― Ed, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― dave q, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― katie, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
So i hospitalised the girl beside me at work
― drugs/lies: poll (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 October 2013 21:31 (ten years ago) link
And this may or may not be a big deal
― drugs/lies: poll (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 October 2013 21:32 (ten years ago) link
And im very very worried obv
― drugs/lies: poll (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 October 2013 21:33 (ten years ago) link
what?
― Jesus (wins), Thursday, 24 October 2013 21:33 (ten years ago) link
is she ok?
― Jesus (wins), Thursday, 24 October 2013 21:34 (ten years ago) link
It wasnt my fault kinda. I'll go through it, hopefully you'll all calm me down.
xp yeah she's fine, couple of days off.
― drugs/lies: poll (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 October 2013 21:35 (ten years ago) link
wha'happened
― cozen, Thursday, 24 October 2013 21:37 (ten years ago) link
So we have a young office, informal, high stress, lots of agency/temps flitting through kind of thing. Lots of nonsense, nothing serious but mostly p unprofessional ways of blowin off steam.
One of em is the rubber bands. Everyone flings them. At cups, at coathooks, at each other, rubber bands.
So i turn around from my work today and yerwan beside me has a rubber band full stretch drawn tight pointed at my face point blank. I hopped, as i was meant to, obv, and knocked her forward hand, releasing the fuckin thing back directly into her eye.
break
― drugs/lies: poll (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 October 2013 21:42 (ten years ago) link
ach it's her own fault
― nemo me chimpune lacessit (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 24 October 2013 21:43 (ten years ago) link
i mean, bunch of flowers and a card might be in order but you're not culpable imo
chastisement all round surely? Instigator of horseplay gets hurt by horseplay. I wouldn't play up the "well it might have been my eye had I done nothing" angle exactly but there must be a way to suggest it while still being contrite
― Jesus (wins), Thursday, 24 October 2013 21:46 (ten years ago) link
She went down, roaring. Desk contents everywhere, obv big scene for everyone to turn round to. She's sobbing, saying 'i wasnt gonna hit you, i wasnt gonna hit you!', i cover her busy phone while she makes for the ladies room. She's gone a good twenty minutes and im fearing the worst for her eye and if im honest for myself.
Break to stress this was a complete reflex-jerk accident, if thats not clear.
― drugs/lies: poll (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 October 2013 21:46 (ten years ago) link
xp keep going, more please.
― drugs/lies: poll (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 October 2013 21:47 (ten years ago) link
maybe buy her a pair of shades, i dunno
― nemo me chimpune lacessit (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 24 October 2013 21:47 (ten years ago) link
xxp well that is as the kids say awkward
really don't think there will be significant ~consequences~ here tho
― Jesus (wins), Thursday, 24 October 2013 21:48 (ten years ago) link
i figure it's commonly accepted that if you try to make somebody flinch and then you get hurt when they flinch it's yr own dumb fault?
― nemo me chimpune lacessit (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 24 October 2013 21:49 (ten years ago) link
So when she comes back, she's in p obvious pain but wants to carry on working. Im apologizing like a fawlty on e but tbf she's v much 'it was an accident you fool more my fault than yrs' etc etc, thank feck.
Every time she blinks it hurts and she's sniffling through calls and i take her off the phone altogether, but by lunch she wants to go home and lets the powers that be know she's hurt her eye when a band snapped as she put it round a folder
Bedlam obv ensues
― drugs/lies: poll (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 October 2013 21:52 (ten years ago) link
xp good, good, btwn this and the xanax im almost quite myself again
― drugs/lies: poll (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 October 2013 21:53 (ten years ago) link
this woman sounds like an idiot
― Snipers as a breed tend to be supercilious (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 24 October 2013 21:54 (ten years ago) link
yeah this is "even if it IS a replica why wouldn't you just refuse to drop it?" territory
― Jesus (wins), Thursday, 24 October 2013 21:55 (ten years ago) link
not the greatest day for irish public servants
― Snipers as a breed tend to be supercilious (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 24 October 2013 21:55 (ten years ago) link
^obv unacceptable I just wanted daz not to feel the biggest heel in the room
xp
― Jesus (wins), Thursday, 24 October 2013 21:56 (ten years ago) link
Three first aiders broken out from mummy cases declate it a medical emergency- she just wants to go home with some eye drops- and whisk her off to the nearest fracture centre. Genius.
