I don't think it would!
― pplains, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 02:20 (nine years ago) link
Wheres said photocopier? I'm just imagining someone sqattin' down beside it in a room in full view of everyone :/
Or are we talking "whoops I soiled my pants cos I have a bad grog bog hangover" situ?
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 02:25 (nine years ago) link
Photocopier has a room by itself, I believe. but it was a big pile on the floor, not a spattering of pants-escapees
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 02:40 (nine years ago) link
Long after I left my last job I heard a story about someone who went out drinking with colleagues after work and, instead of making it home, passed out on his office floor and next to a pile of his own feces, apparently also unable to make it to the men's room.
Amazingly, he was not only not fired, but continued to be well regarded afaik and the incident was hushed up to protect his reputation. It must be nice to be a high level executive, is all I can say.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 02:44 (nine years ago) link
Yeah that shit happens (er no pun intended). Once the COO at my company came back from office drinks pissed as a newt and proceeded to drop trou and change pants in front of a female colleague in the lobby. No one ever did anything about it.
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 02:55 (nine years ago) link
pants-escapees
― kate78, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 06:26 (nine years ago) link
hey lg we do the same thing! are you roving gds or with a department? (I'm at an moj agency, moving to gds on monday).
ah wow - interesting! i'm in environment food/rural affairs on a project since last june, ending by july (so they say, we'll see) - i may stay on after or else try to get a day rate somewhere else.
quite new to this work but i think i like it more than most of what i've done. gds seems like a v vibrant and fun place to work. are you going there to do content design? i never knew this kind of work existed but i feel like i've thrived since joining. it was meant to be a bit of a stopgap as i do acting and comedy and other writing, but i find myself enjoying it hugely.
― Junior Dictionary (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 09:43 (nine years ago) link
I'm pretty much the same - I was freelancer who'd been scrubbing around doing about enough writing, subbing, this-and-that to stay head-above-water – had no idea that this world of work existed (and often pays well), but then was picked up by a good agency a couple of years ago. I really like it – it's suited my odd mix of skills and I feel like I've done some genuinely worthwhile things. I might go 77 so we can be a bit more concrete - I'd be interested to hear more - I know defra have some good people, and we were admiring the environment agency style guide late last year.
― woof, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 11:44 (nine years ago) link
maybe drop me a mail actually - ronanf i t z g e r a l d without those spaces at gmail dot com
definitely would be good to talk!
― Junior Dictionary (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 12:18 (nine years ago) link
hah, that's a better idea - I've got a busy day, but I'll drop you a line later.
― woof, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 12:22 (nine years ago) link
I don't even know if I'm on 77 - is 77 still private? I dunno...
― Junior Dictionary (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 12:30 (nine years ago) link
someone who just took a shit right in the middle of the men's room
Someone at my wife's work took a huge shit by the photocopier, and my wife was told by her supervisor not to talk about it because "it might make the person who did it ashamed".
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Tuesday, March 17, 2015 10:10 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Oh my god.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 15:18 (nine years ago) link
shame can be an important tool in the prevention of photocopier shits
― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 15:50 (nine years ago) link
copatients
took a ticket for a blood test, 96, ticker was at 32 I went off and got an xray, took 20 mins, came back, nice little sighter, ticker at 52, grand I says I'll grab breakfast and read Fahrenheit 451 which being done I went back and ticker was at 92, nice.
stood waiting for 96 with all eyes on me, a room (portakabin) full of aul wans staring me out of it. ive half an idea what's gone on, viz, these silly old cunts have been crammed into this room for two hours despite having numbered reservations, and not having seen me taking a ticket for my current presence they figure im on the make somehow.
96 ticks up, I'm off for the door of the test room with a full rolling pimp walk, milking it, its like a wrestling villain entrance, wails and protests and wherer you goin jung fella cries coming from all sides. ive the ticket held out like I found it in a wonka bar, theyre looking at it like david blaine produced it from the arse of an archbishop, what magics this kinda thing
how'd you do that?
uh I got it a few hours ago and left.
YOU CANT DO THAT SHURE IF WE ALL DID THAT WHERE WOULD WE BE
I dunno love. not in a cabin that smells of farts anyway?
I'm the bad guy here. copatients.
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 19:40 (nine years ago) link
hero
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 20:29 (nine years ago) link
nicely done
― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 21:25 (nine years ago) link
theyre looking at it like david blaine produced it from the arse of an archbishop
This is the best.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 22:24 (nine years ago) link
great stuff
― Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 13:47 (nine years ago) link
heh thanks guys I enjoyed it v much certainly.
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 13:59 (nine years ago) link
guy in my open office of like two dozen ppl has spent probably 45 minutes each of the last three days on the phone with priceline dot com about some fuckup with his airline reservations
i can understand that this is frustrating, but i really don't want to endlessly listen to him alternately berate/apologize to call-center drones
today he actually said 'this is unacceptable -- you are a public company with a $10b market capitalization and you can't figure out my $60 overcharge?'
ffs
― mookieproof, Friday, 27 March 2015 19:12 (nine years ago) link
Gross.
