Secret work enemies

[coollino]

I always had your username down as pronounced cool-eeno. I'm a little bit shellshocked now I must say at this development.

Well it can be like that if you want to sound cultured

 

[Baines' left foot]

Yes, correct

Have you ever considered setting up a floor fitting service?

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Absolutely cringing during a monthly meeting. The manager here has just come back off a management/ public speaking course and is now marching about a room on a TEAMs call. lol

 

[coollino]

Have you ever considered setting up a floor fitting service?

no

 

[cronullasharks]

Absolutely cringing during a monthly meeting. The manager here has just come back off a management/ public speaking course and is now marching about a room on a TEAMs call. lol

What buzz words has he learnt he's now shoehorning into everything he says?

 

[cronullasharks]

By the way aren't human resource departments a bunch of snivelling gimps

 

[LostLegend]

I always had your username down as pronounced cool-eeno. I'm a little bit shellshocked now I must say at this development.

I’ve been pronouncing it like a Brazilian footy player in my head for years ‘Coolinho’

 

[JimmyJeffers]

What buzz words has he learnt he's now shoehorning into everything he says?

I muted the whole thing. Was too much

 

[canuckblue]

i had the nickname 'lino' from like 12 or so, due to my surname being Lines. it's worn off from the majority of my mates, but the odd few still call me that naturally so i sometimes get introduced as that and i greet them with a pathetic handshake or wave

painful

Your given name isn't Blurred, by any chance?

 

[Blue 1]

I interact with someone from a different company. He signs off his emails with "work different"

I hate him.

 

[coollino]

Your given name isn't Blurred, by any chance

No, I am not a sex pest thank you very much

 

[canuckblue]

No, I am not a sex pest thank you very much

Good. There's enough on here as it is.

 

[Tipp blue]

First day back in the office tomorrow. I'm going to make a point of saying happy new year to everyone and how great it is to get back into the normal routine, just to annoy them.

 

[the golden visionary]

Good. There's enough on here as it is.

More the merrier I say. Its good to have common interests

 

[verreauxi]

I used to have this labmate (we were both working in the same lab everyday, so essentially day-in-day-out coworker) and his name was Michael. But he made everyone, including our advisor call him "Og." He said it was a nickname that he liked because it sounded playfully "caveman." He had this personal website which he named "Og Cave" and there were cringey pages like "Things Og Like" and "Things Og Hate" and it was full of dumb obvious stuff like "beer" "girls" "mean people" "dance music". There was also a section full of really bad poetry that he wrote with butt-tightening dedications such as "this one is for you Trent" and it would be a series of dark words strung together like "The blood masses grow; screams cry out in my head; a lone crow flies overhead; my time has come..." and dumbass-noir crap like that. He would often come into work on Monday and make a weird proclamation about something he figured out over the weekend. He would walk in and say, "I tried a bunch of beers over the weekend and I can conclude that Sam Adams Boston Lager is the best beer in the world" and while this was like 1998 and there wasn't a proliferation of microbrews back then, the rest of us would just ignore him knowing that Sam Adams was not the best beer in the world, it wasn't even the best beer in Boston. As this was pre-cellphone era, my friend used to call my house and leave fake-dark Og poetry on my answering machine. I'd come home and hit the play button and my friend's "dark voice" would be saying stuff like "Redemption of the blood angels cry for the sinners; but no more; for the demons have journeyed inward to Satan's lair; Yearning, yearning, yearning, for the dark toils of revenge" or whatever dumbass-noir words he could string up on the fly. I forgot about Og until reading this thread.