- Jun 6, 2005
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a 6ft 10 black woman?
We had this young lad joined our team for a few months, born and bred in the home counties, pracitcally came out wearing a barbour wax cotton, very formal, very quiet ginger kid, pale as a ghost and barely ever said a word in an office where banter can sometimes degrade into "bants".
He would write out motivational post-its when he heard phrases he liked, stuff that would appear on /r/getmotivated, so mostly stomach churningly positive stuff, but it got a bit out of hand and he had about 20 of them all over his desk.
One late shift, I was stuck in the office with the other dude who's about my age and almost as childish, decided that there's no way he reads these things every day, he probably doesn't read them again after he sticks them up, so I changed a few. My favorite was, "I am stong, confident and proud", which got changed to "I am a strong, confident, proud & sturdy African woman".
As suspected, he didn't notice.
No-one noticed when I took down a historical "Fun fact" thing from the wall one evening, it was about one of the founders of the International charity I work for, scanned it in and potatoshopped an extra line on the bottom that declared he later left the movement to become one of the founding members of the Harlem Globetrotters. Kinda feel like my efforts are wasted, but I'm happy, keeps me amused, so yeah...