it was sad he suffered in silence for moderate amounts of time in special occasions
― Octavia Butler's gonna be piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiised (Laurel), Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:48 (twelve years ago) link
It's office politics funny guy N.1 I have to choose my battles carefully. Already did the headphones thing and it didn't work, earplugs = even worse homo. Antonio I love fat ugly people as long as they don't push their ugly taste in my direction. I don't play Pan Sonic at full volume after coffee I shouldn't have to deal with this bullshit.
― wolves lacan, Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe he suffers in silence about having to work with a dude who is casually homophobic.
― Je55e, Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
I can't say I've seen a higher proportion of gay people wearing earplugs, but ymmv at your office.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
My post was xposted over the "even worse homo" post. I'll just be direct: using "homo" as a derogatory term is offensive, and your repeated use of it despite being subtly called out over it is branding you as an asshole. Also, what WmC said re his being fat and ugly.
― Je55e, Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
I'm using brospeak, I will stop ok? I also said I'm writing like an asshole because of frustration. Earplugs are not fun and since I don't work in a factory, I shouldn't have to use them.
― wolves lacan, Thursday, 29 September 2011 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
and where do you find earplugs that fit wolf ears anyway???
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 29 September 2011 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
If it's such a bro office, just say "hey bro, could you turn that shit down." But don't put a rising inflection on the end, let him know you're telling, not asking. Then beat him down till he's on his knees, spitting blood.
― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Thursday, 29 September 2011 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
calling HIM a homo might not hurt, since it's a bro office and all.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 29 September 2011 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
Re: "bro office" I'm picturing a bunch of dudes in suits and backwards baseball caps in their cubicles, listening to DMB bootlegs before breaking for some Sierra Nevada and foosball.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 29 September 2011 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
oh god. but probably.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 29 September 2011 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
"Hey bro, I just TOTALLY closed that sale bro!"
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 29 September 2011 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
:: turns Throwing Copper up loud enough to rattle monitor ::
― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Thursday, 29 September 2011 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
It's sad, he was a brogre. And wolves lacan was a bromo.
― Je55e, Thursday, 29 September 2011 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
You guys just don't get it do you.
It's OK because thanks to your pathetic zings I know what's the problem and what to do.
― wolves lacan, Thursday, 29 September 2011 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
No, I'm pretty sure we got that you're a casual homophobe.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 29 September 2011 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
^^ OTM
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 29 September 2011 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
Whoa I can see you giving yourself a patch on the back after exposing such a horrible casual homophobe sales guy for the entire world to see, nice work dude!
― wolves lacan, Thursday, 29 September 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
This patch, iirc:
http://battlefieldmilitary.com/avpane66.jpg
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 29 September 2011 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
thanks to your pathetic zings I know what's the problem and what to do.
Glad we could help! That's what we're here for.
― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Thursday, 29 September 2011 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
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― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 29 September 2011 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
earplugs = even worse homo. Antonio I love fat ugly peopleearplugs = even worse homo. Antonio I love fat ugly peopleearplugs = even worse homo. Antonio I love fat ugly peopleearplugs = even worse homo. Antonio I love fat ugly peopleearplugs = even worse homo. Antonio I love fat ugly peopleearplugs = even worse homo. Antonio I love fat ugly peopleearplugs = even worse homo. Antonio I love fat ugly peopleearplugs = even worse homo. Antonio I love fat ugly peopleearplugs = even worse homo. Antonio I love fat ugly peopleearplugs = even worse homo. Antonio I love fat ugly people
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 29 September 2011 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
Homosexuality is the best all-around cover an agent ever had.
― rustic italian flatbread, Thursday, 29 September 2011 22:36 (twelve years ago) link
(lol at Le Bateau Ivre)
I'm sorry I tend to forget that as a gay man I am supposed to be Harvey Milk 24/7 and turn every single daily insignificant annoyance into the ultimate battle for civil rights, mostly out of sheer exhaustion but more because of fear of a limitless capacity for inflicting cruelty on unsuspecting plebs, but I can see through your commments and I will back off with the metalevels / swiftly deal with the DISGUSTING SAVAGE AND FAT UGLY HOMOPHOBIC GUY in the way he deserves to be treated.
― wolves lacan, Thursday, 29 September 2011 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
WTF is even going on here.
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Thursday, 29 September 2011 23:42 (twelve years ago) link
We just got done exposing a horrible casual homophobe sales guy. Once we're done with the sales department we'll be moving on to accounting and legal.
wolves l - It doesn't bother me when other gay guys the the word homo (and others like it) in a tongue-in-cheek way, but b/c there wasn't any indication that you were using it with irony, I took it at face value. It would have irked me slightly less if I had known that you were gay, but since I didn't recognize your name, and you aren't listed on the national registry, I figured you were a hetero bro.
― Je55e, Friday, 30 September 2011 01:31 (twelve years ago) link
Girl down the hall with a Kill Bill Daryl Hannah whistling ringtone cranked up full blast.
Oh, so that's where one of my old co-workers went.
― tokyo rosemary, Friday, 30 September 2011 03:13 (twelve years ago) link
and you aren't listed on the national registry
I KNEW IT!!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 30 September 2011 13:14 (twelve years ago) link
The associate attorney is pissing me off. His job involves a lot of simple changes to documents - ridiculously simple changes like finding and replacing the word "Lessee" with "Smith," or copy/pasting boilerplate paragraph. This means that he should make it his fucking beeswax to be proficient in Word, but no.
