Sitting in the office, slaving away & I'm listening to a workmate telling me about her 5 year-old who "just loves watching horror movies" like "that Freddy Krueger" or the Exorcist. Apparently, she's *such* a fan of gory shlockers that she's got the entire Child's Play series and she "watches them all the time, like". When asked if she didn't feel that 18-cert films might be a little inappropriate for a 5 year-old, I was told "well, I did it when I was wee"...
I've also had the rare pleasure of having the piss ripped for reading the Independent at lunch - "are yeh checking your stocks & shares?"
That, plus the 30c-plus heat in here, a brain-dead boss with a shocking laugh & a morning full of sorting out job applications is sending me over the edge.
Anyone got a good reason *not* to wield the stapler of doom & slay everyone in my office? Anyone else having a similar day?
I reckon you should go for it.
Attack, now, when they least expect it!
My fishy legions are right behind you!*
- Trout
* Fishy legions may be in the pub at the time
You are Dirty Frank.Dirty Frank cannot put citizens lives at risk,for fear of blowing his cover.Justice Department needs you Dirty Frank!
But yeah,don't you just hate work sometimes?My day's not near as bad as yours DF,I'm just numbingly bored awaiting to move posts.
Keep the DF pecker up!
M.
I feel like that sometimes. Mostly I just argue with myself for a few hours which isn't very productive.
At least that freak in the mirror stays quiet...
The thing is, I don't mind the work, or the pace of work today, but the people I have to work with just make it such a chore! At least the last place had a good crew...
Blimey, Frank.
Today I am doing final debugging. This is mind numbing. My life is slipping away.
I hope this makes you feel better
Dan
sorry yur having a shit day frankie, keep up the moral high hoss, cos that woman will go home & secretly worry about it now.
I've got a cold , but had to run around like a bastard at work this morn/aft as usual while the ministers daughter stood still & watched...as usual, felt really sick after carrying all the stock upstairs. Then when it was time to leave at 2 stupid spinster from hell arrives, going on & on about getting one of the boys to split a sack of peanuts for her birdies " cos lifes not worth living without feeding the birds, is it dear, is it ?"... i eventually convince that i am perfectly capable of lifting a sack of peanuts, then she wants to help , in case i spill them,.... this takes 30 minutes... past my going home time, having something to eat time..
i repeat, i am a f*cking firewoman, so what the f*ck makes these people think i can't lift or carry things, or why do they giggle & guffaw when they see me like...painting a door frame or driving a car on to a ramp..Yes its Brig-o-doom sexist timewarp from hell.
and then there was a rally of 300+ vintage cars, all wanting petrol similtaneous to it blowing a gale, me having to order on the phone and no-other staff being around.
AND ANDDDDDDDDD! NO PROG this week yet !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Take em all down - then blame comics or rappers or computer games or the fact that you seem to have an office full of chav scum... Either way it's not your fault - more of a case of your duty to society really...
Not so much today, which went unusually well. Cubed my finest ready meals shelf, helped sort out cut flowers, and then pulled some labels off for bathroom accesories (riviting stuff, eh?). Everyone helpful and friendly, and I got my holiday time off after someone switched their dates. Half day, couldn't be better. This isn't the norm!
Basically my advice is tell yourself you're going to resign at the end of the week, and by then you'll probably feel better. if you don't look for another job.
Wherever you work, there will be twats who just seem to be there to make your life a misery.
As for kids watching scary horror movies, well, I know some parents who let their kids watch that stuff. They are about 10/11, doesn't really seem right to me, but I was allowed to watch horror movies and films like Alien at that age. 5 years seems a bit young, but hey, her option if she wants to have a son called leatherface.
I'd be inclined to take the smug satisfaction of knowing yer a bit smarter than your workmates.
Using staples indiscriminately puts a strain on the environment!
M
I'm having a really, really, really shity day.
Kill em all Frank, let Satan deal with them.
Yeah we all watched horror films when we were too young, but at least my parents had the decentcy not to let me do it.
Technically, I still banned from watching Silence of the Lambs & Full Metal Jacket.
5 does seem WAAAY too young though.
nah, they'll just blame comics for it. 2th'll be banned, computer games abolished, then what would we do...........?
P.S i have a day off so it's been great
I've had a rubbish day too. But I talked it through with my office sharer, who's very understanding, so at least I feel better about things.
Probably doesn't help Frank though, seeing as his co-workers are at the root of his problems.
I've been here since 8.30 this morning and will be here till nine. Okay I'm just working for Cosmic Ray at the moment, but it is a long day.
MiniBolt is 13 and we don't let him watch 15's unless we've vetted it first.
Childhood only lasts so long, don't be in a hurry to grow up.
Bolt-01 (12 till I die)
Im with Bolts resposible parenting. MY daughter 12 doesnt watch anything that older than her 15 or 18 without us checking it out first. She watches some, currently she wants to watch Alien, as she knows its a great movie and will be scary. I havent let her watch it yet.
The other thing is that many children watch them anyway without parents consent. There is a point where you have to trust them a little to make their own decisions, I just hope I have sensible children.
Slips
This has got me thinking about staying up late at night to watch Hammer and Amicus films when I was a nipper - they had be released not that long before as Xs.
I remember seeing a AA at the cinema when I was about 12, was seeing 18s at 15 and saw full-on video nasties at about 16
One day you will all work for Cosmic Ray.
