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[work] I haven't had an interesting coworker story since Joanne. My bosses are always fine degrees of meh to passive aggressive but my coworkers are pretty chill.
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There is one girl
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Ariella
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Two company meetings ago she ground our 500-person meeting to a halt to ask the CEO a truly obnoxious question. And there are like, dumb questions, I've asked them before
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But there's a finesse to asking an impressively obnoxious one.
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Like I'm afraid to even look directly at anyone 3 levels above me
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Ariella charges on
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Goes to CEO and asks her "What are you doing to protect us from other companies' employees?"
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CEO goes "what."
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"What are you doing to prevent the other floors in our 11 floor building from infecting us."
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"Well those are other companies. I cannot control what other companies do, I can only control this one."
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"Fine."
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This is Ariella
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So today everyone got pumped up in our daily meeting for our department because of SpaceX's launch and one of my coworkers sent over a link for people to watch it come 12:15
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At 12:17
Ptriciadactyl
if you really must ask that question, you could at least phrase it more diplomatically! like "Have you had any communication with other tenants in the building to see if they're exercising similar precautions?"
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Ariella goes "Has it not started yet? Nothing is moving and it's quiet."
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You would THINK that she meant "is the video working for anyone else"
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No she wants to know why SpaceX is not keeping to their scheduled time
Ptriciadactyl
wow
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and if the coworker who sent the link would please not get her excited about something that may not be bound to happen next time
Ptriciadactyl
oh my god
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I love Ariella. She's such a shit.
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Ptriciadactyl
: Yeah that's what we thought! I was laughing.
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Looked over at mom going like "you believe this shit?"
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haha oh no
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Other coworker: The launch isn't happening until 4:30 like we said, it's airing some footage from NASA about the history of the space program first
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Ariella: This may not happpen?!
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oh my god she is incensed.
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I love it
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She's my age. How do you find the energy and wherewithall to be this pissy at my age?
Themme Fatale
HAHAHAHAHAHA This is glorious
Themme Fatale
god I love an asshole
no mortal blade
so how angry is she now
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I don’t even know yet, I had to go get the cat so I left at 3
Jaq
new cats are better than bad coworkers
no mortal blade
v true