PlatKat.com: CENSORED

Monday, November 22, 2004

CENSORED

On Saturday, Jenny, Gus, Jason, and I woke up at the ass-crack of dawn to see The Grudge for NI Family Day. About half way through the movie, some jackass answers his cell phone and proceeds to converse for the next several MINUTES.

I'm not a big fan of the "Hey, I'm watching a movie, let me call you back" cell phone answerers, but they are quite preferable to the "Hey, I'm watching a movie... Yeah... I can hang out at like 12, maybe 12:30... Yeah, she might come too... I don't know..." cell phone answerers.

So, this morning, I posted the following on the online NI Bulletin Board:

Subject: To the NI employee who answered his cell phone at The Grudge on Saturday...

Message: ...give *me* a call. I'd be happy to tell you where you can shove that cell phone!

I received several e-mails, mostly from people I had not met, patting me on the back for my audacity. About a dozen people approached me in person to second my emotion. IT removed my post about an hour later, but I continued to receive approving feedback throughout the day.

Unfortunately, at least three people did not believe in the positive effects of calling out this rude mystery cell phone user: someone in HR, the head of Tech Comm, and my boss's boss. Each of them took a moment from their busy days to e-mail my boss about my discordant post.

Gus believes it was justified, as the NI Bulletin Board is a forum for selling furniture, unloading homeless animals, etc., not for threatening harm to fellow employees. I maintained that my message did nothing of the sort; I simply wished to give this asshole some advice. He would be inflicting harm upon himself only if he chose to take my words to heart.

Regardless, my boss and I had a brief discussion. She didn't have much to say to me other than the fact that some people e-mailed her about it. She didn't seem to care, and she made it sound like the folks who e-mailed her didn't really care. But as people in positions of authority, they must be attentive to such matters in case someone happens to be offended. Which no one was. If someone was actually offended, I would have received a stern talking-to from at least one of the aforementioned superiors.

In conclusion, I've humored at least a dozen people and possibly slightly agitated no more than three. I still have my job, so I consider this a win. Now I am left to mildly poke fun at the extraneous processes of the corporate bureau-crazy.

posted by platkat @ 4:20 PM