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― caek, Thursday, 9 July 2009 13:14 (fourteen years ago) link
i need to confess something.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 9 July 2009 14:42 (fourteen years ago) link
No one says "the" ANY sport over here, I'm pretty sure. I don't even really follow any major sports and yet it just seems profoundly un-American somehow. We leave that kind of thing to the poncey poms.
― But not someone who should be dead anyway (Laurel), Thursday, 9 July 2009 14:49 (fourteen years ago) link
we have speakers hooked up to an old mac in the studio i work in, usually plays music most of the day.
my boss insists on playing all sorts of awful (or mediocre) stuff over and over AND OVER. the two people with similar tastes to me were both let go a few months back - so anything i put on gets killed pretty quickly. sometimes this is followed by an energetic exchange of musical opinions.
yesterday a coworker outside the studio started a bit of a curfufel about the (awful) music. sensing the opportunity i came in last night and hid the speakers. there has now been an all-staff demanding the damned thing be returned! but i am saying nothing and enjoying the silence!
xpost
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 9 July 2009 14:49 (fourteen years ago) link
this is actually really awesome.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 9 July 2009 14:50 (fourteen years ago) link
xxp And pineapple up-side-down-land, apparently.
― But not someone who should be dead anyway (Laurel), Thursday, 9 July 2009 14:50 (fourteen years ago) link
(there's been no finger pointing as of yet either)xpost
I wish we could do that here, with the speaker hiding! Impressive. Our boss insists on a crappy station that no one else in the office can even stand. We try switching it or plugging in an iPod when he's gone, but upon his return it is to be immediately flipped back to his preferred station. No democracy here. I've thought many times about snipping all the wires.
― the sideburns are album-specific (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 9 July 2009 14:53 (fourteen years ago) link
this is awesome. i have her on my msn and i'm having a blast watching what senseless music she's not subjecting me to!
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 9 July 2009 15:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Just cross some wires, jon, so that next time he turns it on, it sparks and shorts out. Has the double advantages of stopping the music AND making him think maybe he did something to it by keeping it on all day, every day. Perhaps will make him more cautious in future. Bonus points for setting off a fire alarm and having to evacuate the office.
― But not someone who should be dead anyway (Laurel), Thursday, 9 July 2009 15:18 (fourteen years ago) link
IT have just rung a colleague's extension to ask him what extension he's on.
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Monday, 13 July 2009 11:55 (fourteen years ago) link
that's allowable- this weekend i texted my phone from the net to discover it was in my pocket.
― 51 logins to SB Jol (darraghmac), Monday, 13 July 2009 11:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, hes on vacation for a week and half now, so we have a reprieve, but I'll have to look into that for his return, Laurel.
― the sideburns are album-specific (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 13 July 2009 12:55 (fourteen years ago) link
"When he was in his twenties, he was a great character actor. Now he's just a hack. There's no development or sense in what he does."^ passing judgement on johnny depp once and for all.
― PLEASE SIT TIGHT WHILE WE MAKE NEW ARRANGEMENTS (forksclovetofu), Monday, 20 July 2009 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Stop replying to my emails with "good girl!".
I AM NOT A PUPPY.
― seagulls are assholes (Trayce), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 03:39 (fourteen years ago) link
HA AHAHAHHAAH AHAAAA
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 21 July 2009 03:45 (fourteen years ago) link
He's done it TWICE this week. The guy is half my age! :/
― seagulls are assholes (Trayce), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 03:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Well ok not literally.
"I've really wanted to look up the recipe for semtex on the internet for a while now, but you know. They flag you. I suppose I could go to an internet cafe. Most internet cafes are located in suburban areas with cameras and if you anonymously log in they could catch you on tape. Unless you came in with a disguise..."^this is verbatim, started typing as soon as he started talking
― im a fucking unicorn you douchebags (forksclovetofu), Monday, 27 July 2009 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link
I have a question! I was working late and was the only person in an area of maybe six cubicles, and some woman came down the hall and was having a long frivolous personal-call cell conversation in the vicinity. I spent a while shifting and coughing and tapping my pencil to let her know someone was around, but she hung around and kept talking for five minutes or so. My question: this is just weird and rude, right, to hang around near someone else's work area yakking on a cell phone? You expect people to have personal conversations at their own desks, okay, but not like gratuitous chit-chat in your area when it's otherwise dead silent.
― nabisco, Monday, 27 July 2009 19:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Could she see you?
