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Aug 22, 2008Shout OutsIt gets a little weird when the people you work with every day find out you have a website. It's usually about 6-8 months into working somewhere that someone types your name into Google and then tells everyone in an important meeting when you are trying to impress a valuable client about how you have a blog. I know this scene well considering I've had three jobs during the six years of Twistedjim.com's existence. Some people's initial feeling as that you will write about them at some point. So, they check it out for a few weeks and realize that when you say you don't write about work... you really don't write about work. But, thinking that you'll break your rule because they are simply too cool not to write about, they come and ask, "Hey Twisted Jim, when are you going to give me a shout out on your little blog?" Normally, I say, "Never. I don't write about co-workers unless they put up YouTube videos." And since no one wants to potentially embarrass themselves like DMac and Lightning Fingers, the conversation usually ends there. However, some people are very persistent. They think that I have time to chronicle their lives on my blog, not realizing that I have so many more important things to post here for Twisted Mom and the two or three Twisted Friends that read this thing. I mean, c'mon, Bigfoot body hoaxes and concert reviews don't just write themselves. So, instead of giving a shout out to one of my more pushy co-workers, I decided to give a shout out to someone who actually deserved it. Ahem... As promised, though a little late, I have to give a big congratulations to one of the Twisted Friends, Lou, for her promotion and subsequent raise. Now she can buy all of us drinks at the next Happy Hour for making her look good and saying nice things about her to upper management. What? She bought an iPhone with the extra money. Hmmm... kinda selfish, don't ya think? So, congratulations Lou for being the first Twisted Jim shout out that didn't involve embarrassing yourself on YouTube.
posted by Jim at 5:30 PM
1 Comments: Lou said...
Finally, I feel like I really made it in life!! |
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