Urgan Shows Up, Does the Thing

[Jord]

CAN WE EAT IN PEACE. 

 

I assume your co-worker was also a bully as a kid. 

 

I once posted on facebook something like this, "As kids they taught us about the peer pressure of drugs, but no one prepares you for the peer pressure of cake at the office birthday gathering." This is like that but in a different way. 

 

I brought mac and cheese on Monday and a female co-worker said to me "oh someone brought comfort food today" and I wanted to be like "bitch, do you even lift?" which I think is gonna be my new tactic but in better terms like "Oh, do you lift weights too?". Even if the response doesn't make any sense in relation to the comment.

[shaar]

4 minutes ago, Taddea Zhaan said:

 

I once posted on facebook something like this, "As kids they taught us about the peer pressure of drugs, but no one prepares you for the peer pressure of cake at the office birthday gathering." This is like that but in a different way. 

 

 

Aaahhh this quote is great.  I will never fail to be amazed by people's express interest and derogatory snipes towards other people's food choices.  Fascinating and sad all at once..

[Sam Ashen]

6 minutes ago, Taddea Zhaan said:

I assume your co-worker was also a bully as a kid. 

 

Does posting a link to that Stupid Arithmetic Game count as bullying?

http://arithmetic.zetamac.com/

 

Hahaha!  I'm gonna make your head hurt!

 

After listening to the ad blitz, I have come to believe that bullying is a character lesson and everybody has been on both sides of the equation.

 

On the other side, I grew up in a much nicer environment.

[shaar]

9 minutes ago, Sam Ashen said:

 

Does posting a link to that Stupid Arithmetic Game count as bullying?

http://arithmetic.zetamac.com/

 

I just clicked the link to do this again!  Sat and looked at the page for a second.  Paused.... X'ed out.... no....... no.....................

[Sam Ashen]

4 minutes ago, shaar said:

I just clicked the link to do this again!

 

Got 66.

[Urgan]

41 minutes ago, Taddea Zhaan said:

CAN WE EAT IN PEACE. 

 

No, no we can't. Clearly.

 

19 hours ago, ixaera said:

 

uggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh what a terd

 

 

 

 

19 hours ago, miss_marissa said:

FYI I just went to lunch at Panera and got a sandwich with bread as my side and also a cookie.

 

Because carbs. 

 

And fuck you coworker guy.

 

I like your style.

 

42 minutes ago, Taddea Zhaan said:

I assume your co-worker was also a bully as a kid. 

 

Yeah and bonus in that the perpetrator is my boss. 

 

43 minutes ago, Taddea Zhaan said:

I once posted on facebook something like this, "As kids they taught us about the peer pressure of drugs, but no one prepares you for the peer pressure of cake at the office birthday gathering." This is like that but in a different way. 

 

I brought mac and cheese on Monday and a female co-worker said to me "oh someone brought comfort food today" and I wanted to be like "bitch, do you even lift?" which I think is gonna be my new tactic but in better terms like "Oh, do you lift weights too?". Even if the response doesn't make any sense in relation to the comment.

 

Pressure from people who shun bagels but eat doughnuts. Figure that one out, if you dare.

 

Female coworker sounds jealous. I'd go with that angle. Make sensual noises and spin around with the dish in your hands before skipping off to enjoy your lunch. She wishes she could be you right now.

 

39 minutes ago, shaar said:

Aaahhh this quote is great.  I will never fail to be amazed by people's express interest and derogatory snipes towards other people's food choices.  Fascinating and sad all at once..

 

They jealous. I have Chicken minis and hashbrowns this morning and jerkus isn't around to comment on it. Winning At Life.

 

39 minutes ago, Sam Ashen said:

Does posting a link to that Stupid Arithmetic Game count as bullying?

http://arithmetic.zetamac.com/

 

Hahaha!  I'm gonna make your head hurt!

 

No, you're just a troll and trolls by nature insecure and looking for affirma...oh wait.

 

But seriously bullies are often on the receiving end of bullying in or out of their home, that's how they tend to learn that form of interaction, yeah?

 

31 minutes ago, shaar said:

 

I just clicked the link to do this again!  Sat and looked at the page for a second.  Paused.... X'ed out.... no....... no.....................

 

Self-inflicted. 

[Urgan]

4/19/2017 + 4/20/2017

There are some things I don't believe I'll say...

 

Lift

 

Recover

Mag Supp - 15/28

       

Aikido

Bokken - 3/4

 

Words

Writing - 2.5/4

 

1. Survive to see Friday evening. 

2. Go to the gym on Friday morning like I stick to commitments or something. 

3. Write something before 7:30 on Sunday. 

4. Follow up with recruiter. DONE

 

I am proud of my gym session, those rack pulls felt really strong. Did my mag, did Aikido (munetsuki kotegaeshi and finally figuring out that blasted pin enough to do it efficiently more than once consecutively. About time.). Didn't write, but I did think up a way to make this arc have a coherent point, so there's that. No word from recruiter. Not much work to be done lately, bizarrely. Stupid boss tricks. Came home on Thursday, planted a sprouted onion in a pot because that's what you do, napped, ate dinner, went to bed for real. Exciting times.

