Friday, March 03, 2006
Do I look like I can be easily bullshitted?
I really want to put my stupid stories of day-to-day life up here more often, but I seem to usually run out of time. It's a Friday night, I'm a little bit drunk, I'm listening to The Killers because Beth says her kids like them, and I'm supposed to be in touch with music. Oh, and one of my guys apparently thought I was supremely bullshittable yesterday.
On Wednesday, one of my network guys (let's call him Laurel) had a big, loud, curse-word-filled fight with one of the desktop support guys (let's call him Hardy). After Beth (same Beth with the kids who listen to The Killers) intervened, the two guys kissed and made up. I missed the whole damn thing by being in another meeting. Maybe I'm lucky, but maybe it would have been better if I'd been there. Who knows?
Anyway, Hardy called for me when I wasn't able to take a call. I figured it was about the fight, so I decided to get Laurel's side of the story.
Me: "Hey, Laurel, any reason you can think of why Hardy would be calling me?"
Laurel: "Hardy? No, what does he want?"
Me: "I'm not sure. I figured I'd ask you first."
Laurel: "I have no idea."
Me: "Well, Laurel, I've heard some rumors."
Laurel: "What kind of rumors?"
Me: "That maybe you and he had some words."
Laurel: "Where would you hear crap like that?"
Me: "OK, Laurel, I heard from Beth that you and Hardy had a big fight with a lot of yelling and shouting and cursing, that somebody else was so shocked they had to ask Beth to step in, and that Beth had to send you all to your neutral corners and actually did the work in 8 seconds that you all were so upset about."
Laurel: "Hmm... Yeah, that's about right."
Did he really think that the whole innocent act would work? Apparently so. The two jackasses worked it out themselves, but the jackass who reports to me thought that I would never have any clue that he started a huge screaming cursing fight!
I need another beer. I'm going to update this more often. It's the best place I have to vent, because God knows that nobody is reading this!
Thanks for not listening.
On Wednesday, one of my network guys (let's call him Laurel) had a big, loud, curse-word-filled fight with one of the desktop support guys (let's call him Hardy). After Beth (same Beth with the kids who listen to The Killers) intervened, the two guys kissed and made up. I missed the whole damn thing by being in another meeting. Maybe I'm lucky, but maybe it would have been better if I'd been there. Who knows?
Anyway, Hardy called for me when I wasn't able to take a call. I figured it was about the fight, so I decided to get Laurel's side of the story.
Me: "Hey, Laurel, any reason you can think of why Hardy would be calling me?"
Laurel: "Hardy? No, what does he want?"
Me: "I'm not sure. I figured I'd ask you first."
Laurel: "I have no idea."
Me: "Well, Laurel, I've heard some rumors."
Laurel: "What kind of rumors?"
Me: "That maybe you and he had some words."
Laurel: "Where would you hear crap like that?"
Me: "OK, Laurel, I heard from Beth that you and Hardy had a big fight with a lot of yelling and shouting and cursing, that somebody else was so shocked they had to ask Beth to step in, and that Beth had to send you all to your neutral corners and actually did the work in 8 seconds that you all were so upset about."
Laurel: "Hmm... Yeah, that's about right."
Did he really think that the whole innocent act would work? Apparently so. The two jackasses worked it out themselves, but the jackass who reports to me thought that I would never have any clue that he started a huge screaming cursing fight!
I need another beer. I'm going to update this more often. It's the best place I have to vent, because God knows that nobody is reading this!
Thanks for not listening.
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