Please GOD give me the strength to keep from jumping over this cubicle wall...

[EnviroBat]

and slapping the shit out of this self-important land creature. Honest to God I can't help but overhearing this hog's conversation. She's, (or it's) on the phone with some poor bastard who has to suffer this abuse. She's complaining to a hotel staff person that clean towels are being provided to their rooms when they stay there. Read that again, she's complaining because this hotel chain's policy is TO PROVIDE FRESH TOWELS daily to the guests. She's the typical late early mid to late 50's, bitter, pissed at the world, grotesquely out of shape, and soooo full of her own crap. She talks like a female prison guard, maybe you've seen the type. Or maybe the type has seen you, and considered eating you like a snack. Either way, people can be so abysmally small. Her recommendation was that the hotel provide a checklist that the guest would fill out indicating what they need. I don't know about you but the last thing I want to be worrying about while staying at a hotel, is a fucking checklist. I hope the hotel takes her recommendation and wipes their collective asses with it.

Rant off.

[Broken_Hero]

1. Well, stay strong

and don't do anything that will get you sent to jail, or fired...:D I know the feeling....

[EnviroBat]

2. Thanks, I think I need some lunch...

[Broken_Hero]

3. No problem

I go through the same thing everyday, when my wife comes home. Her cube neighbor is the dumbest person in their work area, and she just irritates the holy hell out of the whole team, and my wife has to sit there and hear this lady complain all day long...and this person talks load, and is obnoxious, so there is NO WAY you can not hear every single thing she says...

When my wife comes home, I have to deprogram her, of all her negativity about her co-worker....:D

[Madrone]

12. I think your wife and I work right next to each other....

I don't have anyone at home to deprogram me though. :cry:

[Raffi Ella]

4. omg

:rofl: I feel for ya',honestly.The fact that you are a forced audience to this is JUST unfair.God Almighty damn do I know the feeling well.

[bbernardini]

5. What does she want, dirty towels? nt

[Az]

6. Maybe you should provide her with a clean towel

:evilgrin:

[EnviroBat]

10. Or some hemorrhoid cream... FOR HER SORE ASS!

[GalleryGod]

7. I've Felt Really Lucky That My Job doesn't Entail Cube-Farms!

The Cube Stories on DU are funny + Sad.

Of course, I can't play on the Internet while at work...but I'll gladly keep the exchange.
:argh:

[cwydro]

8. "self-important land creature"

I LOVE that!:rofl:

[EnviroBat]

9. I do try from time to time...

[Pied Piper]

11. So what I do

I use my mental white noise filter. The guy I with whom I share an office talks non-stop. If he's not talking to me, he's on the phone complaining to some poor customer service rep. I have my back to him, and every time he says something, I nod my head or give a noncommital grunt. To give him the impression that I'm too busy, I just open up another email and start typing like mad. He can't see what I'm typing, so it all looks like this:

fjkdsjha;sdhvasdv dlfgjdkls

Evenutally, he shuts his trap and leaves me alone.

[EnviroBat]

13. Holy crap... I started doing that today to see if she'd notice and...

turn her mouth-horn down. I don't think she got the hint. I'm waaaay to deep into the corporate machine.

[petronius]

14. One of my favorite authors (Patrick O'Brian) describes a main character's

mother-in-law as "...the most unromantic beast that ever urged it's squat, thick, bulk across the face of the protesting Earth." :rofl:

"Land creature" is quite good, as well!

[Gatchaman]

15. Some hotels will let you keep your dirty, wet towels as long as you want

There's usually a little sign in the bathroom with instructions on how you can keep your towels to reuse. It's got something to do with saving water, but it's probably just the hotel trying to be cheap and not pay for the electricity to wash the damn things.

People who complain about such things really need to get a life.

[Dangerously Amused]

16. What the hell are you doing in a cubicle farm?

You're supposed to be a famous writer, remember?


Get to it.




:)