Shut up cow-worker, you're just fucking well spoilt

[Pushkin]

A brief lament about my cow-orker.

If, at the age of 22, all I had to pay up was £150 a month to have my parents house me, feed me and (most recently) provide me with medical health insurance in a hurry, I'd be happy.

If I was her.... I wouldn't bitch and moan that they're demanding this money off me, especially since the only reason I'm short of money is that I took off for the weekend to go to a concert. I wouldn't bitch and moan about the fact that my mother only does home cooking at the weekend since her job and Dad's job pay for the house, the food consumed within and the electicity used up heating the bath in the long periods spent luxuriating in the bath. I wouldn't bitch that Dad gets to watch what he wants on the TV since I don't pay for either the TV or the license.

It would also be a pleasure if her co-workers (one of whom lost her Dad and unborn child recently, one of whom is having to move across the water to England away from her friends all over again and one of whom may be splitting up with his girlfriend who has his 4 month old baby) didn't have to listen to all this crap during working hours.

So please cow-worker, quit fucking yapping!

[Anaamika]

I'm with you. At 22, I was just starting to recover from being kicked out of the house at 20, and my parents taking all my money (they had access to my bank account, and emptied it) and leaving me to sink or swim on my own.

I will never eat Ramen again. :)

[Lute Skywatcher]

I will never eat Ramen again. :)You're supposed to preface that with "As God as my witness..." ;)

[Hung Mung]

Urgh. Is this an office? Can you leave fake doggie poo in her drawer?
Or perhaps real poo?

[Anaamika]

You're supposed to preface that with "As God as my witness..." ;)
Oh, right, I forgot.

:drops to knees:


AS GOD AS MY WITNESS, I WILL NEVER! EAT! RAMEN! AGAIN!

:sobs:

[ShelliBean]

Oh God do I understand. I worked with a receptionist recently that constantly reminded us that she didn't have to work because her husband had a good job and she just worked with us for shopping money. All of this around several women that were freshly divorced (me among them so maybe I'm a bit sensitive), fighting for a smidge of child support from exes unwilling to pay, and (as god as my witness) eating Ramen to survive*.
Not as bad as bitching about how bad you have it around someone that just lost two family members that close, but I do understand.

*I just realized how many people I work with that are in the same boat. I think working for my company makes spouses go crazy and leave!

[MsRobyn]

Oh, right, I forgot.

:drops to knees:


AS GOD AS MY WITNESS, I WILL NEVER! EAT! RAMEN! AGAIN!

:sobs:

Yes, but are you also wearing a dress made of curtains?

Robin

[Larry Mudd]

You're supposed to preface that with "As God as my witness..." ;)It's funny, but I never would have suspected that a sentence existed, containing the word "ramen," which is impossible to read without hearing it in a Scarlett O'Hara voice.

And they she comes out with that, and you even see her in silhouette.

Pushkin, is there any way you can communicate to your coworker what a prat she's being, without poisoning the atmosphere any more?
Maybe smilingly point out that her situation is actually rather enviable, and that in a few years she'll probably look back fondly on the whole thing, because real life will by then have worn her down like a poodle dragged for kilometers behind a truck over a graded road?

[Guinastasia]

Yes, but are you also wearing a dress made of curtains?

Robin


No no, you make the dress out of the curtains AFTER you make the vow. You're supposed to be wearing the same dress you've worn for weeks, and then you go and shoot some Yankee.

[Anaamika]

No no, you make the dress out of the curtains AFTER you make the vow. You're supposed to be wearing the same dress you've worn for weeks, and then you go and shoot some Yankee.
I'm working on it. Hey, wait! I am a Yankee!

Damnyankee! :shoots self:

[Jodi]

Please don't shoot self before explaining why your parents would empty your bank account? If that's not too personal a question. I mean, I can see kicking the little shavers out -- time to test your wings, kids! -- but not taking all their money, thus leaving them both homeless and broke.

[Anaamika]

Please don't shoot self before explaining why your parents would empty your bank account? If that's not too personal a question. I mean, I can see kicking the little shavers out -- time to test your wings, kids! -- but not taking all their money, thus leaving them both homeless and broke.

Short version - they didn't approve of what I was doing (dating outside my culture) and used it as a manipulative tactic to get me to do what they want (get married inside my culture, and within the next month at that).

....

If you want the long version, let me know.

[OtakuLoki]

If you want the long version, let me know.


I'm nosey enough to admit I'd enjoy reading the long version, but I think many of the details can be taken as read, if you so like.

One question, though - did you consider reporting the theft to the police?

[swampbear]

Oh, right, I forgot.

:drops to knees:


AS GOD AS MY WITNESS, I WILL NEVER! EAT! RAMEN! AGAIN!

:sobs:
If Bollywood ever decides to make an Indian version of "Gone With The Wind" they'll be damn fools not to cast you as Scarlett Mika!

See, now you have a reason to practice up on your southern accent. :D

[Anaamika]

I'm nosey enough to admit I'd enjoy reading the long version, but I think many of the details can be taken as read, if you so like.