[miss_marissa]

1 hour ago, Taddea Zhaan said:

CAN WE EAT IN PEACE. 

 

I assume your co-worker was also a bully as a kid. 

 

I once posted on facebook something like this, "As kids they taught us about the peer pressure of drugs, but no one prepares you for the peer pressure of cake at the office birthday gathering." This is like that but in a different way. 

 

I brought mac and cheese on Monday and a female co-worker said to me "oh someone brought comfort food today" and I wanted to be like "bitch, do you even lift?" which I think is gonna be my new tactic but in better terms like "Oh, do you lift weights too?". Even if the response doesn't make any sense in relation to the comment.

Me: "Fucking right I did. Got something to say about it?"

 

 

Crushing your Friday already.

[ixaera]

I have lucked out with my current work environment. ZERO people judge me when i bring out the M&Ms or a giant face-sized cookie, even after I have said stuff out loud about doing Whole 30 (so no, "off the wagon" comments, because they have no way of knowing when it ended). Hasn't always been that way, though. Last workplace I was still struggling with eating (was overweight and always dieting for like 10 years, this was part of those 10 years) and people would say "oh is that good on your diet?" whenever I ate ANYTHING that wasn't a lean cuisine or, like, a pickle. sigh. The two workplaces before that it was the opposite--you'd get the shamestick if you skipped out on the goodies from the events downstairs or the donuts so and so brought, or if you didn't want in on the pizza delivery at my first IT job. "LOL WHY TRY" is what I literally got there (I gained a solid 15 lbs in that 7 months I worked there).

 

People LOVE to meddle and almost none of them have the data to do so at all, even if it weren't rude as hell. I don't have any good pre-loaded responses anymore b/c of aforementioned lucky environment, but... oy. Good luck not just, I don't know, I don't know what the hell I'd do. Continue to eat in front of them, I guess. Maybe flex at them and grunt through the crumbs.

[Jord]

8 minutes ago, ixaera said:

Good luck not just, I don't know, I don't know what the hell I'd do. Continue to eat in front of them, I guess. Maybe flex at them and grunt through the crumbs.

 

Oooo I like this. Next comment I get will be responded to by flexing my guns. 

[Urgan]

1 hour ago, miss_marissa said:

Me: "Fucking right I did. Got something to say about it?"

 

That's one approach. I am too conflict-averse. I thus far have been opting for obtuse responses that do not accept the implied premise, much less help it along. 

 

Case in point, the interaction I just had yesterday. Offender points out the obvious (I have chips), I agree. He utters a sentence that is vaguely hinting at a point that makes an accusation (that I'm eating crap). I respond with something so obtuse that deliberately fails to legitimize his implied accusation (yup, those chips) and thus renders him in the awkward position of either attempting to deliver the barb again or leaving. If he fails to get the message I may have to do something like what I did with my anti-bagel coworker. 

 

10 minutes ago, Taddea Zhaan said:

 

Oooo I like this. Next comment I get will be responded to by flexing my guns. 

 

I may opt to deliberately take another bite and ask what his point is while chewing.

[Sam Ashen]

One thing I learned from my last job was the fact my BMI was less than 40 made me unqualified for management positions.

[miss_marissa]

 

One thing I learned from my last job was the fact my BMI was less than 40 made me unqualified for management positions.

 

 

 

Omg! I should be laughing so hard

Edit:shouldn't

 

 

[Urgan]

12 minutes ago, Sam Ashen said:

One thing I learned from my last job was the fact my BMI was less than 40 made me unqualified for management positions.

 

I think there's an additional requirement to be fluent in BS: spoken, written, and accepted. 

[Sam Ashen]

4 minutes ago, miss_marissa said:

Omg! I should be laughing so hard

 

22 hours ago, Sam Ashen said:

Meanwhile, you are one of two people that make me nervous when I get a notification that you just quoted me.....  I just don't know what's coming.

 

And the other one just checked in!

[Jord]

13 minutes ago, Sam Ashen said:

One thing I learned from my last job was the fact my BMI was less than 40 made me unqualified for management positions.

 

4 minutes ago, miss_marissa said:

 

 

 

 

Omg! I should be laughing so hard

Edit:shouldn't

 

 

 

2 minutes ago, Urgan said:

 

I think there's an additional requirement to be fluent in BS: spoken, written, and accepted. 

 

I also learned yesterday greater than 50% of CEO's are over 6'0". How tall are you, @Sam Ashen?

[Sam Ashen]

Just now, Taddea Zhaan said:

 

 

 

I also learned yesterday greater than 50% of CEO's are over 6'0". How tall are you, @Sam Ashen?