She was sent from there to the nearest a&e, where she sat til 9.30 tonight before being sent home with some eye drops.
Obv major postmortem promised at work next week.
― drugs/lies: poll (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 October 2013 21:57 (ten years ago) link
xp nah she's lovely tbh, but maybe bein oneyed will change her bitter idk
― drugs/lies: poll (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 October 2013 21:58 (ten years ago) link
if it really feels like it's gonna get ridic contact yr union, you'll be fine either way
― Jesus (wins), Thursday, 24 October 2013 21:58 (ten years ago) link
firmly believe in an eye for an eye. someone hold him down while i fetch a teaspoon
― gotta lol geir (NickB), Thursday, 24 October 2013 21:58 (ten years ago) link
oh god remember ideal and this heat
― Jesus (wins), Thursday, 24 October 2013 21:59 (ten years ago) link
So im shittin that her story changes or someone in room rats out or that we break under questioning a i get sacked and she gets sacked or i get told off and she gets promoted or she decides it was an awful trauma and takes everyone to the fuckin cleaners
Ms mac thinks im an idiot of rare ability, on most counts. Obv.
― drugs/lies: poll (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 October 2013 22:00 (ten years ago) link
nobody is getting sacked
― Snipers as a breed tend to be supercilious (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 24 October 2013 22:02 (ten years ago) link
Im coming round to that view
Today, as an entire room discussed the incident in hushed tones as several supervisory shadows browsed the detritus i was p certain otherwise
― drugs/lies: poll (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 October 2013 22:06 (ten years ago) link
offices!
― Jesus (wins), Thursday, 24 October 2013 22:10 (ten years ago) link
I mean, these things happen. So when you say you "hopped"--did you move toward her or away from her? I mean if you like ducked and she got startled or something, it would be kind of different than if you hit out at her.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Thursday, 24 October 2013 22:15 (ten years ago) link
still i think the basic "who was holding the rubber band" question is pretty clearcut
― nemo me chimpune lacessit (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 24 October 2013 22:21 (ten years ago) link
^^^^^
― Jesus (wins), Thursday, 24 October 2013 22:22 (ten years ago) link
Eh i convulsed like a tubby office worker wearing glasses as a blurry periphery morphed into a direct unexpected threat, my arm flung and hit her hand as i leapt in the chair, if id to describe it- as i guess i will come tuesday
― drugs/lies: poll (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 October 2013 22:29 (ten years ago) link
Okay! Yeah that's about what I meant but still, NV otm and I wouldn't be too anxious--next time she won't threaten from within arm's reach if I had to guess.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Thursday, 24 October 2013 22:33 (ten years ago) link
you should be able to get off on a defence of "mere banter".
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Thursday, 24 October 2013 22:35 (ten years ago) link
xp she can threaten by post using a solicito aiui...
oi nobody mentioned bantz thats not my angle here
― drugs/lies: poll (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 October 2013 22:37 (ten years ago) link
rubber bantz
― gotta lol geir (NickB), Thursday, 24 October 2013 22:37 (ten years ago) link
Im goin to bed thisll all be fine by tomorrow right
― drugs/lies: poll (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 October 2013 22:38 (ten years ago) link
Rubber band itt
otm, i'd avoid bantz, it only works as a defence for racial prejudice, seemingly.
i just like/hate the phrase "mere banter".
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Thursday, 24 October 2013 22:39 (ten years ago) link
if anyone gets disciplined for this and none for abducting romani children for arbitrary dna testing then home rule should be revoked
― Snipers as a breed tend to be supercilious (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 24 October 2013 22:39 (ten years ago) link
somewhere in the UK a bunch of waterfowl enthusiasts have a newsletter called "Mere Banter"
― nemo me chimpune lacessit (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 24 October 2013 22:40 (ten years ago) link
that's horribly-formed, sorry
not sure you guys can take it back now, sadly.
xpost - weston-bantermere
xxpost no better
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Thursday, 24 October 2013 22:41 (ten years ago) link
Xp we are as ye made us
xp we have a bad duck jokes thread
― drugs/lies: poll (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 October 2013 22:41 (ten years ago) link
It's all fun and games until someone's eye gets put out.