One question, though - did you consider reporting the theft to the police?
:blank look: No, never. I don't think I ever thought of it. I wouldn't have dreamed of it. I still wouldn't dream of it. I guess they still have a lot of control over me, much as I've tried to fight it.

If you want the long version, feel free to e-mail me at elenia25 @ gmail.com.

If Bollywood ever decides to make an Indian version of "Gone With The Wind" they'll be damn fools not to cast you as Scarlett Mika!

See, now you have a reason to practice up on your southern accent.

Ooo, yes, I'd love it! I can be impassioned and overly dramatic! Let's see, what would that be in Hindi?


Er...I can't translate Ramen.
Bhagwan ki kasam khaake kehethi hoon, main kabhi! phir! Ramen! nahin! kaongi!

[cerberus]

Note to the non-UK dopers ... if the cow-worker was spelled that way intentionally, then the "cow" is more or less equivalent to the US vernacular "bitch".

Which seems appropriate in this context.

[Cat Whisperer]

Ah, kids - can't work with them, can't shoot them, hide their body in the copy room, quit and take off to the Cayman Islands with 500 large of the company's money.

[Manda JO]

Please don't shoot self before explaining why your parents would empty your bank account? If that's not too personal a question. I mean, I can see kicking the little shavers out -- time to test your wings, kids! -- but not taking all their money, thus leaving them both homeless and broke.

And as an aside, I have known more than one kid who had their money out and out stolen by a parent--and I mean money earned at a job, not just money that Grandma intended for Timmy's college fund.

[GingerOfTheNorth]

Ah, kids - can't work with them, can't shoot them, hide their body in the copy room, quit and take off to the Cayman Islands with 500 large of the company's money.
Can so. You're just not ambitious enough, featherlou.

[Sublight]

:drops to knees:


AS GOD AS MY WITNESS, I WILL NEVER! EAT! RAMEN! AGAIN!

:sobs:
Just so's ya know, there is such a thing as good ramen.

[manx]

Wow. I'm 22 and I live at home, but I know exactly how freakin' good I've got it. I went flatting for a couple of years, and I enjoyed it immensely, but I've moved back to save money for the Big OE. It's not all roses and kittens being back with Mum and Dad, but I'm paying minimal rent and channeling money into my savings. Sheesh, smack her upside the head! Or maybe suggest that you wish you had her problems- if she's always lived at home, she might not have realised that she's pretty lucky.

[kambuckta]

My kids (3 left) (and a nephew, and a friend of a kid) are going to realise BIG TIME just how bloody good they've had it when I terminate our lease and move out, BY MYSELF, in early July.

:D :D :D

[Pushkin]

Pushkin, is there any way you can communicate to your coworker what a prat she's being, without poisoning the atmosphere any more?
Maybe smilingly point out that her situation is actually rather enviable, and that in a few years she'll probably look back fondly on the whole thing, because real life will by then have worn her down like a poodle dragged for kilometers behind a truck over a graded road?

Heh, we've been trying, but there's no keeping her down. Another co-worker (that's not cow-orker) just said to her face that she was a spoilt brat and it kept her quiet for a while. We expect her to start again later today :rolleyes:

[Anaamika]

Just so's ya know, there is such a thing as good ramen.
I've had "real" Ramen, done with that too, methinks. :)

[D_Odds]

Ah, kids - can't work with them, can't shoot them, hide their body in the copy room, quit and take off to the Cayman Islands with 500 large of the company's money.Can so. You're just not ambitious enough, featherlou.Care to share some tips?

[Malacandra]

Care to share some tips?

Step 1: Shoot spoilt bratty co-worker.
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit!

[Anaamika]

Step 1: Shoot spoilt bratty co-worker.
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit!
Is she a Yankee? Then I could kill two birds with one stone.

Scarlett Mika!

[Daithi Lacha]

Has this drone ever had it really hard? Could it be that she's undergone a disasterous childhood, and is now just thinking that it's about time a little slack was cut for her?

Or is it simply that she's a big bucketful of festering ego with Wah! Wah! Wah! sounds coming out of her noisehole?

[Pushkin]

I'd go with festering ego, she's had it easy all her life. Her parents earn enough from what we've gleaned to keep themselves and this only child quite comfortable.

[OneCentStamp]

Just so's ya know, there is such a thing as good ramen.

Mama brand ramen from Thailand (you can get it in most Asian grocery stores) is outstanding and no more expensive than the shitty ramen most Americans eat.

[tdn]

*I just realized how many people I work with that are in the same boat. I think working for my company makes spouses go crazy and leave!
Funny, I thought escorts made pretty good money. :p

I generally agree that cow-worker is getting a sweet deal, but if my parents charged me that I'd appalled. You see, they have some sort of fantasy that I can't take care of myself, and about once every two or three years, they beg me to move in with them. If they wanted to charge me ~$250US per month, I'd be pretty insulted.

And don't get me wrong -- I love my parents, and they are great people, and we have possibly one of the least dysfunctional families in the history of all familia. But I swear, if I had to live with them for more than a week, I'd be counting the days until I could make my escape.

