Let's bitch about our stupid, annoying co-workers

I would have, but I didn't want to start a barn-y...

i meant wrestling villain deems

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.

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?

Wait this is the thing

http://i.imgur.com/k2ESlOKh.jpg

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"

yeah that is shitty

either
a) articulate what the "problem" actually is

or

b) there is no "problem"

You should replace it with this one:

http://i.imgur.com/MNv2vsT.gif

lol

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

is it not likely someone whose partner or ex has died or something?

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

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

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.

carbon allergy

xpost carl otm

ffs stop laughing, what's so fucking funny, you fucking annoying cow!!!!!!!!!

seems we've moved on from 'a big ask' to 'a high lift'

I know this is a broad river to ford but

my coworker is sleeping w/ my friend (who I am also sleeping w/) and it's annoying me.

never let those worlds collide

Don't shit where you eat, my friend.

His coworker is shitting where Stevie shits but they both eat at a separate table iiuc

i can't help it! me + friend met totally separately from coworker + friend! what do i do??

double down & start sleeping with coworker

tbh that almost happened 4 or so years ago, long before we were coworkers

double down & start sleeping with coworker

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, April 29, 2015 1:16 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

LOL why not?

I've considered trying to make it happen but tbh I want to sleep w/ coworker's bf much more.

Maybe the 4 of us could all watch a movie sometime?

I had my job orientation last week in the office of a HR manager who had that urn on a shelf reading "Ashes of Problem Employees" so....

In my 20s I worked for a very small family business owned by a real bozo (I don't want to armchair diagnose but she had some kind of narcissistic/borderline personality/total inability to relate to other humans in a way that was healthy or comfortable issue). Her really cute brother worked there, too, so I decided to make my life interesting by secretly dating him (he was also still married, although separated, to his second wife, and he lived in an apartment over the bozo's house, and I drove a Cutlass Supreme with flames painted on it so I had to like, park blocks away and sneak over) (he was also an ex-military muscle car dude who dressed like a greaser, so the whole thing had an air of novelty dating around it anyway). The relationship was never going to last, but he was a nice guy and in hindsight it was pretty fun. Also I quit that job by making two lists - one was all of the bozo's professional shortcomings, and one was all of her personal shortcomings, and literally pulling them out of my pocket and reading the professional items to the bozo herself (I never made it to the personal ones), in front of four other employees, which was wildly unprofessional but extremely satisfying. The brother and I broke up pretty amicably after a little less than a year of casual dating when we both realized we were uninterested in getting more serious (he's now on his third or fourth wife, third kid, and seems really happy).

Anyway, my point is that complicating your work situation by dating more of your coworkers is probably a terrible idea but that one time I did it, it turned out to be pretty fun.

xp LOL oh no. Stevie, you need to send IO your "ashes of ex husbands" jar, stat.

Every time I thought that story couldn't get any better, it proved me so wrong.

That resignation remains a real high point in my life. It's the kind of thing you can seriously only do in your early 20s when you can't imagine any of your actions actually having any consequences (to be fair to my younger self, those actions did not have any consequences of note beyond feeling great and giving me a good resignation story) so you're willing to just be a total asshole to your boss.

I drove a Cutlass Supreme with flames painted on it

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/45/145653126_c25272310f_o.jpg

Unfortunately that's the only picture I have of it.

Had no idea Carl was actually a character from a Peter Bagge comic.

"His stories often use black humor and exaggerated cartooning to dramatize the reduced expectations of middle-class American youth."

Yeah, okay.

That story should be in the "Lol Twenties" hall of fame

xxxpost "unfortunately"?! omg so rad

awes

glad this thread has returned to form.

What was boss's response???

My boss's response? She cried! I made my terrible boss cry! There was also yelling.

Carl's story is fantastic!

omg you made her cry

there's no better ending for that story

can we give you some kind of parade? I feel like you need a parade

after just having had a very tiresome chat with a co-worker (but... but... but... yes i know but...), that story has completely cheered me up.

that is such a good story.

I was shocked about the crying. I expected anger, indignation, quiet seething rage but when she just burst into tears I was definitely taken aback. But then I rallied and continued reading the items on my list.