# Workplace griping, anyone?

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [November 12, 2010, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401 "2010-11-12T06:39:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/1300 "2011-05-25T06:56:12Z")

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> [@Morgyn](#):
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> Turn the phone OFF. Set your email to auto-respond that you are out of the office on vacation and unavailable until \<date\>. Anyone with questions needs to talk to your boss.
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> Are you sure those meals will still be there when you get back? Does your boss know you left them there and expect them there when you return?

Phone has to be on because of cat stuff, but I can look at the caller ID and choose which calls to take. All work numbers go to voice mail. I don’t care about the food, I do mind that SG guy is such a fuck up that he is trying to find an excuseto steal my frozen dinners because he “thinks” they will spoil in 2 weeks.

I’m now in Texas, pretty close to **Purplehorseshoe** , and I can sympathy so much withher feelings. I used to sneer at peope who said “but its a dry heat” (actually, when it was over 100 degrees, I was willing to offer up physical damage, but now that I’m in Houston..I will live with my dry heat and use lots of lotion.

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