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When she starts to talk about two girls in her team using the same cup, it would be best to flee the office.
They've already done that one.
I've never met nor directly spoken to the woman. She was in on a conference call once last year and that is it. Averaged over a whole month, I may communicate with this client less than once a day.
I suggest you complain, even with the meaning as walk-in shower it has rather sexual overtones, highly inappropriate for a workplace environment. I should imagine that you felt embarrassed by this, in fact you could call it a kind of harassment on her part.
That woman that complained about my use of bad language in official e-mails (I used the term ‘gagging for it’) has accused me of ‘encouraging juvenile behaviour’ in some of the staff at one of my client’s. This is because a couple of guys burst out laughing at her in the preamble to the morning meeting and ‘made gestures’ during her presentation.
The story that has gotten back to me is that before their meeting got underway they were having a chat and mrs snotty nose was trying to sound cool but being grandiose by talking about having a roman shower with her husband this morning. Two guys that knew about the paraphilia meaning openly laughed at her. During the meeting they were making slight gestures about being sick.
After the meeting she has gone to the boss and complained about ME! I am a bad influence on them.
Boss called the guys in and apparently told them that they had put him in a difficult position; he had trouble not laughing himself. I know that he hates her and wants her gone so nothing will come of it.
What she meant, I presume, was at her home they have a 'walk-in shower' and this morning she shared it with her husband.
Mmmmmmmm.
But why is it my fault that she made a fool of herself.
no. I've worked with similar pretentious twats.
The best one was, at the top of her voice to impress the IT Director
"There's a high class delicatessen near my house that does this wonderful salad with pomegranate sprinkled on the top, really is delicious"
It was only moaning about this down the pub later that a friend chimed in with
"high class delicatessen my arse, she means 'Spa'"
It was of course too late then, but would have been superbly witty and cutting and career limiting if thought of and delivered at the time.
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