Re: Tales from the Office Space: Complain about your coworkers
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2022 6:33 am
Leaving false strength conventions behind
https://www.exodus-strength.com/forum/
It is like some people do not understand that if you use a word as the name of something which is not good, the word develops negative connotations, and renaming the original entity only multiplies the negative connotation to another word except for a brief period of transition when no one knows wtf anyone is talking about. Example: Idiot, Retarded, Challenged, Special needs, Developmentally delayed, ( I may have the order wrong) The middle three are used as insults, but each was a replacement for a previous word which had become an imsult. Idiot itself replaced simple to some extent, but primarily it seems in the interest of precision (Idiot, Imbecile, and Moron conveyed a lot of information as descriptors of the differently abled).
Vice wrote: France’s highest court has ruled that a man fired by a consulting firm for failing to go out for drinks with his colleagues was wrongfully dismissed.
The man, referred to as Mr T. in court documents, was fired by Paris-based Cubik Partners in 2015 because he refused to take part in team-building activities and weekend social events, which his lawyers argued included “excessive alcoholism” and “promiscuity.”
Mr. T claimed that the “fun” culture in the company involved “humiliating and intrusive practices” including crude nicknames and sharing his bed with another employee during work functions.
The company’s lawyers argued that the former employee sometimes had a “brittle and demotivating tone” toward subordinates, and struggled with feedback and differing points of view.
But the Court of Cassation ordered Cubik Partners to pay Mr T. €3,000 (about £2,500) in damages, and said it would look into his demand for a further €461,406 (about £400,000) at a later date.
I admire his ability to say so little with so many words.Allentown wrote: ↑Fri Dec 02, 2022 6:28 am "With regard to this request, I understand the desire to ensure proper execution of information build in our key systems. I know you are aware that our BRD is key to capturing these build needs in specific BUC's along with specific ownership. My understanding is that the 'official approvals' are obtained from those stakeholders/ leadership associated with each BUC area of ownership."
Signed: MS, PMP, CSM who we had to talk off a panic ledge a few weeks ago about an emergency issue online which was finally resolved when he showed his screen and I informed him he had his magnification set too high and he just needed to scroll down on his screen.
Just a normal day in France.cgeorg wrote: ↑Mon Nov 28, 2022 12:38 pm https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k8je9/ ... un-at-work
Vice wrote: France’s highest court has ruled that a man fired by a consulting firm for failing to go out for drinks with his colleagues was wrongfully dismissed.
The man, referred to as Mr T. in court documents, was fired by Paris-based Cubik Partners in 2015 because he refused to take part in team-building activities and weekend social events, which his lawyers argued included “excessive alcoholism” and “promiscuity.”
Mr. T claimed that the “fun” culture in the company involved “humiliating and intrusive practices” including crude nicknames and sharing his bed with another employee during work functions.
The company’s lawyers argued that the former employee sometimes had a “brittle and demotivating tone” toward subordinates, and struggled with feedback and differing points of view.
But the Court of Cassation ordered Cubik Partners to pay Mr T. €3,000 (about £2,500) in damages, and said it would look into his demand for a further €461,406 (about £400,000) at a later date.
I've been told that, if you work for yourself or own the means of production, it ain't so bad.
I won't comment on the meat of this (don't feel like arguing with offended persons about whether or not the fetish is real or imagined in "post-racial America"), but if you think your manager or HR (if there is one) is going to do something about it, I would highly advise you report it.EggMcMuffin wrote: ↑Tue Dec 13, 2022 3:58 amI don't work in an office but this chick at my shitty retail job has one of those fucked up fetishes for Latino dudes and is constantly sexually harassing me and every other Spanish speaking person in the building. She has a habit of claiming anyone who rebukes her advances is sexually harassing *her*. She does this awesome thing where she will talk to us in broken Spanish in a really gross, patronizing manner.
