What not to say at a meeting (I actually heard this at work today)

[Zavulon]

"Hey, fuckhead, I'm talking to you."

It was directed at some guy who wasn't paying attention (not me, although a lot of the Repugs in my office would definitely call me a fuckhead, too) to the lecture this maniac was giving.

Meeting over. Desk being cleaned out. I didn't know this because I do my best to avoid meetings, but this guy was on his last legs anyway after calling someone "rectum face" at a previous meeting a few months back. I don't know what's more amazing - that someone used a term like that at a meeting, or that the gossip machine at work didn't trickle down to me about that incident until today's.

At any rate, I thought you should all know this. The temptation to use the term "fuckhead" at meetings can be strong. Try to keep yourself from doing so. :)

[WindRavenX]

1. wow

Now, granted, I have a short fuse sometimes, but I'm *verrrrry* careful about any harsh language at work because in Utah...anything more than a "gosh, darn it!" might get me canned...:scared:

But "fuckhead"? LOL.

[av8rdave]

2. I spend a lot of time in Salt Lake...you do have to watch what you say there!

[WindRavenX]

4. I'm from NJ. Not saying "fuck" or "douchebag" every other word is...weird

:rofl:

[av8rdave]

17. It's actually better there than it used to be (Salt Lake) but it has a long way to go

[GalleryGod]

20. Speak for yourself...MOST of us from this State speak English.

:rofl:

without the so very boring F:nuke: bombs in place of adjectives,verbs, nouns, and adjectives.

[BuelahWitch]

3. Shit honey, I LEARNED HOW to swear in Utah

Never uttered my first "fuck" till I crossed the border. Of course, I didn't start right then, it took me a few years...

[guitar man]

5. that's all it took

...to get the guy canned? Shit, I would have been out of here a long time ago under those circumstances.

[Little Wing]

6. It's true

'fuckhead' is reserved for customers

[Serendipitous]

7. You mean it's "headfuck"

:shurg:

[grace0418]

8. I would get fired for saying that but I doubt anyone in management at my office

(i.e. someone who would be running a meeting) would get in much trouble for doing it. My office is run by a sorority. Once you're in the sorority, very little can get you kicked out of it and very little is considered "going too far."

I remember one Christmas party where I somehow got briefly trapped at the manager's table. Apparently they forgot I was there because they started openly mocking a guy in my office who had just been fired. This guy was so hard-working and talented and everyone (except the den mother of the sorority) loved him. He also happened to have Tourette's syndrome. He never told me this but I'm 99.9% sure. It was no big deal, he could function just fine and his tics were limited to clearing his throat and making a few little noises. But they felt it appropriate to mock him right in front of me. I tried defending him but just got icy stares.

Another time a woman in my department, I'll call her "Maxine", quit because she could not stand working with one of our especially annoying bosses. Before Maxine quit, she got into a fight with a coworker was was super laxy and stupid and Maxine always had to cover for her. Maxine spoke to our boss about the argument and was told to basically shut up and deal with it. That was the last straw. Shortly after Maxine left, the idiot coworker got an anonymous email from someone telling her she was an idiot and had no talent. So naturally everyone immediately blamed Maxine, even though lots of people didn't like this girl. Without a shred of actual proof or professionalism, two of my bosses started going around the office and calling Maxine a "psycho bitch" who was out for revenge. Even if Maxine did it (which she swears she didn't and couldn't believe anyone would think she even cared enough to do it), it's completely inappropriate for management to be calling her foul names in front of everyone.

Then of course, there's the lovely incident that happened just last week (last story, I swear). My friend and coworker was fired out of the blue for no good reason. She was hard-working, talented, competent, positive and friendly. She also happened to be 8 months pregnant. Of course, my company doesn't want to get in any legal trouble for firing a pregnant woman so they dispatched the vice president to come over and talk to us about it because she "knew we would be upset". It's more likely that they were building their legal case, but I digress. The VP proceeded to tell us that my friend was doing a really bad job and didn't really have any skills so they had to fire her. Honest to maude. Uh, first of all, that is a total lie. Second of all, her position wasn't exactly rocket science. She was doing production work on children's books. Anyone with an art degree and some basic knowledge of the Adobe programs can do it. Third of all, it's incredibly unprofessional for upper management to be bad-mouthing a coworker and friend of ours to our faces. Lastly, she was making next to nothing. Even if she wasn't doing a great job, they could've afforded to keep her on through her maternity leave and several months beyond for very little money. It's not like she was embezzling money or selling drugs in the bathroom or anything. I personally hope she sues and ends up getting a lot more money than keeping her around would've cost them.

