24 of 30 - The Wrong Way to Eat A Bagel

[aggienaut]

Sometimes people's reluctance to "think outside the box" is rather surprising.

(1) Back when I was working in a law office, occasionally I would be photocopying documents ALL DAY. I asked my immediate supervisor, if we could put a stool in the copying room so I'm just just standing there all day. "We could..." he responded, "...but that would be lazy!" ...So it would be lazy if I were to sit down, but it's not lazy when people who are at their desk all day get to sit down?
(2) The other day I was eating a bagel with creamcheese from a nearby cafe. This coworker we'll call J comes and looks at me like I'm totally insane and comments "I have NEVER seen someone eat a bagel like that!" I look at the bagel and try to see what's wrong. I ask him, and he says "both sides together like a sandwich like that.. NORMALLY people eat it in halves." Yeah well, this is the way the cafe gave it to me, if I was making it myself yeah I'd probably eat it half by half, but why would I disassemble the bagel to make it take longer to eat?
(3) The following day I was moving a pile of debris to a dumpster around the corner, so I went and got a dolly. "You're using a dolly??" coworker B asks, looking at me like I was the laziest person he'd ever seen. "Well, its either two trips with this or eight trips with armfulls..." "I guessss" he skeptically concedes, as if it would still be more meritorious to go the cave man route.

What's wrong with these people? Personally, _I_ always make sure there's not an obvious reason why someone's doing something before I make fun of them.


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Comments

[nibot.livejournal.com]

What's wrong with these people?

They are idiots.

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

Re: asking if you could put a stool in there:
Always remember the lesson we learned from Sned- "It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission."

ie, get the stool, sit on it, and if anyone whines about it, you say, "Gee, I'm saving my energy for X."

[qweenkaren.livejournal.com]

I believe in the saying "Work smarter, not harder!"

[bobolly.livejournal.com]

I always eat my bagels that way. In fact, I don't let the open side get toasted, just the outside, then fill the middle with cream cheese and eat it like a sandwich. Totally the best way. I've converted Simon too.

[chite.livejournal.com]

See, it's really good that way because if you toast the inside too, then the cream cheese slides out of your sandwich, and there's nothing good about liquidy cream cheese :)

[baxaphobia.livejournal.com]

Some people love to criticize and make fun rather than say something positive or just mind their own business.

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

Yeah in all these cases the guy in question seemed to be implying that using a cave man level of intelligence to do things was more "manly"

[chite.livejournal.com]

(many) people are jerks, or just like to hold their own imagined superiority over you.

Your copying story reminded me of something that happened to me:

Many many years ago, I was working in an office as a technical writer, and part of my job was to make copies of documents because no one else was there to do it. One day and night, I ended up spending a full 8 hours in the copy room making 20 copies of a 400 page color document (and this was in, say, 1996? when color copies were not fast yet). The next day I put my resume up on Monster. Two days later my boss called me into her office wanting to "interview me for whatever job it is I'm looking for on the internet." It was really uncanny. I told her she paid me too much to make copies. I got a huge raise, and an assistant out of the deal.

Oh and by the way, on the east coast everyone eats their bagels like a sandwich. Most of the time you put more than just cream cheese on it too. So if you try to eat it open you get a big old mess.

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

Silly.

This one law firm I worked at they had me mostly just making copies of things. I just kept thinking "I didn't go to college for four years to operate a copy machine" and got out of there as fast as I could. ugh. Then I didn't work in a law firm for a long time after that, was traumatized. d:

[fsk8ing-judge.livejournal.com]

"What's wrong with these people?
Morons is too polite a term.

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

It's this "anything 'different' HAS to be bad" mentality d: