Being Out of the Loop at Work, C/D?

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spun off from: Post the last thing you said out loud

"nope."
somebody was asking me if i was going to the office christmas party

-- Huckleberry Mann (handsomishbo...), November 20th, 2003.

Huck, go, you might get lucky!

"Mornin'", I think. Before that was last night, "Ciao" (a word I don't usually say, mind you).

-- Casuistry (chri...), November 20th, 2003.

it costs like $40 and nobody I work with talks to me like a human being at the office, so why should it be any different in some shitty banquet hall?

-- Huckleberry Mann (handsomishbo...), November 20th, 2003.

You have to pay to go to your office Xmas party? WTF?

-- Casuistry (chri...), November 20th, 2003.

exactly.

-- Huckleberry Mann (handsomishbo...), November 20th, 2003.

(or be a member of the s0cial C1ub)

-- Huckleberry Mann (handsomishbo...), November 20th, 2003.

(which costs like $2 off every paycheque)

-- Huckleberry Mann (handsomishbo...), November 20th, 2003.

I mean, I don't mind being treated like the dog that shit on the rug when I'm getting paid, but off the clock?

-- Huckleberry Mann (handsomishbo...), November 20th, 2003.

Do they not understand the point of an office Xmas ("Holiday") party?

Maybe this should be its own thread.

-- Casuistry (chri...), November 20th, 2003.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 20 November 2003 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 20 November 2003 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

okay, for one, I'm in a mostly support role here, and my schedule is staggered with everybody else's so that I can cover when they take their lunch/coffee/birthday party/etc...so I'm definitely the square peg right out of the gate, and then I've got this chip on my shoulder about having to try to make a group like me...

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 20 November 2003 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Poison their food.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 20 November 2003 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

hmmm...okay.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 20 November 2003 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

with love!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 20 November 2003 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

like in Fight Club?

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 20 November 2003 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

When I think about being out of the loop at work, it's not actually the social loop that I think of.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 20 November 2003 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

good point...couldn't think of a more succinct phrasing (didn't try very hard tho)

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 20 November 2003 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

"Being out of work in the Loop", about trying to find a job in downtown Chicago.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 20 November 2003 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Being an out of work Loupgarou: Lon Chaney Jr's missing years

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 20 November 2003 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Goddamit, I spend five minutes trying to find a picture of Tyler Durden pissing in someone's soup, and Horace has made the joke within seconds.

Which suggests that you may be in the loop all by yourself.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 20 November 2003 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Being Audibly Loopy at Work.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 20 November 2003 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Beans Audited By Snoopy, the Jerk.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 20 November 2003 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Boondoggling Lazy Wolves, C/D?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 20 November 2003 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Bondage & Lacy Underthings

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 20 November 2003 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Piddling in Fruit Loops (Observed).

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 20 November 2003 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Tiddlywinks by Hugo Boss

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 20 November 2003 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Typical Huckleberry Berserker.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 20 November 2003 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Y'know, I'm starting to think that the name change was really a positive move. Huckleberry. Even though I like to think of myself as more of a Tom Sawyer (since I can read and my pa never whipped me with a switch). I think if I ever pass my genes on to a male baby, I will lobby the mother through our lawyers to name it Huckleberry.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 20 November 2003 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Yankee Imelda torques these things -- tattered, namechecked, and ready -- as possible motives. Who'll care? I've a thought: All I can thank is myself, a more atomized Slayer (said at Cambrian levels, whizzed on really quick). A hunk of a man can pass up jeans and go "hey, baybay", and will lobotomize others to a cloying famous huckster.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 20 November 2003 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm out of the loop at work...AND I DON'T GIVE A FUCK!

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 20 November 2003 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Being Out in the Local Woods

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 20 November 2003 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Peeing Out in the Local Woods.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 20 November 2003 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Peeing Out Of the Local Woods

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 20 November 2003 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

This 4100 mile drive I'm about to take will be nothing but me and Ryan playing the cascading thread game, no doubt.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 20 November 2003 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I feel bad for encouraging this doomed excursion of yours.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 20 November 2003 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Make it up to us by giving us a place to crash.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 20 November 2003 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

uh...when are you here again?

