Have you ever offended anyone at the work place?

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: rudeguy
I have never offended anyone in my entire life.

You've never offended me and that's what really counts.

 

[imported_Imp]

One, she was a supervisor and kind of a FOB. She didn't understand sarcasm at the time, so took offense to a lot of my off-kilter responses.

Probably a few customers/clients too. It was my first job and I was incompetent. A person came in with like an $800 donation once, and I nearly told him to shove it cause I didn't know what the procedure was for writing a receipt; it was a weekend, the accountant usually took care of it.

The most recent one has to be a parapalegic at an office I was working at for one day. I didn't want to deal with her, so I ran to her cubicle when I thought she was away. While I was doing my shit (IT), she came back and I tried to get some small talk going about her computer systems and software (huge screens and magnified text). Somewhere along the way, I started to get a negative vibe.

 

[IronWing]

Most days. One of my better efforts was at a company workshop. We had folks from all over the country at the workshop, maybe two hundred in all, from new hires to senior management types. During the course of the workshop we had to break up into small, randomly selected, working groups of about a dozen each and disperse to smaller classrooms. When I walked into the room where my group was to meet I saw that I was the only male in my group (the overall class was fairly evenly split). So I put on a big grin and stated "Well, I guess I must be in charge." The older women, senior management types, laughed but two or three of the younger women were pissed.

 

[rudeguy]

Originally posted by: ironwing

Originally posted by: rudeguy
I have never offended anyone in my entire life.

You've never offended me and that's what really counts.

Thanks for not holding grudges over the whole me banging your wife and mom thing.
😛

 

[jinduy]

Originally posted by: ironwing
Most days. One of my better efforts was at a company workshop. We had folks from all over the country at the workshop, maybe two hundred in all, from new hires to senior management types. During the course of the workshop we had to break up into small, randomly selected, working groups of about a dozen each and disperse to smaller classrooms. When I walked into the room where my group was to meet I saw that I was the only male in my group (the overall class was fairly evenly split). So I put on a big grin and stated "Well, I guess I must be in charge." The older women, senior management types, laughed but two or three of the younger women were pissed.

this made me smile 🙂

 

[lokiju]

Yeah. I felt like a dummy after 🙁

It was at some place I was on a contract for and people were talking about songs they liked and someone said something about that Buckcherry song Crazy Bitch and I said something like "my wife loves that song, she said that's her" and I totally meant it as my wife says she's a crazy bitch like the radio version of the song says but they latched onto the unedited part of the song that says something about fvcking so good or something.

Totally embarrassing and I think a bit offensive to a few of them that were there.

I think my face turned red from the embarrassment 😛

 

[moshquerade]

not that i know of.

 

[FeuerFrei]

yes, when working for my dad

I got fired for characterizing him as "running his mouth". He blew up.

Was hired back the next day though.

 

[zinfamous]

Oh my, yes.

 

[pstylesss]

We have a coffee fund and one of the employees here bought some Famous Amous cookies with it (like $5) and the woman who always is looking for drama and shoving her nose in everyone's business has a suspicion that the money was misused (no one cared but her) so she went digging in peoples trash cans looking for some evidences, and she just so happens to look in the guy that bought it and he had a baggy in there. So she takes it out, prints off the list of people who contribute to the fund, and wrote him a nasty note. He didn't get in trouble for it, people just laughed at how ridiculous she was being.

I wrote an email about starting a "cookie club" to the people in the back part of the office (all offices) and mentioned the "evil cubical dwellers" (she sat in a cube). 2 days later she made a snide comment about our "cookie club" being cute. I thought someone told her something bad about the email, so I showed the original email I sent. I thought I had a good working relationship with her and we joke around quite a bit so I thought it would be okay. I guess not... she flipped a bitch and gave it to my manager. The email was forwarded around to all the senior management and they got a laugh about it. I was basically told to not show her those emails next time.

Oh, and for those that remember... this is the same woman that made the "box of shame".

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I don't worry half as much about the people I offend as I do the ones who can't be offended. I'm talking about the lazy assed, good for nothing, incompetent, brown nosing, clueless, time wasters who think you're joking when you call them the same.

 

[olds]

I offended someone in the work place last night.
I was up on the highest point of our highway. Some people in clunkers were up there and one of their batteries was dead. The other pos was trying to jump it. It was storming to beat the band (some of the Donner party died a few miles away) and they were blocking one of our bunkers. As I was getting them started, I noticed that the battery was held down with a broken, tie strap. The guy told me that he hoped the alternator was OK. I said that by the looks of the battery tie down, I doubted the alternator worked. I then told him that if it died again and he abandonded the vehicle along the road that I would have the CHP tow it.

PSA:
Don't go into snow country unless you are prepared.

 

[Brovane]

I have found at work it is just best for me to just put my headphones on. I just listen to music and work. I then ignore the conversations going on around me which keeps me out of trouble.