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Cracking up at the office
What is it about the blunt truth that makes people crack up?
The Finance Manager just cracked up when I calmly described a week's worth of effort on my part (digging through folders and researching detailed cost analysis) as "Useless."
Last week I told the Accounting person that "I went through those files, did all of 2003. Then I needed to sit down." She burst out laughing.
I described in chat how someone complained to me, saying my Percy isn't all like theirs so they didn't know if I ever read their stories. I told them, yes, I had read their stories, and no, I didn't like them.
Another time someone was irritated with some copies I made: "why is there a line through this?" -- "Because it's a shitty copier." She stopped cold. Nodded. And said, "It is a shitty copier." Then told her manager, who laughed for several days.
I have no point. I'm just making observations. *blinks*
The Finance Manager just cracked up when I calmly described a week's worth of effort on my part (digging through folders and researching detailed cost analysis) as "Useless."
Last week I told the Accounting person that "I went through those files, did all of 2003. Then I needed to sit down." She burst out laughing.
I described in chat how someone complained to me, saying my Percy isn't all like theirs so they didn't know if I ever read their stories. I told them, yes, I had read their stories, and no, I didn't like them.
Another time someone was irritated with some copies I made: "why is there a line through this?" -- "Because it's a shitty copier." She stopped cold. Nodded. And said, "It is a shitty copier." Then told her manager, who laughed for several days.
I have no point. I'm just making observations. *blinks*
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So she was assuming you didn't write Percy the (obviously correct) way she did because you hadn't read her fics? That's totally insane. Narcissistic, much?
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Icarus
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I think a trigger may be some thought or memory associated with the words said to initiate 'cracking up'.
~NAA
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Well, easily rectified.
And the copier thing? I have had a very similar moment, so this cracked me up as well.
I think the funniness of blunt truth is that it is so seldom heard. So, whenever a person does make a straightforward statement that is even half-amusing, you crack up half because of the funniness and half in disbelief that the person actually said it! (and reading over that statement, I am amazed at my incoherence)
Oh well. *waves hi*
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Icarus
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thanks,
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Icarus
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it's not a big deal if you don't feel you have the time.
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Icarus
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Icarus
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besides that, i know you don't follow my posts, mainly because you can't - they're all friends locked, and i like to keep my friends and friends of lists as even as possible.
i didn't mean to offend, but i honestly didn't think you would mind.
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Frankly, even if your posts weren't friends-locked, I probably wouldn't read them often, because I can't keep up with my friendslist. I refuse to filter or unfriend, because I think that would be rude on my part when people have been kind enough to friend me.
Icarus
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that's why I didn't think it would be such a big deal - no one else I have asked has seemed to mind.
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I don't. But, it is rude.
I suspect that other people just aren't being straight with you. Every time I've heard of someone asking another person to unfriend them (which is relatively rare and always for personal reasons), people make polite noises in their journals and then bitch to their friends, "clearly unable *snark, snark, snark." I hate that shit. I'd rather just tell you the truth.
Icarus
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i apologize for the rudeness, i tried to be as polite about it as possible. but sitting back and looking at my info page and going 'god, i wish it didn't look like that,' isn't that much fun either.
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Icarus