Do you have to dumb it down at work?
31The only time I have to dumb it down at work is when my parents come to pick me up.
Do you have to dumb it down at work?
32I only have to dumb it down when I'm on this forum. You people are idiots.
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Do you have to dumb it down at work?
33It may not be that they are stupid but just afraid of appearing to be a freak or not fit in.
I think that at most jobs everyone kind of keeps their lives out, opinions and intelligence out of the picture. The guys talk about sports, I do even though I can't remember the last time I watched a game of any type, or whatever the current TV show is (I do a lot of listening cause I don't watch much TV, figure I can watch reruns in the retirement home and they will seem like new shows). Everyone appears idiot like, as they are putting on a clown suit and trudging through the day to day drudgery of doing their tasks - jobs.
I have no interest in office gossip, I am just there to do a good job and get a paycheck. I have found that people who do not have active lives outside of offices are suspicious of people who do. They suspect that "you have not got your mind right" -- become serious about your responsibility and put your job first. If they find out that you are doing something outside of work and even worse if it is seen as odd or slightly successful -- vengeance will be theirs.
I kind of look at it like performance art. If you saw me at your office you would suspect I was a dull boring person but friendly and innocuous but slightly annoying way. At one point at a job I had fake pictures of a wife and family from a thrift store on my desk - so people just assumed things. I could always bow out of office events due to my family duties.
After I went to graduate school I worked a severial "television" jobs where everyone was doing cool stuff and we could be ourselves. Worst part of that job was going to the never ending gigs of some co-workers bands, whose music was really not my thing but it seemed awkward to no go.
My last job was not like that so I lowered the sub and raised the periscope. Employees were taken to task for going after work to Karaoke bars -- oh my. I remember one morning meeting were people were being given the reem out, I had gone to a Young Gods showcase and was out much later than them but was not a suspect of the nutzo (what else is new) bosses.
My next job looks better -- they have beer taps in the cafeteria and don't like the staff drinking before lunch.
So you co workers might be more intelligent than you think. Intelligence is by in large not rewarded so it is best like in the movie Dawn of the Dead to pretend to be a Zombie -- at work.
On the rare ocasion where worlds have collided and a hipster - who usally thinks I am some kind of boring louser, at the office shows up at one of my gigs they wonder why I am at the bar - I chat with them for a moment before they move on to cooler crowd. Then when I appear on stage I smile at them as they shit themselves.
I think that at most jobs everyone kind of keeps their lives out, opinions and intelligence out of the picture. The guys talk about sports, I do even though I can't remember the last time I watched a game of any type, or whatever the current TV show is (I do a lot of listening cause I don't watch much TV, figure I can watch reruns in the retirement home and they will seem like new shows). Everyone appears idiot like, as they are putting on a clown suit and trudging through the day to day drudgery of doing their tasks - jobs.
I have no interest in office gossip, I am just there to do a good job and get a paycheck. I have found that people who do not have active lives outside of offices are suspicious of people who do. They suspect that "you have not got your mind right" -- become serious about your responsibility and put your job first. If they find out that you are doing something outside of work and even worse if it is seen as odd or slightly successful -- vengeance will be theirs.
I kind of look at it like performance art. If you saw me at your office you would suspect I was a dull boring person but friendly and innocuous but slightly annoying way. At one point at a job I had fake pictures of a wife and family from a thrift store on my desk - so people just assumed things. I could always bow out of office events due to my family duties.
After I went to graduate school I worked a severial "television" jobs where everyone was doing cool stuff and we could be ourselves. Worst part of that job was going to the never ending gigs of some co-workers bands, whose music was really not my thing but it seemed awkward to no go.
My last job was not like that so I lowered the sub and raised the periscope. Employees were taken to task for going after work to Karaoke bars -- oh my. I remember one morning meeting were people were being given the reem out, I had gone to a Young Gods showcase and was out much later than them but was not a suspect of the nutzo (what else is new) bosses.
My next job looks better -- they have beer taps in the cafeteria and don't like the staff drinking before lunch.
So you co workers might be more intelligent than you think. Intelligence is by in large not rewarded so it is best like in the movie Dawn of the Dead to pretend to be a Zombie -- at work.
On the rare ocasion where worlds have collided and a hipster - who usally thinks I am some kind of boring louser, at the office shows up at one of my gigs they wonder why I am at the bar - I chat with them for a moment before they move on to cooler crowd. Then when I appear on stage I smile at them as they shit themselves.
Do you have to dumb it down at work?
34Chapter Two wrote:If I take a book out myself I invariably get asked if I'm on a course. No! I fucking read!
The Bill Hicks quote about the waffle waitress, the one that's in somebody's sig, comes to mind.
Do you have to dumb it down at work?
35When I work my darkroom job, a lot of the time the students assume I am dumb and cannot possibly know how to mix Diafine or D-23 or whatever.
Hello? I am the fucking darkroom tech. I wrote the little student manual you have that explains how to mix all that wackass chemistry you're asking for.
Sometimes I feel like throttling them.
Or telling them to forget about film, just go digital so you will never bother me again.
Hello? I am the fucking darkroom tech. I wrote the little student manual you have that explains how to mix all that wackass chemistry you're asking for.
Sometimes I feel like throttling them.
Or telling them to forget about film, just go digital so you will never bother me again.
Do you have to dumb it down at work?
36davesec wrote:occasionally i also type everything i'm thinking when this one girl comes into my office. it's kind of a game. i can type really well and really fast, and i can stare at her and pretend to listen to her inane conversation while typing out everything i am really thinking. it's enjoyable and cathartic.
this is quite amusing. i dont work. i invented something one time.
Do you have to dumb it down at work?
37Heeby Jeeby wrote: to preserve my veneer of decency i called him a junkie and refused to talk to him anymore.
CLASS!
I'm a cunt you know.
Do you have to dumb it down at work?
38My boss sprayed her laptop with WD40 thinking it was canned air.
my boss.
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Do you have to dumb it down at work?
39My boss turns the computer screen off and on to reset the computer.
simmo wrote:Someone make my carrot and grapefruits smoke. Please.
Do you have to dumb it down at work?
40Big John wrote:My next job looks better -- they have beer taps in the cafeteria and don't like the staff drinking before lunch.
You have found the Great American Job! Salut!
The people I work with are all nice enough folks, but seeing as how I'm not married, don't have kids, and don't own a home, I don't seem to have much to talk about with them. But I don't think they are dumb. They are just in different places in their lives than I happen to be.
Its better than my last job at a bowling alley, were everyone else was a total bro, and I endurred listening to Tool and Pantera during every shift. Those guys were fucking stupid.
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