A typical afternoon at work; or, Some days you want to whap everyone over the head

[bironic]

(These are a few of the funnier ones today. The rest just make me put my head in my hands and despair for humanity. You know, the usual.)


Conversation with co-worker C. after he got back from the gas station mini-mart:

C.: Look, I got a bag of peanuts.
Me: *squints* Those are sunflower seeds.
C.: *looks at them* Yeah, well, they've got nuts inside.
Me: No... they've got seeds.
C.: Whatever. They're peanuts.

Email exchange with manager:

Me: I would be much obliged if you could help me out by doing 1-2 paragraphs for the Elbow section on epicondylitis and medial instability. Just pathologies, no diagnostics or treatments. Here are some helpful resources: [four websites]

Manager: What sites are you using for research?

Me: *repeats four websites*

Manager: Medial instability as it relates to the knee or shin splints or????

Me: Elbow.

Manager: *sends text describing pathology, diagnostics and treatments*

Excerpts from a paragraphs-long email from the most senior member of another department:

I took the time to send this out to all of you because I have noticed so much of this process is going in the right direction that this is a great example of how to refine it. [...]

All the other area's need to be invoiced and signed off on. I understand this is not your area, and it's not ours either. Anytime a client says to you they want something that they have not paid for send it to the salesperson, that is what I have to do anyway. I know you know this, I know you are just passing along the requests they have made. I really appreciate it, and don't want you to ever not do so. This tells us what we are in store for.

Things like a "balance" between content, and means more content and keyword rich content is not even a question needed to be asked (I know that's not English).

As far as bold links and titles ect. YES! You can't have to many links. You can't be to clear. I have said enough.

Yes, you really have.
 

Comments

[synn.livejournal.com]

BLEARGH.
but soon you will not have to deal w/ any of them for a whole week! hurrah! You'll just have to deal w/ me *s*

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Yes, and you're so hard to put up with. God.

Alex... just gave me her old TV and VCR. She's packing up her room and doesn't want them because she's using the ones she had at school, and her family has about a dozen TVs and VCRs and DVD players in their house (I was laughing so hard as her family seriously discussed which ones were around and give-away-able). If I were driving down I'd ask if you want it, but. For now, it'll be a nice replacement for the little combo in my room. The TV can't switch channels on its own (has to be hooked up through a VCR) but maybe now I'll be able to see faces on it from my desk chair.

[synn.livejournal.com]

I know. I'm just grateful that you're willing to suffer my company.
Which reminds me of a Snarry (*or all of them) actually...
*g*

New tv/vcrs are good. Thank you -- but I really have no call for a television of my own, Maybe when I eventually get my own place, but even then I think I'll probably just end up buying a big monitor and hooking my laptop up to it for dvds.

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

Obviously your manager took his Dumbass Today vitamins this morning. Yeesh.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Yeah, she was definitely not at the top of her game. I actually sent her four items to write, two for elbow and two for wrist. Just after I posted this, she wrote back saying she couldn't find info on the second elbow thing, and what else could she do for me? My reply: The wrist stuff, please.

[daasgrrl.livejournal.com]

C.: Whatever. They're peanuts.

ROFL. I've had this kind of conversation before, and I think this kind of sheer determination to resist logical argument explains quite a lot about certain elements of human behaviour. Although I would have more expected said co-worker to ignore you completely and change the subject abruptly with something like '... and look, there are raisins as well!'.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I think you are absolutely right. (Sadly for what it means for humanity, not sadly because I agree with you. :)) Who knows -- he might've switched the subject to raisins if it had been trail mix. As it was, this morning when I came in, he offered me some peanuts and held out the bag.

[elynittria.livejournal.com]

Um...in what language was that email written? It seems to bear only a passing resemblance to English. I have no clue as to what the author of it was trying to convey. (Judging from the second paragraph, he or she didn't either.)

[bironic.livejournal.com]

That last one was for you. *shakes head* It was very, very long, too. One of my co-workers whose second language is English came over to me and said, What on Earth was that?

[catilinarian.livejournal.com]

That's just... epic. I really can't say anything else about it.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

And that was the condensed version.

[topaz-eyes.livejournal.com]

Here, I think this icon will suffice.

Or--cat macros! Everything is better in cat macros. "I have said enough."

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Or would that be "I has said enough"?

That is indeed an apt icon. The email almost made me wish I were still a member of grammar_whores for to be sharing the grammatical *facepalm* with more people.