We were changing office buildings and were packing our desks for the move. They have us boxes and bags for everything. The bags were oddly large, which I commented on by saying “these bags could fit a small child”. Apparently some people took offense at that, as I was later sent up to HR to explain myself.
“Well… They were bags, they were large, and a small child could probably fit in them. What part of what I said is inappropriate?”
I find that often when you make people explain why they’re offended by something, suddenly they can’t figure it out. This will either make them realize it’s not actually an issue, or more likely this will only make them angry due to the embarrassment they now feel for not being able to articulate it.
I like my workplace because I don’t get in trouble for stuff like that. I was once talked to - asked if I had been snarky. I explained that I was and why they deserved it. I was basically told that I was right but it doesn’t really help anything so try to avoid it in the future.
At an old job in slack I said something like “for fuck’s sake, it returns a 200 OK even when there’s an error” and one of the directors was like “Language, please.”
So I started saying “fudge” instead of “fuck”. “This deployment is fudged up. are we going to roll it back?”
They “let me go” a couple months later, but joke’s on them I’m at a different job doing better work for double pay.
Thankfully I never did get formally reprimanded for cussing…
But I did stop swearing in commit summaries after multiple colleagues, over the span of months, laughed when visiting the repo for an internal tool whose latest commit, boldly displayed on top, was as I recall, fuck this or fuck you (and to be fair the pipeline system was being a prick, but I don’t suppose that needed to be broadcasted so widely).
My wife and I have a young Belgian Malinois, and at about a year and a half of age she started flopping down onto the floor in a very loud and obnoxious manner whenever she was frustrated or in a fit of pique. Being very bony, she makes a loud thump.
It wasn’t long after she started this that my wife remarked,
“It sounds like a body hitting the trunk of a car.”
It was all I could do to turn to her and query just how many dead bodies she had to have transported in her car’s trunk to get that intimately familiar with the sound.
We were changing office buildings and were packing our desks for the move. They have us boxes and bags for everything. The bags were oddly large, which I commented on by saying “these bags could fit a small child”. Apparently some people took offense at that, as I was later sent up to HR to explain myself.
“Well… They were bags, they were large, and a small child could probably fit in them. What part of what I said is inappropriate?”
I find that often when you make people explain why they’re offended by something, suddenly they can’t figure it out. This will either make them realize it’s not actually an issue, or more likely this will only make them angry due to the embarrassment they now feel for not being able to articulate it.
I think I deeply respect you, stranger.
I like my workplace because I don’t get in trouble for stuff like that. I was once talked to - asked if I had been snarky. I explained that I was and why they deserved it. I was basically told that I was right but it doesn’t really help anything so try to avoid it in the future.
Edit: spelling
At an old job in slack I said something like “for fuck’s sake, it returns a 200 OK even when there’s an error” and one of the directors was like “Language, please.”
So I started saying “fudge” instead of “fuck”. “This deployment is fudged up. are we going to roll it back?”
They “let me go” a couple months later, but joke’s on them I’m at a different job doing better work for double pay.
Thankfully I never did get formally reprimanded for cussing…
But I did stop swearing in commit summaries after multiple colleagues, over the span of months, laughed when visiting the repo for an internal tool whose latest commit, boldly displayed on top, was as I recall,
fuck thisorfuck you(and to be fair the pipeline system was being a prick, but I don’t suppose that needed to be broadcasted so widely).That’s the sign of really good HR, you’re totally right never do it again… :)
This was when you realized that everyone around you was an idiot and you found a new job, right?
I had actually already been looking for a few weeks by that point.
My wife and I have a young Belgian Malinois, and at about a year and a half of age she started flopping down onto the floor in a very loud and obnoxious manner whenever she was frustrated or in a fit of pique. Being very bony, she makes a loud thump.
It wasn’t long after she started this that my wife remarked,
“It sounds like a body hitting the trunk of a car.”
It was all I could do to turn to her and query just how many dead bodies she had to have transported in her car’s trunk to get that intimately familiar with the sound.
Bro, I think your wife has downvoted you
Or maybe somebody else that’s thrown a lot of dead bodies in a trunk 😂
tbh that’s a strange thing to remark…
Not enough for HR to step in.
Or a large one if you cut it into pieces.
That’s on you dude