# I am about to become the most unpopular man in the office **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 12, 2011, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-about-to-become-the-most-unpopular-man-in-the-office/578077 "2011-04-12T12:49:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-about-to-become-the-most-unpopular-man-in-the-office/578077/41 "2011-04-12T18:41:35Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Some people just shouldn’t be allowed to remain in society. She probably goes out and throws trash out of her car windows in national parks on the weekends. Oh she shouldn’t. Her future husband and my future husband were very good friends. I spent wayyyy too much time with SWMNBN before we finally decided that he wasn’t worth putting up with her. Too bad, he was a nice guy. The stories I could tell. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-about-to-become-the-most-unpopular-man-in-the-office/578077/42 "2011-04-12T19:07:02Z")
> [@Moonlitherial](#): > > The stories I could tell. So start telling! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-about-to-become-the-most-unpopular-man-in-the-office/578077/43 "2011-04-12T19:26:01Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > She quit! > > Not in a huff, though. Evidently she was going to give notice Firday, so she’d decided to say _Fuck the police_ this week. In a minute and a huff? ::waggles eyebrows:: ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-about-to-become-the-most-unpopular-man-in-the-office/578077/44 "2011-04-12T19:53:37Z")
Don’t go off in a huff; let me call you a cab. OK, you’re a cab. Still waiting for those pics, dammit! ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-about-to-become-the-most-unpopular-man-in-the-office/578077/45 "2011-04-12T19:55:30Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Don’t go off in a huff; let me call you a cab. > > OK, you’re a cab. > > Still waiting for those pics, dammit! You can’t seriously think I know how to operate the camera thingie on my phone. It’s a miracle when I can turn the computer on without setting it on fire. That’s why I have been forced to access the Dope via palantir. And let me tell you, the image of those eternally-burning hands is very annoying ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-about-to-become-the-most-unpopular-man-in-the-office/578077/46 "2011-04-12T20:01:33Z")
Dude, you need to reboot your palantir. Seriously. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-about-to-become-the-most-unpopular-man-in-the-office/578077/47 "2011-04-12T20:14:47Z")
First **Skald** has to reset his Tolkein ring network. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-about-to-become-the-most-unpopular-man-in-the-office/578077/48 "2011-04-12T20:17:52Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > It’s a miracle when I can turn the computer on without setting it on fire. Turn it upside down and shake it. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-about-to-become-the-most-unpopular-man-in-the-office/578077/49 "2011-04-12T20:23:17Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Turn it upside down and shake it. One does not pick up and shake items that are on fire. That is the lesson Lord Denethor died to teach us. ---
**Author:** ![JerseyMarine2092](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8491ac/32.png) [@JerseyMarine2092](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerseyMarine2092)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-about-to-become-the-most-unpopular-man-in-the-office/578077/50 "2011-04-12T20:39:11Z")
> [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](#): > > Damn it, why are all the women in my office so boring and professional? I’d like to register the same complaint. But then I remember most of the women I work with. The college students do it anyway. Now that it’s spring I consider it a fringe benefit. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-about-to-become-the-most-unpopular-man-in-the-office/578077/51 "2011-04-12T20:52:29Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > So you want me to call a young hot female employee into my office, with the HR representative there, tell her she is dressed inappropriately and must either go home and change or be written up, and then ask the employee to pose for a picture and post it on the internet? > > Yeah, there’s no possible way that could backfire. :rolleyes: I don’t see where that is our problem my friend. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-about-to-become-the-most-unpopular-man-in-the-office/578077/52 "2011-04-12T21:27:30Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > She quit! > > Evidently she was going to give notice Firday,… You couldn’t convince her to wait until Pineday? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-about-to-become-the-most-unpopular-man-in-the-office/578077/53 "2011-04-13T00:53:35Z")
Tell her you’ll be happy to write her a fine recommendation for Hooters. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-about-to-become-the-most-unpopular-man-in-the-office/578077/54 "2011-04-13T01:19:00Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Surely the janitor who has to mop up all the drool will be at least a little appreciative. Dude, that’s …not drool. Where’s the pukey smiley already? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-about-to-become-the-most-unpopular-man-in-the-office/578077/55 "2011-04-13T01:26:07Z")
Reminds me of when I worked for Musicland Corporate back in the early 90’s. Our IT office, or rather my particular team’s offices in the building were right next to the marketing department. There was this very tall well built young woman in that department, about 6’3", who used to wear short tight shorts, tight shirts, loose half open shirts, this that and the other thing which ALL accentuated her form. Given her height and her long legs, this meant her ass was almost at eye level for a lot of guys. Or at least, at eye level if you were in any way not looking directly level ahead, which of course you would NOT be doing if she was around. One day she complained to Management about all these nerdy guys in the office and how they would NOT stop staring at her! The nerve! Why they were practically following her around! (She would regularly have to walk to another back office located between two other IT areas, then back to our area which was near the lunch room. Of course people were ‘following her’ - we were going about our business and she just happened to be going our way!) Instead, she got read the riot act and was forced to change her wardrobe. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-about-to-become-the-most-unpopular-man-in-the-office/578077/56 "2011-04-13T01:28:14Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Reminds me of a Catholic schoolgirl I knew who constantly fought with her mother. > > Comes down to breakfast wearing the approved school uniform, but no bra. > > Mother: Go upstairs and put on a bra right now. > > Comes back downstairs wearing a bra, but having hiked her skirt up to micro-mini length. > > Mother: Go upstairs and fix your skirt. > > Comes back downstairs with skirt at the prescribed length, but wearing a purple bra under her white blouse. > > Lather, rinse, repeat. As a former Catholic School Girl myself, I heartily approve of this rebellion! ---
**Author:** ![rbroome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/838e76/32.png) [@rbroome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rbroome)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-about-to-become-the-most-unpopular-man-in-the-office/578077/57 "2011-04-13T01:53:13Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > So you want me to call a young hot female employee into my office, with the HR representative there, tell her she is dressed inappropriately and must either go home and change or be written up, and then ask the employee to pose for a picture and post it on the internet? > > Yeah, there’s no possible way that could backfire. :rolleyes: backfire for you maybe. A win for us! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-about-to-become-the-most-unpopular-man-in-the-office/578077/58 "2011-04-13T02:01:13Z")
I, for one, am disappointed that **Skald** did not handle the manner in the form of a poll. -D/a ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-about-to-become-the-most-unpopular-man-in-the-office/578077/59 "2011-04-13T03:30:16Z")
> [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](#): > > I, for one, am disappointed that **Skald** did not handle the manner in the form of a poll. > > -D/a Y’all don’t think, maybe, he is trying to be responsible? I mean, it _is_ unusual, but… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-about-to-become-the-most-unpopular-man-in-the-office/578077/60 "2011-04-13T03:52:06Z")
I had to have this HR approved conversation with a woman on my team that covered investment banks. She led with her cleavage, if you know what I mean. She was \*extremely \*popular with the younger investment banker set, and very off putting to the conservative banking managers that actually signed the contracts. She had to cover both sets of customers - often on the same sales call. That was one tough conversation as she just didn’t get that leading with cleavage was not professional for one type of customer. (While irrelevant to the topic, she also continued to dress like a hawt 20ish woman when she had morphed into a 30 something who hadn’t matured the way she presented herself) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-about-to-become-the-most-unpopular-man-in-the-office/578077.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-about-to-become-the-most-unpopular-man-in-the-office/578077.md?page=4)