let me ask you a simple
question (or 4)
1.
have you ever felt the
need to tell a person something, and at the same time insult/borderline
emotionally accost someone?
2.
have you ever wanted to
step into a room and felt the need to demonstrate your "han solo-esque-ness"
by giving off the air of being slightly cocky, with subtle earthy undertones of
arrogance, combined with a lovely bouquet of charm?
3.
have you ever felt the
need to describe what just happened to you after you watched a paul walker
movie?
4.
have you ever felt that
you have an over-abundance of that silly "job security"?
if any of these apply to
you, the there is an 87.5% chance that using the phrase "F your I"
(for your information) could have an explosive(ly funny) effect on your
situation. (readers note: Smilliam is not liable for any lawsuits of any
kind which might come from the use of this phrase. He only demands that
you pay him a dollar each time you use it)
Personally, I fall into
category 3 and 4. (as I’m sure we ALL do...)
For some reason, the
filter that lets you speak like a normal/not-insane person gets turned off at
work. What seems to replace this filter, is the "let's say absolutely psychotic things
that could get me fired" generator.
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This is what a proper functioning human brain will tell you to do when prompted to sarcastically answer questions |
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Demonstrating the physics of "foot in mouth" This his is what my ABNORMAL nerd brain does to me... pretty much on a daily basis |
Exhibit A): jokingly (in
that kinda serious way) telling a person that you'd be happy to "show them
the ropes" around work. Oh yeah, this "person" is the same
person who signs the checks of the guy who signs the checks of the guy who
signs MY checks. Side-note: I was fully aware of who
this person was. Additional idiot-note: I had only been working at the
company for a couple of months. I will admit that perhaps wise king Solomon
would have chosen a different action, but he also had over a thousand wives...
so... ummm... I don’t feel bad about not doing EVERYTHING a suicidal guy does.
Exhibit B): I was writing
an incredibly nerdy/awesome/informative email to pretty much everyone who has
the power to fire me. After typing up the email, I realized that my heading of
"FYI" wasn't actually correct... because it really was not only for
ONE person's information, it was for EVERYONE's information. but i really
didn't think that anyone would get FEI... I mean: common... that just sounds
like something that the evil Jar-Jar Binks would say. So the next best
thing to star the email with was obviously "F everyone's I"
A normal/Smart person
would simply think "tee-hee that's funny" and immediately delete this
HR-nightmare phrase. The unfortunate truth is that my unfiltered nerd
brain let my mouse cursor rest over the "send" button before I
paused, because my brain started working (only a little bit) enough to tell me
that something seemed strange. As you may have already guessed, I wussed out
and just started off the E-Mail with "Hi". sigh... I feel like
the guy who gets into the plane, sees the door open and THEN decides he doesnt
want to skydive.
F everyone's I: I still
have a job... for now.
F my I: due to quickly depleting friend supply, I may need to re-think this phrase's regularity in my conversations.
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