Workplace Harassment

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Utah

Utah

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If I told you about the things we say and do at work you'd think I was either lying or that my peeps and I are a bunch of non-Christian deviants. Truth is, I'm honest and no, we are not deviants, but in fact, most of us are Christian. We just know how to have fun, and the sky's the limit.

We're friends who respect and care for one another, and we know each other's hearts. Its sad that so many people don't know how to have fun anymore at work because of laws and adjudication.

What's your experience and/or outlook regarding pushing the limits of fun and friendship in the workplace, but doing it lovingly and respectfully?
 
Olerica

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Utah said:
Amen to that. Seriously. Having a sense of humor is a blessing.
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Goes along with this: Know your audience.

(I shock people on the regular in real life. I'm not 'churchy' enough for quite a few of the Christian women in my church and elsewhere)
 
chickwithsticks

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I respond immediately to those who have a great sense of humor and can lighten things up regardless of environment. You know someone "gets" you when they feel comfortable and safe with you to joke around with you. Besides then you get to give it right back and what's more fun then that?!
 
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jaybird88

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im pretty rotten at work. i miss the days when my kids were babies, was so much fun saving their diapers and putting them under the seats of my co workers trucks.
 
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LiJo

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Oh I have tons of fun at work! I love playing pranks on my coworkers....the shock pen, the fart machine.....just clean fun! Of course I've been on the receiving end too :) We're like family. We even pray together.
 
Roh_Chris

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I don't make friends at work. I'm the guy who is cordial with everybody but keeps them all at an arm's length.

Yeah, I know, that is very, very different from the person I seem to be on CC. :rolleyes:
 
Utah

Utah

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jaybird88 said:
im pretty rotten at work. i miss the days when my kids were babies, was so much fun saving their diapers and putting them under the seats of my co workers trucks.
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I just woke up the neighborhood laughing at this! :D

Thanks everyone for sharing. It is indeed great having friends to good off with at work, especially knowing so many people just don't have fun anymore at work for whatever reasons.
 
Utah

Utah

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Olerica said:
Goes along with this: Know your audience.

(I shock people on the regular in real life. I'm not 'churchy' enough for quite a few of the Christian women in my church and elsewhere)
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Churchy, I know all about that. You're human, and just not quite perfect enough to hang with them. :)
 
Utah

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Roh_Chris said:
I don't make friends at work. I'm the guy who is cordial with everybody but keeps them all at an arm's length.

Yeah, I know, that is very, very different from the person I seem to be on CC. :rolleyes:
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Why? Its cool being mysterious -- it keeps people guessing, but if it goes against your personality, then change things up, that will really get them talking at work. :)
 
Utah

Utah

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LiJo said:
Oh I have tons of fun at work! I love playing pranks on my coworkers....the shock pen, the fart machine.....just clean fun! Of course I've been on the receiving end too :) We're like family. We even pray together.
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I used to work in an emergency department. We had whoopee cushions and false teeth, and used them at will. ;)
 
seoulsearch

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Utah said:
I used to work in an emergency department. We had whoopee cushions and false teeth, and used them at will. ;)
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Hopefully no one misunderstood exactly when to use the teeth and when to use the whoopee cushion... and when it was really an emergency.
 
Utah

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seoulsearch said:
Hopefully no one misunderstood exactly when to use the teeth and when to use the whoopee cushion... and when it was really an emergency.
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My job was to put out the fires when people were upset. When it was a legitimate gripe or concern, I met people with the utmost respect and diligence, but when rude narcissists demanded the world revolve around them for no reason and everyone else be damned, well, that's when I broke out the false teeth. It was always amazing how those teeth deescalated every situation.
 
seoulsearch

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seoulsearch said:
Hopefully no one misunderstood exactly when to use the teeth and when to use the whoopee cushion... and when it was really an emergency.
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Utah said:
My job was to put out the fires when people were upset. When it was a legitimate gripe or concern, I met people with the utmost respect and diligence, but when rude narcissists demanded the world revolve around them for no reason and everyone else be damned, well, that's when I broke out the false teeth. It was always amazing how those teeth deescalated every situation.
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In my head I was thinking of a situation in which, let's say, the teeth would have been THE perfect anecdote... But somehow you wound up with the whoopee cushion instead. Or vice versa. Major bummer! :D (By the way, I think this smiley face's teeth are real, but I'm not sure...) Let's find out... *Activates whoopee cushion.*
 
Utah

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seoulsearch said:
In my head I was thinking of a situation in which, let's say, the teeth would have been THE perfect anecdote... But somehow you wound up with the whoopee cushion instead. Or vice versa. Major bummer! :D (By the way, I think this smiley face's teeth are real, but I'm not sure...) Let's find out... *Activates whoopee cushion.*
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One day I was goofing off and wearing those teeth while talking with one of my nurses. I saw two women staring at me and talking with one another and knew they were talking about me. Eventually I took the teeth out and they were literally leaning on each other laughing hysterically. Turns out, they worked in the dental unit of the hospital and agreed they were going to have me come in and repair my teeth for free. Lol! ;)
 
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VioletReigns

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I used to work at the HQ of an IT Corp where most of the employees were young geeks. We were all friendly toward one another, they even called me Mom and we had some great laughs nearly every day. But a couple of them had it out for me (in a fun way) and would shoot rubber bands & pieces of candy at my venetian blinds in my office to startle me. It would make a loud ping which made me jump in my chair and shriek for fear. Oh, yes indeed it was so humorous to them. They loved spooking Office Mom. And no amount of my explaining that it wasn't funny anymore could make them cease.

So I asked the CEO if I could bring in an air horn to teach them a lesson and he was all for it. ;) Heehee!! Sooooo.... the next day I lured the young culprits into my office and told them to look out the front window at something. While they were all huddled around said window, I inched out of my office, closed the door most of the way and reached in with the air-horn and let it blast a few times. :D

Not one of them exited my office happy. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! They were ticked off to the max. HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Man, did I laugh that day!!! And guess what? They never threw stuff at my venetian blinds again. ROFLMHO!!!!!
 
Olerica

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Utah said:
Churchy, I know all about that. You're human, and just not quite perfect enough to hang with them. :)
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Oh, they let me hang with them, but honestly? I love the looks on their faces. I'm not inappropriate really, I'm just rather frank and I'm not afraid of talking about any topic really. They are just really, really conservative and while I am, I'm not. (Women who whisper and spell out s.e.x. crack me up. All of us have been married for over 10 years. Why are you spelling it? It is God's gift to marriage?!! I'm just not afraid to have real and frank conversations in appropriate settings)
 
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VioletReigns

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This would be a good prank to play at work:

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seoulsearch

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Olerica said:
Oh, they let me hang with them, but honestly? I love the looks on their faces. I'm not inappropriate really, I'm just rather frank and I'm not afraid of talking about any topic really. They are just really, really conservative and while I am, I'm not. (Women who whisper and spell out s.e.x. crack me up. All of us have been married for over 10 years. Why are you spelling it? It is God's gift to marriage?!! I'm just not afraid to have real and frank conversations in appropriate settings)
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I think they're spelling it out for the people who can't read... :D:p:cool:

Seriously.

Now I really want some false teeth...

And an air horn.

MUHAHAHAHA!!!

(I'm thinking the false teeth would give me a lisp... Just imagine how it will sound spelling out "S.E.X" with fake choppers and a lisp!)
 
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