this is the thread where we rejoice about our awesome, amazing coworkers

russian it guy: you are the best!

last 30 min spent calling russian cabaret restaurant place to arrange stupid, annoying coworker's brithday party, then giving the lowdown on how the place operates, what to look out for, how to not get overcharged, etc.

totally awesome.

For a second I read that as the male version of the "It Girl"

office mate gave me a red velvet cupcake and the frosting was that cream cheese icing, yum.

i should really call him 'is guy' because that's what it is called here but w/e

thanks dude who I share an office with for not giving a fuck if I passed out for like 30 minutes

BRO

So I really like this older co-woker guy who sits in the office next to me at my temp job. He's laid-back, nice, and very friendly. Um, the thing is . . . I think he just winked at me. That's a little odd, right? I'm gonna hope he just had something in his eye for now.

erm, "co-worker"

cow-orker

it's a little odd tho it may depend on what you mean by "older." like, no one under 60 should probably wink at co-workers. > 60 it may just be a little ill-advised/dated.

Yeah, he's probably just about 60. Sure it's nothing, just caught me off guard.

don't think a wink means anything really.

No, I know - it was just odd since I've never been winked at in an office before! Like, I didn't realize that people still did that.

maybe it wasn't really him ;)

i winked at our new work experience lady this morning, now i'm paranoid.

http://the-op.com/images/episode/201/lucille-wink_sm.jpg

also:
http://blogs.nypost.com/popwrap/photos/lucille.jpg

Yeah, she's probably posting on some other message board about it right now. You better watch yrself.

oops - xpost!

<3 Lucille!

hey, ENBB

;)

i'm just pushin barriers today.

ah no, i think she took the wink in the right spirit, she seems a very sedate and nice lady and please don't have me fired etc

I am tempted to start logging, for ILX discussion, all the amazingly/typically English things I overhear said by a recent transplant here. It's almost as if somebody made a list of normal stuff that might happen to English people who came here and is making him deploy one every day. So one morning he's talking about how it's too bad he can't find marmite anywhere. The next day he describes someone as being like a "head boy," to mild confusion among others. It's like a play or something. It's terrific.

I love this man!

http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/mad-men157.jpg

cheerio, wot?

My roommate had a coworker once named Alan, who was an engineer who made these barely-pun wordplay jokes all the time, and apparently talked like a robot. Alan is the man I loved, the man I loved but never met.

I love my co-workers now, honestly, some brilliant people. I laugh so much in work. If I can just get promoted so my duties are a bit more interesting and numerous then I will be set. Find out about one potential job tomorrow.

I will try leaving my voice recorder at work so I can fully capture the next conversation about tea.

Just last Friday I was gonna start a thread called "Let's bitch about our well-meaning, annoying co-workers" but changed my mind. (Didn't wanna reveal how misanthropic I can be)

i like almost all of my co-workers and i'm sad that they're all about to be unemployed with me. they're smart and funny and weird and quirky and ok sometimes some of those quirks can be grating because can't we all really...but still, it's been a nice and friendly place where people mostly go out of their way to look out for each other. i'll miss them.

some of us last thursday night, trying to drown out the lay-off news:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5mxw-sYc_F0/Sv2opw1L-BI/AAAAAAAAlUU/NZavV3YVWRo/s1600/tns_ax.jpg

I have been talking loudly in supermarket queues - sorry, "lines" - about how you can't get proper bacon here. Do not judge us! (Actually, finding proper tea is easy, if not a bit expensive. You just can't rely on getting a good cup while you're out and about).
Expect next: how your gravy and stuffing mixes are a bit weird; trauma caused by lack of Jaffa Cakes.

Dear boss, thank you for never losing sight of my value and not getting behind on paying me, even when you got in occasional tight spots paying the printer and the occasional overindugence of an extra sales rep. This job is hella boring and is about as challenging as clipping my toenails, but it's steady.

English-coworker update: Was just noting that people, somewhere he just was, said "awesome" a lot; everything was "awesome," offers were responded to with "that would be awesome."

Then someone gave/showed him something and he said "excellent, spot on."

