Booze and Schmooze is a 2012 graduate from a state-run party school in Minnesota, with honors in keg stands, and passive-aggressive MN nice behavior. You can see him rollerblading in the Mall of America with a duck call in honor of the District 5 hockey team, who became the Mighty Ducks.
"Let him make the first move, Conway" - Gordon Bombay
Spot on. There’s nothing worse than the times when you have to be in the office all day. On field days you can waste time driving to each appointment, take a long lunch, and not answer emails. That is if you’re like me and refuse to sync your work email to your phone.
I share the jealousy. Facebook in college was basically soft-core porn, now it’s baby pictures and animals dressed up. My timeline went downhill way too fast.
Agreed, Minnesota is up there for worst sports city. Last championship was the Twins in 1991, which does nothing for me because I was still shitting in diapers at the time. 1998 Vikings with Gary Anderson, 2001 41-0 debacle, 2009 bounty gate. Only one deep playoff run by the Wild when we’re “the state of hockey”, and the T’Wolves have been a joke since KG was traded to the Celtics.
I shit my pants when Gary Anderson missed the GW field goal to take the Vikings to the Super Bowl in 98. So, I’ve saved my parents and myself a ton of money on pants over the years.
I know you want this to be an equalism discussion, but I’m going to use the examples in the story that bug me. First, you mentioned that early in your career, you loved the attention, flirting, and teasing you received from male co-workers. Going further, you used the “sorority girl” stereotype to your advantage in order to feel like you’re “a part of the team”. Then you felt hostility when you wanted to shed that image? Well OF COURSE that will happen. You might offer more to that company than any of those guys at that office, but what was their first impression of you? Just a pretty girl that is clueless in the professional world. We as readers don’t know how long the “sorority girl” act lasted. Days, weeks, months? First impressions and professionalism earns you that respect of being taken seriously, something you did not do right off the bat in your story.
Let’s make this a non-gender argument. Think back in school, when you had group projects. We all had expectations on what our group members would do. Most people would like to work with the dedicated and intelligent people – we stereotype them as nerds. When we were stuck in a group with a jock, slacker, class clown, etc. we have lower expectations for that person.
So to bring it back to the first example, if I was your co-worker, and my first observations are this person’s more worried about her appearance and flirting with Brad in accounting, I’m not going to trust you with an important task to accomplish. That is, until you prove it and show what you can offer to the team.
Lesson: first impressions and professionalism go a long way to eliminate sexism in the workplace.
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Ugh, Wagon Wheel. For a moment of time I thought it was a catchy tune, until I started hearing it near bar close every fucking weekend.
#38: You can’t be prego when you’re campaigning for #Catie4TheBachelor
Spot on. There’s nothing worse than the times when you have to be in the office all day. On field days you can waste time driving to each appointment, take a long lunch, and not answer emails. That is if you’re like me and refuse to sync your work email to your phone.
Is that Gil Humplestead’s office?
correct Draper. Yesterday was awful in Minneapolis. The schools have been closed the last 2 days because of frigid temps. Lucky shits.
I share the jealousy. Facebook in college was basically soft-core porn, now it’s baby pictures and animals dressed up. My timeline went downhill way too fast.
Sometimes you need an ogre-female to keep you away from Vodka Samm.
Have another beer, drunken ‘sconnie.
Agreed, Minnesota is up there for worst sports city. Last championship was the Twins in 1991, which does nothing for me because I was still shitting in diapers at the time. 1998 Vikings with Gary Anderson, 2001 41-0 debacle, 2009 bounty gate. Only one deep playoff run by the Wild when we’re “the state of hockey”, and the T’Wolves have been a joke since KG was traded to the Celtics.
Other than that, go Lynx.
Well, I’m out.
I shit my pants when Gary Anderson missed the GW field goal to take the Vikings to the Super Bowl in 98. So, I’ve saved my parents and myself a ton of money on pants over the years.
I can only imagine how many hot mom comments your 15 year old little brother is going to hear for the next 3 years.
The best friend girl post is the worst. The extremely long note is spot-on, along with a 9 picture collage of the two “besties” in action.
*traveling
#8 is hilarious! #11 looks fucking awesome.
Oh yeah, living in Minnesota, I see first hand the hundreds of thousands of Canadians trying to jump the border….
I didn’t realize a less than 2 hour flight from Dallas to Chicago was “across the country”.
I have the same argument. You can’t be taken seriously when you’re acting like Regina from Mean Girls in the work place.
I know you want this to be an equalism discussion, but I’m going to use the examples in the story that bug me. First, you mentioned that early in your career, you loved the attention, flirting, and teasing you received from male co-workers. Going further, you used the “sorority girl” stereotype to your advantage in order to feel like you’re “a part of the team”. Then you felt hostility when you wanted to shed that image? Well OF COURSE that will happen. You might offer more to that company than any of those guys at that office, but what was their first impression of you? Just a pretty girl that is clueless in the professional world. We as readers don’t know how long the “sorority girl” act lasted. Days, weeks, months? First impressions and professionalism earns you that respect of being taken seriously, something you did not do right off the bat in your story.
Let’s make this a non-gender argument. Think back in school, when you had group projects. We all had expectations on what our group members would do. Most people would like to work with the dedicated and intelligent people – we stereotype them as nerds. When we were stuck in a group with a jock, slacker, class clown, etc. we have lower expectations for that person.
So to bring it back to the first example, if I was your co-worker, and my first observations are this person’s more worried about her appearance and flirting with Brad in accounting, I’m not going to trust you with an important task to accomplish. That is, until you prove it and show what you can offer to the team.
Lesson: first impressions and professionalism go a long way to eliminate sexism in the workplace.