This is pretty much the typical political argument I always get into at work...

[Texacon]

My Superhero Story at the DUmp!

Curtland1015 (66 posts)     
Sat Sep-06-08 12:16 PM
Original message

This is pretty much the typical political argument I always get into at work...

Idiot Boss: Wow I tell ya, that Sarah Palin gave an impressive speech the other night!

Me: Yeah, it's real impressive the way she was able to read what someone else had written for her.

Idiot Boss: No, she wrote that herself.

Me: Of course she didn't. It's a well know fact that one of Bush's speech writer's wrote it for her.

Idiot Boss: (floundering) Well... it's no different than what Obama did. He doesn't write his speeches.

Me: Obama DID write his own speech.

Idiot Boss: Well... she made a really impressive speech the other night. (walks away)


Just the most recent example of what I deal with at work. I hate trying to talk sense into the willingly stupid. They try and argue with you right up until the point they know they're in way over their head, then they say something noncommittle (usually something like, "well, it doesn't matter who you vote for anyway...") and scurry off. I drives me up the wall!

 

 

KC

[MrsSmith]

"Idiot Boss" is thinking how much money he could save with a competant worker in Curtland's place.   

[Texacon]

"Idiot Boss" is thinking how much money he could save with a competant worker in Curtland's place.   

These are some of my favorite BS stories at the DUmp. 

And the DUmp in return eats them up.  I could post these all day.

KC

[MrsSmith]

SheilaT  (1000+ posts)      Sat Sep-06-08 01:21 PM
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1. All you can ever do with
 idiots like that is keep on repeating the facts. It may not change them, but at least you have done something to keep them from wallowing blissfully in their ignorance.

Oh, and next time they say it doesn't matter who you vote for, agree whole-heartedly and suggest that they not vote come November.

True story: On election day in 1976, in my psychology class at the junior college I was attending, at the very beginning of class the instructor leaned on his podium and said, "I'm sure all of you here are aware that today is election day. And I hope you are all registered and plan to vote today. However, keep in mind that a low turn-out favors Republicans, and so if you're a Republican, don't vote."

I started laughing quietly, and it was clear I was the ONLY one in the classroom who got it.

Yeah, Sheila, you are SO smart.     The rest of the class "got" it, and then went to vote Republican as soon as class let out. 

[Chris_]

*yawn* another lame bouncy

[delilahmused]

If Curt's the smart one why isn't he the boss? Amazing the number of under paid and under employed mental giants there are over there. Oh and as for Obama's speechwriter: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/fashion/20speechwriter.html?_r=1&ex=1358485200&en=bb179297e5f61acb&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&oref=slogin

Cindie

[delilahmused]

Curtland1015 (66 posts)     
Sat Sep-06-08 12:16 PM
Original message

This is pretty much the typical political argument I always get into at work...

Idiot Boss: Wow I tell ya, that Sarah Palin gave an impressive speech the other night!

Me: Yeah, it's real impressive the way she was able to read what someone else had written for her.

Idiot Boss: No, she wrote that herself.

Me: Of course she didn't. It's a well know fact that one of Bush's speech writer's wrote it for her.

Idiot Boss: (floundering) Well... it's no different than what Obama did. He doesn't write his speeches.

Me: Obama DID write his own speech.

Idiot Boss: Well... she made a really impressive speech the other night. (walks away)


Just the most recent example of what I deal with at work. I hate trying to talk sense into the willingly stupid. They try and argue with you right up until the point they know they're in way over their head, then they say something noncommittle (usually something like, "well, it doesn't matter who you vote for anyway...") and scurry off. I drives me up the wall!

What really happened:

DUmmie Curt: Hey boss, did you see what a right wing nutcase that bimbo was?

Boss: Actually, I thought she gave a great speech.

DUmmie Curt: Well, she didn't write it herself you know!

Boss: Most public figures have speechwriters, it's a collaborative effort. Obviously a speechwriter can't possibly know personal anecdotes, style, and whatever else without working WITH the person they're writing for. Besides Sara Palin's teleprompter wasn't working properly throughout her speech and she had to ad lib quite a bit.

DUmmie Curt: Obama wrote his own speech which proves he's smarter.

Boss: The only thing it proves is that he'd make a great speechwriter. He does have a speechwriter though. I read about him in the paper the other day. Empty promises come from idle minds. I prefer someone who focuses on issues and problem solving than writing pretty words. Hell, I can do that.

DUmmie Curt: Well Obama's better he's for change and hope! (Turns and stalks away while muttering something about right wing nuts, fascists, and Obama making sure he'll get a raise, while Boss just shakes his head and seriously considers canning the irritating little prick).

Cindie

[Texacon]

What really happened:

DUmmie Curt: Hey boss, did you see what a right wing nutcase that bimbo was?

Boss: Actually, I thought she gave a great speech.

DUmmie Curt: Well, she didn't write it herself you know!

Boss: Most public figures have speechwriters, it's a collaborative effort. Obviously a speechwriter can't possibly know personal anecdotes, style, and whatever else without working WITH the person they're writing for. Besides Sara Palin's teleprompter wasn't working properly throughout her speech and she had to ad lib quite a bit.

DUmmie Curt: Obama wrote his own speech which proves he's smarter.

Boss: The only thing it proves is that he'd make a great speechwriter. He does have a speechwriter though. I read about him in the paper the other day. Empty promises come from idle minds. I prefer someone who focuses on issues and problem solving than writing pretty words. Hell, I can do that.

DUmmie Curt: Well Obama's better he's for change and hope! (Turns and stalks away while muttering something about right wing nuts, fascists, and Obama making sure he'll get a raise, while Boss just shakes his head and seriously considers canning the irritating little prick).

Cindie

H5!

KC

[tuolumnejim]

Wow, the DUmmies aren't even trying anymore, Zero bongs for this moran. 

ayeshahaqqiqa  (1000+ posts)       Sat Sep-06-08 05:22 PM
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2. They are delusional
 Your idiot boss sounds like my former idiot boss, who came in one day with the news that Obama was a Muslim and had taken his oath of office on the Qur'an. I immediately refuted this, and offered to go online to snopes, but he wouldn't have it. His preacher and Glenn Beck had told him so, and I was only an ignorant woman. I'm soooooo glad I was able to latch onto a new job where the boss and everyone else says Palin is dangerous and sets back the cause of women. (New boss and co-workers are all women, btw. And the boss is a lifelong Republican who has recently discovered "An Inconvenient Truth" and who didn't vote for Bush.)

[jukin]

I would like to see some proof that The Obama writes his own speeches.  It seems that when he is off teleprompter he fumbles very badly.  That doesn't jive too well with someone that writes his own speeches.

Reality:

Idiot Boss: The woman's restroom needs a mopping. Get on it.

Me: Yeah.

[GOBUCKS]

Over the years, I have hired many, many people, but never one similar to DUmmy Curtland 1015 (though I suspect he may be a lousy freeper troll). If I ever discovered I had an employee like DUmmy Curtland 1015, I would be very disappointed to find that I had made such a serious mistake. Then I would immediately correct the mistake. But, again, I really doubt that anyone has ever hired DUmmy Curtland 1015.