trying to figure out if Neanderthal's coworker actually had an undiagnosed stroke
― mh, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 17:28 (six years ago) link
sure hope not!
other people started to acknowledge the smell when she got back, so I was like "damn were you all gaslighting her earlier?"
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 17:29 (six years ago) link
maybe she was just stalin for time
― motorpsycho nightmare winningham (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 17:31 (six years ago) link
thanks for the feedback peeps
i feel a little better
― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 17:31 (six years ago) link
Huh the rabbi I currently study with is Canadian. Pretty sure he is also Jewish. I’ll ask him!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 17:32 (six years ago) link
Quincie's Rabbi - not a CanadianBut you know who is - Decibel writer Begrand, Adrien!
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 17:36 (six years ago) link
Canadian-American
― mh, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 17:38 (six years ago) link
second that your coworkers are idiots.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 19:13 (six years ago) link
one thing i've realized about dumb fuck coworkers who needlessly argue with you - bet money. tell them to put $20 on the line that he's not Canadian. normally, i find, that shuts an idiot up.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 19:15 (six years ago) link
I just say "uh huh" and walk away typically. If it happens at my own desk I go to the restroom and get some coffee and take my time doing it.
― mh, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 19:17 (six years ago) link
alleluia is an accepted if old spelling innit?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 09:02 (six years ago) link
yes, it can have various specific contextual meanings in that spelling too
― just noticed tears shaped like florida. (sic), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 09:26 (six years ago) link
ya which is why i thought it prudent not to use it in an email ad about easter going out to like thousands of people
this is a weird company tho
― F# A# (∞), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 20:55 (six years ago) link
(talking about the recent BBC series about best/weirdest/extreme hotels)
"Have you seen it? It's really good although I don't like Giles Core much.""Who does he present it with?""That Monica woman. Monica Lewinsky I think it is."
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Thursday, 12 April 2018 09:28 (six years ago) link
Whoever left the fridge door open overnight when I'd left a pasty in it yesterday which I now don't dare eat. Boo.
(Someone is probably going to tell me I'm being fussy but I had a bad time last time I ate something which had gone unrefrigerated for an unknown number of hours and tbh I'm a fat bastard and should not be eating pasties anyway)
― a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 12 April 2018 14:03 (six years ago) link
the latest thing in my office from Execs is pure CYA confirmations - i.e., them asking for statuses of things not because they actually give a shit and want to know the state of the state, but so they can trap you into confirming something in writing to nail you with later.
like today, a customer service manager was asked - "can you confirm the extract of test cases were inserted and that the database will be somewhat stable tomorrow". The former is easy to confirm - the latter, lol GTFO. we're a 100+ client company with thousands of users, any one single thing could render the database slow af, and nobody in fucking customer service can control or prevent it.
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Thursday, 12 April 2018 19:02 (six years ago) link
weirdly they didn't like when I said that to them in reply
Lol typical tech manager shite
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Thursday, 12 April 2018 20:30 (six years ago) link
Lol...
So while my candicacy is still open for the new position, my boss gave me some small temp assignments until I know if I got it. 1.5 months ago one of those tasks was literally just copying a quiz verbatim into SurveyMonkey. No analysis...just cut/paste. It was posted around that time and peer reviewed.
They are training on it *tomorrow*, and at almost 6:45 ET (long after I leave), one of the trainers frantically emails me and the guy who wrote it saying I HAVE CONCERNS CAN U URGENTLY ADDRESS?!!! IE by tomorrow.
Ignored it...but boy I hope I get this new job lol.
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Thursday, 12 April 2018 23:00 (six years ago) link
Clients, man. Clients. *shakes head*
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 13 April 2018 00:44 (six years ago) link
^yaaH
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Friday, 13 April 2018 00:45 (six years ago) link
1 male workmate to another male workmate in the kitchen: "man you've gotten a lot fatter lately, whats going on there?"Said workmate mumbles something in what I assume is profuse embarrasement.
WTF dude. RUDE.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 13 April 2018 00:55 (six years ago) link
That is outright harassment. Fuck that
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Friday, 13 April 2018 00:57 (six years ago) link
Then he kept going on about it! "yeah youre looking as big as [workmate 3] these days man"
I'm like "...is this how guys talk to each other? If I did that to a woman she'd chuck a shitfit"
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 13 April 2018 01:03 (six years ago) link
That is hideous. I would hit someone for saying this to me.
