The office does not care what you had for breakfast.

Jul 05, 2006 11:42

More work ranting, because new employees are entertainingly stupid.

There's a new guy who's probably about 60 or so years old who started a couple of weeks ago. Apparently he's from Florida, as he talks about Florida incessantly, as well as Floridian alligators, golf, and the huge servings of food they have in Florida, which he's glad to have gotten away from, because now his pants are loose on him. Look, he declares, sticking his thumbs in his waistband, look how loose they are now.

I don't care. But these minor details of his life are babbled on about to the guy who sits in the cubicle behind me. I can only imagine he's annoyed, as he has a job to do, but stupid Florida guy, as I affectionately call him, seems very lonely, and needs to feel like he's making a connection to someone, I've decided, and has chosen this poor man in the cubicle behind me.

Stupid Florida guy comes in today (at 11:30, which I'm a bit confused about) and declares to the world that he had an egg sandwich from Dunkin Donuts today at 6:30, and it was decent. He goes on to say it was much better than the thing that they have at 7-11 which looks like a hot dog but actually is pizza (what?!). After a brief pause, he starts up again that 5 am is an ungodly hour to get up at. When no one responds to this statement, he continues talking, and goes on to say that he (probably because he's old) wanted to go to bed at 9 pm, but that was exactly when his neighbors decided it was a good time to set off fireworks.

I have to say that perhaps stupid Florida guy wouldn't annoy me quite so much if he hadn't made an annoyingly sexist comment last week about his wife. Because it's fun to make fun of your wife, stupid Florida guy and the guy behind me were talking about how much they didn't like their wives, and stupid Florida guy made a comment that he tells his wife, who is 60 years old, that she is too old, and he is going to trade her in for three 20-year old women.

...Why do these people think they're funny?
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