Zen Sarcasm

This is an excerpt from a bulletin post that I read from my sister-in-law, April.

If you think nobody cares if you’re alive… (try missing a couple of car
payments.)

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. (That
why when you criticize them, you’re a mile away and you have their shoes.)

If at first you don’t succeed… (skydiving is not for you.)

Duct tape is like ‘The Force.’ It has a light side and a dark side, and
it holds the universe together.

And my favorite: Never miss a good chance to shut up.

I think I should have this as a wallpaper on my PC, so that anytime I’m being annoyed by someone for a rather lengthy time period, I can accidentally keyboard shortcut to my desktop and see if they get the picture… Chances are… they won’t.

It’s kind of funny the things that I have forgotten about work and really just people in general. Like, for example, isn’t it funny how you can start yawning, looking at your watch, start doing something else like reading email and people will still banter on. Or I just love it when someone asks “Are you busy?” and every single time when you respond “Yes, a little” they will still proceed to talk for forever.

Another funny one is when someone walks up to your desk and your listening to voicemail or steadily reading an email or some kind of document, they’ll start asking questions and expect responses like they didn’t notice the phone attached to your head. I was listening to a work related voice message where the guy was giving me 2 different phones numbers, hours that he would be available, his different login/usernames and the different login/usernames of people under him that I could use in my use-case scenarios… so I’m clicking buttons on the phone to login, to reward, to pause… all the while writing down phone numbers and such. Through all of this I have someone at my desk asking me questions the entire time!! LOL… It was quite funny, but ya’ know… what can you do but laugh, ya’ know?

I used to work with this guy who is no longer at our company, but he used to bring up my emailing all the daggone time… soooo annoying. I even overheard him talking to my boss one time like “every time I look at her monitor she’s emailing someone!” and then again to me “you send more emails than anyone I know.” The funny thing was that for those few months I was working on several projects where I was building in emailing features and had literally thousands of emails coming every day that I was debugging. I also send a lot of emails because I friggin’ communicate with my end users and my POCs and ya know what… I really think they love that about my projects… the communication involved!

Anywhooozle… when it comes down to it, I believe that some people just like something to complain about. No one wants to look for anything positive. They want to see the negative… because that’s more fun to talk about… the bad stuff.

I know my last few paragraphs seem like a bad rant, but its all out of humor. I’m not so bothered by these things… it’s just funny work stuff that everyone deals with. I love the fact that I am back to work even I do feel like I’m a part of a live Dilbert comic strip. I know that people talk and we all have our quirks, but that is one of the things that makes work life so much more interesting…

I am excited to be back to work and actually feel like I have a few close friends this time around. I feel like I have gotten closer to Wanda and Eric and can see a few more relationships blossoming. I hope that things stay on the upside and I am really excited about all of the upcoming projects and work that hopefully will come my way.