On a Teams call the other day. One of the managers starts sipping from a mug labelled “The Boss.”
I immediately think what a ****t. What do others think?
We had a vile ‘consultant’ who followed the predatory group of buyers of one of my previous companies around. She basically did their dirty hatchet work for them in 6 month stints and then took 6 months off. Presumably she went back into her ‘bacta’ tank like Darth Vader in the nuddy.
She had a personalised number plate with B055 then her initials.
One of the most sociopathic people I have ever had the misfortune to cross paths with. I wouldn’t even say she was malicious – she didn’t have the social insight to even emphasise enough with people to work out their weaknesses to exploit them. She was more like a stonefish, no real basis for her toxicity, just deadly if you happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
over a period of 5 years one person commented on my Star Trek mug. Not one comment on my new Judge Dredd one i started using 3 months ago. Folks don’t care about mugs. There’s more interest in the contents of my bookshelves. 🤷🏻♂️
Why do you think you reacted in this way OP? Assume from ‘… one of the managers…’ that you’re not in that group. Are they unsupportive of workers? Perhaps this primed your antipathy? It’s a mug. Put the event behind you.
Maybe it was just his partner’s mug. I know I am usually too tired and sleep-blind in the mornings to grab any specific mug other than one that will take a full stovetop full of hatefuel.
I would like to second the choice of a minion mug though. It would be both colourful and point-proving. You could always claim it was a present from your kids (with bonus points if work knows you do not have kids).
Patients occasionally buy one of us “World’s Best Doctor” mugs, much to the glee of our colleagues as it is distributed on the coffee round. I am the current owner of one, with my name on the other side and have decided to lean into it.
I neither own a Range Rover Sport, or a grandiose personal number plate which I think would be a bit of a double whammy.
I was once made manager of a team, but in the grand scheme of things was still pretty junior, with three higher levels of hierarchy sharing the same huge office space.
Proud of my promotion, my sister bought me a tie with a cartoon figure and “Voici c’est moi le chef”* written on it. I never wore it.
When you say ‘is’ would you mean as according to some children on urban dictionary? I get the feeling that nothing is safe. I could invent a word right now and it’ll probably already be on urban dictionary!
Get a mug with ACK printed on it and then reply to everything he says in the meeting so that your camera feed pops up alongside his on the display. Everyone else on the call will get the message eventually, or at least the Weegies will.
Saw that on a BMW heading up the M74 a few years back. Instant revulsion when I read the BO55 bit, followed a few seconds later by. ” Oh you **** clever sod😁👍”
One of my managers has a mug that says “Busier than a cucumber in a women’s prison” on the side. She’s generally discouraged to use it when she’s on Teams calls that involve folks from outside our organisation. Especially patients. We’ve had actual complaints about it.
“When you say ‘is’ would you mean as according to some children on urban dictionary? I get the feeling that nothing is safe. I could invent a word right now and it’ll probably already be on urban dictionary!”
My bad. Posted something a bit puerile and Viz-esque in the hope that it might make a couple of people laugh.