Post by pdc1987 on Mar 18, 2009 13:57:55 GMT -5
...during a conversation.
While discussing Europe with a male co-worker (he quit in December, FYI) he said, "I thought Europe was a country!" after I referred to it as a continent. Mind you, this kid was already 19 and out of high school.
Another male co-worker of mine who also quit in December was a religious-person-yet-not-quite-a-total-fundie-loon named Don, he worked in the stock room. He's a white 54 year old married sports fanatic with two adult kids, very plain.
He would always try and engage in long conversations with everyone else when he should have been working, thus also interrupting our jobs. Walking through the stock room anytime from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm on weekdays, either to get up to the break room or get something from the back, became a dreaded activity. He also had the habit of pausing for like 15 seconds after each sentence or two, almost as if he thought what he had just said was so profound you needed some time to fully grasp and understand it. Even if he was discussing something like playing darts. And if you responded during one of the "pauses" he would just keep talking and ignore it. If you happened to engage the conversation he would just derail it and make it about him. He just talked and talked. And better yet, he had no clue he was such an annoying douche. He was oblivious to it, sad really.
Anyway, like I said, he was religious and he frequently mentioned God and the Bible in conversations. I ended up telling him I was Atheist and he never let it go. He always questioned me on it and acted very condescending towards me whenever he did.
One day, in an effort to prove the existence of God to me, he said, and I quote, "Go look at a purple flower out in nature, and then go look at a purple crayon in a crayon box. It's not the same, it doesn't even come close. We can't match it, that has to be God." Um... yeah.
Another time he accused me of being, "Too obsessed with science." "Your mind is too scientific to grasp and believe in religion and faith!" HINT, HINT jackass.
Also, he was a homophobe, just not a really vigorous one. I never told him I was gay, but he still mentioned gays once. I defended my community with simple science about sexual orientations, etc but all he said in response was, "Well, like I always say, the Bible says be fruitful, not fruity!" and then he chuckled. I just walked away.
While discussing Europe with a male co-worker (he quit in December, FYI) he said, "I thought Europe was a country!" after I referred to it as a continent. Mind you, this kid was already 19 and out of high school.
Another male co-worker of mine who also quit in December was a religious-person-yet-not-quite-a-total-fundie-loon named Don, he worked in the stock room. He's a white 54 year old married sports fanatic with two adult kids, very plain.
He would always try and engage in long conversations with everyone else when he should have been working, thus also interrupting our jobs. Walking through the stock room anytime from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm on weekdays, either to get up to the break room or get something from the back, became a dreaded activity. He also had the habit of pausing for like 15 seconds after each sentence or two, almost as if he thought what he had just said was so profound you needed some time to fully grasp and understand it. Even if he was discussing something like playing darts. And if you responded during one of the "pauses" he would just keep talking and ignore it. If you happened to engage the conversation he would just derail it and make it about him. He just talked and talked. And better yet, he had no clue he was such an annoying douche. He was oblivious to it, sad really.
Anyway, like I said, he was religious and he frequently mentioned God and the Bible in conversations. I ended up telling him I was Atheist and he never let it go. He always questioned me on it and acted very condescending towards me whenever he did.
One day, in an effort to prove the existence of God to me, he said, and I quote, "Go look at a purple flower out in nature, and then go look at a purple crayon in a crayon box. It's not the same, it doesn't even come close. We can't match it, that has to be God." Um... yeah.
Another time he accused me of being, "Too obsessed with science." "Your mind is too scientific to grasp and believe in religion and faith!" HINT, HINT jackass.
Also, he was a homophobe, just not a really vigorous one. I never told him I was gay, but he still mentioned gays once. I defended my community with simple science about sexual orientations, etc but all he said in response was, "Well, like I always say, the Bible says be fruitful, not fruity!" and then he chuckled. I just walked away.