― Four-TEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN! (HI DERE), Monday, 27 July 2009 19:56 (fourteen years ago) link
She could not, hence the elaborate coughing fit and chair-squeaking (which, if she could hear well enough to use a phone, she definitely heard)
― nabisco, Monday, 27 July 2009 19:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah actually in this case you are the annoying co-worker for being passive-aggressive instead of popping your head around the corner and saying, "Sorry, I don't mean to be rude but I can't concentrate on this because of your conversation; I hate to be 'that guy' but could you, you know, shut the fuck up?"
― Four-TEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN! (HI DERE), Monday, 27 July 2009 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link
(modify as appropriate for yr workspace)
just get up and go to the bathroom/water cooler? she would probably be gone by the time you get off, and you have dealt with yr fluids. everybody wins.
― caek, Monday, 27 July 2009 20:05 (fourteen years ago) link
oh god
"get back", not "get off"
nope sorry, that correction is not accepted
― Four-TEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN! (HI DERE), Monday, 27 July 2009 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
public masturbation is the obvious solution here--glad someone said it!
― Mr. Que, Monday, 27 July 2009 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
just barely stopped myself from changing username to "you have dealt with yr fluids. everybody wins."
― im a fucking unicorn you douchebags (forksclovetofu), Monday, 27 July 2009 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
kinda odd to jack it at the water cooler even if the office is empty tho
it's a public gathering place of the office, much like a town square
― Mr. Que, Monday, 27 July 2009 20:07 (fourteen years ago) link
everybody wins
― caek, Monday, 27 July 2009 20:07 (fourteen years ago) link
a place to see and be seen
oh, I didn't have any intense need for her to leave, or anything, I probably just posted to ILX until she was done or whatever, I just think it's maybe weird and rude to have a whole personal conversation over by other people's desks when you're aware they're still there
― nabisco, Monday, 27 July 2009 20:08 (fourteen years ago) link
she probably wasn't aware that your were there, though
― Mr. Que, Monday, 27 July 2009 20:08 (fourteen years ago) link
the initial coughing totally wasn't passive-aggressive, incidentally, I was mostly just trying to let her know someone was there cause I felt awkward about hearing her personal conversation without her being aware of my presence!
― nabisco, Monday, 27 July 2009 20:09 (fourteen years ago) link
blarg, she totally knew I was there, I'm like typing and moving around and coughing
― nabisco, Monday, 27 July 2009 20:11 (fourteen years ago) link
a) sorry--d@n is right the coughing is passive aggressive
b) when i'm on the phone with someone, i'm a lot less aware of my surroundings, and i don't always hear stuff going on. she probably didn't hear you.
c) why didn't you just ask her to go somewhere else?
― Mr. Que, Monday, 27 July 2009 20:12 (fourteen years ago) link
if you'd gotten up and started masturbating, she would have really known you were there (good looking out, caek)
― Four-TEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN! (HI DERE), Monday, 27 July 2009 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link
she probably never would have spoken on the phone again, ever
― Mr. Que, Monday, 27 July 2009 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link
also lol when did you turn into Liz Lemon?????? hottt
― Four-TEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN! (HI DERE), Monday, 27 July 2009 20:14 (fourteen years ago) link
i know what you mean nabisco, i'm sensitive to sounds and stuff too, where i work--but if it's something that only goes on for five minutes, i figure no big whoop. if it went on longer than that though, i would say something. if i was really busy, though, i would say something right away
― Mr. Que, Monday, 27 July 2009 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link
btw your conundrum is exactly why I wear headphones 24/7
― Four-TEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN! (HI DERE), Monday, 27 July 2009 20:17 (fourteen years ago) link
cuz I didn't actually care and just thought it was weird and rude? I think the tenor of this complaint is getting lost
― nabisco, Monday, 27 July 2009 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
like y'all are imagining me as all huffy and indignant whereas in fact I was just going "seriously? you're just gonna stand over there and have a whole phone conversation? *ahem ahem* you realize there's someone over here, right?"
― nabisco, Monday, 27 July 2009 20:20 (fourteen years ago) link
...explain the difference again.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 27 July 2009 20:21 (fourteen years ago) link
??
― nabisco, Monday, 27 July 2009 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link
cuz I didn't actually care and just thought it was weird and rude?
i think you do care, and like i said, i have the same complaint sometimes. and you totally should care, she was being annoying, but as d@n said upthread, you gotta tell her she's annoying you, otherwise you're coming off. . . as huffy.
― Mr. Que, Monday, 27 July 2009 20:25 (fourteen years ago) link
http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/5000000/Blerg-liz-lemon-5028033-200-196.jpg
nabisco, working late
― Four-TEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN! (HI DERE), Monday, 27 July 2009 20:25 (fourteen years ago) link
like tapping your pencil and squeaking your chair is textbook passive aggression 101