you lack professionalism

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admit it, you do.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

so?

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

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― salaried employee (nickalicious), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

you sound like my boss

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

B-but.. I order the office supplies!

― andy --, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

the office is not your personal romper room okay?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

but amateurism is so much better, more gentlemanly

― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

Nonsense. I keep mine in my vermiform appendix, where it is always handy when needed.

― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

Coincedentally, my paycheque seems to be adjusted accordingly, so fuck off.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

Eeet eez true. Ah lack professionalisme.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

Worse yet, I lack the inclination and possibly the ability to be bothered by the fact that I lack professionalism. Either fire me or piss off, ok?

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

dude, fantasy baseball is work!!!!

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

haha, kenan otm, unfortunately.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

OTM.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

the rest of us care though.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

seriously, fantasy baseball is work here. i love this job.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

The president of the agency seriously told me about 30 minutes ago that getting the television hooked up in the kitchen before the NCAA tournament begins is a "pretty big priority".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

It's so awesome when the boss lacks professionalism. (Unless he displays it by being an asshole.)

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

See, that's my current boss.
I miss my old unprofessional boss who did drugs and was obsessed with cartoons.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

he president of the agency seriously told me about 30 minutes ago that getting the television hooked up in the kitchen before the NCAA tournament begins is a "pretty big priority".

Nick, we are getting free food AND TV for the game on Thursday! Living in Kentucky is nutso sometimes.

― sugarpants (sugarpants), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

This morning I went to a meeting where everyone was either using a blackberry or had their papers in one of those schmancy leather portfolios while I had my papers in an old trapper keeper! Oh, the shame.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

Professionalism is: suffering through a 4-hour meeting about improving the efficiency of work processes, and sitting next to one of the meeting organizers (40+, female, law school attendee) draped over her end of the table like a 5-year-old, swearing to herself & making very audible sighs and raspberries. After one hour. (The ex-college dropout is showing you up, ma'am. Look alive.)

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

I hope it was a lisa frank trapper keeper!

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

It was a plain color, but still...

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

I used to get told that the things I did at work weren't very professional...like having a messy desk, listening to music, wearing what I like. Over time, I got told this less and less, I like to think it's because I'm damn good at my job.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

but it might have something to do with your music getting louder.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

It could be, and the fact that I only see my boss once a week or so.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

I'm still tripping out over the idea of meetings needing either Blackberrys or leather portfolios. Aren't pads of paper enough? (You need those for doodling.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

Well, the portfolio is where the pad of paper is kept. But surely you get the idea?

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

I only seem to end up doodling in meetings. I guess avoiding meetings if possible is another sign of my lack of professionalism, but I always seeing as serving the greater good by making sure the library is staffed.

Hey! You could totally take a Nintendo DS to a meeting, it looks like a trendy organiser machine and it has that stick thing!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

"it may look as if i'm goofin around with this gadget here but it is actually manufactured by a very reputable company"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

Or if your pals took in their DS's you could chat on pictochat (how utterly useless is pictochat?)

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

For your edification and enjoyment, I present my notes from Friday's meeting, scrawled on the back of a magazine.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

Wow, that's a pretty good picture!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

But surely you get the idea?

Very. The GSM students around here give me an idea of what such meetings must be like.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

GE FUCKING RULES YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

― FUCKIN A, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

Smaller, shorter and as gently cut as a brand-new baby boy, the edited version of Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ"...

― Remy (null) (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

GET BACK TO WORK, MR. HAND.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

xpost

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

What a headline, no?

― Remy (null) (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

Nobody fucks with the Jesus!

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

i read that article on the train yesterday, and i really liked it. i usually hate the arts section.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

but i still don't understand what this has to do with your lack of professionalism.

basically, i don't like it when people swear in the office, and i don't like it when i'm in someone else's office, or at someone else's work, possibly as a customer, and hear them swearing. for "swearing" feel free to substitute "wearing birkenstocks" or "humping each other."

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

Humping? What office is this?

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

Yesterday my manager came over to my cubicle at 6 and said "What are you still doing here?!" I was looking at pictures of Joan Jett. SO BUSTED.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

you found a good one though!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

Professionalism is:

1) two people not 20 feet from each other both using speaker phone to call into a meeting so yours truly can be buffeted by a speaker's actual voice coming from one side and the speaker's phone-projected voice coming from the other.

2) chatting loudly on speaker phone, trying to find out where "Ides of March" comes from.

3) chatting loudly on the phone, making a really freakin' obvious personal call, and chatting at normal volume, and laughing for about 20 minutes, when your laugh makes it sound like you're suffering from an asthma attack.

I'm trying to kill 30 minutes before I have to leave (w/out feeling guilty)! Shut your respective pieholes!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

Jeanne speaking to Exec Editor and Creative Director just now:
"There is nothing worse than bad porn." Them: "Did you just say that out loud?" Me: "Eh, meh, I uh, but it's true!"

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

oh! oh! i am sooooo the weirdo around here. i work in a courthouse. not very professional at all, but i'm nice. and i work. i think the deal is that i look/act funny, right?

― ai lien (kold_krush), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

My boss having a phone conversation:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v622/dysign/ilx/don.jpg

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 22:06 (twenty years ago)

how come having a messy desk makes you unprofessional? i don't get it.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

uh hello?? did STALIN keep a messy desk???

― THE ANSWER IS NO, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

At my old desk job I think I managed to simultaneously lack professionalism because I had a weird sense of humor.. and to be so standoffish (shyness more than anything) that the president of the company seemed rather intimidated by me. Not a good combination. There must be a workplace out there somewhere where I fit in...

― daria g (daria g), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 23:24 (twenty years ago)

I get furious at messy desk accusations as well. My last job involved a TON of papers and forms and printouts I had to keep sorted, and I had piles and filing racks everywhere but it was ALL notated with labels or post its etc... yet I'd get slammed if i was away sick with "we cant find a THING on your desk, its like a bomb hit it blah blah clean it up!" When everything is totally right there and LABELLED. Surely thats better than going to someone's mega tidy desk and thinking "hm... ok theres NOTHING HERE how am I meant to find the jenkins report? Oh look, I bet it is in that locked drawer".

I hate offices.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 23:28 (twenty years ago)

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