...for telling the truth?
Please share
And Wayne just PM me---i bet your list is longer than mine
Please share
And Wayne just PM me---i bet your list is longer than mine
Any other AWers in "RL" consistantly get in trouble...
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Nah, mine tends to come from lying my ass off because I hate everything about my life except writing, and that pisses the boss, the wife, and the parents off. If I became a hermit, I could always tell the truth.
...for telling the truth?
Please share
And Wayne just PM me---i bet your list is longer than mine
Yeah, I'm afraid the wonderful quality of tactfulness is often missing from my world.
Sometimes saying it like it is...not such a good thing.
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I don't get in trouble. I do have people who try to avoid talking to me because I'm blunt and truthful. Suits me fine. If they weren't doing or saying stupid things I wouldn't have to point it out.
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All the time and I don't care.
I'd rather be hated for telling the truth than adored for being a liar.
I'd rather be hated for telling the truth than adored for being a liar.
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I got in a bit of trouble at work for that once.
When someone left the office we would do a card and whip round to get them a present, which I was in charge of. Well, a well-liked lady was leaving to go on maternity leave, so I got a card and sent it round with a bag to collect donations for her gift.
How much did we get from an office of 20+ people? $13. And $10 of that was from me and our manager.
$3 the stingy bastards!
So I sent an email out to everyone to say how disappointed Ruby would be if she knew that the people she worked with cared so little about her they couldn't spare a couple of dollars to get her anything and how I thought they were all selfish and thoughtless.
The manager then came out of his office shaking his head at me saying 'Jo, Jo, Jo, you can't do that! You're right, but you can't do that!'
No one did a collection when I left
When someone left the office we would do a card and whip round to get them a present, which I was in charge of. Well, a well-liked lady was leaving to go on maternity leave, so I got a card and sent it round with a bag to collect donations for her gift.
How much did we get from an office of 20+ people? $13. And $10 of that was from me and our manager.
$3 the stingy bastards!
So I sent an email out to everyone to say how disappointed Ruby would be if she knew that the people she worked with cared so little about her they couldn't spare a couple of dollars to get her anything and how I thought they were all selfish and thoughtless.
The manager then came out of his office shaking his head at me saying 'Jo, Jo, Jo, you can't do that! You're right, but you can't do that!'
No one did a collection when I left
... I told a relative I was aiming to be a writer, once.
Many years later, they're still laughing :-(
Many years later, they're still laughing :-(
me too
Can I borrow your game plan?
Very true! I agree---it's just when they start with the mobs and the torches I get a bit nervous
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I got in a bit of trouble at work for that once.
When someone left the office we would do a card and whip round to get them a present, which I was in charge of. Well, a well-liked lady was leaving to go on maternity leave, so I got a card and sent it round with a bag to collect donations for her gift.
How much did we get from an office of 20+ people? $13. And $10 of that was from me and our manager.
$3 the stingy bastards!
So I sent an email out to everyone to say how disappointed Ruby would be if she knew that the people she worked with cared so little about her they couldn't spare a couple of dollars to get her anything and how I thought they were all selfish and thoughtless.
The manager then came out of his office shaking his head at me saying 'Jo, Jo, Jo, you can't do that! You're right, but you can't do that!'
No one did a collection when I left
The curmudgeon in me is laughing out loud that you only collected $3. The eternally hopeful and blissful head in the clouds dreamer in me wants to walk through that office and slap everybody in the face. But your boss is right...you can't force people to be decent..or guilt them into being decent. They are quite despicable though...YUCK!
Kevin, laughing and crying.
I've learned the hard way that my idea of funny isn't always the same as everyone else's - I have a seriously morbid sense of humor and my wisecracks don't always come out the way I intended. (Like the time a couple of co-workers were talking about a story on the news - Michael Jackson getting questioned by police after he went into a Wal-mart wearing a ski mask. One wondered why he'd gone into a Wal-mart in the first place and I piped up "They had a sign in the window that said "Boy's Pants Half-Off!" She didn't think it was funny...)
Should I start with the scumbag lawyer who turned me in to the Feds for coming forward to help free his own client?
How about going to work on the books and giving up disability to go back to work (most work off the books and collect) and when I was reinjured they wouldn't give it back to me.
Or the time I told DL that she has a nice ass and she kicked me into a seafood display at Long John Silvers?
The reason she insisted on PMs.
How about going to work on the books and giving up disability to go back to work (most work off the books and collect) and when I was reinjured they wouldn't give it back to me.
Or the time I told DL that she has a nice ass and she kicked me into a seafood display at Long John Silvers?
The reason she insisted on PMs.
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My coworker bitches and moans that nothing he does ever turns out right and everything he touches always breaks down and turns into a long repair ordeal.
I told him there was a good reason for that and walked away before he could work out what I meant.
And that was just this morning.
I told him there was a good reason for that and walked away before he could work out what I meant.
And that was just this morning.
