I have an inability to hide my feelings. I tend to show anything and everything I am feeling on my face. And if you can't guess from watching my facial expressions, then I will, most likely, engage in some verbal faux pas that will hint at my true emotion.
I am often told by my work colleagues that I would suck at poker. It made me a terrible trial lawyer. And to be honest, I'm not all that good at negotiating either. (See why I do this intellectual property law stuff? See? It keeps the trial stuff and the negotiating thingies at bay.)
Lately, I have had a slight (ahem) dislike for a person for whom I work. A person I find both rude, somewhat crazy, a little socially awkward and a whole lot incompetent at their job. (This is one of the pluses of having a password protected blog. I can dish a little more about real life.)
Today this person called me to discuss an ongoing project. I only had a minute to talk because I was scheduled to get on a conference call with a client in five minutes, but in hopes of wrapping things up with this person I told them I could do a quick status check.
And then I said, "I can go over this quickly with you, because, well, I know how crazy you are..."
Long pause. I let out a huge belly laugh. Then I finished with "I mean crazy busy that is."
This person didn't find my comment as funny as I did. But the person in the office next to me did. After I ended the call, he walked in my office, laughed and said, "Passive aggressive much?"
I guess I would never make it in politics either.
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this has me laughing out loud, because I could see myself doing EXACTLY the same thing. Too, too funny!
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