Every workplace is weird or sucks in its own special way.EggMcMuffin wrote: ↑Tue Dec 13, 2022 3:58 am
Does work ever stop being pure unmitigated torture? Can I just have one normal workplace? Like I understand that I am the modern day equivalent of a serf but Lord Have Mercy
That happens when you're attractive my dude.EggMcMuffin wrote: ↑Tue Dec 13, 2022 3:58 am I don't work in an office but this chick at my shitty retail job has one of those fucked up fetishes for Latino dudes and is constantly sexually harassing me and every other Spanish speaking person in the building. She has a habit of claiming anyone who rebukes her advances is sexually harassing *her*. She does this awesome thing where she will talk to us in broken Spanish in a really gross, patronizing manner.
Does work ever stop being pure unmitigated torture? Can I just have one normal workplace? Like I understand that I am the modern day equivalent of a serf but Lord Have Mercy
Uh, yep.CheekiBreekiFitness wrote: ↑Wed Dec 14, 2022 3:44 amEggMcMuffin wrote: ↑Tue Dec 13, 2022 3:58 am I don't work in an office but this chick at my shitty retail job has one of those fucked up fetishes for Latino dudes and is constantly sexually harassing me and every other Spanish speaking person in the building. She has a habit of claiming anyone who rebukes her advances is sexually harassing *her*. She does this awesome thing where she will talk to us in broken Spanish in a really gross, patronizing manner.
Does work ever stop being pure unmitigated torture? Can I just have one normal workplace? Like I understand that I am the modern day equivalent of a serf but Lord Have Mercy
That happens when you're attractive my dude.
No worries at all, dude. I was not offended by it, but I figured if the (original) post was going to be addressed at all, there was more to say on the issue. I took it upon myself to do the extra addressing, since it is a situation that I (and others who probably don't even post or lurk here) am intimately familiar with.CheekiBreekiFitness wrote: ↑Wed Dec 14, 2022 10:32 am @Renascent My post was mostly lighthearted, and a way to tell @EggMcMuffin he's probably good looking. If it offended you or anyone, it wasn't my intention, and I apologize. And of course I agree with you that sexual harassment is never OK in any situation.
The forbidden R-word is sometimes one of those.topics where you can see sometimes the apple doesn:t fall as far from the Rippetoe tree as it would like to think.Renascent wrote: ↑Wed Dec 14, 2022 9:34 am No, D.
I was taking a shit and decided to check the boards, as is habit.
And I was dismayed, D.
Dismayed.
I (reasonably) did not expect any replies to address the sensitive subtext of Muffin's post, despite the fact that the post itself wasn't simply a lamentation of sexual advances from a coworker in whom Muffin has no interest.
The (seeming) implication that followed -- that workplace sexual harassment is an honor reserved for attractive people -- was odd, especially considering the glaring lack of acknowledgement for the rest of the quoted text.
And the type of behavior described -- especially in a work setting -- is still harassment if it's not welcome. Doesn't matter if the recipient is attractive, ugly, smelly, or whatever. People get sexually harassed at work even when the aggressor (please don't recoil at that word) doesn't demonstrably find them attractive.
I hope you are not dismayed that you cannot get that kind of, uh, reaction out of me.
I still love you, D. We just can't see eye to eye.
Mwah.
Thought it was just me.ChasingCurls69 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 14, 2022 1:21 pmThe forbidden R-word is sometimes one of those.topics where you can see sometimes the apple doesn:t fall as far from the Rippetoe tree as it would like to think.Renascent wrote: ↑Wed Dec 14, 2022 9:34 am No, D.
I was taking a shit and decided to check the boards, as is habit.
And I was dismayed, D.
Dismayed.
I (reasonably) did not expect any replies to address the sensitive subtext of Muffin's post, despite the fact that the post itself wasn't simply a lamentation of sexual advances from a coworker in whom Muffin has no interest.
The (seeming) implication that followed -- that workplace sexual harassment is an honor reserved for attractive people -- was odd, especially considering the glaring lack of acknowledgement for the rest of the quoted text.
And the type of behavior described -- especially in a work setting -- is still harassment if it's not welcome. Doesn't matter if the recipient is attractive, ugly, smelly, or whatever. People get sexually harassed at work even when the aggressor (please don't recoil at that word) doesn't demonstrably find them attractive.
I hope you are not dismayed that you cannot get that kind of, uh, reaction out of me.
I still love you, D. We just can't see eye to eye.
Mwah.