These Gits Irritate Freelancers

[sabotabby]

[Poll #905458]

P.S. Invading Somalia and Iran? (Well, okay, trying to provoke Iran into a war. Potato, po-tah-to.) Did someone run out of schools to paint in Iraq or something?

P.P.S. Go Greece. Heh. How exactly do you launch a rocket into a toilet?

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[florence-craye.livejournal.com]

They say, "Happy Friday!" here.

[chailash.livejournal.com]

great icon.

[florence-craye.livejournal.com]

Thanks! You too. :D

[sabotabby]

Do they say "hump day"?

[florence-craye.livejournal.com]

Sometimes, but they also say "over the hump".

My previous boss used to come in and say "Happy Friday!" every day of the fucking week. You'd have to laugh as if you'd never heard it before or pretend to be confused. "I actually believed you and thought it was Friday! You got me, sir!"

I am so glad not to work with him anymore.

[jvmatucha.livejournal.com]

Most people I know workmore than one job, or work on the weekends, or are basically just so damn grumpy they never distinguish between the work days whatsoever. That's the bay area for you!

[sabotabby]

I know a lot of 9-5ers, but they still have the good sense not to say anything that stupid.

[jenlight.livejournal.com]

... but if I did interact with people and one said "TGIF" to me I would dropkick said person in the eyeball.

[sabotabby]

I didn't, but man, did I ever feel like it!

[seanmonster.livejournal.com]

Hey, it's an Intensive Care Bear!

[apperception.livejournal.com]

My place is the only shithole where people still say that?

It's even worse than I thought!

[sabotabby]

No; your place and [undisclosed location], apparently.

[mistersmearcase.livejournal.com]

At my job, it's Monday every day.

[sabotabby]

Heh.

[terry-terrible.livejournal.com]

People have said the whole phrase. But never the annoying acronym.

[sabotabby]

The whole phrase is bad, but the acronym is ever so much worse.

[lopukhov.livejournal.com]

They say, "THANX SO MUCH U GUYZ U GUYZ ROX!!111!"

[sabotabby]

Oh, that one's bad. I've gotten that before.

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

I don't find "is it time for beer yet?" particularly irritating. Even if said at 10 am.

[sabotabby]

I don't reserve that for Fridays.

[jaymoh.livejournal.com]

I have to admit, that I'm rather fond of saying, "it's (almost) beer o'clock!" But it's only with the deepest sense of hipster irony. I suppose that's worse and I'm sure I'm the only one who thinks it's funny.

There was a really annoying girl at my last job who said, "Happy Wednesday!" in the most ridiculously cheerful voice. I call there every once in a while- still have friends there, and get the HW. I try to remember to not call there on Wednesdays.

[sabotabby]

"Beer o' clock" loses some of its impact when some people in the office have tequila shots with their morning coffee.

[jaymoh.livejournal.com]

Sure does!

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm off Fridays, so I don't know.

I just swung by the office to check ebay and el-jay.

[sabotabby]

I should get an eBay account, but I'm afraid. There is commie kitsch on there.

[lopukhov.livejournal.com]

Don't--there's commie kitsch on there.

[fragments.awedge.net (from livejournal.com)]

I work as a barista, and have a rolling schedule. So it's definitely freaking awesome to have the nintafivers come in Friday morning for their triple decaf large sugar free vanilla nonfat extra foamy lattés and say, stupidly, gee golly thank god it's Friday!, when I've been scheduled to work the next six days in a row.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

Whoa, first OpenID sighting in my life.

[fragments.awedge.net (from livejournal.com)]

It's hip to be square...?

[sabotabby]

I hate that! I used to go for coffee at this one Second Cup every morning, and these people would always be TGIFing to the baristas. So then I'd ask if they had to work weekends, which they did, of course.

This is also my first OpenID sighting, by the way. *waves*

[retinal-strain.livejournal.com]

More like "Thank Fuck it's Friday."

[sabotabby]

Or "Thank the labour movement that some of us don't have to work weekends."

[retinal-strain.livejournal.com]

Nope, never heard that one (and FYI, we do often work saturdays at my job, just not this time of year).

[retinal-strain.livejournal.com]

Actually, come to think of it even when we do work on Saturdays there's still a sense relief on Fridays - especially if it's pay-day.

[esizzle.livejournal.com]

I haven't heard somebody use TGIF at my work, but it is common to here people spell out acronyms, mostly company or industry specific stuff. Actually the company encourages it, everytime something needs naming, they make it into a 3-letter acronym.

[sabotabby]

One advantage of working in publishing is we don't get a lot of that. The left more than overcompensates, though.

[esizzle.livejournal.com]

How many people are in your office, or how big are publishing offices usually? Do you work from home a lot? I'm only asking out of curiosity, not that I'm thinking of assimilating anybody into the corpotacracy or anything... even if resistance is futile.

[sabotabby]

There are eight of us now, I think, which is small. Although one of my clients is a poetry publisher, and I think there are two people in her office, so it's all relative.

I don't work from home very often—usually just when I'm doing illustration or something.

[profane-stencil.livejournal.com]

I work with pagans, so I usually hear, "Thank gods it's Friday."

[sabotabby]

Really?!

[profane-stencil.livejournal.com]

I almost ended that post with, "Half of this is a joke." I really work with pagans, but no ever says any version of TGIF.

[gabski.livejournal.com]

greece... yea... can't say i was too upset by that.