and who wears suits anymore in a cubicle farm like that?
This seems to be in Russia. Anything is possible!
Staged for some hidden camera show, I'm guessing. But who cares? Stuff like this happens in every office in the country every day. We had like five people kick their monitors in this week, and this was a good week. It just happens. A lot.
I was trying to come up with a good collegehumor joke for this post, but I'm just not at my most humorous today, I guess.
If it wasn't a fake, what would the explanation for the sledgehammer be? Is it the sales office for Дундзр-Мифлин Государственный Кубалда or what?
I haven't followed the link yet - is this the Michelle Obama "Whitey" video ?
They're moving around an awful lot for office workers. Before the rage, that is.
As lots of people have pointed out, the fact that the monitors don't seem to be connected to anything argues pretty strongly that it's fake.
I can't tell if the monitors are connected to anything or not. They appear to be plugged in; a monitor would need to be screwed on tightly to avoid detaching from the computer the monitor was connected to.
Turns out that there's now also a video from the cell cam of one of the bystanders, and I think this one makes the fakeness nearly indisputable; it seems much more clearly like fake-fighting and staged standing-around-looking-concerned.
I'm not seeing the fakery: in a event somebody loses their shit for real and throws a mega-tantrum, what would you expect people to do? And the bystander (or 'bystander') with the cell phone (there are in fact, two) appears in the first clip, and the sequence matches perfectly, so it's all in one take, if it's fake. I don't see any way to tell from the videos whether they'e fake or not.
On the other hand, since there's no working link from you or them, and you're using the phrase internet phenomena, I'm guessing you have some OTHER reason for thinking it's fake, and are therefore trolling.
So that argues for fakeness, but not strongly enough to say.
And now I've gone and checked and I think the really interesting question is if the OP DeathWish808 is for real.
max
['He's funnier than the video I think.']
Hey minneapolitan, when are you coming to Boston?
Maybe this is dumb but the first thing I thought was, why isn't anyone on the phone? In every office in which I've ever worked all people are always already on all phones.
Of course, I work in a coke syndicate showroom dressed-up tech support center, so.
They're all speaking some made-up language instead of English. Obviously fake.
they are speaking Russian, i think it's real
and the intonations are real, not acting like
It looks real to me just because the berserker is so ineffective at first--it takes him a while to figure out that he can pull the cubicle walls apart and throw them around. Probably some Cossack who's been trying really hard to be good, and just can't take another minute.
they are speaking Russian, i think it's real
I know. Just joshing.
I'm not having luck finding Russian language info on this. I'm also not trying very hard to do so.
18: Joshing is a dialect of Russian, spoken in one of Moscow's southern suburbs.
Still haven't found that video on a Russian-language site, but I did find this.
And this, which something tells me is fake.
This is the same video, but all the text says is "It was a normal day at the office, until..."
Here's a version with a story attached, but I don't have time to translate right now.
May 23, in one small Moscow office (anonymous reports that it allegedly office firm Yellow Pages) has won a number of retiring case. In the midst of the working day, a member of the process stock rear of their paper counterparts, and they fell to the floor. Clerc (who apparently was not in the spirit of good location) came in anger and hit the keyboard to be guilty of an employee on the head. And then rastolkal stack of documents from colleagues right! And then kinul your monitor into the girl left! But even at that he did not calm down! What was next? See the video!
Last May in one small Moscow office (the anonymous author reports that this allegedly is the office of the firm of " Yellow of Calculator") the here aforementioned case occurred from a mere number. At the height of workday one of the colleagues sternly appropriated the paper of his associate, and they fell to the sex. The clerk (who was, apparently, not in the best spirits) arrived into the fury and struck the misbehaving worker by keyboard in the head. He then pushed asunder the pile of documents in associate to the right! His monitor into the girl then threw to the left! But also it was not quieted on this! However, what was further? We look: video!
On May, 23rd in one small Moscow office (the anonym informs, that it ostensibly office of firm " Yellow pages ") has occured an outstanding case. At the height of the working day one of employees a reserve кормой papers of the of the colleague, and those have fallen to a floor. The clerk (which, probably, was not in the most good mood) has flown into a rage and has struck the guilty worker the keyboard on a head. And has then parted forcibly a pile of documents at the colleague on the right! And has then thrown the monitor in the girl at the left! But also on it it not calmed down! What was further? We Look video!
and they fell to the sex
Well, of course they did.
Looks like it's just us guys here tonight. So, whaddya wanna talk about, boys? Changing diapers? Thinning hair?
Dude! You know what rules? BEER!
Actually I should totally do a thinning hair related ask the mineshaft; I need to find a really good gay barber.
I found one in Miami, and the guy was a genius, but I don't get to Miami that often, and... well, you can see my dilemma.
The thinning hair thing becomes more interesting if it seems linked to other traits in your family tree. E.g., in my case the choice seems to be between baldness + live to 91 + violent alcoholism on one side; or thick hair + alzheimers + dead of a heart attack at 66 on the other. My hair shows little sign of falling out as yet. Hm.
Thinning hair?
