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Alzadar
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From Office Manager to entire Office Vehicle license GGN0R3 Ford Sonata in parking lot, hazard lights are on From Mr Smart Expert Engineer, reply to All Not mine. What the fuck.   | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
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EDIT: Is the "reply to all" part stupid? It's probably not necessary to reply to all, but doing so would certainly prevent other employees from recommending that it's him, if they were trying to be helpful and make suggestions as to whose car it could be. EDIT 2: My 27,000th post... yay for perfect cubes  | ||
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Alzadar
Canada5009 Posts
It's like when in Kindergarten the teacher asks "who's shoes are these?" and all the really slow kids yell "not mine", drowning out the kid that owns the shoes. Adults should be past this by now. | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States44082 Posts
On September 12 2014 04:46 Alzadar wrote: Replying to anyone is dumb, replying to everyone is extra dumb. It's just a PSA that someone's lights are on, if it's not your car nobody cares, you don't need to tell anyone. Even if it is your car, go and turn the lights off, maybe send an email to just the Office Manager thanking her. Nobody else cares. It's like when in Kindergarten the teacher asks "who's shoes are these?" and all the really slow kids yell "not mine", drowning out the kid that owns the shoes. Adults should be past this by now. I see your point about how the Manager wasn't directly asking for a response; fair enough. + Show Spoiler + As an aside, I disagree with your kindergarten analogy, as a teacher asking that question is actually trying to initiate a conversation to find the owner of the shoes, and any student input- even "not mine"- tends to be more helpful than silence, especially since a few kids saying anything- even "not mine"- often provides an incentive for the other students to actually pay more attention to the issue and participate in the shoe conversation. Adult employees tend to be more mature and responsible than kindergarteners, and so don't require volunteered participation if the statement is merely rhetorical or just a heads up. But that's neither here nor there, as I now understand what you meant with your original e-mail problem | ||
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Alzadar
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radscorpion9
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I think its part of that group of phrases that you hear a lot of people say, even though its not strictly necessary for them to say it. So basically I think they're doing it just as a way of conversing with people, even if at a basic level. Like when someone gets a new couch, and his/her friend says "really?". I think its unlikely that the person is joking about buying a new couch; they just say that because it adds to the conversation, even if there is no grounds for suspicion about the truth. It could also easily be an automatic reaction; certain phrases and actions are so commonly seen when you're a kid that a lot of people start (unthinkingly) doing it themselves. Its normal to some degree to accept the style of speech you hear around you; saying "not mine" could be part of that. You can't take what people say too seriously all of the time for these reasons; if you pay attention I think there are lots of other examples of things people say that aren't strictly necessary and that may seem stupid to mention. In fact most conversations are probably just that . Like if someone tells you "I'm sleepy" you wouldn't say "why the hell should I care you fool!!" lol | ||
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Alzadar
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BigFan
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Alzadar
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BigFan
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On September 12 2014 06:21 Alzadar wrote: Sure he only wasted 15 seconds of my life (not counting the time I spent writing/reading this blog entry, obviously much more), but he did so for 97 other people as well, that is he wasted a good 24 man minutes. you're assuming that all the other 97 people also felt those 15 seconds were wasted (or in other words, cared that much lol). The blog writing/reading was your idea, he didn't force you to write it  | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States44082 Posts
On September 12 2014 06:21 Alzadar wrote: Sure he only wasted 15 seconds of my life (not counting the time I spent writing/reading this blog entry, obviously much more), but he did so for 97 other people as well, that is he wasted a good 24 man minutes. You took significantly longer writing your blog post about him being stupid and defending it than he took writing his email, and you didn't even talk to him about it (he's far more relevant to this than we are). Hmmm... | ||
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ninazerg
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Impervious
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States44082 Posts
On September 12 2014 09:58 Impervious wrote: Ford Sonata? Whoa didn't even catch that LOL Boss be trollin' | ||
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Alzadar
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Cyx.
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From Office Manager to entire Office Vehicle license GGN0R3 word. How has this not been like the main focus of discussion in this post? | ||
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