what a scumbag
― VegemiteGrrl, Friday, 15 April 2011 16:51 (thirteen years ago) link
isn't that theft?
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 15 April 2011 18:33 (thirteen years ago) link
that is assholishness of the highest order at the very least
― VegemiteGrrl, Friday, 15 April 2011 18:46 (thirteen years ago) link
magnificent shitbaggery
― night mode (margins), Friday, 15 April 2011 18:49 (thirteen years ago) link
monumental fucktardery
― Funky Mustard (People It's Bad) (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 15 April 2011 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
douchebagitude
― VegemiteGrrl, Friday, 15 April 2011 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
What everyone else has said.
Okay, nobody particularly stupid or annoying. But 5(!) straight people have just made popcorn in the microwave and it smells AWFUL in here.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 15 April 2011 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Would it be OK if they were gay?
― nickn, Friday, 15 April 2011 20:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes, gay made popcorn smells SO much better.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 15 April 2011 20:04 (thirteen years ago) link
omg someone fucking shoot me
i am not getting paid nearly enough to deal with my boss' bullshit!!!! i now have to fire someone like one day after they've started.
― just1n3, Thursday, 21 April 2011 15:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm getting tired of newspeak in my place. Things get used and become more and more popular, right now it is "moving forward" bleugh and "starter for ten" eugh.Can we not just speak plainly, and jettison the catchphrases! Please folks?
― I am leader of the sheeple (captain rosie), Thursday, 21 April 2011 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
wtf is "starter for ten"?
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 21 April 2011 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link
sounds like a 90's indie band.
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 21 April 2011 19:19 (thirteen years ago) link
sounds like restaurant talk
― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 21 April 2011 19:42 (thirteen years ago) link
some shithead in here came up to me and asked if i could mail out a package for her, i told her it needed to go to the post office because it costs too much. she was all "really"? I put it on the scale and it blew the needle off the charts. "DO YOU SEE NOW SHIT HEAD!"
― Zero pumps, massive boner (thebingo), Thursday, 21 April 2011 19:50 (thirteen years ago) link
DO U SEE
― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 21 April 2011 19:53 (thirteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starter_for_Ten
― not_goodwin, Thursday, 21 April 2011 19:58 (thirteen years ago) link
well that's not very helpful
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 21 April 2011 20:26 (thirteen years ago) link
The phrase Starter for Ten is used when introducing a new strategy, a plan, the beginning of a project. For example "so, as a starter for ten, here are the new audit plans" It doesn't even make sense. It is annoying as fuck.
― I am leader of the sheeple (captain rosie), Thursday, 21 April 2011 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
If it ever catches on here, I'm coming over and shooting everyone who had anything to do with starting it. It's bad enough that I work with a bunch of actual and wanna-be MBAs.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Thursday, 21 April 2011 20:30 (thirteen years ago) link
That is exceptionally annoying.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 21 April 2011 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Sounds like the US equivalent would be some variation on "survey SAYS..." But I can't imagine anyone saying that in a semi-serious office setting.
― Funky Mustard (People It's Bad) (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 21 April 2011 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
It snowballs in our place, one douche uses it and then slowly it creeps round and becomes a common term. It sits next to "blue sky thinking" and more recently "thinking outside of the box"
Fuck the box, I'll get out of the box, crush the box, then put the box inside me, yeah, how'd you like that now you corporate fucks!
Errrr, rant over.
― I am leader of the sheeple (captain rosie), Thursday, 21 April 2011 20:37 (thirteen years ago) link
i like the box.want to forever be inside it.
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 21 April 2011 20:38 (thirteen years ago) link
The box pays my bills, I have little choice.
― I am leader of the sheeple (captain rosie), Thursday, 21 April 2011 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Sounds like you all have a bad case of box. Maybe some oatmeal baths will help.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Thursday, 21 April 2011 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link
This package sat for a week b/c the shipping dept couldn't deduce the business name from the email.
