Interfering Co-Workers

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Maybe this only happens to me because I was poorly socialized as an adolescent, but I’d love any comments/ suggestions/ etc. Here’s the story:

I work in a small department, 10 people total. Used to work for a bitch manager, (we’ll call her Ann to protect her anonymity), now work in different area for very nice manager (Mike). Mike and his wife threw a holiday party last Saturday. Friday, we were all sitting in his office, when the party came up. I and our admin. assistant are the only two who aren’t married, and she couldn’t make it due to a prior obligation. Everyone else in the dept. was bringing the spouse, and since I don’t have one, “Who Is Miss Davis’ Date?” became the hot topic of conversation.

When asked point blank by Ann, I honestly answered I was going to bring my mother. Well, no, that would not do at all - Ann decided I needed a date, and she needed to find me one. (This is the lady who tried her best to get me fired a couple of months ago, and now she wants to be Miss Make-a-Match.) Off she went.

I thought she was kidding, but lo and behold, when I got back from lunch I had a date with one of our IT guys, who happens to be a very nice guy and who I wouldn’t mind going out with under more normal circumstances. Ann had arranged the whole thing by telling him (I found out later) that I Really Wanted to Go Out With Him But was Too Shy to Ask For Myself.

So we went. And had a nice time. But nothing more.

Monday at work, Ann and another female co-worker came into my workspace and demanded details. They already knew the details, I told them; they were at the party! No, they insisted there was More. (Invading my personal space now) Ann Demanded to know if he kissed me, and how was it on a scale of 1 to 3. Coworker 2 wanted to know if I went home with him!!

What is with that? Is this normal co-worker behavior, especially from someone who in every other aspect does not give a rat’s ass about me and my life?

It may be that when an ornithologist says the Water Ouzel walks under the water, he only means that he has seen a Water Ouzel or some other bird sitting on a stone in the general vicinity of a body of water.
–Will Cuppy

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If she truly tried to get you fired before, this new behavior would make me so nervous if I were you!

If that was an exaggeration, I would guess that she’s trying to make up for it somehow.

Based on what you’ve told us, I believe those are the only two choices…

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Well??? DID HE KISS YOU? And how was it, on a scale of 1 - 3?
:::ducking::::

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Geez, what a couple of nosey biddies!

*Ann had arranged the whole thing by telling him (I found out later) that I Really Wanted to Go Out With Him But was Too Shy to Ask For Myself. *

Is she still in junior high school?

I never dealt with anyone quite so probing. But my office did have a woman who was so two-faced it wasn’t funny. When I first was hired, we only had one computer (pre-PC), and a dedicated word processing system that she was the queen of. In the first year we got two PC’s: mine and hers. Our HQ office wanted me to set hers up for data transfer via modem. She was so @!#?@! uncooperative.

Over the years, we got more and more PCs. She realized how well I could diagnose computer problems. Then I became her best buddy; she would walk to my desk and ask for assistance in a little sing-song voice.

She also used to work 4 AM - 1 PM because she said she was afraid to drive in rush hour traffic. Truth was, she’d snoop through peoples desks and trash cans for incriminating info. (She found a post-it note once with a sarcastic comment about her. They couldn’t figure out who wrote it, so they chided the addressee. Sheesh!) One woman (the addresser of the post-it) figure out what she was doing and wrote a note in big letters and left it in her middle drawer. It read, “Keep the fuck out of my desk, Dorothy!” We didn’t have any snooping problems after that. :slight_smile:

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I’ve lost a few more hairs/I think I’m going bald - Rush

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You could just make up all kinds of stuff that would be totally unbelievable coming from you.

Example:

I took him home with me because I have a trapeze (sp) in my bedroom. I put on my leather dominatrix outfit and grabbed the whip. After many hours of S&M he had to go to the hospital for low blood sugar and dehydration. After some IV fluids, we went back to my house and went at it like a couple of lovesick monkeys. This continued back and forth between my house and the hospital for the entire weekend. They even gave him a frequent visitor discount and let us take the IV home with us.

Finally after about 10 straight hours of sex and countless orgasms, we decided to take a short nap. After about 15 minutes of sleep we went at it again. But come to think of it we never actually kissed. At least not on the lips.

Or maybe not.

Jeffery

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Well, time for more of Zette’s wise words.
Question: "How was it? We want details! whine, whine, etc…
Answer: Go fuck yourself

Zette
Simplicity…works great.

Love is like popsicles…you get too much you get too high.

Not enough and you’re gonna die…
Click here for some GOOD news for a change Zettecity

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What makes you think that would be unbelievable coming from me?

It may be that when an ornithologist says the Water Ouzel walks under the water, he only means that he has seen a Water Ouzel or some other bird sitting on a stone in the general vicinity of a body of water.
–Will Cuppy

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I did not say it would be strange coming from you. I said tell them something that would be unlikely for you to do. Then I gave an example of something that would be strange for me to say.

Have I dug myself deeper? I probably had better not respond further.

Jeffery

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I’m just teasing. I think I’ll email them your scenario under the title “Since you really wanted to know”!

And no, he didn’t actually kiss me. I have some theories about why, but that’s another thread.

It may be that when an ornithologist says the Water Ouzel walks under the water, he only means that he has seen a Water Ouzel or some other bird sitting on a stone in the general vicinity of a body of water.
–Will Cuppy

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What are your theories?

Off topic a bit, but I met my wife in our senior year in college in a computer class.

We studied together several times before I asked her out. I wanted to kiss her on the first date when I took her home. I seem to remember that I did, she says I did not kiss her until a few dates later.

If I did not, then I guess I did not want to be to forward.

I would advance that as my theory as to why he did not kiss you on this evening. If you wanted him to, maybe you should have kissed him.

Jeffery

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My theories apply not only to this particular date, but to almost all of the other dates I’ve had in the past year or so. They are:

  1. Even though the fellow was bold enough to ask me out, provide me with dinner or whatever the date was to be, and regale me with stories of his youth and interests, he suddenly became too shy at the very end to take the next step. Maybe I’m just too intimidating to kiss. (I doubt it.)

  2. I am unresponsive, and I wouldn’t know a kiss if it came up and kissed me on the mouth. (I doubt this one too.)

  3. I am such a prude that it would have seemed inappropriate to kiss me, even though we’d just been on a date together. (Closer to the truth, I’m afraid.)

  4. I am Such A Bad Date that the prospect of kissing me, however nice that might be for the moment, is not enough to be worth the trouble of asking me out on a follow up date. Alas, this is the one I think is most likely.
    Off the topic, but are you and your wife going to make it to the Atlanta get-together?

It may be that when an ornithologist says the Water Ouzel walks under the water, he only means that he has seen a Water Ouzel or some other bird sitting on a stone in the general vicinity of a body of water.
–Will Cuppy