Again, I’m the odd man out.

[madbaker]

Conversation on the desk this morning --

Cow-orker: "To buy or not to buy?"
Me (instantly): "Aye, there's the rub. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune..."
Cow-orkers: (blank looks)
Me: "... never mind."

Comments

[fionnbharro.livejournal.com]

I sure hope the pay is good.

The only thing keeping me at my present job is the people. seamoose not withstanding.

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

The pay is good, I like my job (when I'm allowed to do it), there aren't that many opportunities in the same field around here...

And besides, I'd have this same problem anywhere else I went.

[fionnbharro.livejournal.com]

I like my job (when I'm allowed to do it),

What is it, exactly, that a VP/Portfolio Manager (with a CFA, no less) *does*?

I mean, in light of not being allowed to do it. Whatever *it* is?

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

I buy and sell bonds for mutual funds. More and more frequently, work politics and salesmanship are getting in the way of what was my "primary job" when I was hired to do it.

[fionnbharro.livejournal.com]

Well, yes; I think most of us know the buying-sellng aspects of what you do.

I suppose many of us might wonder what sort of 'work politics' would get in the way of 'primary job'-function. Isn't that more of the 'who kisses-ass best' type of thing?

I've never known you to be an ass-kisser.

[seamoose.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I wouldn't stay around if only that seamoose guy was the only reason.

[our-meg.livejournal.com]

I find myself very fortunate that I have geeky cow-orkers, one of whom is SCA and a gamer.

[patsmor.livejournal.com]

Don't you just hate it when a good one like that goes Right over?

[fionnbharro.livejournal.com]

"Omega Boy"!

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

...not an alpha male!

[fionnbharro.livejournal.com]

Awesome wit.

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

Darn it, now I have to go to the library to catch the references people are making. The work sniffer is blocking the image.

[patsmor.livejournal.com]

Sorry :-(

closed captioned for the image impaired/blocked

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

It's a picture of a boy of 9?, grinning. On his head is what I think is a fancy new style of boomerang, which runs from ear to ear (over the head) and has "legs" sticking out from each side. Like the letter Omega. The subsequent is a high-church Christian liturgy reference "I am the Alpha and the Omega" combined with a behavioral dynamics referent.

If Pat had other amusing things in her mind when she posted the picture of the boy, she'll have to explain them herself.

[goldenstag.livejournal.com]

Joking with cow-workers is never an easy thing, I've found. When I worked for the government contractors I gave up ... too many blank looks. Oh well.

[aastg.livejournal.com]

Your cow-orker is wittier than the usual run of financial schmuck - you don't get set-ups like that in meetings every day.

Sadly,

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

It wasn't a deliberate set-up.