“My best friend works at a hospital as a RN,” Jesse writes, “and one day, after a ridiculously long shift, she reached into the breakroom candy dish expecting, well, candy, and got a handful of pushpins instead. She wrote this note because a) she’s a smartass and b) to warn others.”
Jesse continues: “Minutes later, a doctor came in, reached into the candy dish, and popped one into his mouth. Then he spit it out, exclaiming, ‘This isn’t candy!’ My friend looked at him, and with a straight face said, ‘That’s why the note is there, Doctor.’ He looked down, read the note, and promptly left the room.”
Adds Jesse: “But seriously, what kind of troll puts push pins in a candy dish?”
related: THIS IS A CANDY-OPTIONAL OFFICE
63 responses so far ↓
#1
CRJ
Anything is candy if you’re man enough.
Jul 31, 2012 at 2:49 pm rating: 109
#2
Becca
Are people, even medical professionals, really that dumb?
Jul 31, 2012 at 2:55 pm rating: 9
#3
E. Johnson
To be fair to everyone that thought it was candy, most people don’t keep their push pins in such a decorative bowl, nor are they as colorful. Just glancing they do look like candy.
Jul 31, 2012 at 3:03 pm rating: 13
#4
Dee
Team Note-Writer! After having coworkers steal my candy (that is there for customers ONLY!)and never paying for any themselves…yeah, pushpins sound like a pretty good idea.
Jul 31, 2012 at 3:07 pm rating: 26
#5
GojuSuzi
Maybe it was done as an awareness exercise? The local nursery is forever trying to teach kids not to swallow everything that looks like sweeties, because of how many kids are hospitalised or even killed because those “sweeties” were pills or harmful implements such as tacks. Medical professionals especially must be aware of what a danger absent-mindedly swallowing things can be, and it bears reminding that, no matter how sleep deprived you are or how familiar your environment, such mistakes can still be made.
Or they might have just got sick of that pocketful of tacks stabbing them in the hip every other step. Hard to say.
Jul 31, 2012 at 3:12 pm rating: 7
#6
kathryn
Lose the note, put a couple of candies in there with the pushpins and a 12 hr shift goes by much faster.
Jul 31, 2012 at 3:15 pm rating: 26
#7
Lisa
I am torn. A former co-worker kept a candy dish on her desk that was for public consumption, but one particularly greedy QA Analyst would routinely grab giant handfuls every time she walked by, often emptying the dish daily all by herself. As a prank one day, we filled it with styrofoam packing peanuts. Sure enough, QA grabbed a wad of them and started stuffing them in her mouth as she raced past. She was half-way across the office before we heard her muffled voice shout, “VERY FUNNY!!” I never laughed so hard in my life. Pushpins wouldn’t have been quite as amusing.
Jul 31, 2012 at 3:33 pm rating: 95
#8
squib
I’m kinda on team notewriter here, except that if the dish is usually used for candy, wouldn’t it have been more productive to take the pushpins out of the dish instead of writing the note?
Jul 31, 2012 at 4:12 pm rating: 20
#9
Kali
why would you reach your bare hand into a bowl take something out and pop it in your mouth? wtf kind of doctor are you? who else has had their grubby hands in that bowl? what a dummy.
Jul 31, 2012 at 4:14 pm rating: 11
#10
wright1
Scary that someone who works in a hospital pulled this kind of “prank”. Sure you can find nasty types in all workplaces, but not all workplaces have people laying around in varying degrees of vulnerability, from the very old to the very young…
Jul 31, 2012 at 4:47 pm rating: 3
#11
Laura
I can’t believe any medical professional working in a hospital, or any healthcare facility, would eat unwrapped candy from a dish sitting out on the counter. Surely they know how illness is spread. Yuck, yuck and yuck!
Jul 31, 2012 at 5:14 pm rating: 5
#12
Poltergeist
I’m team nobody. I understand they’ve been working long hours, but they work in a hospital. Sticking your hand in a communal candy dish that probably gets washed only occasionally is bad enough, but doing so without even looking at what you’re taking before you pop it into your mouth?
Having said that, you have to be a pretty big d-bag to keep colorful thumbtacks in a candy dish.
Jul 31, 2012 at 8:02 pm rating: 8
#13
zenvelo
The push pin person has the BEST Halloween candy too! It’s (urban) legendary!
Jul 31, 2012 at 8:50 pm rating: 4
#14
hummer
What kind of person pops something in his mouth without even looking at it? The note is probably also superfluous. The type of person who would read the note is probably the type of person who would notice that push-pins aren’t candy.
Jul 31, 2012 at 9:22 pm rating: 13
#15
Jonas
Lol germaphobes. Candy from a candy dish will not kill you. not sure about the push pins
You know what actually makes people sick? Drenching everything in bleach and disinfectant, thus creating resistant germs.
Jul 31, 2012 at 9:36 pm rating: 41
#16
Lil'
I think the person who put the pushpins in the dish is enjoying watching people who make the mistake of putting them in their mouths. Why not push the extra pins into the cork board? Or place the bowl into the top desk drawer? She’s probably sick of people taking things off her desk. I had fun watching everyone get ink on their hands when they were “borrowing” ink pens from my pen cup after one leaked like crazy. I knew who they were because their hands stayed purple all day. One had the nerve to snap at me later that I needed to “throw that thing away!” I replied that he should probably get his own pens from the mailroom and stop taking things from my desk. He got mad but he did leave my desk alone. Now everytime I reach for a pen, or my tape dispenser, or my stapler, I have it because people stopped taking from my desk. A candy dish is different though. A candy dish on a desk is an ivitation, so do the right thing. Don’t use it to store dangerous pushpins…fill it with your kids’ Halloween candy.
Aug 1, 2012 at 8:12 am rating: 13
#17
Bill
So, since the person didn’t look at to what was in the bowl and merely assumed that it was candy, it’s the person who filled the bowl’s fault? Sheesh.
One woman I work with has a couple of communal mugs filled with candy and they both have a plastic spoon in them for people to use, and guess what? We all use them!
The only ones to blame for a problem are the person who grabbed without looking and the doctor who just grabbed one and put it in his mouth. Next time, look before you leap.
Aug 1, 2012 at 10:51 am rating: 4
#18
N0b0dy
How to get out of a … spiky situation!
Aug 1, 2012 at 12:09 pm rating: 1
#19
The Gray Adder
I was tempted once to put a bowl of chocolate-covered cigarette butts on my desk at work, after getting rather tired of people helping themselves to the candy on my desk. But I like the idea of brightly-colored pushpins better.
Aug 1, 2012 at 1:55 pm rating: 3
#20
Bella
That’s not even a candy dish, it’s the bottom portion of a Lady Love Lamp from Home Interiors. Will the fakeouts never stop?
Aug 1, 2012 at 2:34 pm rating: 1
#21
IamFuckingDelish
oh please you know the push pins were fucking delish to the doctor that rammed them down his gullot…
Aug 2, 2012 at 12:29 pm rating: 0
#22
Mantis
That candy tastes like ouch. And blood.
Aug 3, 2012 at 7:16 am rating: 5
#23
Kathy
A professor in my building keeps out a giant bowl of M&M’s, along with a little serving spoon. Of course, the availability of the spoon doesn’t necessarily mean people use it, but I do. Over and over. Loves me my M&Ms.
Aug 4, 2012 at 5:50 am rating: 0
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