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.

Sparky suggestion rocks. Maybe end the continual questioning with something like "it's a shame we have to degrade one group of people to make ourselves feel superior and make a joke." or something like that.

Eh. Go with Sparky. She is far wiser than me.