so, what are you saying?

Post #26,950 by cforde 2/2/02 1:23:46 AM Reply	so, what are you saying? Ben took a jump to the left?? Or was it a step to the right? Have fun, Carl Forde
Post #26,973 by nking 2/2/02 11:06:12 AM Reply	Let's do the time warp again. Enough with the Rocky Horror references. Like Brad and Janet, he got sucked into a weird world of Transsexual Transylvanians that happened to be running the company he worked for. :) "Will code Visual BASIC for cash."
Post #26,976 by ben_tilly 2/2/02 11:21:10 AM Reply	Could be, or perhaps they were all on drugs The company in question was Bristol-Myers Squibb, so drugs would be appropriate. More seriously, the guy was just a jackass in middle management who hadn't been fired only because he kept his lips glued to the right asshole above him. That asshole belonged to a fairly competent person, so the f*ckwit had managed to follow it surprisingly high up the hierarchy despite a notable lack of any accomplishments. I was just unlucky enough to be consultant there. After complaining to my internal manager and the owner of the company didn't get any result, I figured that it wasn't worth it. A consultant for a rival consulting company had a friend leaving a company in NYC because he couldn't take the commute, and even though I understood the political BS trick she was using, I took the opportunity and ran with it. I don't care what you can get paid for being willing to work in that kind of environment, it isn't worth it. (I was offered a job elsewhere in BMS and wouldn't take it.) Cheers, Ben
Post #27,074 by nking 2/3/02 11:27:21 AM Reply	Jerks at work or rather in that case a Jerkette. They make life hard for us honest folk, and then always kissup to the higher ups so they don't lose their jobs. When we complain about them, management turns a deaf ear. We had plenty of them at the lawfirm. Many people rolled their eyes when at a group meeting the boss talked about what a good job these Jerk Managers have been doing. Apparently they never heard the complaints or chose to ignore the complaints about them. "Will code Visual BASIC for cash."
Post #27,084 by ben_tilly 2/3/02 2:26:22 PM Reply	Read the story again Jerk is the correct gender. Cheers, Ben
Post #27,107 by nking 2/3/02 7:47:41 PM Reply	Yes, but he was acting like another gender, sort of like calling a man in drag a drag queen. Oh well, call him a jerk or jerkette, its all the same. "Will code Visual BASIC for cash."
Post #27,110 by Meerkat 2/3/02 8:24:59 PM Reply	A technicality Umm I don't think getting a hard-on and pelvic-thrusting are quite 'other gender' behaviours for a man... Regardless, still very much the Wrong Thing To Do at work of course. On and on and on and on, and on and on and on goes John.

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