 

5'10"

 

5'9.5" and that half inch is very important.

 

1.77 meters according to my signature.

 

It depends on how long it has been since I have seen my chiropractor.

[Urgan]

5 minutes ago, Sam Ashen said:

 

5'10"

 

5'9.5" and that half inch is very important.

 

1.77 meters according to my signature.

 

It depends on how long it has been since I have seen my chiropractor.

 

Is that including or excluding hair??

[Sam Ashen]

2 minutes ago, Urgan said:

 

Is that including or excluding hair??

 

I forgot about that trick!  MB does it all the time!  She puts her hair up in a bun to make herself look taller!

[Urgan]

5 minutes ago, Sam Ashen said:

 

I forgot about that trick!  MB does it all the time!  She puts her hair up in a bun to make herself look taller!

 

#shortpeopleproblems

[Sam Ashen]

2 hours ago, Urgan said:

No, you're just a troll and trolls by nature insecure and looking for affirma...oh wait.

 

I was also reflecting on middle-high school life from the perspective of being much older.

 

2 hours ago, Urgan said:

But seriously bullies are often on the receiving end of bullying in or out of their home, that's how they tend to learn that form of interaction, yeah?

 

I really don't know.  It depends on the individual, I guess.

[Urgan]

7 minutes ago, Sam Ashen said:

 

I was also reflecting on middle-high school life from the perspective of being much older.

 

Well yeah, what did you think I was talking about?? Surely you were sending your classmates links to brainbending math "games" all the time back then? 

[Sam Ashen]

Just now, Urgan said:

 

Well yeah, what did you think I was talking about?? Surely you were sending your classmates links to brainbending math "games" all the time back then? 

 

Links?  What were those?  Back then, nobody has heard of the Internet.  Some of us were just starting to modem dial-up servers.  I vaguely remember downloading stupid freeware games every once in a while.  I grew up in the country and city was long distance at the time.  Downloading stuff was expensive!

[Urgan]

17 minutes ago, Sam Ashen said:

 

Links?  What were those?  Back then, nobody has heard of the Internet.  Some of us were just starting to modem dial-up servers.  I vaguely remember downloading stupid freeware games every once in a while.  I grew up in the country and city was long distance at the time.  Downloading stuff was expensive!

 

Yeah, Al Gore hadn't invented the Internet yet.

[Urgan]

4/21/2017

Some things we just don't aspire to be, kiddo

 

Lift

 

Recover

Mag Supp - 16/28

       

Aikido

Bokken - 3/4

 

Words

Writing - 2.5/4

 

1. Survive to see Friday evening. 

2. Go to the gym on Friday morning like I stick to commitments or something. 

3. Write something before 7:30 on Sunday. 

4. Follow up with recruiter.

 

So, I did go to the gym on Friday and I'm typing this now, so that makes 1 and 2 DONE.

 

When I arrived at the gym, I was confronted with two occupied squat racks, which would be normal and unremarkable except one was blocked by a dude who had the bar on the pins with 3 plates on each side. He was nowhere to be found for a bit, but he appeared, did some shrugs with the bar, then picked up a big dumbbell and...took it away. Like, he walked 'round the corner and disappeared for several minutes. Then he'd come back and do a few more shrugs. Lather, rinse repeat. I got really REALLY annoyed very quickly, took a bench, put it by the loaded bar and rack, and waited. When he eventually returned, I didn't have to say anything, he said he had two more sets to go. Luckily, the other guy, who was using the other rack correctly*, finished first and I did my OHP sets.

 

*Actually, HE wasn't Doing It Right, either. To start a set of squats, he backed into the bar to unrack it and stepped back to rerack it when he was done. I know the mirrors are annoying, but....

 

While I was doing my OHP, a girl showed up and asked me if the rack with the still loaded bar was available--oh, that's right, he started doing some cable-related exercise while I was doing my sets, I discovered when I looked around. The rat bastard waved it off saying she could have the bar he CBF to unload of its lone pair of 45s, because at one point he'd removed some plates.

 

Now let me take a moment to talk about this girl. She made the questionable choice of wearing a skin-tone pair of spandex shorts with at best a thong on to do squats. I had to be careful where I looked between my DB bench sets, lest I get an impromptu anatomy lesson. It's just WAY too early in the morning for this shit, guys.  

 

The most exciting parts of the rest of the day were I got Chick-fil-A after the gym and at one point a server decided to go AWOL for a bit. Considering what the gym classified as "exciting," this is welcome news. Work was slow, in a word. So was the drive home, whee 3 lane parking lot! Short distance dedication to the guy walking along the side of Hellz Own Road with a tattoo on his lumbar that looked like he back rolled into a red-hot chain link fence. I'm sure that's what he was going for.

 

Yup, done with this week for sure.