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29 March 2006
This thread is the anonymous sticky note you always wanted to leave your coworker.→[More:]Jesus, why don't you just go topless and show everyone your tattoo?
The phone conversation you just had complaining about your husband's worsening erectile dysfunction was truly none of my business. Please use your indoor voice.
I do not care about the Cubs, nor your football pool, nor how long you sat in traffic to get here, and I thought that sitting thirty feet away from you would be a safe enough distance not to hear your daily bellowing. I've never heard you address anyone at a volume anywhere below a shout, I am sick of seeing you abuse and intimidate people who are just trying to do their jobs, and despite the fact that you've given birth to children, I have trouble believing you aren't one of the muscle-headed jocks who used to torment me in high school. I'm glad that you're only 4 feet tall, but I still wish you would go the hell away.
matildaben, don't they are very so annoying people, who not well english speaks? All my coworkers also talks english wrong.
I really didn't have to try hard for that... sigh
[post-it note 3:] You know that little verbal tick you have, hm? That rising half-giggle, half-sneery "hm?" you tack on the end of most sentences, hm? That one, hm? FUCKING STOP IT.
You know what? That whisper of yours? Not really very quiet. Yes, I know your husband is in jail again. No, I don't really care. Why do you keep going back to him? Jeez.
You know what? That cell phone ringtone you have, the Law and Order theme song? It's really not so cute. Especially not when you get 3 calls an hour. No, not so cute.
And also? JON BON JOVI??? YOUR PERSONAL FUCKING CUBICLE SHRINE TO HIM? IT'S REALLY FUCKING WEIRD!! YOU ARE A GROWN WOMAN!! AND YOUR VANITY PLATE -- I♥JBJVI -- IT'S JUST CREEPY.
Either you've gained weight or the cleaner shrunk everything you own. You make enough money to raise a family of four, and you're single. There's no excuse.
chew at a distance. I do NOT wish to hear you consuming ANYTHING. I get that twice a day when I feed our dogs. And see a shrink for your fucking insecurities, rather than foisting them on coworkers to bear with you. We don't want yours anymore than you want ours. Deal.
Honey, you've "worked" here for nine years. "But I didn't know that we had to do [insert task that you've had to do every year]!!" is a piss-poor excuse. Please stop filing grievances with the union every time you are asked to do the things in your job description! Please get off the phone with your 100 relatives and work! Please stop inquiring of any student who walks in with a headscarf during Ramandan if they're fasting, in that snippy "I'm a better Muslim than you" tone of voice. Please stop hinting to our Catholic secretary that short sleeved shirts are not appropriate dress for a modest woman. Please realise that my boss backs up your work every day so she can check it, and knows that you're inputting only a quarter of the survey data, and doing that bit wrong, even though she asks you about it every day. You act like a spoiled 10 year old who complains that she has to do chores to get her allowance -- but you don't do them and they still pay you!
Please realise that every work-study student who's worked in this office, especially myself, cringes at the thought of working in an office environment because of you. Please just do your job and be passably nice to people, is that too much to ask? Even doing 70% of your job would be a huge improvement.
And when my boss gives me YOUR task because you say you'll do it but mysteriously never get around to it, DON'T file a grievance to the union when you find out. She's only giving your job away because we need to keep this place running.
You know that thing you did? That place you went? That thing you bought? I know. You've told me a million times. Guess what? I didn't give a fuck the first time. Shut up and piss off.