pen_grunt | Random Work Duties

Happy first day of summer. For some reason there's a sort of sadness to the end of spring for me. Spring is fresh and cool and green. Summer, however, is sorta muggy and slow and far too short. Oh well. Bring on the summer.

My [male] boss has a big presentation today, and I'm SO glad he decided to run one of his lame jokes by me before he proceeded with the not-so-funny drivel.

Boss [rehearsing presentation]: We remember more when we're in an extreme emotional state because your adrenaline triggers chemicals in your brain in the area that stores memory. Think back to an extremely emotional event...how many people remember their first kiss? I know I do...

...and so does the guy I was with at the time.

[badump bump ching]

I told him that gay jokes were so passe, and the particular joke of pretending to have been gay is just...not funny. I can't really explain what it's SO VERY not funny to me, but it's borderline offensive that he thinks that a scenario in which his first kiss was with a guy would be funny. It's ridiculous.

My other duty of the day? Our new sales guy (who was going on this superbigimportantOMG! meeting with my boss) came up to me and asked me to please brush the dandruff off of my boss's suit before he left. He said that, "I was the only person that could get away with that kind of thing." He also pleaded, saying, "I know you don't get paid 1/1000 of the amount that would be needed to have such a job...." All I'm thinking is that if I got paid 1000x more than I do now, I would probably be okay with brushing dandruff off of someones suit all day.

Which means that I'm supremely qualified to brush dandruff off of people. Lemme know if you're in the market. *shudder* Gross.