Happy Valley? Seriously? Ok, there is a place I belong less than I belong here.
Gunn: The final score can't be rigged. I don't care how many players you grease, that last shot always comes up a question mark. But here's the thing. You never know when you're taking it. It could be when you're duking it out with the Legion of Doom, or just crossing the street deciding where to have brunch. So you just treat it like it was up to you—the world in balance—'cause you never know when it is.
'Underneath'
Spike's Bitches 40: Buckle Up, Kids! Daddy's Puttin' the Hammer Down.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
erikaj - Mar 31, 2008 9:52:08 am PDT #2523 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Tom Scola - Mar 31, 2008 9:52:49 am PDT #2524 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Sorry, I'm busy at work today. Also, out of practice.
Steph L. - Mar 31, 2008 9:53:23 am PDT #2525 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
"Well, she's just a killjoy poopy-head! It builds morale! It makes the company not such a dull place to come to every day!"
This is -- almost verbatim -- the excuse my co-workers give for why they POUND ON THEIR DESKS several times a day. And by "pound on their desks," try and call to mind the rhythm that starts "We Will Rock You." That's what they do, on their desks -- METAL DESKS -- several times a day.
Oh yes. And they've been asked to stop. It only makes them do it more. Because the only person with any authority who sits near them (meaning, she's the only person with authority who *witnesses* the pounding) thinks it's "funny."
My cranky!boss and I have a long document that we're ready to hand off to someone above Funny!Authority!Woman, about how pounding on desks is disruptive and inappropriate office behavior and the fact that they've been asked to not do it yet persist is utterly rude.
We just know that when we finally do go above her head, we're going to ignite a shitstorm of massive proportions, so we keep delaying.
Why a shitstorm? Well, imagine the mindset of people who think it's "funny" to POUND ON THEIR DESKS several times a day in a normal office environment. If they're forced by the BIG MEANIES IN EDITORIAL to stop their fun, they're going to be PISSED.
Every day is a carnival here.
Laga - Mar 31, 2008 9:56:13 am PDT #2526 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
if it's disruptive, they've been asked to stop, yet they persist- they are creating a hostile work environment and your company could be sued for tolerating it. Is the HR manager aware of the issue?
also: sheesh!
Connie Neil - Mar 31, 2008 9:57:13 am PDT #2527 of 10001
brillig
"Happy Valley" is 90% tongue-in-cheek, but go anywhere in the state and everyone knows Happy Valley is Utah Valley, where Provo, Utah, home of Brigham Young University, is. People think Salt Lake City is the heart of the Mormon world, but it's not. Salt Lake is just the brain, the heart and soul is here in the valley where I live. LDS folk are actually a minority in Salt Lake City, there's a thriving gay/lesbian community, brewpubs are very successful, and many of my neighbors believe that only the church office building and the temple preserve the entire city from becoming Sodom and Gomorrah.
Maybe it's only 80% tongue-in-cheek. I know that a lot of my neighbors think that if they only believe hard enough, that life will be perfect, their children will be perfect, their marriages will be perfect, and those icky people who think differently than they do will all go away.
I'd probably be happier elsewhere, but my very presence is like a dot of penicllin in a virus culture, creating a small but spreading clear area where other things can grow.
Trudy Booth - Mar 31, 2008 9:58:37 am PDT #2528 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
What have I done with my life?
What have you done? You've had the good sense to become a person who does not think that this would be the very pinnacle of "fun" and "comedy".
Steph L. - Mar 31, 2008 10:00:08 am PDT #2529 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Is the HR manager aware of the issue?
The HR manager is the one who thinks it's funny. And the HR manager also knows that the Cranky Editorial Department finds it disruptive. And the HR manager is the person we went to to ask that the morons stop pounding on their desks. She said "Well, I'll tell them you don't like it."
Yeah, thanks for going that extra mile.
Miracleman - Mar 31, 2008 10:01:19 am PDT #2530 of 10001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
What have you done? You've had the good sense to become a person who does not think that this would be the very pinnacle of "fun" and "comedy".
That seems like having the good sense to NOT do something, not actually, you know...DOING something.
Anyways, I think that's a genetic trait.
sumi - Mar 31, 2008 10:04:30 am PDT #2531 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
I lived in Maryland for 10 years and somehow completely managed to miss out on it's native cake.
Sad now.
Fred Pete - Mar 31, 2008 10:06:20 am PDT #2532 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Steph, I hope what you're doing works. If not, it seems the only option left is to make your workplace more fun for you. Maybe your favorite music (or at least a genre you like and the deskpounders don't), loud.
After all, if HR decides that the deskpounders have the right to have fun at work, can she deny you the same right?