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Friday, 27 March 2015 20:22 (nine years ago) link
I mean kinda gross but he's not wrong: How does he think they got to those numbers? They made that money by tactics like charging people overages and not giving a shit about fixing them afterwards.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Friday, 27 March 2015 20:34 (nine years ago) link
its like a wrestling villain entrance
dying
― j., Friday, 27 March 2015 21:15 (nine years ago) link
how much of that $10b is the customer service rep raking in?
― Free Me's Electric Trumpet (Moodles), Friday, 27 March 2015 22:04 (nine years ago) link
None; paying your employees is also an undesirable expense.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Friday, 27 March 2015 22:58 (nine years ago) link
co-worker: You're talking to someone who once sent a dead owl through the post!snoball: errr... what?
― Hugh G. Wreckjoke (snoball), Friday, 3 April 2015 10:42 (nine years ago) link
to who?
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Friday, 3 April 2015 11:04 (nine years ago) link
I didn't dare ask.
― Hugh G. Wreckjoke (snoball), Friday, 3 April 2015 11:05 (nine years ago) link
It came out during a conversation/debate/argument about the correct packaging of items for shipping.
― Hugh G. Wreckjoke (snoball), Friday, 3 April 2015 11:06 (nine years ago) link
I meant who was it destined for
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Friday, 3 April 2015 11:14 (nine years ago) link
to whit, to who
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Friday, 3 April 2015 11:15 (nine years ago) link
should have hit one of them with a chair
― Junior Dictionary (LocalGarda), Friday, 3 April 2015 11:19 (nine years ago) link
I would have, but I didn't want to start a barn-y...
― Hugh G. Wreckjoke (snoball), Friday, 3 April 2015 11:47 (nine years ago) link
i meant wrestling villain deems
― Junior Dictionary (LocalGarda), Friday, 3 April 2015 11:47 (nine years ago) link
I mean, people were getting their heads in a twist enough as it is.
I'd keep my eyes wide open on that guy though.
― pplains, Friday, 3 April 2015 13:27 (nine years ago) link
People at work sometimes leave stuff in the break room to be taken by others (mugs, books, etc). Someone left this:
and I thought it was stupid and funny so I took it and put it on a shelf at my desk. A few days later I get called into someone's office and told that someone complained about it. I asked what the nature of the complaint was and was told that the person just said it "made them uncomfortable" seeing the words "ashes of ex husbands" and when I asked if they said why, I was told "they didn't say and I didn't want to push it"
What the fuck?
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 5 April 2015 14:12 (nine years ago) link
Wait this is the thing
http://i.imgur.com/k2ESlOKh.jpg
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 5 April 2015 14:13 (nine years ago) link
kinda can't tell if I should be offended or not but it kinda makes me a bit uncomf that they were like "we didn't ask because we didn't want our suspicions of homophobia were correct so we're making this about you"
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 5 April 2015 14:20 (nine years ago) link
yeah that is shitty
either a) articulate what the "problem" actually is
or
b) there is no "problem"
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 5 April 2015 14:55 (nine years ago) link
You should replace it with this one:
http://i.imgur.com/MNv2vsT.gif
― pplains, Sunday, 5 April 2015 15:43 (nine years ago) link
lol
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 5 April 2015 17:23 (nine years ago) link
How does homophobia play into it? Probably reminds people of their harrowing divorce and desire to murder their ex husband. Aka acts as a trigger in the modern parlance
― badg, Sunday, 5 April 2015 17:33 (nine years ago) link
is it not likely someone whose partner or ex has died or something?
― kinder, Sunday, 5 April 2015 20:53 (nine years ago) link
V unlikely, I am p sure it was this one busybody ornery asshole who complains loudly about EVERYTHING all of the time, I obv could be wrong but I highly doubt any of the 5 or 6 ppl who even work in the part of the office that could even see it have ex husbands (only one of them could have or have had a husband and I know that she is single and am p sure she never married and wouldn't be offended by it)
But idk
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 5 April 2015 21:51 (nine years ago) link
The fact that they wouldn't give you a reason, when "One of your coworkers lost a spouse and found this item to be upsetting" is such an understandable and easy thing to say, suggests to me that a dead ex is not the issue here.
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Sunday, 5 April 2015 21:53 (nine years ago) link
carbon allergy
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Sunday, 5 April 2015 21:54 (nine years ago) link
xpost carl otm
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 5 April 2015 21:55 (nine years ago) link
ffs stop laughing, what's so fucking funny, you fucking annoying cow!!!!!!!!!
― Quack and Merkt (Tom D.), Monday, 27 April 2015 14:18 (nine years ago) link