Soft foam toys are for children

Thursday Jul 21st 2005

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The above is what we call a “stress toy”. Those who work in the office environment are very familiar with these. At werk (last day is tomorrow by the way.. BOO-YAH!) they handed these things out a while back. Later on they confiscated them all because employees (including yours truly) kept chucking them around the office constantly. I was able to hide one away and keep it. I took my smiley ball home with me last week. After all, they did give them out as “presents” to employees in the first place.

Receiving a stress toy is an insult. First of all, the company who gave it to you is saying “We wholeheartedly admit your job sucks ass. While we could pay you more or give you better hours, um.. we can’t (and won’t) do that, so.. here’s a foam squeeze ball. Enjoy!”

Indeed.

The ironic thing about the toy depicted above is this: On the backside of the toy, a.k.a. Mr. Smiley’s ass, it says “Service with a SMILE” — which translates to (saying to customer) “Bend over and EAT MY SHIT!”

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