Oh god. Conference calls are the art in wasting time without even leaving your office. Two jobs ago, I had a weekly conference call which I had to be on ‘just in case’.Another coworker of mine also was on that call and she’d come hang out in my office so that we could play a boardgame during the call since the calls…

Me on a conference call when someone suddenly says my name and asks for my thoughts after 45 minutes of doing anything else but listening.

She got fired for this and people here are outraged on her behalf.

I guess some people are just more emotive. You’d have likely just seen my surprised look in my eyes. She gives the whole Keanu Reeves actor reaction and everything. lol

Just in time. I really needed a new “SURPRISED” reaction gif.

You have no idea how much I hate that I’m here telling you that your plan is brilliant and thank you for caring about your kiddos so much. Also considering carrying a couple lollipops in my purse just in case I need to keep my own kids quiet in an emergency sometime.

I keep a bag of lollipops in the filing cabinet near where they have to be quiet. In the event that it wasn’t a drill or went on for a really long time, everyone is getting something stuck in their mouths. You have no idea how much I hate that I have a plan for that scenario.

If carrying out a murder-suicide of your partner isn’t enough to flag you as a miserable waste of humanity, try doing it in front of a classroom full of children aged 5 to 11.

I assume the other party in the murder suicide was a grizzly bear.

I’m actually watching Netflix with the captions on right now. I can hear fine, but I find some movies have poor sound mixing/balance wherein the loud moments become overbearing when the dialogue is at an adequate volume. So I also leave them on all the time.

I find it incredibly distracting. I’m also not an asshole though so if someone deaf/hearing impaired needed it on I wouldn’t be upset, I’d just deal with it.

I have normal hearing but like to watch things with captions on in case the dialogue gets hard to follow.

This is dumb. If you don’t have personal CC devices, just turn on the captioning. Sure, someone might get annoyed, but people without disabilities just need to learn that the world doesn’t revolve around them.  

Or they were from a group of Deaf people? Like the ones my friends belong to because they learn sign language and other skills necessary for deaf people together. Not everything is a conspiracy.

I don’t get it. Is your argument that deaf people should have to go individually, in pairs or in small groups? If this was planned, so what? If this is activism/protest by their community, GOOD.

Do captions really bother non-hearing impaired folks? I use captions all the time because I like to watch netflix on my phone while in th tub, Margot Tenebaum-style, and it echoes too much/annoys my boyfriend. Even when he’s not around and I have the volume up, I leave the captions set to ‘on’ because I’m lazy and I…

This is direct payback for women standing up against sexual harassment at Fox News.

Outsized? How, exactly? I think it’s proportionate. I actually think it didn’t go far enough.

No, a small bit of criticism is when your friends or co workers politely tell you that you fucked up or could have done something better. Having a twitterstorm rage at you, thats literally thousands of people unloading a bunch of verbal garbage over your head. In terms of scale of criticism, its hard to make it…