My Boss Is An Idiot Part 3,198

[GiovanniC]

Discussing a particular department and policy at work where the stupidity of the policy seemed to make the department dumber and the stupidity of the department seemed to make the policy dumber, I mused out loud, "But which came first, the chicken or the egg?"

It was purely rhetorical, as that question tends to be.

He answered sharply, "The chicken!"

I just smiled and let it slide for a second. I didn't want to push this issue... dealing with this particular boss when he goes off on one of his little rants is somewhat uncomfortable. But it was no use.

"The Bible says that God made all the living creatures. It doesn't say that He created the eggs. Asking which came first, the chicken or the egg is a stupid question. God created the chicken and the chicken laid eggs after that. I don't know why people use that phrase when we already have incontrovertible proof of what happened." (He's referring to the Bible as the 'incontrovertible proof').

Encounters like this just make me want to scream. I am a Christian, but the "Genesis-as-literal-fact, Bible-is-proof-of-itself" crowd irritates me to no end. However, he is my boss, so I suffer through his fundie ravings because the answer to the "Which comes first?" question is neither the chicken nor the egg, but my family.

[Demit]

1. Ha! You should send this in as a story idea to "The Office"

Your boss sounds like the dickhead in that series.

[gratuitous]

2. Oh golly

The job market may be very loose with lots of people casting about for any available position, but spiffing up your resume may be a path to consider.

Although it would be fun to ask Dimbulb just where the Bible specifically mentions chickens.

[Marnieworld]

6. Blasphemer!

All creatures in 6 days! And the chickens were on the ark too. Burn! Burn in hell! :sarcasm:

[heebyjeebus]

8. speaking of the office...

Can any of my American cousins here explain the need to change excellent british comedies into kinda lame american ones? No offence to you as a people, you've got some funny people, and I doubt Britain could ever replicate Lenny Bruce, Bill Hicks or Dave Chappelle, but the thing is, we don't for some reason. There should be a deal between our countries, we won't clump blue and red states together, and you stop ruining subtle humour (and rewriting history in film)

[Gold Metal Flake]

19. No, we can't.

See, the people who take Coupling or the Office and turn them into mushed peas and dogshit are not human. Since we are refused access to their DNA we can not determine from wence they come and thus how to destroy them as they emerge.

[getmeouttahere]

20. I love it, heebyjeebus!

Which one do you think failed the most miserably? Couplings?

Our dumbed-down society is even infiltrating Hollywood...look at how many remakes or sequels there are amongst the new releases each week. So to ask this group to come up with an original sitcom...

Thankfully there are indie and foreign films...and of course British comedies. Although they don't seem to show enough of them on BBC America.

[teenagebambam]

23. I'll make you a deal....

...we'll stop co-opting British comedies, if you can get a message to BBC America to actually start showing some good ones again, instead of ENDLESS marathons of the insipid and insulting Benny Hill.

[GiovanniC]

14. I Have an Evil Scheme Up My Sleeve

I'm relocating next year. Right after we get our bonuses and I've taken my vacation. I'm using all my vacation time to move to another state, and using the bonus money for moving expenses.

I let things roll off my back somewhat because I know this is just temporary.

[gratuitous]

22. Good plan

And some time after you leave, there may come a day when you look back at this job with some kind of nostalgia. Save some of these examples so you can remind yourself what kind of horse's patoot you had to put up with.

[Marnieworld]

3. Yup That's an idiot alright.

I feel for you. I don't know how I would deal with the "incontrovertible proof" arguement. IF it's proven then why does it take "faith" to believe it? grrrr.

Please tell me that you don't work in the sciences or math when there actually are absolutes.

What a freak to respond to an ordinary, socially acceptable, metaphor like the chicken and the egg! I am so sure that he is one that says "Merry Christmas" venomously in response to every "Happy Holiday" he gets too.

[GiovanniC]

13. We Work In Accounting

Yes, it's sad.

[Marnieworld]

17. Oh man!

I've never been motivated to use this smiley before:

:banghead:

Wow! Brush up your resume dude. There's a better life out there. There has to be.

Peace. :hug:

[MARALE]

4. I had a similar thing happen to me

I was in a Bible study group and we were studying a book that had letters from a father and son. The son was trying to convince the father to believe in God. On lady in my group said "Why doesn't he just show him what it says in the bible?" I looked at her and said "The father probably doesn't believe what the bible says." She looked at me with a horrified look on her face, like I said something blasphemous. She just could not grasp that concept. I ended up quiting the group.

[Tux]

11. LOL

The son was trying to convince the father to believe in God. On lady in my group said "Why doesn't he just show him what it says in the bible?" I looked at her and said "The father probably doesn't believe what the bible says." She looked at me with a horrified look on her face, like I said something blasphemous. She just could not grasp that concept.

That would have been funny! LOL! I would have said, "Why not the Quran or Torah? Both are God's words too."

Bible as literal worked in the 12th century but we're beyond that now. Time for reality.

[aeolian]

5. Actually, I think some sort of freakish feathered lizard came first

:evilgrin:

[Marnieworld]

7. But then what came before that?

The freakish feathered lizard or the egg? It can go on and on. Submit and stop thinking. It's so much simpler that way.

[aeolian]

9. Well, a lizard with slightly fewer feathers, of course

and so on back to that first "stem cell"

Thank LordGodSaviorJesus that it wasn't harvested for evil science. Not that it ever existed in the first place.

You're right...submit...easier...

[Marnieworld]

10. 2 more posts to go aeolian

Congrats! :toast: It's like a DU Bar Mitzvah. :party:

[smoogatz]

12. Chickens ARE feathered lizards

A chicken is basically a scaled-down T-Rex with a beak instead of teeth. If they were twelve feet tall, we'd be prey.

[NoPasaran]

24. So would dinosaurs taste like chicken?

Or more like duck?

[GiovanniC]

25. Or Do Chickens Taste Like Dinosaurs?

It appears we have come full circle, as usual.

[Pockets]

15. I'm sorry...

You should not have religion pushed down your throat at work unless you're working for a church. It also seems that using that kind of flawed logic (using faulty assumptions) would interfere with making adequate business decisions.

[stopbush]

16. You're going to hell in a handbasket!!

Of course, your boss will need to point out that once you get to hell, the handbasket will probably catch fire.

I assume he'd also disagreed that Jesus ever tap-danced...

[MsUnderstood]

18. Your boss has obviously been in the advanced invite of. . .

http://www.answersingenesis.org/museum/

The creationist museum. Opening in in 2007 with a scaled replica of the arc and an exhibit all about famines and plagues.

Heard the guy in charge on Mike Signoreli yesterday and he informed the listeners that dinosaurs existed with man and were the size of sheep.

[myrna minx]

21. Please submit this to

http://www.overheardintheoffice.com/
Your story is perfect for this site...

[geniph]

26. Fish lay eggs. Reptiles lay eggs. Chickens came later.

Nobody said you were talking about a CHICKEN's egg. Obviously eggs came first.

I wish somebody would ask a fundy xtian sometime why God made men with nipples. Is it just to have something to attach the leash to?