I need a ruling on this

Postby **Silentom** » Thu Dec 14, 2017 9:47 am

c2i, who is this dude?

Postby **count2infinity** » Thu Dec 14, 2017 9:52 am

Beats me... lemme try something:

WVU sucks as does Karl Joseph.

Postby **MR25** » Thu Dec 14, 2017 9:53 am

I'm not sure that person understands how this board works...

Postby **robbiestoupe** » Thu Dec 14, 2017 10:26 am

pretty sure he's/it's a Flyers flunky.

Postby **MR25** » Thu Dec 14, 2017 10:27 am

Melvin?

Postby **meow** » Thu Dec 14, 2017 10:28 am

Oh that’s a throw back. Gawd dang

Postby **columbia** » Thu Dec 14, 2017 10:38 am

Melvin?

Nah. He was perfectly polite in his BCS incarnation (and a great warz mod).

Postby **shmenguin** » Thu Dec 14, 2017 10:50 am

if you don't have small children*, you're otherwise healthy, and have no supremely important plans coming up this weekend, then don't spend energy worrying about catching a cold at work. if it's a stomach bug, you have free reign to flip out. a cold? GTFO. you're also in your 20's - it'll be over before it even starts.

* - this isn't because of you spreading viruses to your kids. it's because managing little people is a god damn catastrophe when you're not healthy.

Postby **Troy Loney** » Fri Dec 15, 2017 9:08 am

Someone sent my wife $180 on paypal in September 2017. She's been doing freelance work for a while, but has no idea what it's for. I said take the money and if they come back you pay it back. She's hesitant, what would you do in this case?

YouTube · Postby **mikey** » Fri Dec 15, 2017 9:10 am

What you said is fine...

Postby **shoeshine boy** » Fri Dec 15, 2017 11:13 am

depending on how casual your office environment is I'd consider saying something gently to the boss, especially if it's very clear she's got something contagious.

She pretty much said she was coming in because she didn't trust us to be able to work without her (our other boss is on vacation).

She's a very high-strung individual. Saying something probably would not go over well. I subconsciously gave her the stink eye yesterday when she came over to my desk to ask me something and she gave me the ol' "Is something wrong" deal.

if that's the case then your office has a bigger problem than her selfishness. suck it up buttercup.

though it might be fin to show her how much work gets done if the whole office is out sick.

Postby **MrKennethTKangaroo** » Thu Dec 21, 2017 1:53 pm

at what point do you become close enough with a person that they can only refer to you by your last name? This guy at work refers to everyone by their last name. I do not like it.

Postby **the wicked child** » Thu Dec 21, 2017 2:13 pm

at what point do you become close enough with a person that they can only refer to you by your last name? This guy at work refers to everyone by their last name. I do not like it.

Under normal circumstances, doesn't happen, but I share a first name with another person here so people will often refer to us by our last names instead.

At least people we've worked with for years anyway.

/csb

Postby **count2infinity** » Thu Dec 21, 2017 2:15 pm

I don't think you need to be close to someone to refer to them by their last name... you just need to be of that ilk. It takes a certain type of person to call everyone by their last name.

Postby **slappybrown** » Thu Dec 21, 2017 2:27 pm

at what point do you become close enough with a person that they can only refer to you by your last name? This guy at work refers to everyone by their last name. I do not like it.

unless he qualifies as an elder statesman, this is clown shoes behavior

Postby **Silentom** » Thu Dec 21, 2017 3:03 pm

Brown hath spoken.

Postby **columbia** » Thu Dec 21, 2017 3:04 pm

Kangaroo seems a bit sensitive on this issue.

Postby **MrKennethTKangaroo** » Thu Dec 21, 2017 3:05 pm

I don't mind it in a lot of settings, but the guy in question doesn't know me (or anyone else) very well at all.

There are people that have known me for 5+ years, and if they call me by my last name, I'm fine w/ it.

Postby **count2infinity** » Thu Dec 21, 2017 3:13 pm

Do you have a weird last name? Is that why this upsets you?

YouTube · Postby **mikey** » Thu Dec 21, 2017 3:35 pm

There were four Michaels in my office (out of 60 humans, give or take)...I was often referred to by my last name, as I have been among my friends for most of my life...

One day our legal counsel - a big fan of mine - stated (not in my presence) that it was disrespectful to refer to me by my last name...made a moderate-sized deal about it too apparently...

In any event, that largely subsided, as I defeated all other Michaels and am the only one here now...

I think there needs to be some "friendship" (work or otherwise) in order to cross that line, especially if you were introduced by your first name...just coming right into it and referring to everyone by their last name is kind of bro-ish...and probably shouldn't be considered kosher...

Postby **columbia** » Thu Dec 21, 2017 3:39 pm

I tend to use the phrase "that doesn't seem kosher" about once a month at work. Given that it's the South, some people give me funny looks (aside from the funny looks they give me, normally).

YouTube · Postby **mikey** » Thu Dec 21, 2017 3:49 pm

I actually heard it used in a montage of "things not to say at work" in one of those cheesy 1980's office harassment VHS tape deals...as I tend to do, I canvassed the room to see if any of the Jewish folks took exception to that and they all agreed that it was laughably ridiculous to include that with the other things in the montage...

Postby **count2infinity** » Thu Dec 21, 2017 3:52 pm

There was a Jesse here when I got hired... He started calling me #2, and I would jokingly call him #1 back. The guys on the floor had a different idea. I'm "Smart Jesse", he's "Dumb Jesse".

Postby **Silentom** » Thu Dec 21, 2017 5:05 pm

Loners gotta be alone.

Postby **meow** » Thu Dec 21, 2017 5:41 pm

at what point do you become close enough with a person that they can only refer to you by your last name? This guy at work refers to everyone by their last name. I do not like it.

Is/was this guy an athlete?