work stress

I was looking for my favorite red permanent marker in my lab this morning. I searched up and down, but couldn’t find it. I was swearing like hell all the way through, and after a good while later, I finally found it.

It was at the white board marker compartment. Fuck. Some idiot must be dumb enough to not realize that it was a PERMANENT marker, and must have used it on the white board. And it didn’t take a lot of effort to find out that I was right about that.

Indeed, that someone used the permanent marker on the white board - as I found out after attempting to erase the board. The strange thing was, there were a lot of white board markers in the white board compartment - not only the guy didn’t use them, but he actually walked a good 15 feet away from the board to my table to get the PERMANENT marker, and used it on the board.

I was determined to find out who it was. The clue lies in the scribblings in permanent marker. It was someone’s phone number with Taiwan country code. Coincidentally, there were a bunch of Taiwanese engineers using the lab the day before. So, it must be one of them Taiwanese dimwits…

That got me flustered enough to come up with a countermeasure, a reminder for the Taiwanese motherfuckers, in Chinese! (of course, this was done with some help from someone with the arcane knowledge of for the Chinese language)… and here they are… (hope the translation’s right)