Poor Sarah! Amy, a friend's daughter's ruptured ear drum recently healed itself without surgery. I hope she's ok and can heal up after this. Ugh.

Teppy, I can't believe those people you work for. What assholes. I also like Sparky's suggestion. And when they explain it to you, just fall back with the "I don't find it funny" statement. What fucking assholes.

Poor Sara. Much ear~ma for her.

Poor Sarah! Amy, a friend's daughter's ruptured ear drum recently healed itself without surgery.

Oh, they all do. Well, 98% of the time or something. My eardrum ruptured twice as a kid, and I can hear fine!

Thanks for the good wishes, guys. She's actually the most charming little sick patient ever -- very snuggly and sort of content to sit and watch TV and color. Not at all whiny, which is a nice thing. The only bad day was the day the eardrum (we think) ruptured, because the pain beforehand was really intense, and she was just beside herself.

Heal ~ma for Sara. Poor baby.

Morning, All.

Heh, DH calls himself King of the castle when he wants the kids to laugh. He even does it in a big booming voice. Fun times.

I t heart Laura's DH.

Steph, I too love Sparky's suggestion. Just continual, "...and that's funny, why?..." Some thick heads might be penetrated - and you don't have to be "bitchy". I'm sorry you're dealing with this. I guess I should count myself lucky how rarely I get that kind of crap (at least to my face). I have hang-ups enough without getting it to my face, thankyewverymuch.

Aims - you do have a great deal on your plate, so not to be beating up if at all possible, please. It's funny because I just went back to school this month (National University, not UoP - I couldn't deal with Mandatory Group Meetings ::shudder:: ) and I was talking about my schedule with a co-worker and she told me I'm lucky I'm not trying to do this with kids. And I thought about it and agreed that if I had kids right now, I would have had to wait until they were in college to go back myself. Which is all my long-winded way to say Go You! You're juggling a lot of things right now and doing a stellar job of it.

Poor Sara! Lots of healing~ and no-pain~ma for her.

sj, pretend he's actually being "clever" and "ironic" and therefore not "offensive"?

wow, a comedian and a plumber.

I would tend toward the simple -- Look - say , but that 's not funny and shrug -- the slightly superior attitude.

.Calling out a work peer is one thing, but calling out a superior is entirely different. Not morally, of course, but in terms of whether I want to keep my job.

Oof, well that changes the dynamic. I'm sorry you're in that situation. (and just to clarify, I may have sounded slightly more militant or unsympathetic before, I was rushing my post while trying to get a project out the door, so I apologize if I offended or annoyed, Tep.)

Love Sparky's suggestion. Also Sparky.

Sparky rules. And I agree with Nora that it is tough when it's a superior.

Honestly, Tep, I don't know what you could do except adopt Sparky's strategy.

If you protest directly (a) you'll be dismissed as the humorless office bitch; (b) you'll piss off your superior.

But if you stood there and said: "I don't get it. Why is that funny?" with an earnest look of thoughtful consideration as they explain the amusement value in fat you'd reframe the situation. Have them explain it a couple times and then just shrug and say, "I guess it's me. I just don't get it."

In short, disingenous biting irony is your only friend.

At the very least you'll feel smart and they'll look stupid.