― Aimless, Thursday, 24 October 2013 22:46 (ten years ago) link
your missus believed all this? nice one
― r|t|c, Thursday, 24 October 2013 22:48 (ten years ago) link
http://cdn.gifbay.com/2013/01/rubber_band-27250.gif
― Jesus (wins), Thursday, 24 October 2013 22:50 (ten years ago) link
I don't think you are culpable, but she should take the injury seriously, as you can tear a retina that way and if you don't get surgery in the first week you can have permanent eye damage! Don't mean to scare you. I hope you work it out! We all do dumb things.
― Sweetfrosti (I M Losted), Friday, 25 October 2013 01:28 (ten years ago) link
by lunch she wants to go home and lets the powers that be know she's hurt her eye when a band snapped as she put it round a folder
LOL thats where it all fell apart imo. I used to work govt as well - her saying that is immediate OMG WORKCOVER CLAIM OHSHIT DO EVVERYHINGNNNNGGG BY THE BOOK AIEEEE
― taxi tomato or bag tomato (Trayce), Friday, 25 October 2013 02:29 (ten years ago) link
^^^
Aw, you're a good man to over-analyze it, but unless she's gonna accuse you of being the instigator of a pernicious and compulsory culture of horseplay or something, she can't possibly make a big deal of this and not look dumb. And also, at this stage, she'd be exposed as a liar. And you already said that it seems unlikely she'd even want to.
― ljubljana, Friday, 25 October 2013 04:40 (ten years ago) link
It's the knockabout office culture I fear for. Expect health and safety demonstrations
― HAVE YOU SEEN ME? Please don't hesitate (imago), Friday, 25 October 2013 08:11 (ten years ago) link
196. If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 25 October 2013 08:41 (ten years ago) link
"unless she's gonna accuse you of being the instigator of a pernicious and compulsory culture of horseplay"
Eh.......
― drugs/lies: poll (darraghmac), Friday, 25 October 2013 09:26 (ten years ago) link
good luck dmac, it should be fine and if it isn't someone's an idiot (not you)
also this is not even the most horrifying tale of an eye injury inflicted by an ILXor on a colleague, the last one I still remember periodically and shudder at almost a decade later. I'd link to it but it seems unfair to share the trauma. And that one also ended just fine iirc
― the supreme personality of Godhead : a summary study (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 25 October 2013 09:34 (ten years ago) link
No, no, you have to link it now
― HAVE YOU SEEN ME? Please don't hesitate (imago), Friday, 25 October 2013 10:50 (ten years ago) link
well OK but I suggest not reading this if you have any squeamishness about eyes:oh no paper cut OH NO!
(it probably isn't that bad to normal people now I've built it up, but seriously, "9 years ago" indeed)
― the supreme personality of Godhead : a summary study (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 25 October 2013 11:03 (ten years ago) link
Not clicking that
― HAVE YOU SEEN ME? Please don't hesitate (imago), Friday, 25 October 2013 11:21 (ten years ago) link
Just want you to know that this thread is a legal document that may be used when this goes to the High Court.
― Matt DC, Friday, 25 October 2013 11:48 (ten years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/91/12_angry_men.jpg/220px-12_angry_men.jpg'12 Angry Mods'
― not a lunch that is hot (snoball), Friday, 25 October 2013 13:41 (ten years ago) link
http://vocalsontop.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/eelstomorrowmorning.jpg
― drugs/lies: poll (darraghmac), Monday, 28 October 2013 21:07 (ten years ago) link
Fingers crossed for u, dar.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 03:16 (ten years ago) link
Nothing.....so far...
― drugs/lies: poll (darraghmac), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 16:18 (ten years ago) link
Good?
― I can still taste the Taboo in my mouth when I hear those songs (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 16:27 (ten years ago) link
Seems like they're turning a blind eye towards it
― Jesus (wins), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 16:37 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJYlmEZ399I
― I like to think I have learnt a thing or two about music (Neil S), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 16:38 (ten years ago) link
this person ended up ok and moved jobs with me and we don't fire rubber bands at each other anymore
― local eire man (darraghmac), Monday, 20 October 2014 23:44 (nine years ago) link
phew
― 龜✊ (wins), Monday, 20 October 2014 23:58 (nine years ago) link
personal growth in any form is a big fucking deal for me don't mock
― local eire man (darraghmac), Monday, 20 October 2014 23:58 (nine years ago) link
ha
― mattresslessness, Monday, 20 October 2014 23:59 (nine years ago) link
;O
― local eire man (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 00:02 (nine years ago) link