[Daithi Lacha]

I'd go with festering ego, she's had it easy all her life. Her parents earn enough from what we've gleaned to keep themselves and this only child quite comfortable.
In that case, I'm going to go with featherlou's thinking. Instead of placing the body in the copy room, however, add a touch of local color that will have the headlines screaming HORROR AT GIANT'S CAUSEWAY! :p

[Martini Enfield]

Ah, kids - can't work with them, can't shoot them, hide their body in the copy room, quit and take off to the Cayman Islands with 500 large of the company's money.

Unless you're a character in a Frederick Forsyth novel, in which case we need some KGB guys and a misplaced Atomic Bomb in there somewhere too. :D

I left home at 18 with my now-fiancee (not kicked out, but not really voluntarily, either... it's complicated), and I constantly have to deal with the whining of spoilt twenty-somethings who still live at home with Mummy and Daddy, work full time, and spent the weekend in Melbourne because their friend Sarah was going and they needed some new shoes to go with their latest outfit.

There's a whole culture now devoted to getting drunk/high, partying all the time, looking good, and being seen in the right places with the right people.

I'd despair for the future of humanity, except I'm too busy working and paying the bills... ;)

[swampbear]

Is she a Yankee? Then I could kill two birds with one stone.

Scarlett Mika!
That should be Scarlet O'Mika.

[Cat Whisperer]

In that case, I'm going to go with featherlou's thinking. Instead of placing the body in the copy room, however, add a touch of local color that will have the headlines screaming HORROR AT GIANT'S CAUSEWAY! :p
Well, you don't just *place* the body in the copy room, although that does suggest macabre ideas for posing the corpse (up against the wall with feet and arms crossed, as though waiting for a print job - crouched in front of the copier with the doors open, as if trying to find the paper jam...)

KGB guys and misplaced a-bomb, eh? I think we can work something out.

Martini, I must sheepishly admit that that doesn't sound a lot different from the young adults from the eighties. I think the big difference is that our parents were such hard-asses that they wouldn't let us get away with stuff, so we *had* to move out. Plus, there was a lot more stigma attached to being in your twenties and still living at home, which seems to have mostly disappeared now.

[Martini Enfield]

Martini, I must sheepishly admit that that doesn't sound a lot different from the young adults from the eighties. I think the big difference is that our parents were such hard-asses that they wouldn't let us get away with stuff, so we *had* to move out. Plus, there was a lot more stigma attached to being in your twenties and still living at home, which seems to have mostly disappeared now.

I've noticed that, too- I read somewhere vaguely reliable (The Bulletin/Newsweek? Time? something like that) the majority of 18-30 year olds in Australia DON'T live out of home- apparently my fiancee and I are statistical freaks.

I know it's expensive to live out of home, but even if my parents said "Hey, move back in with us!", I wouldn't do it.

Don't get me wrong, I love my parents (who, like tdn's, are probably the textbook example for "How to be excellent parents") but I doubt I could be in the same house as them for more than a couple of days without completely losing my sanity...

[Frosted Glass]

It is hard for me to whine about living at home because, despite all their faults, my parents are very good at treating me like an adult. The only real drawback is that I cannot bring girls home for sniff and tickle slumber parties. That does not matter much though since there are no girls for me to bring around. I could not stay here forever but I can definitely understand my friends who live at home temporarily until they make enough money to move out and away. Some of my friends asked me why I decided to live at home during my 6 month internship and I explained that it makes no sense to pay rent when I know that I will be returning to school in the fall.

I have no complaints here though; I know how much better I eat now than I do when I am at school. There is always something delicious leftover in the fridge and as much as I enjoy no-frills bag cereal, it is nice to see something with a recognizable name on the front. The main thing that I will miss when I graduate is the insanely thorough healthcare that I get courtesy of the Newark Board of Education. As much nonsense as teachers deal with, my mom gets great medical coverage.

Most of my friends need to suck it up though because they live in apartments that happen to be part of their house. If you can go weeks without seeing your parents and you live it home, then you need to shut your mouth.

[Pushkin]

In that case, I'm going to go with featherlou's thinking. Instead of placing the body in the copy room, however, add a touch of local color that will have the headlines screaming HORROR AT GIANT'S CAUSEWAY! :p

The local colour is a nice touch, but another member of staff was suspected of drowning just a few miles down the coast from the Causeway, in one of those incidents where enough suspicion was raised that it was as much suicide or a contrived disappearance as accidental death. And the river Lagan has been spewing forth far too many bodies in the past few months to make it novel (3 in about 9 months IIRC).

Something involving the cranes at the Harland and Wolff shipyards? ;)

[Maus Magill]

Ah, kids - can't work with them, can't shoot them, hide their body in the copy room, quit and take off to the Cayman Islands with 500 large of the company's money.That's right. The copy room's too busy. That's what the janitor closet's for.

[GingerOfTheNorth]

Care to share some tips?
No. I'd probably be deported.