NY Times article on difficult people: Help! I'm Surrounded By Jerks!

"Oh. You didn't ask me what time it was; you just asked me if I *knew* what time it was. It's 12:54."

There's got to be a good rejoinder for this. The closest I'm coming to one is something like saying, "I didn't want to assume you'd acquired any life skill, including telling time."

The only rejoinder I can come up with is a baseball bat to the face.

Somehow I don't think that's socially acceptable.

Unfortunately, eating fish is its own can of worms, what with questionable farming practices, overfishing, high levels of mercury.... Yeesh.

There are ways to figure out what's better and what's not... Audubon Seafood Chart.

We eat a crapload of tilapia, mahimahi, and Alaska wild caught salmon, which are on the green list, and can be found in the TJ's frozen fish section for cheap.

One of the reasons we are still eating seafood, is that it's easier (though of course not bulletproof) to work out where your dinner's coming from and how it affects the environment, etc.

every few years they send her to a how-to-be-nice class and she's better for a couple weeks. Why can't her superiors say, look, your behavior is causing us problems and costing us good people; get some therapy, we'll pay for it; work it out or hand in your resignation?

We've got one of those. The speculation is that she's got all the dirt on the owner (and there is some good dirt out there, she just has the best), so she's "safe" from the ultimate resort of firing.

The closest I'm coming to one is something like saying, "I didn't want to assume you'd acquired any life skill, including telling time."

hearts Cindy

Because murder is illegal?

Yeah, we already ruled that out. We couldn't think of a way NOT to be suspects.

Going down in the Super Bowl if not this weekend.

Hey!

::thinks a bit::

Actually, that's probably correct, as hard as it is for this lifelong Bears fan to admit. Although, if they lose to New Orleans, it'll be a lot worse than if they lose in the Super Bowl--one of the local sports news guys said that the whole season would be considered a failure if they lose this weekend.

How would we type Teppy's chatty co-worker?

Pedantic certainly qualifies as a Know-It-All. There's got to be something for people who live in a hermetically closed self-amusement system though. Not Nearly As Charming As They Think people.

My Super-Agreeable ex-boss was all about "I can't wait to get started and have fun!" at work, which caused infinite eyerolls between me and my co-worker. It wasn't that we hated a positive attitude, but that she so totally mis-read the office culture. Also her cheeriness was matched by a complete inability to learn any of the systems or establish even basic competence. So there was never a point where you could even admit that things weren't working.

I saw her give a presentation and that's when she was at her best. She should've been in training or marketing or anything that didn't require managerial compentence.

Steph, maybe you should periodically ask him if he knows what time it is and then turn back to work without asking him what the time is.

Also, sometimes you ask him what time it is, and when he replies predictably say "Okay! What is the time?" and if he checks a clock or anything say "I thought you said you knew what the time was."

Off to read the NYT article.

Re: fish choices, here's a link to the Audubon site and an exciting print out wallet card with the greens, yellows, and reds of seafood eatin'!