Looooooooooooooooooooooooove meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[denny]

In other news, today I am in charge of the entire company, and will be so for the rest of the week, due to my boss's partner having their baby on the night before the admin girl went on holiday.

*hides under desk*

Comments

[libellum.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure it's entirely a low-status jobs thing in this case? Denny, you always used to refer to the "sales girl" as well, and in my experience sales isn't seen as being in the same cultural bracket as admin (unless it's telesales, obv). When you hire a new salesperson I shall be watching your nouns with great interest :)

...

(You know where that came from? "with great interest" reminded me of the phrase "for great justice" and OMG I AM DOOMED.)

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I fancied her, so clearly she was a girl ;)

[libellum.livejournal.com]

This had occurred to me :)

You do refer to people as 'girls' and 'boys' more than most people, I think. You always talk about 'boys' when referring to males in a sexual context as well... Do you fancy your current administrator?

(I totally need a 'bisexual' icon.)

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

She was doing telesales, btw.

The news sales guys (tell me the female equivalent of 'guy' (or 'bloke') and I'll feel more guilty about that word choice) we've been interviewing all look scarily slick, and may spend more time out and about harassing dealers in person.

[wildeabandon.livejournal.com]

I sort of think that these days the female equivalent of guy is guy, but I suspect that pisses some people off as well... Oh, what a minefield.

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Really? Don't think I've ever heard guy used to describe a female singly, although they do sometimes get lumped into 'you guys' (and in my experience, invariably complain about it, although usually in a 'having a laugh' kind of way).

I realised earlier that 'dude' can be and is used cross-gender, in its application as a pre-technical term (i.e. if you say 'dude' instead of 'oi', then the following question is likely to involve computers and probably programming) :)

[olithered.livejournal.com]

Sales chick?

[hythloday.livejournal.com]

reminded me of the phrase

I hate you.

[libellum.livejournal.com]

You do realise how '...' was being used in this context, yes? :)

[hythloday.livejournal.com]

I do now. I thought it was an actual proper ellipse. :)

[libellum.livejournal.com]

You mean ellipsis? :)

[hythloday.livejournal.com]

Uh. Yes. Thank you.