Work Chatter

[judecorp]

Conversation between me and two residents:

R1 - Have you ever dated a Black man?
Me - Yep.
R1 - Really?
Me - Yep.
R1 - You're not just saying that, are you?
Me - Yes. I'm lying. I'm trying to impress you.
R1 - Now you're making fun of me.
R2 - So, umm...
Me - Naw, I'm playing with you.
R1 - He wasn't any good?
Me - Oh, no, he was fine. A nice guy. Most of the guys I've dated were really nice.
R2 - But now you've changed your sexuality.
R1 - What?
Me - Well, no. But how you mean it, yes.
R2 - You're not with no guy now though, right?
Me - I'm sure not.
R1 - He mustn't have done it right.
Me - I'm sure that's not true.
R2 - Then why?
Me - Because otherwise all you fine gentleman would be just too tempting.
R1 - You playin'.
Me - You're so right, Mr. ____. You're /so/ right.

Comments

[murnkay.livejournal.com]

*snicker*

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

Eh, I'm not tempted by them though.

But then, my sexual preference is for queer by choice people, and they aren't it.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Sarcasm doesn't play out well in text, though. I mean, I'm talking to two middle-aged gentlemen in an emergency homeless shelter. Usually I walk around and they ask me to marry them, to take care of them, to buy them dinner. Today, though, I decided to play back a little bit. :)

[lemur68.livejournal.com]

A conversation like that at my work would probably get me fired. That's why your job's better than mine.

playin' at work

[vorpalbla.livejournal.com]

It's all about the nature of the conversation and who you're having it with.
Now I just work with men, but last year I used to work with the homeless women as well. I would NOT have had the kind of conversations Jude has (with her male residents) with the women. Not even if they initiated it.

This is not to discount the reality of sexual harassment as a workplace problem, but if someone makes a false or exaggerated claim of it, that someone is most likely to be a woman, directing it at a man. If Jude's guys say she's sexually harassing them, the fact that she's a lesbian woman is going to make their accusation unlikely to stick. On the other hand, if a woman resident had levied that charge at me (perhaps mad at me for a case management decision), I would have had a handful o' trouble.

It never happened, but if the women had asked if I was dating or anything like that, I would have immediately changed the subject.

Re: playin' at work

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

So, Vorpal, are you dating anyone? ;)

Re: playin' at work

[vorpalbla.livejournal.com]

Fuck you, Jude. Fuck you.*


*note to anyone reading this who is not Jude: this is not offensive, but can be understood in the context of a joke. I would type out the joke, but it's long, and a lot more fun to tell in person. Especially when you're supposed to be working.

Re: playin' at work

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I didn't realize you had a BCWC¹.

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¹Bachelor's Degree in Creative and Witty Comebacks.

HTML

[vorpalbla.livejournal.com]

Tangentially off the subject:

Do you do the HTML by hand to put in footnotes and stuff like that? Or does LJ offer some kind of shortcut?

Re: HTML

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

There are no shortcuts on the webclient. There are some shortcuts on the different LJ-clients (I use Semagic for my posts at home), but for comments and such, I do it all by hand, baby.

Re: playin' at work

[lemur68.livejournal.com]

I wasn't talking about any implications of sexual harrassment--I just meant that any conversation that doesn't include the words "proactive" and "paradigm" are irrelevant to work and therefore subject to disciplinary action up to and including but not limited to termination.

Re: playin' at work

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

What do you do for work, anyway?

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

A conversation like that at my work would probably get anyone fired but me. Actually, someday it will probably get /me/ fired. I really should watch it some. I dunno.

Then again, I think as long as /they/ start it, I should be okay. For now.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

He's got soul, baby.