I really, really loathe people who express helplessness in the face of clear instructions.
You must work in my office.
Anya ,'Sleeper'
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I really, really loathe people who express helplessness in the face of clear instructions.
You must work in my office.
The learned helplessness is bad, but it's the melodramatic "I don't know what to doooooo!!!1!" breast-beating that really chaps my ass. Listen, dude, all you have to do is click a link. I'm not asking you to file taxes in three states or properly use "Tazdingo!" in a sentence. It is a link. You click on it. No, you can't click on it "wrong". Good god, man, did you have some kind of traumatic Goatse.cx experience and swear you'd never click on a link again so long as you live?
You know, I somehow COMPLETELY missed the "Dear Work," part of this post and thought these were the clear instructions you gave a person.
To be fair, I have given those instructions to more than one person.
Jeez, shrift. No offense, but I'm kind of glad I was late enough to work today that you were off the road before I got to my bus stop.
A faculty member said, out loud, to my colleague recently, "I am a Looniversity faculty member and I am too highly paid to waste my time with X." X being putting links to articles in her course website.
It's lucky I wasn't on the receiving end of that remark, because I might have replied, "Do you wipe your own ass?"
Seriously, have people never heard of MANNERS?
High pay as an excuse not to do something is a new one. Generally I think "yes, they pay me enough to put up with this shit."
Relatedly, what gap is this photo referring to? [link]
To be fair, I have given those instructions to more than one person.
But hopefully not at work, right?
No offense, but I'm kind of glad I was late enough to work today that you were off the road before I got to my bus stop.
Tremble before my powers of destruction!
But hopefully not at work, right?
...do coworkers count?
Did someone post the link to paperdolls's letter to Andrew Sullivan? Here it is.
Oops. And now I see JZ already posted it....
it ate my post! grr phone. red velvet is red bc vinegar interacted w dutch cocoa. would link, but an on phone