P.S. I’ve just started doing my timesheets for last week that were due by end of day yesterday so I am already late and that makes it worse and I don’t know why but it just does. I hate them more than anything. If it wasn’t for the fact that it’s my mother’s birthday today and I baked her a lemon meringue pie instead of a birthday cake that I get to eat when I get home I may decide to stop living
P.P.S. In other news I may have ostracized myself further in my place of work by making a joke yesterday via email to a coworker. She has not responded via reply email or in person to said joke even though I have spoken with her since then. I am starting to believe she didn’t get that I was joking and I have instead made her very uncomfortable. I must remember to a) not be a jackass to people who don’t know me and b) not be a jackass to people who don’t know me ESPECIALLY via email where things can be taken in the wrong context. Oopsie.
P.P.P.S. Now that you’re dying to know what my offensive joke was, it was this: (background: I do the resource management for the creative team so if people are finishing up a job or don’t have much on the go they will often email me to tell me they are going to be available to take on some work)
COWORKER X’s EMAIL: Kirstin I’m free tomorrow afternoon
KIRSTIN’s EMAIL: Coworker X, are you asking me out?
HA! That’s funny right? No? Not funny? I think I put a little Smiley Icon after it to help indicate that I was joking… Does the Smiley Icon sometimes translate into Pervy Smiley Icon? Okay, be honest, Internet, on a scale of 1 to 10 how likely am I to have a sexual harassment suit on my hands?
P.P.P.P.S. I’ve effectively managed to further procrastinate doing my timesheets with this little post-script-extravaganza but now, and with a heavy heart, I must return to the Evil Land Of The Timesheets. Good-bye. I shall miss your procrastination-friendly-time spendyness. Sniff.
I think you should throw Coworker X in a pool of those nibbling fish til they nibble away her rough exterior and expose her sense of humor!
I literally laughed out loud at that and had to share it with the hubby who also laughed…stupid coworker X, she’s probably just annoyed that she has such a dumb name…I mean X, seriously, she totally must have been last on the list when they did roll call in school or at her graduation…
Love, Coworker A (always first to be called during roll call)