I hate "fun"

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fun is the best.

my definition of fun may differ slightly from others'.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 3 May 2003 12:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

I empathise, I hate fun as well. And even worse, I hate people who act happy at work. I work with several "runners", by which I mean, people who run at work, by which I mean, fools. They run from the cubicle or office to get to meetings. They run to catch the elevator. They sprint around like fucking cartoon characters with happy elf smiles on their faces. I work with one idiot who has cut all of his hair off but left only one long braided bit at the crown of his head, and he is the main offender, sprinting around the damn floor like some deranged imp, with his "wacky" sparkly cord that he hangs his badge from. OH HOW I HATE HIM!
People in the US may have seen the new Dell commercials with the wacky interns. This is a corporate plot, along with all workplace sitcoms, to convince the populace that their work should be "fun" and somewhere people should be happy to be. it's brainwashing. That is all.

― kyle, Saturday, 3 May 2003 14:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

The corporate plot to convince the populace that work should be "fun" really isn't that different from the dotcom era belief that one's workplace should be "hip." I think I bought that one for part of the time I was involved in that optimistic chaos, but now it just makes me wince.

As some have pointed out, the definition of "fun" in this thread isn't terribly clear. I think it is possible to have a "fun job" (though I can't really say I've had one), but I suspect the fun in it would come from feeling respected as part of a team and respecting the rest of the team.

I had "fun" classes in high school (and not just creative writing and art and other "non-academic" classes). Most of them were fun because of the teachers. The teachers were geniuinely interested in the subject (or faked it well) and were friendly as well as authority figures. Curious how the teachers who were absolute cunts were almost always the ones with tons of silly cardboard cut-out decorations in their classrooms or the ones who couldn't keep straight the line between governing a class of kids and goofing off with the same kids.

Oh, and people who post completely off thread as part of some social or political agenda are also complete cunts.

― martin m. (mushrush), Saturday, 3 May 2003 16:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

(That last sentence was in response to some post the system claimed was posted before mine but didn't show up when I posted. It's not a comment on any of the posts/posters actually in this thread.)

― martin m. (mushrush), Saturday, 3 May 2003 16:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

It's been posted everywhere, martin - I've deleted about twenty of them. I've not been deleting them if someone has already responded, but we must have crossed over there.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 3 May 2003 16:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

I figured as such. With moderators so quick on the draw, I feel bad I had to trot out the C-Bomb again at the end of that post. (Note that, as an American, I use that word only when I'm feeling fairly vehement.)

Right on, Martin. Cheers.

― martin m. (mushrush), Saturday, 3 May 2003 16:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

six years pass...

http://i39.tinypic.com/21eqcud.jpg

― turkeylurkeyknull, Saturday, 27 March 2010 09:33 (fourteen years ago) link

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