Comments on: to annoy or not to annoy

By: bennie

bennie — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 03:49:45 +0000

I’m always honest about my feelings and opinions at work. Unfortunately I have been informed that this is against our “anti-negativity” policy. I am tired of explaining that the negative already exists and I’m just voicing it. “Oh well, time to move on. I might be appreciated somewhere”

By: sig

sig — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 16:27:39 +0000

[Protest, protest] Hey, Brooks, I can assure you I’m mostly well behaved, courteous, proper, polite, hair carefully dishevelled, careful chooser of words, etc. — but I freely admit that some ideas and attitudes are resisting all kind of house-training…

By: Brooks Moses

Brooks Moses — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 05:15:39 +0000

I’m reminded, though, of the person I recently saw arguing that his lack of reasonable courtesy was excused by “I’m just being myself. Isn’t that what we’re supposed to do?“
Of course, any good idea can be used as an excuse; I’m not saying that means it’s not a good idea.

By: Jerry Mead

Jerry Mead — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 23:45:04 +0000

“Time, like anything else, is easy to waste if somebody else is paying for it.“
In the face of such profundity, one should always:
* Bow down in admiration.
* Throw up.
* Re-evaluate the next T-short order.
And the winner is …

By: hugh macleod

hugh macleod — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 21:18:41 +0000

Time, like anything else, is easy to waste if somebody else is paying for it.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 21:05:55 +0000

I’ve found that small company people like to waste time just as much as the big company people, however they usually can’t afford to waste quite so much.

By: Yvonne DiVita

Yvonne DiVita — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 19:42:33 +0000

So, this is a good friend of yours? Giving you stupid advice? Yeah, even our good friends do that. You gotta be you, Hugh. And, we gotta be we. Whoever we are. Anyway, stick to your pen… “big serious big money” ain’t worth rule #1. Time someone buried that under a great cartoon. Wait…I think that someone is you!