# Workplace Griping Spinoff - Shredder Guy and other tales **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 10, 2011, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-spinoff-shredder-guy-and-other-tales/585014 "2011-06-10T19:01:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-spinoff-shredder-guy-and-other-tales/585014/81 "2011-06-24T06:40:19Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > Today, one of my friends needed to borrow my car. Tony really is dirt poor, and he is one of the best foster homes I have for kittens. > > I stopped to get gas on the way home last night and SG questioned it because I still had half a tank. I did it because I know that Tony will fill my tank before he brings my car back. SG wasn’t very happy that Tony was riding shotgun, and was totally outraged that I’d let Tony have my car for the day. I casually mentioned that Tony would bring me lunch today and would also be on time to pick us up and that the gas tank would be full. SG is so clueless, that all he noticed was that I’d let a _stranger_ borrow my car and I wouldn’t let him. It really made me laugh. So because Tony is a total stranger to _him_, SG decides that Tony is also a total stranger to you, and if you wouldn’t let your co-worker who is obviously your buddy because hey, you’re giving him a lift, borrow the car, then this total stranger shouldn’t be allowed to borrow your car? Clueless isn’t the word. I’m not sure there is a word for this. Narcissistic egotist, maybe? ---
**Author:** ![Hawkeyeop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/958977/32.png) [@Hawkeyeop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hawkeyeop)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-spinoff-shredder-guy-and-other-tales/585014/82 "2011-06-24T06:55:35Z")
> [@MyFootsZZZ](#): > > I had to ask what “PO” meant, (poor right?); > What’s “PTO”? Something “overtime”? po is when you are too broke to afford the o and r. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-spinoff-shredder-guy-and-other-tales/585014/83 "2011-06-24T17:35:05Z")
That made me L. (Someday, I’ll be able to afford the O, and maybe even the other L. _sigh_ Someday…) ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-spinoff-shredder-guy-and-other-tales/585014/84 "2011-06-24T21:13:59Z")
It’s okay, **purple** , we understand. Those slots aren’t going to play themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-spinoff-shredder-guy-and-other-tales/585014/85 "2011-06-25T02:04:48Z")
C’mon, **flatlined**. What’s the newest atrocity? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-spinoff-shredder-guy-and-other-tales/585014/86 "2011-06-25T05:22:41Z")
This guy should hook up with **Syntropy** ’s old employee, Joan. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-spinoff-shredder-guy-and-other-tales/585014/87 "2011-06-25T06:02:52Z")
**Purple** , you just won the thread!!! Cracks up irl. So, I was reading this [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=565747) and suddenly realized where all the cultery keeps going. I’m now getting more worried about the wife. Is she the one who eats everything and spins a web of enchantment and fear? Or is she bending them on SG’s +3 armor of cardboard while trying to escape. Every so often, I’ll notice that there are no forks, so I’ll go to a thrift store and buy a handfull of forks. They always go away in about 6 months. Nobody needs that many cheap forks. Tony had to use my car twice. His POS car failed and he needed to go to the junkyards to find parts. The first day, SG wouldn’t even talk to Tony, but once he realized that Tony might possibly be a mark, he started being charming. Tony brought food for SG along with mine the second day and while we were talking, SG suddenly became Tony’s bestest friend. Yesterday, SG brought his pictures of his glory days to show Tony. After we dropped SG off, Tony told me that SG had complained that my new hand lotion is pink and smells like roses. I used to have a bottle of Walmart lotion, but it ran out. I’ll bet that this bottle will last a lot longer. I didn’t do it on purpose to mess with SG. We work with paper and our hands dry out really fast. M sent this lotion to me, but its pink and smells like flowers. Did I happen to mention that SG is homophopic? Back when I was dumb enough to listen to him, he would rant about how the gayz were going to take over the worldl. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-spinoff-shredder-guy-and-other-tales/585014/88 "2011-06-25T06:09:48Z")
Homophobic, even. missed the edit window ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-spinoff-shredder-guy-and-other-tales/585014/89 "2011-06-25T06:40:44Z")
Tony’s nicer than I am. I know _I_ wouldn’t have brought SG food after being told all about him. Well, not unless it included a healthy amount of prunes secreted in it. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-spinoff-shredder-guy-and-other-tales/585014/90 "2011-06-25T21:30:19Z")
