Wanna get away?
June 7th, 2005
Note to self: Know your audience.
Was at work today, RIPPING into a new concept for the naming of some icons in our new office facility with a coworker. Now, in fairness, the names were extra-lame- does anyone REALLY want to attend a meeting in a room called, “The Zoo” or “The Playground?”
However, after my diatribe was complete, my extremely polite and/or masochistic coworker announced, “Actually, I submitted those names. I won the Conference Room Naming Contest. I guess you don’t read the newsletter.”
No, um, I guess I don’t. World, please swallow me now.
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11 Comments Add your own
1. Yesrie | June 7th, 2005 at 4:03 pm
Yabbut who held the contest? National Lampoon? The Onion?
LMAO. Our conference rooms were all testosterony: XKE, Mustang, Triumph, Cobra, GTO :>
2. Jamie | June 7th, 2005 at 5:06 pm
Oh nooooooooo! How embarassing. That is certainly something I would have done. In fact, I can remember specific situations where I put my foot in my mouth, and I’ll never forget that white-hot, nauseous feeling I got when I realized what I’d just done.
Don’t worry- maybe the person will forget all about it!
3. Tania | June 7th, 2005 at 6:57 pm
Yum, yum, tasty foot.
4. Tania | June 7th, 2005 at 7:00 pm
By the way, I find that the best thing to do, when caught insulting someone, is never, never to take it back. In fact, to attack. In your situation, after so-and-so confronted you with their authorship of the stupid names, you would have had to have said, “You? You did this to us? Thanks to you, I’m going to meetings in the Zoo? Great job, Charlie. Thanks a lot.” This is, of course, mean, but better that they feel bad than you do. And that completes today’s lesson at Tania’s Finishing School for Assholes!
5. BarbaraFromCalifornia | June 7th, 2005 at 8:47 pm
Those men and their hormones!
They should have named things after fragrances…sweeter, nicer and more humane.
6. Atreau | June 7th, 2005 at 11:13 pm
I think if it were allowed, men would seriously spend the majority of the time swinging their penises around!
7. Kate | June 8th, 2005 at 9:41 am
Once again, you are hilarious.
I never read the stuff we are supposed to read at work either. My boss sends information around with a “routing slip” for all of us to sign off on and pass to the next person on the list.
When I started here, I assumed that signing the slip meant that I had read it, and since I never read any of that stuff (it’s really boring!) I never passed them on. Then my coworkers started figuring out that when ever one of these things was missing, it was on my desk buried under a pile of paper.
Finally it dawned on me that I didn’t have to read them at all, I could just sign off and pass them on! What a relief. I still got tenure.
It’s amazing how often “what the hell” is the correct answer. But it can get you in trouble sometimes! I still think it’s worth it though, over all.
8. WinterWheat | June 8th, 2005 at 10:38 am
Damn. I bet you weren’t wearing your mind-flavored shoes either.
9. WinterWheat | June 8th, 2005 at 10:39 am
Um, that was supposed to read mint-flavored. MINT.
WTF?
*runs to see if pupils show evidence of accidental drug overdose*
10. Anonymous | June 8th, 2005 at 12:29 pm
why does everyone name conference rooms all the time now? and why don’t we ever name them anything true? I vote for the Kafka Room and the Hell is Other People Area.
xo
thalia
11. insomni | June 9th, 2005 at 10:01 am
I agree. Who came up with the bright idea of naming conference rooms? Is this supposed to somehow make the workplace more interesting? Where I work (an airline credit union), the conference rooms are named after cities with major airports (Minneapolis/St. Paul, Denver, Memphis, etc.). I can never remember where they are and I’ve been here for 3 years.
Why not use a combination of the floor and compass direction? 3NE is in the northeast corner of the third floor. Boring, but functional. Oh wait… that would make too much sense!
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