Opposite problem: how does one deal with sweet but idiotic young things who say "can I touch your afro?" without strangling them (or fantasizing luridly along those lines)? In a nightclub is one thing, but I had a barista do this to me today WHILE I WAS BUYING A FUCKING COFFEE. Get a life, you've never seen an afro before?
So far so good on the baldness. Looks like I'm going to escape the dreaded skylight.
I told my wife that once I started with the cops I should shave my head and grow a mustache. She seems less than enthusiastic about that idea.
31: heh! I have baldness + extraordinary longevity vs. thick, full, non-grey hair + heart disease and alcoholism. So far... signs are mixed.
32: we could have a "touch Margaret's afro" meetup just to get everything in the open.
DUDE gswift you should completely grow a moustache. Oh, fuckin' a yeah.
Also, DS has an afro? Black people get all the breaks, don't they?
32: If you find out an answer, let me know. People boing my curls.
33: Cause you have good hair, and then you'd look like a thug.
Is bald and mustachioed a popular thug style these days?
36.1: Could be worse. I've had hairdressers walk up to me on the streetcorner and just literally grab handfuls of my hair, as though their professional interest gave them a pass. NO, MUTHAPHUCKA, IT DOES NOT, I DO NOT CARE HOW GAY YOU ARE.
I don't know about popular, but I can say that shivbunny with a shaved head looks like he should be the enforcer for a union of stevedores, and if gswift's wife is worrying about it, he probably looks like a thug, too.
Is your afro bigger than w-lfs-n's afro?
40: Probably. It may depend on the day. Shorter now than it's been for a while, as I'm in a corporate job.
When I used to rock a shaved head I think I looked pretty terrifying. Of course, I also wore a black trenchcoat, combat boots, army pants, and kung fu jacket at the time, so, yeah, not just the head. Still, think carefully about this plan.
The 'stache is key, though.
Of course, I also wore a black trenchcoat, combat boots, army pants, and kung fu jacket at the time, so, yeah, not in fact threatening in any way.
he probably looks like a thug, too
gswift is America.
I'm in a corporate job
Dude, surprise me some more. I thought you were an academic.
Yeah, thug. Also, you look a bit like my brother in law.
43: you'd be surprised. I think the people around me were sort of sheltered, and I was genuinely quite angry and drunk a fair amount of the time.
I was. I fled to corporocracy for some relief.
47: Can you do the Goth Kicking Dance, though? (You know the one.) That would be the dealmaker.
I was. I fled to corporocracy for some relief.
Iiinteresting.
49: I can do all the dances, man. Goth dances don't even begin to display my repertoire of nerd dancing. Shit, first rave I went to? I couldn't figure out what people were doing, so I started busting Kung Fu moves. Soon enough, all the rave girlies were asking me to teach them to do what I do.
"Relief" = "halfway decent pay," plus the consolation of knowing one is smarter than 70% of one's colleagues. It's a young experiment, though, three weeks at this point, and I don't know how long it's going to last.
I couldn't figure out what people were doing, so I started busting Kung Fu moves.
Mouseover text? I think yes.
I am America!
4 weeks until I leave corporate life for the security of a government job.
So you passed whatever test, gswift? 4 weeks until the academy or until you start working as a cop?
Also, gswift, you should watch Harsh Times and do the opposite of everything Christian Bale does.
Hey Tweety, you said a while back that you knew someone who broke their hand on Taktarov's head. Was that in training or in a fight?
55: you can go back to academia? What kind of crazy space alien are you?
I've been taking a battery of tests for 5 months or so. 4 weeks until academy. Salt Lake PD does theirs in house. 20-21 weeks.
you should watch Harsh Times
Superbad is full of inspiration.
62: My aim is only to move forward. If this doesn't work out, I will walk the earth. You know, like Caine in Kung Fu. Meet people, have adventures.
You're going to be a SLC cop? Weird.
Meet people, have adventures.
Chop people in the neck when they try to touch my afro.
61: in training. Taktarov was teaching him a takedown that involved grabbing the back of the head, and his hand got trapped between the Taktarov head and the ground.
Gswift you should watch all the Police Academy movies.
54: That's oddly like what happened in that 80s movie, uh, something about getting a driving license, but not the Coreys in License to Drive. Was it a very young Patrick Dempsey? Well, he can't dance but is going to Homecoming or something. To learn some moves, he watches some Masai or something on PBS and busts their moves on the dancefloor. The ladies are impressed and everyone joins in.
In 25 weeks, gswift is going to start having awesome stories.
In SLC? There's no alcohol and no crime. He's going to be arresting penitent Mormon jaywalkers.
SL County is also recruiting, and there's the awesomeness of "Sheriff Swift" to be considered, but SLCPD appears to be the best run dept. around, as well as the best pay.
69: That guy does have a big noggin.
Good luck, gswift. In the unlikely event that there are protests of some kind in SLC, don't be one of the bad cops, ok?
76: quite a hard noggin, too, apparently.
My friend has a lot of excellent Oleg stories; go to a video store with Oleg 10 minutes past closing? Video store does not remain closed! It all sounds like Oleg didn't even really realize how tought he was; hey, everybody got the shit kicked out of them at altitude every day for years until they could handle any pain, right? It's just what you do.
don't be one of the bad cops, ok?