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Friday, 13 April 2018 01:04 (six years ago) link
Like none of my friends would ever say this to me
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Friday, 13 April 2018 01:06 (six years ago) link
He wasnt even being aggressive, it was like casual like "hey nice hat man", it was so weird.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 13 April 2018 01:09 (six years ago) link
My own mother patted my stomach and said "someone's gaining weight" and it's had me doing 5k runs every day.
A peer saying that would have me running marathons
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Friday, 13 April 2018 01:12 (six years ago) link
I’d be stealing their lunch from the fridge and then eat my own lunch AND theirs
― alvin noto (mh), Friday, 13 April 2018 01:26 (six years ago) link
ha, years ago I told a co worker I was joining the gym and she nodded seriously and said 'yes, you are putting on weight'. she is Sri Lankan though so I think there's cultural differences ... (and she was right tbh)
― kinder, Friday, 13 April 2018 04:03 (six years ago) link
bro do you even lift
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Friday, 13 April 2018 11:50 (six years ago) link
I'm a woman and I currently neither lift nor exercise
― kinder, Friday, 13 April 2018 12:10 (six years ago) link
To whoever put the signs in the ladies room bitching about whoever's leaving a mess: Fuck you sideways with a chainsaw.
― Polly of the Pre-Codes (j.lu), Friday, 13 April 2018 14:30 (six years ago) link
YOU DON'T HAVE TO SHARE EVERY THOUGHT IN YOUR HEAD
― tokyo rosemary, Friday, 13 April 2018 14:52 (six years ago) link
Also, this learned helplessness is not cute.
― tokyo rosemary, Friday, 13 April 2018 14:53 (six years ago) link
feeling personally attacked here but.. otm
― alvin noto (mh), Friday, 13 April 2018 14:56 (six years ago) link
Last month, she asked me to look up something that I don't even have access to while I was on the phone with a customer. Meanwhile a coworker who could do it was free.
― tokyo rosemary, Friday, 13 April 2018 15:19 (six years ago) link
so my buddy started working at the same place as me and i work nights - he's telling me one guy is trashing my work ethic when i'm not there. i'm a casual and do 5 jobs so i'm a bit rusty when covering a job i haven't had for months, and my arm is still healing from a recent break. Anyway he's going to the manager today cuz it's really bothering him. This is the same place i was bullied by one co-worker - anyway, wish people would get some guts and say it to my face
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Friday, 13 April 2018 20:17 (six years ago) link
i'm so close to saying to him today "if you got concerns about my work, let ME KNOW"
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Friday, 13 April 2018 20:20 (six years ago) link
I would. Fuck that behavior
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Friday, 13 April 2018 20:47 (six years ago) link
My buddy reported him and they’re going to talk to him. He’s got a smug look on his face atm. Hell Is working with other people. Everyone else In my life isn’t a shitbag
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Friday, 13 April 2018 22:07 (six years ago) link
Working with different personalities is super unnatural
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Friday, 13 April 2018 22:09 (six years ago) link
isn't it just
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Friday, 13 April 2018 23:05 (six years ago) link
In non stupid news...I GOT THE NEW POSITION
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Friday, 13 April 2018 23:08 (six years ago) link
Fuck yeah bud
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Saturday, 14 April 2018 01:42 (six years ago) link
people talking about weight at work is so weird to me and the only way to deal with it is to just shut it down imo, "yes I am having a McDonalds today because I am an adult who can make their own decisions, why are you so weirdly obsessed with my weight?"
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 15 April 2018 21:21 (six years ago) link
also good news for Neanderthal but bad news for this thread!
a few people in my building have decided it's apt to comment on the portion sizes of my lunch, ostensibly in jest.
i really want to tell them to stfu, but instead i've just asked flatly why they comment on it, or just not indulged in the way they want me to, which i guess is humourously self-deprecating. like why even say "ooh that's a big portion size"? it's not as bad as weight comments but it's in the same kind of judgey area. they aren't even massive lunches, they're just enough to see me through until i eat dinner like six or seven hours later.
― vanjie wail (qiqing), Sunday, 15 April 2018 23:32 (six years ago) link
That sort of smalltalk generally irks me. People who are all "oooh whats for lunch today!" eyeing off whatever you've just pulled out of the microwave. Ive had people fall in step with me walking out of the office, saying "going to lunch?" no, its 12PM and I thought I'd walk into traffic.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 16 April 2018 00:23 (six years ago) link
This happens to me a bit and I have always assumed it's because I am not much of a smalltalker and people just want to get a handle on me / humanise me a bit in their eyes. But I have perfected ways of getting out of and back into my workplace while running into the fewest people possible, and then I eat in my office, so they have no chance to comment.
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Monday, 16 April 2018 00:36 (six years ago) link