> [@2gigch1](#): > > Whoever was on your end of the conversation (the person you overheard) should be lauded for their consideration of your autistic coworker and his defense of that employee. It sounds like he let it slip by accident that your engineer coworker has some special issues, which to me is a good sign that the autistic coworker is a positive enough employee that the benefit of having him on the team outweighs any possible negatives the autism brings. > > I have more than a few coworkers who have quirks, but in this business (broadcast tv) it’s often an additive, even if you have to work around a few rough edges. > > Anyway, your story made me feel good. Thanks for sharing. Yeah, I understand she was just trying to say “he’s autistic, so he needs more advance warning about changes than most other people”. Not so different from “he’s got real bad sight close up, so please don’t, I repeat, do not, print things two-pages-to-one-side”; there is a disability which needs to be a matter of public record at work so it can be compensated for, because so long as it gets compensated for it’s perfectly minor. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2011, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-spinoff-shredder-guy-and-other-tales/585014/91 "2011-06-26T00:37:27Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > …Did I happen to mention that SG is homophopic? Back when I was dumb enough to listen to him, he would rant about how the gayz were going to take over the worldl. Well that’s ridiculous; all we’re trying to do is seize contol of the media from the Jews. It’s not fair that they get to control media _and_ banking. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2011, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-spinoff-shredder-guy-and-other-tales/585014/92 "2011-06-26T04:10:00Z")
Maybe you should try to take over banks instead, give the industry more flair? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2011, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-spinoff-shredder-guy-and-other-tales/585014/93 "2011-06-26T04:40:43Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > Well that’s ridiculous; all we’re trying to do is seize contol of the media from the Jews. It’s not fair that they get to control media _and_ banking. What about the gay Jews? ---
**Author:** ![StaudtCJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@StaudtCJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StaudtCJ)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2011, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-spinoff-shredder-guy-and-other-tales/585014/94 "2011-06-26T05:45:33Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > What about the gay Jews? They have to choose a side. There is no Switzerland in this fight. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-spinoff-shredder-guy-and-other-tales/585014/95 "2011-06-27T04:32:11Z")
You do know that I’m laughing so hard that I’m crying, right? SG called Tony to ask for a ride to work on Tuesday. Tony called me and was all confused. Apparently, SG thought he would be able to get Tony to drive SG to work because Tony and SG are best buds now. Tony said “No”. Tony also told SG to call me for a ride, and SG said that he didn’t want to ride with me because he has to spend so much time waiting for me to show up. I’m never on time, don’t you know? ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-spinoff-shredder-guy-and-other-tales/585014/96 "2011-06-27T05:42:27Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > You do know that I’m laughing so hard that I’m crying, right? > > SG called Tony to ask for a ride to work on Tuesday. Tony called me and was all confused. Apparently, SG thought he would be able to get Tony to drive SG to work because Tony and SG are best buds now. > > Tony said “No”. Tony also told SG to call me for a ride, and SG said that he didn’t want to ride with me because he has to spend so much time waiting for me to show up. I’m never on time, don’t you know? Oh for heaven sake! I’m torn between hoping you get rid of this guy so you can have peace at work and not wanting him to get fired, because we’d lose the entertainment value. The man is completely delusional. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-spinoff-shredder-guy-and-other-tales/585014/97 "2011-06-27T05:44:58Z")
I’m torn between punching **flatlined** in the face for making up such an implausible character and punching SG in the fact for existing. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-spinoff-shredder-guy-and-other-tales/585014/98 "2011-06-27T05:57:56Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > You do know that I’m laughing so hard that I’m crying, right? > > SG called Tony to ask for a ride to work on Tuesday. Tony called me and was all confused. Apparently, SG thought he would be able to get Tony to drive SG to work because Tony and SG are best buds now. > > Tony said “No”. Tony also told SG to call me for a ride, and SG said that he didn’t want to ride with me because he has to spend so much time waiting for me to show up. I’m never on time, don’t you know? I thought he only needed a ride for two weeks? He’s been paid, right? Tony doesn’t work with you guys, does he? (I like Tony, he sounds sensible.) Wow. So, did SG call? ( **RNATB** , I suspect SG is all too plausible. It’s in fiction you’d never find someone like him, 'cause no one would believe someone like him could get this far in life without someone having strung him up for terminal stupidity.) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-spinoff-shredder-guy-and-other-tales/585014/99 "2011-06-27T13:10:55Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > Did I happen to mention that SG is homophopic? Back when I was dumb enough to listen to him, he would rant about how the gayz were going to take over the worldl. But don’t you want to know about what the QUEERS are DOING to the SOIL?! ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-spinoff-shredder-guy-and-other-tales/585014/100 "2011-06-27T16:55:39Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > **Purple** , you just won the thread!!! … Thank you **blushes** but I couldn’t have done it without **Hawkeyeop** ’s setup. Also, I’d like to thank my manager, my agent, my publicist, Jesus, my mom … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-spinoff-shredder-guy-and-other-tales/585014.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-spinoff-shredder-guy-and-other-tales/585014.md?page=6)