You little prick, you listen to me. If I could, I’d stick your face into the hobart mixer. Who the fuck do you think you are? You’re seventeen years old! The rest of us are GROWNUPS. We don’t need your advice on parenting, relationships, work etc. I don’t give a fuck what you think about the way I raise my daughter, and I’m not going to take your idiotic suggestions into consideration. You’re a cocky little teenager, and you need to SHUT THE FUCK UP.
The rest of us don’t want to hear about your sex life with your young girlfriend, and how you lost your virginities to each other. Listening to you, makes me feel like I’m participating in child pornography, and I don’t like it. Oh, and what you said to me about what a good lay you are was TOTALLY INAPPROPRIATE. The only reason none of us reported your behavior is that we know you don’t know any better! Jesus, you’re an idiot.
Stay away from me. Don’t talk to me, don’t look at me, and don’t fucking think about me. If you open your mouth, and say something I don’t like, you’re going to be fucking sorry.:mad:
…and relax
You know, unless someone pulls him aside and says something to him, he wont know any better. Why don’t you pull him aside and repeat the OP, with much less anger of course, to him? Might work.
I agree with Amp. There’s a problem when working with adults in that, when engaged in conversation, one feels they can talk like adults. At work here, there are times when the conversation gets sexual, and in a more touchy feely environment, someone could scream sexual harrasment very easily, and upon inspection, be justified. The thing is…why should such conversation be a problem? If it weren’t in the work place, no one would have an issue with it (for the most part). For those times when things do get a bit inappropriate, someone generally speacks up, very casually, and says “Okay, moving on…” That generally gets the point accross.
The difficulty is, in the work place, things can’t progress like they can at the bar. I don’t really know why they can’t, because, hey, we’re all adults, we should be able to handle these things with maturity, no? Unfortunately, not everyone’s as mature as others. If this guy’s as bad as you say, say something to him. Tell him, casually at first, “You know, that’s really not very appropriate for the office.” If he keeps it up, then you can be a little more trite. Of course, there’s really no polite way to say “Do you have any kids? No? Then don’t tell me how to raise mine.” But sometimes, they need to hear that as well. That will embarrass him a bit, but hey, if you don’t like him and don’t want him talking to you, that works even better!
Try being polite about toning down his “advice”, but if that doesn’t work, feel free to either be a little mean, or just go to your boss and get his punk ass canned. He’s going to have to learn sooner or later what’s appropriate in the workplace…getting fired will do it good.
Why do you work with a 17-year-old? Where do you work?
Sounds like the OP works in a kitchen, because he wanted to shove the kid’s face in a Hobart mixer. Hobart makes a lot of kitchen equipment, such as convection ovens, freezers, and especially industrial mixers of all sizes. Hobart is about the only mixer I’ve worked on in my whole career as a baker, in all my jobs.
Yeah, but I think I’m gonna carry a Hobart around.
It might come in handy as described.
Hmmm. I have a bushel of Hobarts I need mixed.
Or perhaps, like me, the OP works in a cement and concrete laboratory. We also use Hobart mixers.
Do you have a buffalo chopper? You might casually place his hand in that. Or dunk his head in the bain marie after it’s all warmed up. Or perhaps a cabinet steamer…
Alias - Why use the Hobart when you’ve got the slicer right there?
(Not that I think she’d mind, but Alias is a she.)
The slicer would be too tricky to shove a hand or arm into. The Hobart mixer is better because it actually shatters bone (as we learned with an employee a few months ago)
I know I need to lighten up about the kid, it’s just that he’s been warned by me and many others I work with, and he JUST DOESN’T GET IT. He blows it off and says things like “what a bitch” and “why are you so uptight?”. He’s an idiot who needs severe punishment. GRRRRRRR.