I watched Alien at Junior school, strangely enough I remember finding a lot of it quite funny, wheras I don't now. While it may be scary, it isn't offensive with the low regard for human life and perverse morality that slasher movies have.
One of the best things about being a child is trying to watch violent 18 and 15 rated films when you're 12!
I seem to remember being constantly disappointed that they weren't as violent as I had been led to believe.
But then maybe I was just a macabre child.
Had a nice day - went to Legoland with some friends and didn't spend too much money, although I really really wanted too...
Hmm, I watched American Werewolf in London at a drive-in cinema whebn I was 10. Scared the crap out of me...
I let my younger brother watch Aliens when he was 13 - I don't think it's that bad a film apart from the swearing, which he'll have picked up from the playground anyway...
Steve
The first time I remember swearing entering my tiny pre-teen mind was when I went to Beaver Scouts.
"Fuck Off Shit Head" was the wittiest piece of graffiti, IIRC, daubed in 4-ft letters on the wall of the scout-hut.
Do it Dirty Frank!
I run an adult amusements and get the same bloody customers with their same bloody complaints and moans every bloody day. Every day for 5 years now. A cull is in order!!
Go in to work tomorrow and get going with an ak-47 on them!
Don`t do it DF. Enjoy being smarter than they are. As Paul says there are always twats at work.
I`m lucky, I get to move around a lot so I`m not cooped up with the twats I occasionally have to work with (the downside is I don`t get to spend much time with the good eggs, but I can meet them outside of work).
I used to work in a 250 person office which was much as you describe and I had a rotten time there. If I`d gone postal on them, I`d still be thinking about them
The thing that made me give up the shitty factory job I was trapped in was hearing one of my colleagues say 'That Jar Jar Binks was a right laugh'.
I hope you smashed his racist face in
Hur!
You try working in a Jobcentre...
Dumb asses on one side of the counter DOUBLE dumb asses on the other and I get paid less than both of them.
Grrr!
One day my friends, one day....it'll be like Shaun of The Dead without zombies.
Oh wait hang on!
They ARE all fecking zombies!
my commiserations to all the oppressed workers, yippee thats what cons are for, to bridge the gap between shit job stints. Thats what fantasies about siberia & motorbikes are for, to get thru one day to next.
however , i had today off, was supposed to be doing a 13hr shift, but was too ill, & slept for7 hrs thru day..Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
i am now at the irritating stage of costing everything out per hour, v depressing, e.g "bloody hell tonights tea & some other bits o food cost three hours work"
"one months council tax is, ten hours work"
"my new goegeous sexy 2 piece leather racing suit ( currently wearing tres comfy) off ebay was ten hours work."
"Dreddcon will cost around two weeks wages"
Don't do it, plan yer escape, long, medium and short term.
Long term where you'd like to be
medium how you'll get there
short term next pub visit with like minded mates
I did, took me long enough, but I done it.
Downsized and HappyHuff
downsizing ? ha ha, problem is ive been downsized all my life, so actually having a wage is great, shame its just a slave wage which is great for escapism & ebay leather suits, but still useless for touching the 38yrs worth of depts, or ever ever being able to think about a morgage ever, or even ever.
which is why i want to ultimately, long & medium term, get out of the UK.
short term, i'm a drinking my tea & going to go out on my bike in the gale afterwards. WoooHoooo! maybe phone a cute young man or two....
No Bou, no. Don't ever crave a mortgage. It's all a trick - you end up wanting to do your house up, and make weekend trips to Ikea and MFI. And suddenly less money for comics because you end up with a million plates/posters/chairs/novelty lamps you don't need.
i only want a morgage sirius, cos me n the kids have been homeless too many times, theres no affordable housing here, & nothing to rent. I'm safe just now but the whole economics of it all leaves a deep seated sinking insecurity & paranoia, besides, i don't like where i live, ie surrounded by whinging-english-pensioners or alchies or drugs-to-kiddies-flogging-scum... but where on a UK housing list will i get anything better? at least i have a stunning view here i guess.
ikea ? if i want novelty items i visit a skip.
anyway enough cranking...i'm going oooot on me bike & life is fine !
IKEA? Oh, god, please, no. An endless labyrinth. It's like 'Cube'.
I've been a 'home-owner' for almost 2 years now, but I've never *ever* been to Ikea. Oddgirl went once, I believe, but that was before we'd got the home.
I've been doing up my house. Ikea is to be avoided. So far, fingers crossed, so good.
All I've come back with from Ikea is a two-step stool for the missus to be able to reach the handles on the windows, one duvet cover, four pillow cades, a round bath mat, two potted plants, two scented candles, and artist's lay figure and a milk jug.
The House of Usher will not be adopting the Ikea 'look' any time soon. In fact, it will most likely fall into a precipice before I allow such a thing to happen.
From going mental to Ikea in four easy steps. I kinda like Ikea, its got relatively cheap solid furniture that goes in a certain type of house. Fortunately I now live so far away from one, I dont have to worry about it anymore...
And dont go postal DF
Slips
THE VOICE SAID KILL!
Let's get us all in the Daily Mail. "BAN THIS SICK FILTH - we blow the whistle on KID BLOOD RAG! 'The green faced man said death was Zarjaz' CLAIMS OFFICE KILLER"