--From: Purchase ClerkSent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 10:38 AMTo: Shipping Dept.Cc: MeSubject: RETURN TO NEW EGG
xxxxx the two boxes you have back there that we talked about need to be sent back on our ups or fedx which ever is cheaper.
I just contacted NEWEGG.
Thanks for the help.--
― You Get Hoynes (bnw), Thursday, 21 April 2011 20:51 (thirteen years ago) link
The first email of the day Mr. X's admin assistant saying she'll be out. The email is sent to all staff. The day's second all staff email is from our chief, titled "Additional people not in today" (bold mine) and listing a couple of people who had also called out. An hour later, Mr. X replies to the chief's email, stating "My admin will not be in today."
― kkvgz, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 14:24 (thirteen years ago) link
The first email of the day is Mr. X's
Silly rabbit -- executives don't have to read anyone else's emails.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 14:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Back when the personal computer was new, there were executives who resisted using them. Why? Because they were worried that they'd lose status if they had a keyboard on their desk.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 14:37 (thirteen years ago) link
It was analogous to a CEO having a Dictaphone on his desk. But I have people for that!
― Funky Mustard (People It's Bad) (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 14:47 (thirteen years ago) link
I have worked with execs who had their secretaries print out their emails and read them aloud, rather than learn to check their own email as it came in. Not surprised by that stuff anymore, unfortunately.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 14:52 (thirteen years ago) link
For the love of all that is good, please stop scraping your plastic bowl with a plastic spoon for an hour and a half every morning. I hate you.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 14:57 (thirteen years ago) link
i read somewhere (I thought Gawker but now I can't find it) yesterday about an entertainment executive who had his assistant do google searches and videotape the results so that he could look at them later
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 14:58 (thirteen years ago) link
okay that is horrible
― I just like… I just have to say… (Starts crying) (DJP), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 14:59 (thirteen years ago) link
No printed screen shots?
Actually, I suspect that the real point is to assert your power by making your assistants do extra work. Kind of like the wife of the client I had five years ago who insisted on me putting groceries into the cart in a certain weird way, among other things--it's a constant reminder of your servitude.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 15:16 (thirteen years ago) link
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Tuesday, April 26, 2011 10:32 AM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Not an executive.
― kkvgz, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 15:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Christine is kind of OTM but not exactly; sometimes it isn't about reinforcing the servitude role as much as it is an outward expression of anxiety re: giving up some degree of control over a task.
(not always, or maybe even frequently, but often enough that it's worth mentioning)
― I just like… I just have to say… (Starts crying) (DJP), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 15:20 (thirteen years ago) link
please stop walking around and talking on your bluetooth headset.
― Stupid Prick Gets Chased by the Police and Loses His Slut Girlfriend (thebingo), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
ha we have a guy who does that but he's just the grad student worker and he's talking about the little league coaching he's going to do that afternoon or what sneakers he wants to buy. he has a very loud voice and we have essentially an open campus with nothing to impede the sound, but he seemingly has no shame walking around bellowing about his personal business into his bluetooth headset while ostensibly working.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
i can't get too mad though because they're probably paying him peanuts
im about two seconds from ramming that headset into her ear.
― Stupid Prick Gets Chased by the Police and Loses His Slut Girlfriend (thebingo), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
One of mine drinks roughly 4l of water/various fluids a day. Which wouldn't be a problem if he wasn't so loud, slurping and gulping to the point I can hear him even when he sits across the room. Suggestions?
― gyac, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
a hose. pointed directly in his face.
― VegemiteGrrl, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXc5ltzKq3Y
― Funky Mustard (People It's Bad) (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 17:48 (thirteen years ago) link
the guys who bring in candy, but it's all hersheys bars (straight chocolate), tootsie rolls, hard flavored candy, smarties, and old jolly ranchers, it's just like DUDE, get some kit kats or something!!!
― frogbs, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link
BASTARDS!
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 18:05 (thirteen years ago) link
my coworkers only bring in MORE WORK.
AND THEIR EMOTIONAL BAGGAGE