Any good jokes ... ?

[Seevio]

I'm angry that I can't find my thesaurus. Angry. Very angry. Really super angry. So, so angry. Like, unbelievably angry.

 

[Andy in Germany]

I'm angry that I can't find my thesaurus. Angry. Very angry. Really super angry. So, so angry. Like, unbelievably angry.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Quite right too! I'd be telling them to go and do one, or - if I loved and adored absolutely everything else about the job, and the intrusion was only once a year - I might consider standing up and telling some totally weird and/or outrageous story.

Yes, I have wondered about that: I'm very good at presenting to a group and storytelling if I get a few minutes to prepare, so it would be interesting to make up increasingly outrageous stories until they tell me to shut up.

I've also had similar conversations to this:

 

[tyred]

 

[Alex H]

BACK TO THE FUTURE

 

[Jameshow]

Egads. That would be considered intrusion into your private life here and by the third person at the latest the 'leader' would be cordially invited to go forth and multiply.

We've had times where we were supposed to present our work in a work related seminar, but your private life is most definitely off limits.

That's not to say we don't share with each other privately, my work colleagues have been amazing over the past month!

 

[Jameshow]

I'm angry that I can't find my thesaurus. Angry. Very angry. Really super angry. So, so angry. Like, unbelievably angry.

Not a very good thesaurus tbh needs my synonyms!!

 

[Speicher]

My niece and nephew were trying to hide from a very large female dinosaur.

After a while, the dinosaur moved away.

Was that a "Doyouthinkshesawus", asked my nephew.

 

[Profpointy]

Quite right too! I'd be telling them to go and do one, or - if I loved and adored absolutely everything else about the job, and the intrusion was only once a year - I might consider standing up and telling some totally weird and/or outrageous story.

One of my regrets is not telling them to mind their own business or walking out of a training session when they did that. I was in a very unhappy state of mind at the time, so very much not something I wished to publicly discuss with a bunch of work colleagues, particularly when I had the distinct impression, maybe wrongly, that we were being assessed. I found pretending to comply without revealling my thoughts incredibly stressful.

I did walk out of a different course, but by the time I got to the trainer from the break out room, I had the presence of mind to say "Sorry, something's come up back at the office"

Both were cod-psychology (compulsory) training for managers. The trainers are invariable good at psychological manipulation.

I seem to remember a Frank Spenser episode where he'd been sent on one of those too

 

[Cavalol]

Those silly 'team building' things where you introduce the person next to you are all very well and good until you insult your future boss. I managed that in some style many years ago.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Those silly 'team building' things where you introduce the person next to you are all very well and good until you insult your future boss. I managed that in some style many years ago.

I was talking to someone who went on one where they did that stupid thing where you fall backwards and trust your colleagues to catch you

SOD THAT - no way I'm doing that
I suppose I was lucky to have worked for a company, and in particular in a department, that regarded such things as the ultimate in a waste of time and money because there is no way I could - or would - ever do that one

 

[tyred]

 

[PeteXXX]

 

[Cavalol]

I can’t believe I got sacked on my first day as a signwirter.

 

[markemark]

Not a very good thesaurus tbh needs my synonyms!!

Er, that’s the joke. That’s it’s lost so there were no synonyms, just the same word repeated.