Friday, August 27, 2010

Because things like this JUST HAPPEN to me:

Rite Aid has a website where you can watch short videos and then it'll let you print off coupons. This website has taken every available measure to ensure that you would ACTUALLY watch the videos and not say for instance, turn them on and then pull up another window to surf the web or blog or any kind of crap like that. If you do minimize their site the video will stop and resume only when you click play again. If you start a video and then say you have to use the bathroom you better make sure you get back before it's over because you only have twenty five seconds to enter a code at then end or that video doesn't count toward your credits and you have to start all over. IT'S STRICT.

So because I have a little bit of A.D.D. I usually wait to watch these videos when I have something else going on or else I go crazy. Today I had to sit up front at work for several hours so I figured I would make the most of my time and "watch" some videos all the while really answering the phone, controlling the board, etc. and as long as I managed to enter the code within my TWENTY FIVE SECOND time frame I was good to go.

Okay now the most valuable coupon is the $5 off of $20 that you get after you accumulate twenty credits (from watching the videos) so that's what I strive for. If you keep reading I promise THIS STORY DOES HAVE A POINT.

So today my main goal was to just get my twenty credits so I'm blindly just clicking on the ads in no particular order, going about my business, doing my thing and then clicking the next video without paying much attention.

Out of the corner of my eye I see one of the jail Sergents coming into control one so I go to the computer to pause the video (you know, just because) and I look up in horror at the screen as I see a giant picture of a durex condom and my mind focuses on the sleazy music and the announcer shouts "HAVE A SEXPERIENCE WITH OUR CONDOMS!" And all the while, almost as if in slow motion I'm going "Noooooooooooo" and hitting 'pause', 'minimize' 'DELETE' but nothing happens because I guess the universe thought it would be hilariously ironic if I got fired over watching a commercial of all things.

Luckily for me this Sergent lives in his own little bubble so I don't even think he noticed.

Note to self: forget porn but if you watch VIDEO VALUES at work keep your trigger finger ready to hit DELETE.

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