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Brigid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-28-11 06:39 PM
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My co-workers are a bunch of worthless slugs.
I swear if I poured salt on most of them, they would melt. All day long today it was Just vulgar talk about sex and certain bodily functions I am sure I don't have to name. I've seen better manners in barnyards, and heard better grammar at a Larry the Cable Guy concert. In fact, Larry the Cable Guy is downright debonair compared to some of them. Thank God I'm moving this summer. :banghead:
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-28-11 06:40 PM
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1. What sorta job you got?
??????????
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-28-11 06:43 PM
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2. So you've got a NORMAL office job.
The worst are the sales holes and marketeers - waste of air at best.

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Brigid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-28-11 07:03 PM
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3. An office job? Don't I wish.
I work for a temp agency doing packaging for a company that manufactures CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. True, it isn't exactly rocket science; but does that really exempt these people from acting halfway civilized?
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-28-11 07:22 PM
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4. "All day long today it was Just vulgar talk about sex and certain bodily functions"
Just a hunch but I don't think the Lounge is a place to get sympathy on this.
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Brigid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-28-11 07:35 PM
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5. Believe me, the Lounge is quite civilized by comparison.
Today was just especially bad.
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Chan790 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-28-11 07:35 PM
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6. I just assumed she *was* talking about us. n/t
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Brigid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-28-11 07:57 PM
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7. Hey, I'm venting here . . .
And all I get are wisecracks! :cry:
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-28-11 08:03 PM
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8. Heh, you said crack
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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-28-11 08:07 PM
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9. That "might" be because...
...and I say "might" because I can't speak for anyone else here, just myself...but it "might" be because 99% of the people reading this have had the misfortune of working with some variant of the same worthless slugs you describe.

On June 1, 2011, I will celebrate the ten year anniversary of my own company.

That's right, on June 1, 2001, I walked out the back door of Cisco Systems, after having turned in my laptop computer and security badge and completed my exit interview, and walked into a life that would be designed by me, for me, period.

It came with a high cost...higher than I'm willing to explain here...but for a decade, I haven't been a part of that "society," of the cube dwellers and cutthroats and apple-polishers and tattle-tales.

People know you're venting.

They're just trying to help you lighten your load while they're listening.

:toast:

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Angry Dragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-28-11 08:25 PM
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10. ............................
:hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:


:grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug:
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-28-11 10:32 PM
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11. That is a big reason I prefer to be around women rather then other guys.
I don't care for juvenile and misogynistic humor.
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Mopar151 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-29-11 05:36 AM
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12. I'm with you
Coed is best, with the right people.
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mzteris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-29-11 11:20 AM
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13. when you leave
please please please let Human Resources (and your temp agency) know about the behaviour. It is against the law and no one should have to be subjected to that kind of work environment.
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provis99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-30-11 10:51 PM
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14. try hanging around welders.
Then you're dealing with halfwits who's idea of a practical joke is to burn you from behind with a welding stick.
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snagglepuss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 12:52 AM
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15. That sounds horrible. I can understand why you are so pissed off.
Vibes. :hug:
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Rochester Donating Member (486 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 01:42 AM
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16. I and my co-workers talk like this all the time.
And we think nothing of it. Of course, we're grunts and we're expected to be coarse :)
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