Someday I am going to be like "hi, we don't work with each other in any way, but I enjoy overhearing your conversations and would like to offer you these digestive biscuits and a hug"

that is A++

(i mean the first part. the hug's a little weird.)

Haha. Do you ever say Hi when someone says Hello? Or vice versa? I wonder if he was being contrary, or if he was responding in sympathy, reacting to all the positivity.

I would like to give you these digital biscuits and a hug.

tea and sympathy, Que, tea and sympathy

oh, clarification, bamcquern -- he said "spot on" here, just now, casually, in the midst of the conversation about how people elsewhere said "awesome"

Oh, I get it now.

that story, i just have to say, is so perfect

Send it to NOON.

To all the co-workers who crowded round and helped me with bandages/tissues/tape, etc, before sending me home in a taxi, when I dropped a heavy blackboard (low-tech!) on my foot and burst open my big toe, shooting blood everywhere, thank you!

OUCH. Hope the toe is surviving okay.

English Coworker Update: There was just a lengthy discussion that started with an anecdote about a prostitute at King's Cross and proceeded, somehow, to an analysis of the Style Council.

There is some serious topsy turvy wtf/omg shit going on at my workplace, and I am super grateful to my coworkers because they are hilarious in a crisis.

my co-workers are amazing...still

(important revelation during long discussion of regional accents in US/UK: person I have been referring to as English is actually half-Welsh. posh Welsh, apparently.)

I have a CD of my coworker's band
it promises to be prog rock with flutes and 17-minute tracks and stuff
I am a little afraid but also excited!

Was thinking recently about how awesome the ppl I work with now really are and then tonight I found the following when I reached my car:

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c287/expatrica/car1.jpg

They are still awesome btw.

Where does a person get that many squishy globes?

I think that they had them leftover at work from some promotional event or something.

There were 1,200 of them in there btw.

haha how'd ur coworkers get in ur car

lol we spent a couple hours yesterday morning wrapping Christmas presents for the kids on our caseloads and at some point I must have stepped out of the room without my purse and one of them got my key then. Yesterday afternoon I noticed the car key wasn't on the key chain anymore and I was like, huh that's weird. All new employees get hazed in some way btw not just me. Apparently they've been waiting all month for a chance to get my keys away from me.

It was 9pm and freezing when I discovered this btw so I got the balls out but the leis are still hanging there. Think they add a nice touch.

It was 9pm and freezing when I discovered this btw so I got the balls out

It was 9pm and freezing when I discovered this btw so I got the balls out

It was 9pm and freezing when I discovered this btw so I got the balls out

It was 9pm and freezing when I discovered this btw so I got the balls out

if i had a nickle...

or a nickel!

i would actually appreciate a pickle at the mo

English coworker adjustment update: currently explaining the difficulty of not being allowed to say "twat" in the US, which explanation involves casually saying "twat" a whole bunch in a US office. ("It's a major part of our vocabulary!")

but IT IS!

Sure! The humor of the whole thing is really more that every few days I get to hear an item from the Family Feud survey of "Things an English Person Would Comment on While Working in the US." Also the fact that I could practically hear people cringing every time he said "twat."

pardon me, I believe you know it as "Family Fortunes" or something

By Jove, Nabisco, I think you've got it!

oh dear i fancy my coworker so much......and she has a bf. the flirting is off the chain all the time every day and about 10,000 times worse when we all go out. it's not even flirting just full on exchanging compliments, BAH.

hmmm...is your boss really goofy?

yes...he is a total fucking moron.

hmmm

does your office do 'secret santa' during christmas?

... Jim?

Pam?

GASP *click*

<Gives knowing smirk to the camera>

<Awkwardly snaps back into reality by realizing camera is in face, pushes back hair then resumes work>

I finally see where iatee was going. Actually my boss is okay, and a woman, tho technically that could still fit in?

I never realised the similarities but her role is even similar. Ha..

My awesome, amazing coworker just went to the farmers' market and bought me a dozen fresh bagels.

lolol iatee

- my adorable, middle-aged co-worker just gave me a big bag of mixed candies from the philippines

- my adorable, v young ex-co-worker has been sending me hilarious hand-made postcards and artful letters, in lieu of stopping by to visit me once a week