Please feed the testers

A coupe of weeks ago when I was still assigned to test execution at work, I was in the test lab with the other testers. One of the environmental support guys came into the lab with a new guy he was training. I heard him say to the trainee, in a total deadpan, that they need to come in at nine o'clock every morning and take orders from the testers for coffee and donuts.

That gave me an idea - I took a piece of paper and with a highlighter I wrote, Please feed the testers, and I pinned it to the wall. When one of the other testers saw it, he said the sign needs to be bigger. So I took a larger sheet of paper and wrote the same thing and put it up. Meanwhile, the other tester got into the spirit - he made a third sign on his computer, complete with clip art.

Today, there are still three signs up in the test lab that say Please feed the testers, and one of the managers bought a box of donuts for us on the thirteenth floor as well as a box for the testers in the lab.