Is it ok to have fun at work?

Anyone, if work makes you miserable, just hang in there. I can testify that retirement is wonderful. You will look old and helpless to former associates who if you've always kept your emotions in check, will then do things for you

Not fun. Not ok.

That's a bad joke at its worst; you may be charged with harrassment - which is a serious crime.

not funny

not professional

not appropriate

incredibly inappropriate

I am amazed that you have a job at all.

I agree with ehBeth. Your comments and behavior are totally inappropriate.

What you're doing and saying is not fun. It's self-destructive.

What I did is incredibly fucked up. So much to learn! Hopefully I don't die tryna catch up.

Pink-slip inappropriate.

Pink slip for girls, blue slip for guys

Apologize, and tell her you'll never do that **** again!

Anyone who has to work with you on a daily basis - may God have mercy on their soul.

Better she should/could/I hope learn about what is appropriate at work.

Angel really does seem to have no clue, and is trying to figure out what is ok and not processing well what we say - it all seems new each time, and it may be, re her sense of social clues.

But, sort of like toddlers going to restaurants, some parents teach and some don't as it's loud in here anyway.

I am wondering if Angel's employer or helping agency had any kind of information presentation before she started work, or if anyone is helping her learn things like Work is Not Facebook.



I'm too old and cranky, but this could be a useful new business for people who understand how others have trouble adapting.


Lest I sound snotty, I left my IQ test unfinished to go with a friend to the then local soda fountain, at sixteen or seventeen.

Having worked in management for several companies, our new employees always received a Personnel Manual that outlined the do's and don't's.

I'm also sure many small businesses do not have the luxury of managers who are trained in personnel management or perform staff evaluations.

Without having any knowledge about the company he/she works for, it's difficult to cover all the bases.

No need to be so mean - we are not all socially acclimated.

Back in the sixties, I ran a small laboratory, and at one point I was allowed by the department to hire help.
I picked a guy who had a lot of both cooking and laboratory experience in the army for a lot of years. He was straightforward when I interviewed him. Of all the people I interviewed, he seemed to get process.
He was also very heavy, an easy 400 pounds. He was made fun of later by another tech, another story.

I taught him what I knew at the time, and he was good, efficient, more efficient than I was (but I was better at trouble shooting), and often funny. I ended up his daughter's godmother, just as I was leaving the catholic church. I told him so, and he pleaded I do it. Sure.

He had married a woman whom he met in France when he was in the army (this was in the sixties I met him), who already had a son. A son who had sometimes been locked in a closet by her brute husband. The boy was retarded, as was said. When I met the son, he was getting along, maybe seventeen, pulling out of his very dark past. In school, hanging in.

A lot of us online have social issues, trouble dealing with others.

Making fun of people is sometimes a sign of advanced stupidity.

I'm sorry about that ossobuco. Next time I'll try harder to control my humorful expressions that seems to come off in an insulting manner.

I am sorry I dumped on you, am defensive re some posters.

I'm curious why you ask.

I apologized and she accepted and said not to let it happen again.

I work for a Fortune 500. That much I'm sayin, although at store level, not corporate.