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13 July 2006

My comment in this thread made me curious. What would you do (realistically) to your co-workers to get their goat?

post by: Specklet at: 12:52 | 18 comments

Pee on their shoe.

posted by jonmc 13 July | 12:54

A simple snare ought to do the trick. Mmm... Goat!

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 13 July | 12:55

Not my style.

posted by Wolfdog 13 July | 12:56

Swirlies and wedgies are every bit as funny now as they were in high school.

posted by mike9322 13 July | 12:56

Not my style either. If I like someone, I tease them. If I don't like someone, I avoid them.

posted by matildaben 13 July | 12:58

If you really dislike someone, you set them on fire.

posted by jonmc 13 July | 12:59

I don't if I'd do anything, man.
Somebody like Hobette might come back and do a "Carrie" on me.

posted by Joe Famous 13 July | 13:02

I'm with matildaben... if I don't like someone at work, I'm ultra-polite to them so I can keep my interaction with them to a minimum.

posted by BoringPostcards 13 July | 13:03

Okay, maybe not-so realistically, then.

Tack onto the question: "if you were the vindictive type..."

posted by Specklet 13 July | 13:03

I think that Orange Swan has come up with a good coping mechanism, by posting it here. . .

Of course, if she gets up for something and accidently leaves this site on her screen, all bets are off.

posted by danf 13 July | 13:05

In that case, if I were the vindictive type, I'd post a picture on the intranet with with a bold caption that read "NOT WANTED".

posted by Joe Famous 13 July | 13:08

I go by the old standby of making them meet their deadlines, take responsbility for what they should, and quit talking about fucking kitten calendars and meatloaf recipes for 20-minute bouts outside of my cube.

Nothing beats the look on a co-worker's face when they can't Talk Kitties and have to provide me with information I need.

posted by Lipstick Thespian 13 July | 13:16

Order incontinence supplies and enema kits and have the delivered cerified mail to their desk.

posted by jonmc 13 July | 13:21

Order incontinence supplies and enema kits and have the delivered cerified mail to their desk.

You've been peeking at my wish list again haven't you?

posted by danf 13 July | 13:24

I dunno, but you know what really gets my goat?

Wolves.

I'm so, so sorry.

posted by cmonkey 13 July | 13:35

The joy of working for a company virtually based is that all the workers (including the boss!) are in other places, and we all just talk via e-mail and AIM. ::blissful sigh::

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 13 July | 13:39

I agree about just trying to avoid people I don't get along with, but have been known to delight in tormenting bosses I do get along with. For one very very Aussie boss I changed all the sounds on his computer to Monty Python quotes from 'Bruce' sketches for ANZA day. (He of course doesn't know how to change the sound profile on his computer.) Oh, the hilarity. And it was a couple of days before he could bring himself to ask me how to change it back.

posted by elizard 13 July | 13:50

I'm of the "ignore them when you can, extemely polite when you can't" school. However, ordering them a set of Encyclopedias or Time/Life books (C.O.D., of course) might be appropriate.

posted by deborah 13 July | 13:59

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