By Magglio
At
work, when making casual conversation in hallways, you will receive one of
three responses when asking the question ‘how's it going’?
Let me
translate what the responder actually means.
“It’s
good” - “I could care less about this
place. I’ve been on Facebook and Gchat for about 5 hours straight. Now please
get out of my way so I can eat some of Leslie’s pound cake she left in the
kitchen before those fatties in IT get their sausage fingers all over it.”
“BUSY!”
– “I want you to think I work REALLY hard. Yes, I stay at work until 8pm every
single day and totally neglect my family/personal time because I believe it
gives the perception that I work REALLY hard and am REALLY important. But in
actuality I’m terribly inefficient and not really smart cause if I was I could
get my work done much quicker and do a blog post on the side all within an 8
hour day.”
“It’s
ok” –“Please ask me what’s wrong. I need some positive male attention in my
life. I’ve thrown in the towel on my New Year’s resolutions already. My
boyfriend/husband told me I’m getting fat.
And I’ve just housed some Chipotle alone at my desk while reading TMZ
and saying things like ‘that’s too skinny’ to nobody in particular.”
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