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 20 November 2003 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

..and the proper word is "whupped"

― Jeremy the Kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 20 November 2003 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

no, you get whupped with a stick and whipped with a switch

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 20 November 2003 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Dec. 3rd and 4th. Wednesday and Thursday. Are you sure you're writing an article about us?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 20 November 2003 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

yes yes of course. I was just testing you.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 20 November 2003 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I just have to keep reminding myself that you work for a daily.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 20 November 2003 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I got yr pkg. I got it right here.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 21 November 2003 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm the worst offender for keeping people out of the loop at work. Just this afternoon an email went round to everyone in the company suggesting we go to the pub after work. I replied removing four people with a suggestion that we go to an entirely different pub. But then I'm a bastard like that.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 21 November 2003 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Matt, you are my new hero.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 21 November 2003 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I hate people like Matt. My coworkers were forever doing things like that to *me*.

― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 21 November 2003 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha - I'd never cut you out of the loop Kate! Just to clarify the four people in question are guilty of sliming lecherously over any women in the vicinity; attempting to fight random drinkers after a couple of pints; standing on the table and making loud animal impressions in the name of entertainment and, erm, being the boss. Unless you're guilty of any of those offences I'm more or less cool with it.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 21 November 2003 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm 3 out 4

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 21 November 2003 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Karate chop to the face!

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Friday, 21 November 2003 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Things take far too long to get to Canada, bah. But I hope you like the stuff.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 21 November 2003 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

*Leaps from a nearby file cabinet, and tackles Casuistry at the neck*

//cracking sounds and cheering in the background much like that of the Arsenio Hall Show//

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Friday, 21 November 2003 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

So far I LOVE the button.
My coffee maker broke yesterday, so mornings are not pleasant anymore, nor will they ever be again. But a pin that reads "I have done the math and I am staying home" made this one bearable.

We need to strategize your marketing campaign. I've been taking notes of various other "musicians" in the news this week and have come up with some brilliant ideas to get your name "out there."

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 21 November 2003 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

*As Huckleberry Mann enters the room, he is greeted by a trashcan to the face*

SMASH!

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Friday, 21 November 2003 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

*Clenches Spinktor*

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 21 November 2003 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Spink, did you forget your meds today or what?

Huck, is it the cat logo button or the one with the birds? Or the one with just the text? We have so many buttons...

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 21 November 2003 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

just text

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 21 November 2003 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

*Knee to the groin!*

//the force of the blow causes blood to shoot from the duct of Mann's right eye//

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Friday, 21 November 2003 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sorry, did we order an action thread?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 21 November 2003 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Nah, im alright. Too much caffeine, and too much class for me to pay attention to.

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Friday, 21 November 2003 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Fine, I will take my agression elsewhere.

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Friday, 21 November 2003 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not that we don't like you.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 21 November 2003 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I dig.

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Friday, 21 November 2003 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

If anyone wants to fight, you can bring it here:

This thread is a dark alley way. Smells of mildew and littered with baby diapers. (Action thread battle royale to get crunked on a friday) !

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Friday, 21 November 2003 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

can I ask why you thought this was a good place to fight?

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 21 November 2003 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm guessing it's because we're really wussy.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 21 November 2003 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh. Well, no argument there.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 21 November 2003 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

No. It just seemed wildly appropriate at the time.

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Friday, 21 November 2003 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Ha ha ha, I'm a jerk.

Everyone in the office is all sitting around eating cake and being all social and shit. And I'm here at my desk DOING MY WORK.
Somebody's like, "hey, Huck, you want some cake?"
I'm like, "screw you homeboy!"

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yeah, and I hate people I work with. not all of them, but y'know, the friends of my enemies...

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

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