The best part of the VP's little speech was when she said "You know, I really love my job but when stuff like this happens it's really hard to be me." Yeah, not nearly as hard as it is to be unemployed woman pregnant with her second child.

[wildhorses]

9. gawd amighty i just love corporate america

:sarcasm:


included the emoticon cos i have been told that it is not my strong suit:P

[grace0418]

10. Yeah, me too.

I just LOVE it. :eyes:

[Kajsa]

12. Sorry to be so blunt, Grace,

( acute back pain is like truth serum)

but it sounds like you work for more than one A-Hole.

This is one of the reasons I work in ( the field of ) education.

But we sure have our share of buttheads in high positions.
Mucho politics decide who gets hired( or not ) and
who get tenured( or not).It's not based entirely on experience
and job performance.

And this is in secondary public education!

[grace0418]

13. No apologies necessary. You're absolutely right. It's pretty much a requirement

that you be a gossiping, ass-kissing, back-stabbing a-hole to get into upper management here.

Hence, I will never be promoted.

[Redbear]

14. It sounds like your friend may have a good gender discrimination claim

No one is going to believe that she was fired for any reason but her pregnancy and if I remember correctly by federal law discrimination based on pregnancy is treated the same as gender discrimination.

[grace0418]

16. I don't know what she's going to do but

I sincerely hope she sues. I really do.

[Zavulon]

15. Interesting stories.

Sorry to hear they're true, but thanks for telling us.

Getting fired where I work is awfully difficult, but it was done today. Sounds like someone should clean our your management.

[WhollyHeretic]

11. Some people are a little oblivious about how they talk at work

This woman I work with is an extreme example. We work at various offices around New England working on computers. We were at a building one day and she decides this is a good time to call her son's school to talk about some of the problems he was having, this is fine but it's how she did it that was the problem. She went into an office, didn't close the door and proceeded to talk very loudly to the school. She went on and on about how his father had been in jail and was a sex offender. I was about thirty feet away in a cubicle and could here her clear as day. This went on for about 15 minutes until someone from the office went and closed the door to the office she was in.

[Dude_CalmDown]

18. I work in Finance. Both my bosses dropped the F-bomb in my interview

I fucking love our meetings.

[Left Is Write]

19. Wow. I actually said "God dammit" and "fuck" on the air one memorable night....

back in my radio days.

I didn't get fired, and I didn't even get into trouble.

I have never, however, called anyone a fuckhead in a meeting.

[fortyfeetunder]

21. That person needs an alternate phrase list

Like he could have said, "Can you please pay attention to what I am saying?"
And he would have meant, "Hey f**khead, I'm talking to you"

[XemaSab]

22. The temptation to start sentances with the words "Look, Bitch,"

is occasionally pretty damn strong. :P

[idgiehkt]

23. wow

I had a boss talk like that to people...just an arsehole. I eventually got him fired...I can be one patient beeyotch when it comes to waiting for tides to turn in my favor.

Worst thing ever said to me at work was by a semi-friend. My girlfriend worked with me and everyone there knew we were together. I was a forklift driver and was restocking the line with my lift, and was telling some people to make room for a pallet and dude shouts out in front of the whole line 'yeah, because we know how much (insert my name) likes putting things in holes". Dead silence after that because it was a firing offense what he said and he knew it...you could see it on his face the minute he said it. I didn't go to h.r. about it though, I just pulled him aside and talked to him about it and told him it was innappropriate and not to let it happen again. He was so freaking relieved, lol.

[rockymountaindem]

24. "Rectum face"

:rofl: