it's a weird way of defining a relationship to a coworker, because it's pretty unlikely a straight male would refer to another straight male as a work husband even if they have a very marriage-like dynamic
― mh, Monday, 26 February 2018 17:35 (six years ago) link
Guys at my last job my supervisor told me that I was expected to be my boss's "work wife" and I lost my shit. It's such an awful phrase/idea.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 26 February 2018 17:37 (six years ago) link
Heh I think ol's summary has a ring of truth
One lady at my last place said oh we're totally work husband and wife! to me in front of everyone I said iirc lady I just fix printers I got nothing to say about anything else idnr was she devastated or not
― Simpson L. (darraghmac), Monday, 26 February 2018 17:39 (six years ago) link
was her role to break printers, because... perfect marriage
― mh, Monday, 26 February 2018 17:44 (six years ago) link
lmao darragh
― flappy bird, Monday, 26 February 2018 17:45 (six years ago) link
You may be mistaking sitcom for perfect
― Simpson L. (darraghmac), Monday, 26 February 2018 17:46 (six years ago) link
A few years ago, a longtime colleague said I was her "work sibling." I understood what she meant - we'd been at the same company for a decade, often working in parallel on the same projects, but rarely very closely. We didn't share an office or have neighboring cubicles or anything.
Still odd and unnecessary but not as skeezy as "work spouse."
― oklahomie don't play that (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:02 (six years ago) link
whatever happened to "friend"
― flappy bird, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:09 (six years ago) link
Hello darkness, my old work spouse...
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:10 (six years ago) link
i heard you wore a sequined blouse
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:11 (six years ago) link
Work spouse
In the middle of our st
― Simpson L. (darraghmac), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:11 (six years ago) link
(xp) Like it.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:15 (six years ago) link
Also, the use of "clean" as a culinary term, the personal-objectionability of which has migrated from fake-food and healthy-lifestyle generally-false advertising to usage as a flavor descriptor.
― Moo Vaughn, Monday, February 26, 2018 4:31 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Also, the incorrect use of "healthy" as an adverb, i.e. "eat healthy" rather than healthily.
― Moo Vaughn, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:25 (six years ago) link
i think of my gf as my home colleague and the cats as interns
― ogmor, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:25 (six years ago) link
about as useful as a couple interns I've dealt with
― mh, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:28 (six years ago) link
lol
― flappy bird, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:28 (six years ago) link
I think the work spouse stuff reflects that some or many peoples' needs for social contact and even emotional support extend into the workplace that I'd imagine in America in particular can be a place where many and/or odd hours of the day are spent. This may be rife with potential for trouble or abuse, but it need not be so per se, and I'm not sure that it's an inappropriate part of a job description, terminology perhaps aside. I tend by personality towards the antisocially-introverted with occasional bounded exceptions for those for whom I feel relative comfort/authentic kinship and whose time I feel comfortable claiming, but the failure to engage in such social life, whether hetero or homosocially but especially upward, can have serious professional detriments. To the extent that such contact/support may be demanded more often from women - I don't know whether that's in fact true - it likely reflects sex roles in part, but may also reflect that men are in fact generally worse at same or more uncomfortable seeking same from other men outside the bounds of certain subject-matter deemed gender-appropriate.
― Moo Vaughn, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:29 (six years ago) link
Work spousal abuse
Got dark
― Simpson L. (darraghmac), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:31 (six years ago) link
I think people are constantly in a state of trying to find a model or archetype to describe their social dynamics, whether it's descriptive or prescriptive
we're always halfway between relying on myers-briggs tests or horoscopes and just being like a group of kids deciding who gets to be which power ranger or ninja turtle at recess
― mh, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:32 (six years ago) link
i'm less of a donatello these days tbh
the phrase always makes me think of Scottie & Midge in Vertigo
― flappy bird, Monday, 26 February 2018 18:32 (six years ago) link
i realise “blockchain” is probably a word but i don’t need to hear/read it 500 times a day
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 1 March 2018 09:11 (six years ago) link
"bio break"
Nope. No need. Just say short break. Ugh.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:04 (six years ago) link
"facilitate"
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:22 (six years ago) link
xp: that's super gross. never heard it before.
― how's life, Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:23 (six years ago) link
It is, right? I've heard it three times today already. :(
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:27 (six years ago) link
I've never heard bio break? You should just start saying "I'm going to take an ebola break."
― Yerac, Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:29 (six years ago) link
Let's take a break. TO PERFORM THE BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS OF OUR SPECIES.
― jmm, Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:31 (six years ago) link
TBF most people who use bio break don't JUST mean "go to the bathroom." They also mean get some coffee or water or whatever. Basically, attend to the needs of your mammalian self. In some workplaces it still includes smoking!
But still ew. I know we're not gossamer beings of spirit and light and pure thought; you don't need to remind me.
― it's my leopard. (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:35 (six years ago) link
EXACTLY.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:38 (six years ago) link
i have never heard anyone say bio break and didn't know wtf it even referred to til someone said "bathroom" for a minute i thought it was "get back to nature vacation" lol
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:39 (six years ago) link
ha I thought "bio break" must be some journalism term, like "insert some biographical stuff between these two paragraphs"
― President Keyes, Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:42 (six years ago) link
"A polite corporate term for using the restroom -or other biological necessities, usually during interminably long unnecessary meetings."
Kill me.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:42 (six years ago) link
Seriously with 'bio break'? Never heard that before, but now bracing myself for the inevitability of bio breaking all over myself when I start hearing it daily in the near future.
― Here Comes The Brain Event (Old Lunch), Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:43 (six years ago) link
I KNOW. I've been up since 4:30 and here since 6:30. I have no tolerance for this today. I almost snapped at the guy and told him to just say break the last time he said it.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link
Biohazard zone: bio break in progress
― jmm, Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:49 (six years ago) link
“sammy”
― Gunther29, Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:53 (six years ago) link
Makes me think of not just peeing, but also depositing your blood, lymphatic fluid, etc in a jar to have it analyzed and then stored on a shelf for eternity.
― how's life, Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:53 (six years ago) link
This gives me the idea that it could mean something a high school biology class. "Damn, gotta hurry or I'll be late for bio."
So the next time I hold a meeting I'll say "Time for a bio-break. Under each of your seats you will find a tray with a preserved dead frog. Please dissect the frog, identifying and labeling the major organs."
― it's my leopard. (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:56 (six years ago) link
I always preferred "I have to go see a man about a horse."
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 1 March 2018 16:02 (six years ago) link
wee in gran's flange the HR-approved phrasing, iirc
― Dan I., Thursday, 1 March 2018 17:58 (six years ago) link
It's a dog over here.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Thursday, 1 March 2018 18:00 (six years ago) link
i have to go see a dog about a horse
― F# A# (∞), Thursday, 1 March 2018 18:08 (six years ago) link
lmao
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 1 March 2018 19:02 (six years ago) link
People calling each other "lovely" as a noun. Not like "you look lovely", but like "Hello lovely" or "thanks lovely" or even "hello lovelies" to a group.
Usually seems to be posh/middle class women to other women (I hear it at work a lot). Where did this come from? I think it started a few years ago but seems to be getting more common. It's kind of the same usage as people calling each other "love", "pet" or "duck" I suppose.
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 2 March 2018 12:31 (six years ago) link
I think it started a few years ago
Ymmv but I've heard this in or from UK ppl for at least twenty years.
― Google Atheist (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 2 March 2018 12:39 (six years ago) link
There's a west country usage like "my lovely" that's been around forever but this seems different, although may have come from it I suppose.
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 2 March 2018 12:41 (six years ago) link
Anti-Welsh racism imo :-O
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Friday, 2 March 2018 12:48 (six years ago) link
https://noirwhale.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/farewell-my-lovely.jpg
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Friday, 2 March 2018 12:53 (six years ago) link
Lovely is way overused. It's like the default to sound refined when praising something. I had a friend once that used the word lovely to describe every single wine.
― Yerac, Friday, 2 March 2018 13:06 (six years ago) link