easter Sunday 4/8 will be:
"Never Underestimate the Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut""

LMFAO

[Becca]

Yeah....*wistful sigh*. That's something I need to learn. I don't have much of a brain-mouth filter, so I'm usually telling the wrong people something I really should be keeping to myself.

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Jackie wrote: "It must be a lovely place to live."

It really is :-) it's what I call the "Boulder Bubble"

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Well, nobody noticed my button today except the one co-worker I pointed it out to - this is the same person that thought yesterday's button said "Honkie" instead of "Monkey"

If anyone did notice my button that read "Never Underestimate the Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut", they didn't say anything to me about it :-)

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Time to pick a new button from my magic sack...I'll be right back :-)

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

The button for Monday April 9th will be:

"Those Who Dance Are Thought Crazy By Those Who Can't Hear The Music"

This one doesn't seem too controversial so I shouldn't get in trouble for wearing it :-) I will try to point it out to more people if I can.

[Jackie]

Dustin wrote: this is the same person that thought yesterday's button said "Honkie" instead of "Monkey"
Maybe he can't read, lol

And: If anyone did notice my button that read "Never Underestimate the Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut", they didn't say anything to me about it :-)
Maybe they did notice, but decided to take the button's advice, lol

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Today's button was:
"I can only please one person per day. Today I choose me."

I have tomorrow off but let me go to my magic sack and see what the magical button elf has in store for me on Thursday.....

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Coming Thursday:
"I'M ALL THAT'S LEFT OF A BIZARRE CHILDHOOD"

[Jackie]

LOL, good one

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

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[Robin]

I am so gonna start looking for the buttons at work now! Some of them are small, so unless Don (that's our boss) gets really close, I don't think he will notice.

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Don has gotten close and he still don't notice. Today's button was the No Drama one. I have started really getting a following on this little game/experiment so that now I am going up to my co-workers and saying "would you like to see my unapproved button for the day?" These are really helping people to laugh :-)

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Robin wrote: "I am so gonna start looking for the buttons at work now! Some of them are small, so unless Don (that's our boss) gets really close, I don't think he will notice."

I have to watch out for Captain Kirk too because he's very strict as you know since you have to work with him more than I do :-)

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

I have Saturday off, but on Sunday I will be wearing a button that says:

IT'S ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE
MINUS THE PARADISE

[Nora aka Diva]

Sadly we cannot wear buttons, it's considered a safety issue but the some of the sayings on t-shirts people wear are just too funny. I could post them here unless you would prefer a separate thread.

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Nora aka Diva wrote: "Sadly we cannot wear buttons, it's considered a safety issue but the some of the sayings on t-shirts people wear are just too funny. I could post them here unless you would prefer a separate thread."

Post them :-) Here or there, I don't care :-)

[Nora aka Diva]

Maybe you can get some of them printed onto buttons.

my fav is the "The beatings will continue until morale improves."

one of my coworkers has one that reads...
I have multiple personalities and NONE of them like you.

I had a t-shirt that seemed to confuse some people.
5 out of 4 people have problems with fractions.

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Your work doesn't have a policy against these types of T-shirts?

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

I really like the beatings one :-)

[Nora aka Diva]

Dustin Crazy little brown owl wrote: "Your work doesn't have a policy against these types of T-shirts?"

It's a factory, we don't deal with the public, just each other so as long as it's not overwhelmingly profane or indecent no one cares.

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

That could be nice :-) I guess it was kind of like that when I worked at the post office encoding center. Since we just sat and stared at a computer screen all day, we could wear casual clothes.

[Jenn]

The beatings will continue is hysterical, i seen it on a t-shirt at a local fair!

[Mike (the Paladin)]

I've seen the beatings on a T-shirt. I have a couple of buttons (but waited a while) I have one that says:

"He's dead Jim. You get his wallet I'll get his Tricorder."

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

What is a Tricorder?

[Nora aka Diva]

Dustin Crazy little brown owl wrote: "What is a Tricorder?"

You need to be beaten about the head and shoulders!! OMG the sacrilege!! Tricorder

[Nora aka Diva]

http://blogs-images.forbes.com/markpm...

That's Spock holding a tricorder.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

The sad thing is I assume you didn't get the "He's dead Jim" joke either. My heart goes out to you...your nerd credentials are definitely in question.

[Nora aka Diva]

Mike (the Paladin) wrote: "The sad thing is I assume you didn't get the "He's dead Jim" joke either. My heart goes out to you...your nerd credentials are definitely in question."

I agree!

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Quickly...you need a Star Trek marathon!

[Jackie]

What is a Tricorder?

This cannot be! Please tell me you're joking. Or that you grew up in a cave.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

No good...males who live in caves have cable. He was obviously simply deprived. I weep for you Dustin...I weep for you.