Category: off your boss

  • "Crime Scene Cleanup" by Mike Pihlman

    "Crime Scene Cleanup" by Mike Pihlman

    Genre: Horror Larry works as a crime scene cleaner. One day, Larry is working a particularly disturbing crime scene.  Entrails all over the house. Everywhere Larry went he found, and had to clean up, intestines. Miles of fresh hot intestine….what the heck is going on?  How can this be? Larry realized, suddenly, that the intestines were…

  • "Burglar by Wire" by Mike Pihlman

    "Burglar by Wire"  by Mike Pihlman

    Genre: Horror Jean was tired of burglers breaking into her house when she was at work. Iron bars on the windows, a sophisticated burglar alarm, dogs (both big and small), cameras…nothing worked. Jean was an astro physicist with a love for tinkering.  She decided the time was right to make her own alarm system. One…

  • "You're Killing Me" by Mike Pihlman

    "You're Killing Me" by Mike Pihlman

    Genre: Horror Boss was always right.  Problem is he let his employees know how “stupid” they are everyday with a simple saying “You’re killing me”. David was working on a particularly difficult task.  Needing some help, he asked Boss. “You’re killing me David, you need to be able to do this”. David decided to do…

  • "Twitter Killer" by Mike Pihlman

    "Twitter Killer"  by Mike Pihlman

    Background:  Twitter is a social networking tool that allows a person to tweet information about themselves or their business in 140 characters or less. It is not known why, but, there has been a recent spate of killings in the area.  Mostly middle management types with known dysfunctional personality issues. The body was found by a couple…

  • "Drive By Wire" by Mike Pihlman

    "Drive By Wire" by Mike Pihlman

    Information: Recent events have brought to light the ever increasing use of computers in automobiles.  It turns out that stepping on the brake is now a virtual movement where your physical foot pressure is interpreted by a computer.   Pretty soon computers will drive your car. Boss does not care about anyone but himself.  If…

  • "Backstabber" by Mike Pihlman

    "Backstabber" by Mike Pihlman

    Genre: Horror Background:  Highly secure locations need to positively identify people trying to gain access to the facilities.  To do this automatically, some institutions have a booth you enter then swipe your badge and enter a PIN.  If you pass the identification process, you are let in.  If not, you are met by the police…

  • "Stress Ball" by Mike Pihlman

    "Stress Ball" by Mike Pihlman

    Genre: Horror Boss was a stress ball.  Unfortunately, Boss also stressed out everyone else. Tom does not like stress.  Neither does anyone else. Despite numerous attempts to relieve Boss’s stress, Tom, and the others, were out of ideas. Nothing worked:  Pizza and beer lunches ended with stress, jokes ended with stress, experts brought in to discuss stress…

  • "Pins and Needles" by Mike Pihlman

    "Pins and Needles" by Mike Pihlman

    Genre:  Horror Paul hates his Boss. Boss makes him open the Embroidery store early in the morning, work long hard hours, then close it late at night.  He pays little and expects everything. Paul knows what to do. He spends the night rigging the large embroidery machine that Boss will use in the morning to…

  • "Wrong Way Email" by Mike Pihlman

    "Wrong Way Email" by Mike Pihlman

    Genre: Horror Review time is approaching.  Boss sends an email to Director stating that George (same last name as Director) will be let go in a month. George is just not working out.  Although he is creative and does his job well, he just does not take sh– from Boss, and Boss hates that.  Boss…

  • "The Eyes Are the Gateway to the Brain" by Mike Pihlman

    "The Eyes Are the Gateway to the Brain" by Mike Pihlman

    George loves technology.  Always has.  He loves being the first to conceive, design, build, and test the next cool device or piece of software.  His designs are useful.  Every now and then….one is groundbreaking. Desktop videoconferencing, using a web cam, allows people to call others from their computer and see them.  The uses for this technology,…