My team has a virtual happy hour every week, and almost every time I have to hear about vuvuzela no food 69 billion dead. The one time it wasn’t that was one of my coworkers defending JK Rowling for being a transphobe.

Just today corporate surveillance came up and one of my coworkers (who used to work for the defense industry, go figure) brings up muh see see pee pee poo poo. I told everyone I had other obligations and noped out before I had to hear that shit for the millionth time.

How’s everyone else’s week?

  • EcceMachina@lemmygrad.ml
    16·
    2 years ago

    Shitlib communism haters are like that one girl who says she is so over their ex and is doing much better without him and is totally doing great but she brings him up every 5 minutes and creeps on his fb every night

    • knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml
      111·
      2 years ago

      White people in the west have a culture of bringing up things that are irrelevant. They love spreading anticom myths in any conversation possible.

  • Fishheadcurry
    14·
    2 years ago

    I just returned to lemmygrad because the desire to do so randomly appeared in my head. Also it’s funny you mention work outings, basically half of my entire division went to see the new avatar movie yesterday! It sucked, but the outing was fun.

      • Fishheadcurry
        6·
        2 years ago

        Oh ok. The lockdowns mostly ended in my country a while back. My sympathies for your current situation. And for your shitass coworkers. Sounds tough.

        • CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.mlOP
          8·
          2 years ago

          Lockdown’s over, but most people are still working from home and barely anyone goes into the office. My coworkers aren’t that bad, it’s just that it’s very rare for burgers not to have kneejerk anticommunism.

  • MexicanCCPBot@lemmygrad.ml
    14·
    2 years ago

    As a non-American I find it amazing how, in [current year], after 30+ years of the USSR’s defeat, communism still lives rent free on everyone’s head. I know, I know the State Department is trying to build up this new see see pee bogeyman, but still, you’d think Americans would be more confident about their system being the best and gommunism being dead and buried? The way everyone there hyperfocuses on whatever is going on with official state enemies and no other countries is pretty funny as an outsider.

  • redtea@lemmygrad.ml
    12·
    2 years ago

    🍻 to the noping out technique.

    Week’s been busy af at work and the temperature has plummeted. But I’m happy. As much as I hate deadlines, they do make me very productive, and when it’s work that I enjoy… Plus, next week is a short one before breaking up for Christmas.

    Edit: typo

    • CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.mlOP
      9·
      2 years ago

      It definitely helps that I was towards the end of the slated time for happy hour.

      Glad to see you’re somewhat enjoying yourself.

  • knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml
    10·
    2 years ago

    I work with some people who grew up in the DDR. They’re stereotypically anticom af.

    We’ve got a huge project deadline and a huge company structure change coming up too so tension in the whole company is high. Definitely not looking forward to the next month or two.

    • CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.mlOP
      8·
      2 years ago

      Funnily enough one of my coworkers talking about meeting someone from the DDR was what brought the conversation to communism.

  • Kultronx@lemmygrad.ml
    9·
    2 years ago

    I think the best method for dealing with this nonsense is just play dumb and then ask them questions that make them look foolish and cause them to see the logical fallacies in their bullshit.

    • lil_tank@lemmygrad.ml
      4·
      2 years ago

      Unfortunately logical thinking is the worst kind of propaganda. If you want to convert people, the best is to be nice with left-leaning newbies and expose them slowly to controversial takes while explaining nicely when they express concern.

      With conservative kind of people the best is to get them pacified, only when holding any kind of power, by using the same strategy as the right: using comforting shallow moralistic justifications to your actions.

      At least that’s what I understood with my own experience of organising and talking to people a little bit

  • HiddenLayer5
    5·
    2 years ago

    Is this an on shift or off shift thing? I don’t go to off shift company events or whatever because why would I spend my free time doing anything work related? You want me to interact with these people from work? Pay me.