I do poker face absurdity at work, and everyone (except Chatty) takes me literally
My boss describes my humour as "dry" and seems to seek it out and set it up, but still reacts to me like I'm the only person that ever makes jokes like this, and worries that I alienate people with my type of funny.
FUCK NO!!! I HAVE THE MOST FRIENDS IN THE WHOLE COMPANY.
They love me, they really do.
I told him yesterday, when we all went out for lunch, that the last time the team went out for lunch was also business formal, and that clearly he was ashamed of us normally and does not want to be associated with us in public.
Apparently this was the funniest thing ever said...until the next thing. It's like shooting fish in a barrel...alternate the poker face with barbs at the other business analyst (Boss; ita ! you're the only woman I know who wears a tie. Me, looking at the BA who forgot the dress code: I'm apparently the only employee you have who wears a tie. Two minute laugh break. Sure, I'll take it, but seriously? I miss the days when I was the audience, man. I miss Montreal.)
Please pray for me. I am afraid "Unchained Melody" is going to turn up.
Maybe it'll be the U2 cover.
ita, I have a similar thing going with our budget folks. At the beginning of a meeting a few weeks ago, one of them started to ask why my boss wasn't coming. I looked at her and said, "Because she's mad at you." They are all STILL cracking up over it!
I love all versions of Unchained Melody. you haters are crazy.
Man, we are the funny people of the worls. People at my work think I am funniest thing ever, too. easy audience is what I say.
I do some poker-faced absurdity at work, but I don't really need to. My being the Goth version of Mary Poppins seems to be playing really well here. I recently found out that my boss-of-boss has threatened other managers with
"Don't make me go get Jillian and her vampire fangs".
Yeah, don't get me wrong, I like people who think I'm funny, but it is a little OTT at times.
Even funnier, in a ridiculous way? Boss-of-boss is blind. He has co-workers describe my outfits to him.
In Montreal, I was pretty quiet. Those guys performed like their lives depended on it. And they were good. So the on 90% of the time things was no problem. That was six or so years of near constant laughter and high drama. Hard to sustain the energy for both, so I ended up making a break for it, only to discover if there are no comics in the room, I can fake it well enough to get by. And I'd rather a slightly funny room than leave it up to...people. So I'm obnoxious.
Calling to find out if the neurostimulator is covered. Might was well get that piece of input into the decision making. My mother is *so* against it, it's not funny. I suspect it's a "my baby!" sort of thing, because she hadn't actually asked around the medical school or hospital yet.
"Don't make me go get Jillian and her vampire fangs"
This should be a universal statement of impending doom. Don't fuck with the fangs.
aurelia,
man, I didn't know U2 did a cover of that song.
msbelle,
I like "Unchained Melody" though a bit less so since finding out it is Simon Cowell's favorite song, but you must agree that UM is not a great song to follow Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song."