Yesterday the dingbat edited a contract that the client needed first thing today. He emailed it to the client last night, and today the client had to interrupt his meeting with the other party to the contract b/c the signature page was completely unusable, and paragraph numbering was fucked up. Reasons for the problems:
- The signature lines were created using tables and started out looking like this
_________ ____________ _____________ ____________________Date Gob Bluth President Bluth Enterprises
but he doesn't know how to use tables (I showed him and he said his usual, "Oh, I don't do that, I just use Tab"), so when he copied the correct names from a table in another document, he embedded the whole table within the first table so it was completely nonsensical, especially since he kept the different font and font size from the other document!
- He doesn't use automatic paragraph numbering, so again, when he copied language from another document and pasted it into the one he was working on, it was not indented correctly, it was improperly numbered, and again, it was a different font and font size.
His boss usually approves our work before we send it out, but b/c it was such a basic, idiot-proof task, he figured it would be OK to let him do it all by himself like a big boy.
Before I even took off my coat, my boss called and told me I had to fix the mess in a hurry. Really frustrating shit.
― Je55e, Friday, 30 September 2011 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
Shut up. I know that the signature lines are fucked up above.
― Je55e, Friday, 30 September 2011 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
It should be your fucking beeswax to be proficient in ilxor.
― rustic italian flatbread, Friday, 30 September 2011 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
This guy also never fills the Brita pitcher.
He's generally a nice guy, but he's kind of a tool.
― Je55e, Friday, 30 September 2011 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
Tired of having to correct the boss' spelling. I don't hate the guy but seeing some guy misspell at least five words in a two page mission statement makes me think it's time to look for a promotion or go back to working on my book proposal. I should have offered to write the damned thing myself but it is not in my job description. The guy makes twice as much as I do!
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Don Nots (Mount Cleaners), Friday, 30 September 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
my dad had an admin asst who didn't know what tab was and would use the space bar to indent
― tehresa, Friday, 30 September 2011 23:12 (twelve years ago) link
I was last to get a computer in grade nine and handed in a "double spaced" hand written essay, except I put two spaces between each word :(
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Saturday, 1 October 2011 01:08 (twelve years ago) link
Lol! Poor kid.
― Je55e, Saturday, 1 October 2011 01:14 (twelve years ago) link
The teacher was nice about it, but it haunts me to this day. Heh.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Saturday, 1 October 2011 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
don't joke with me that i'm a "suck-up" just because I was gracious to the department head. she gave me an actual great idea and i thanked her for it. i know there's a culture of not liking her and i know that she's sort of earned it, but
― rustic italian flatbread, Friday, 14 October 2011 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
i'm not really one to say things I dont mean to people. being bitter isn't fun to me.
― rustic italian flatbread, Friday, 14 October 2011 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
I get annoyed when coworkers "joke" about things like that. Monday I came in to work early, knowing I had a lot to do, getting in at about 7:15. I was the first person to get to the office and the next one in didn't get to the office until 8:50. At the end of the day, at 5:05, as I'm walking out the front door I get three different people going, "leaving already", "slacker", "what? don't want to work today?". Like, I get you think you're being funny, but its annoying.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 14 October 2011 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, it both "har-de-har-har" kinda humor and it feels like it undermines your value, if you'reany kind of upstanding person in your professional life.
― rustic italian flatbread, Friday, 14 October 2011 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
My supervisor is always doing shit like that, but it's "HEY, STOP SURFING PORN!" Yeah, thanks for that; you do know that people who overhear might not realize you're joking, right?
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 14 October 2011 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
not that that's cool or anything but anyone who doesn't realize someone shouting "STOP SURFING PORN" is a joke should be fired immediately as they are patently too stupid to be effective at their jobs
― do not wake the dragon (DJP), Friday, 14 October 2011 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, absolutely. And there are many, many such people here. The reactions would range from "He's surfing porn? That's unacceptable!" to "It sounds like a joke, but let's not take any chances."
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 14 October 2011 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
the other thing that pisses me off about the situation is just that. there's this ongoing griping and bitterness about the dept. head, because she has fucked up a few things. there are a few people who privately grouse about her incompetence. but the thing is, she doesn't fuck up every day. she's pretty intelligent and well-versed in the industry. but the woman who accused me of being a suck-up regularly fucks things up. and I mean, we all fuck up sometimes. but i've never heard the department head talking shit behind her back. because that's a shitty way to behave if you're a goddamn grown-up with a job!
― rustic italian flatbread, Friday, 14 October 2011 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
Any popcorn-lady updates?
― Martyr McFly (WmC), Friday, 14 October 2011 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
(that's to jvc obv)
― Martyr McFly (WmC), Friday, 14 October 2011 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
Nope, she's still been out on site visits, she's barely been in the office for more than an hour or two at a time for the past several months, which is A-OK by me.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 14 October 2011 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
our popcorn lady quit, but someone microwaved something that smelled like puke today.
― rustic italian flatbread, Friday, 14 October 2011 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
Who the hell tries a handle on a toilet door when a) it clearly displays a red occupied indicator (this was not always the case but it has been fixed) and 2) someone is obviously inside using the hand drier!
― antiautodefenestrationism (ledge), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 11:06 (twelve years ago) link