Chantry Posted January 12 Posted January 12 Iron Man is a comic book character. Iron Woman is a command uttered by those who are looking for an argument or a reason to sleep on the couch for a few days. 1 5 Quote
John Kloehr Posted January 14 Posted January 14 Not so much the English but the punctuation or lack thereof. Let's eat, Grandma! Compared to: Let's eat grandma. 4 Quote
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted January 16 Posted January 16 (edited) 5 hours ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said: Regarding the above, well... it caught my eye because it reminded me of something. Back in the seventies, I worked with a fella. Gary was a good dude, hired as an analyst. Anyway, he told me a story about his former employer - a certain savings and loan organization run by a rather well-known and notorious husband-and-wife CEO team. Evidently they were not fun to work for... So, Gary's tale was about a buddy of his who also worked there as an analyst. Not sure if he was a direct report to the female half the CEO team, but at any rate, he did have some sort of contratempts with her. Well, sez Gary, his buddy decided to leave. And on his last day, on his way out the door, he walked into her office, bounced to the top of her WHITE desk, dropped trou, and... well... left a deposit of his own. So much for making a statement! Edited January 17 by Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 4 Quote
Alpo Posted January 16 Posted January 16 33 minutes ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said: dropped trou, and... well... left a deposit of his own. I wonder what the charge would be for that? If it was just somebody walking in off the street - not a disgruntled employee - and they came into your office and climbed up on your desk and took a dump -- I don't know about y'all but I would call the cops. And I just wonder what you could charge him with. Same as if somebody walked up and took a dump on my front porch, or on the hood of my truck. There MUST be a crime there somewhere. Quote
John Kloehr Posted January 16 Posted January 16 I had to look it up. There are laws against public defecation or urination, but this is a business presumably not open to the public. Interesting, the first layer of laws would provide a defense if the employer did not provide adequate facilities or access to them. But the next layer... Vandalism, criminal mischief, or possibly public nuisance, depending on jurisdiction. Also civil penalties. Firing (yes, he already quit, but this would at minimum change to a not rehire-able status). Civil suit for damages including cleanup and other business costs like loss of use of the facility and perhaps even lost profits. 2 Quote
Eyesa Horg Posted January 16 Posted January 16 (edited) When the phone company did their big shake up after SBC bought us they moved a lot of management to jobs they had no knowledge or experience in. We were told that we didn't need to know the job, that was the workers job we just have to "administer". Well I was very, very lucky and kept my position as an "Outside Network Manager". In layman's terms.... Cable splicing foreman! Any way the Lady that became my boss and head of engineering had zero experience in the outside plant design or building. She was from the business office and some Central Office time. The woman was just impossible to work with! One morning while dispatching my 30 guys she's on the phone with "Get down here right now", picture your mother saying "what did I tell you" to get a feel of her tone. Wrong morning to be busting my balls. Down the 2 flights I go and thru her office door! "What have you got your panties in a wad over now" I see like a cartoon bubble come out of my mouth 😂. I figure I'm dead meat, her whole bitchy face dropped. She looked at her desk for moment, looked up and nicely asked if I could come back after I do my morning BS. Phew, it was never brought up or mentioned again, but her attitude never got any better about trying to tell me how to do my job that I'd been doing for 17 years and her never done. Edited January 16 by Eyesa Horg Typo 2 Quote
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