The holiday slowdown has finally hit here at work. Now, hooray, I get to hear the girls on the other side of the cubicle wall discuss the people they know and their efforts to get pregnant. Joy.

edit: call me a prude, but I don't think discussions of taking basal temperatures every morning is appropriate for work.

I just sent out a strongly worded interoffice e-mail about that most grievous of sins: not refilling the fucking ice bucket after you take the last ice cubes. I'm pretty sure the culprit is actually only one person -- my incompetent!boss the manchild. But it happens every damn day, so I finally got testy and sent out an e-mail. I used words like "courtesy" and "adults," and refrained from using words like "you fuckwit," "manchild," and "I will gut you like a trout if you keep doing this, you entitled fuckwit manchild."

I actually don't assume my e-mail will change anything, but I feel better having vented my spleen.

you entitled fuckwit manchild

That is such a keeper, though. I'm definitely using that one at some point.

"I will gut you like a trout if you keep doing this, you entitled fuckwit manchild."

See, I think you should just print this out and tape it near the ice bucket. No one could prove it was you!

Oooh. I was wrong about who the culprit is! The culprit confessed, and it was not incompetent!boss. At least, not today. I've caught him dumping out the ice tray INTO THE SINK before, and when I asked him why he would waste water like that, his defensive response was that the ice bucket was empty, and HE wasn't going to refill it! So the next logical step in his mind was to also empty out the ice TRAYS.

I wish I were making that up.

But anyway, the ice troll from today's episode of freezer global warming was someone else.

Richard Engel is *both* good and lucky...seriously, he ought to sell lockets of his hair. [link]

his defensive response was that the ice bucket was empty, and HE wasn't going to refill it! So the next logical step in his mind was to also empty out the ice TRAYS

... that makes NO SENSE. That is the OPPOSITE of sense, in fact.

Huh.

Aw, Homer. So sorry, Jesse.

I've caught him dumping out the ice tray INTO THE SINK before, and when I asked him why he would waste water like that, his defensive response was that the ice bucket was empty, and HE wasn't going to refill it! So the next logical step in his mind was to also empty out the ice TRAYS.

Either I am not understanding the relationship between the ice bucket and the ice trays, or this person is deeply moronic.

....and if I'm not going to refill the ice bucket, NOBODY CAN!! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Either I am not understanding the relationship between the ice bucket and the ice trays, or this person is deeply moronic.

His reasoning was that since no one refilled the bucket, causing him to have to take cubes from the tray, HE wasn't going to refill the bucket with the cubes from the tray that he didn't put in his drink. Basically a "fuck you, if you aren't going to refill the bucket, neither am I!" And I guess if the ice tray was empty, then he could say that he wasn't ABLE to refill the bucket, because there was NO ICE.

I swear I am not making this up. I wouldn't make up something this deeply stupid.