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Vortex - Jan 30, 2009 6:40:34 am PST #9594 of 10000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Vortex - Jan 30, 2009 7:26:54 am PST #9595 of 10000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
People kill me. My office is next to a large conference room. There is a door that leads directly to the conference room from my office. As a result of said door, I always get a lot of noise from events in the conference room. It's a minor inconvenience.
Today, someone actually asked me if I would mind if a group of people used the door in my office to enter the conference room, apparently because it would be less obtrusive than the front door. Really? Did you not notice the shit I have piled in front of said door because I DON'T USE THE DAMNED DOOR. Is this insensitive of me.
Ginger - Jan 30, 2009 7:31:26 am PST #9596 of 10000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
less obtrusive than the front door
For them, maybe. Apparently they don't consider people walking randomly through someone's office obtrusive. Have you thought about moving a large piece of furniture there?
Miracleman - Jan 30, 2009 7:42:44 am PST #9597 of 10000
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Did you not notice the shit I have piled in front of said door because I DON'T USE THE DAMNED DOOR.
"Hey, would you mind moving all that stuff so we can enter the conference room unobtrusively?"
"Oh, see...that door doesn't go to the conference room."
"Yes, it does..."
"No, I know it *looks* like it does, but it really goes to...Hell."
"Hell?"
"It's a portal straight to Hell. At least I think it's Hell...might just be a hell-like parallel dimension. Anyway, no, the door does *not* go to the conference room. That's why I keep all that stuff piled in front of it; because once...
...somebody knocked."
Vortex - Jan 30, 2009 7:42:56 am PST #9598 of 10000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Very few people have made the connection, and no one has had the nerve to ask before.
Vortex - Jan 30, 2009 7:44:16 am PST #9599 of 10000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
And I was also afraid that once people think they can come through, they'll be popping in, saying "oh, would you mind, I don't want to walk through the room to get to my seat"
juliana - Jan 30, 2009 7:45:45 am PST #9600 of 10000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
And I was also afraid that once people think they can come through, they'll be popping in, saying "oh, would you mind, I don't want to walk through the room to get to my seat"
Oh, they will totally do this. Don't give a fucking inch.
I may have a lower-than-usual opinion of people today, but I know the above statement to be true.
Vortex - Jan 30, 2009 7:50:34 am PST #9601 of 10000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Yeah, I let someone use the outer office for a coatroom for an event one weekend, came in to find that they'd moved furniture, etc. I told them that they needed to come in and move the desk back where it was supposed to be (they moved it about a foot, which makes using the door awkward if there's more than one person). Think that happened?
sj - Jan 30, 2009 8:09:39 am PST #9602 of 10000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Vortex, can you put a large bookcase in front of that door in the future so that people forget you have it?
Shir - Jan 30, 2009 8:10:26 am PST #9603 of 10000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Scrappy, I wanted to say a big thank you again for your advice re: what to write to my chauvinist lecturer for mythological sources for art class. I just copy-pasted the "I felt the instructor was not open to interpretations of myth which were different that his own. His interpretations seemed to be uniformly conservative and biased against women in particular" remark you suggested, AIFG.
Finally. Phew.
So, thank you!