I'm going to taze you through the internet!
The "time to experience pepper spray and the tazer" part of acdamy is probably going to suck.
According to my brother-in-law, the pepper spray is worse than the tazer.
Huh, a ten word sentence with no words longer than three letters.
Blues is a gunslinger and the ultimate beat daddy. Blues is laid up on account of a pulled muscle in its right leg. Blues is never enough is subverting our culture is wrong and addictive and has contributed to my moral failure. Blues is connected to the backbone the kneebone the toebone and the obscure temporal bone. Blues is the other way you can interact with live women who are eager to talk to you personally. Blues is putting away the acne cream and trying to earn a proper living. Blues is a hungry ghost speaking in an unknown tongue and living in a public toilet. Blues is out of control is gonna help me make the girl mine is the only thing worth talking about is gone but the show goes on. Blues is great television and compatible with air raid sirens. Blues is experiencing problems with employee mail being delivered to the wrong address. Blues is caused by camera optics being effectively misaligned for the light path. Blues is the weapon of the future and very effective against mutants.
I am so not cut out to be a cop.
Can't remember if I've told this story yet. The detective assigned to do my background investigation is a nice lady, over 20 year on the job. Part of the BI is calling relatives and such, as well as my wife.
Detective, talking to my wife. "You might decide you'd like to do this kind of work one day. That's how I got into this job. I did a ride along with my husband and thought, THIS is what you get paid to do?"
My wife: "No way. I hate confrontation. Also, I'm scared of the dark."
The ten-day waiting period for my shotgun is up tomorrow. Does anyone want to go shoot clay pigeons some time?
85: I'd love to shoot Clay Pigeons. When do we start?
Oof. Scene-for-scene remake, or more going-for-the-general-idea?
So, gswift, did the BI turn that naughty picture with the doggie?
If it did, she didn't mention it. Thank god.
Good thing the lie detector test didn't ask about naked animal hugging. Although I did initially fail the question "have you ever used excessive force on anyone?"
Yeah. I'm wondering if mine will have a polygraph test. Sounds cool. But I'm a generally fidgety guy and don't want to piss off an examiner.
My agency used some kind of voice stress analyzer. I also supposedly showed stress at the "have you ever taken a bribe" question, which is nuts as I've never been even remotely in a position to get paid off.
But, they then ran through the questions again and I passed, so maybe not the most scientific test around.
Shit, first rave I went to? I couldn't figure out what people were doing, so I started busting Kung Fu moves. Soon enough, all the rave girlies were asking me to teach them to do what I do.
It's amazing what people will emulate if you just do it with confidence. First year I moved to Glasgow I used to go out dancing a lot with three of my female flatmates. This would generally get very silly because, egging each other on, we had no shame: dancing in the cages at Club X, etc.
One time we ended up in a place we went regularly as they had a really good funk/soul/rare-groove DJ and found that they had a salsa guy in instead. Cue: three of us busting the most absurd made-up-on-the-spot borderline clownish salsa moves. Within about ten minutes, people were copying us, and within about twenty were asking us where we'd had our salsa lessons.
Is bald and mustachioed a popular thug style these days?
I commonly refer* to a guy who fits this description as a werewalrus. I used to have a landlord who was about 6', maybe 350, huge droopy white mustache who was the original werewalrus.
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* from a safe distance
Also, DS has an afro? Black people get all the breaks, don't they?
Have I mentioned that my mom was once mistaken for Angela Davis? (From behind; from the front, she's rather obviously white.)
93: Blume is exactly right! I knew it was a Beatles' song and had almost convinced myself it was called Ticket to Ride.
Can't Buy Me Love?
And scene in question here.
100
gswift looks like a movie star or Jack London a little bit or more like Esenin
the other day i happened to click on one of the links of the unfogged blogroll and there were death masks of the famous people, some people's were different from what i imagined
thphu-thphu-thphu, knock-knock-knock on wood
what i'm talking about
i just write whatever i thought at the moment
sorry, Gswift, to mention those masks
My best wishes with your new carrier!
"Career", not "carrier".
And another vote for the full Ned Flanders-esqe cop mustache. And cop stories. I think you should start your policing career by affirmatively lighting squirrels on fire and releasing them in suburban homes, in honor of the This American Life guy. (Admittedly, this is kind of rough on the squirrels.)
career career career, thanks
yeah, should always spell check first, i wish the comments window had a spellchecker
outside was like dead hot, god i hate hot and humid summers
read, Firefox 2.x has a built-in spelling checker. So, you can get it that way. I have to use IE at work, but I use FF at home.
indeed, so have to preview first to see the typo or mistake, just the font seems different and there are always two comments windows opening each time
something wrong with my mozilla firefox
but i'll get used to this, thanks
It's okay, read, spellcheck wouldn't have caught that one anyway.
yeah, it happens all the time when i mean something else and write different word not deliberately of course, for example yesterday i meant gesture and wrote jest, and i looked up the word in the morning, and it has different meaning, confusion