I got a new boss this week. she's a black woman, so I feel like I have the room to be more playful with her.
We had a brief meeting today to plan a training and a trip. At the end of the meeting she murmured something as I was walking out the door.
Me: "What?"
We had a brief meeting today to plan a training and a trip. At the end of the meeting she murmured something as I was walking out the door.
Me: "What?"
Her: "Uhm- I think you heard me."
Me: "No, I didn't. What did you say?"
Her: "I said, 'another one of your 'yo mama jokes' and Ima whup yo ass!'"
Me: "You gon whup my ass?"
Her: "Up here in front of all these white folks. Don't make me pull out my blackness- whup yo assss."
That exchange made my whole day. I love working with black women!!
Second highlight:
We just got a new addition to our department. And, her old supervisor stopped by to chat with me today.
Me: "Uhm- I'm still kinda new here, so I don't fully understand everything that goes on. And, when we start talking about other people's responsibilities beyond my division, I have no clue!"
Her: "Uh-huh."
Me: "But, I have a question, and I was wondering if you could help me understand something."
Her: "Sure!"
Me: "Okay, so we're getting Birget, but before she is transferred, the work that was previously spread between your section is now being done by Birget all by herself."
Her: [nods]
Me: So, now that she's doing the work of three people, what are ya'll going to be doing.
Her: [full-body cringe] "words- words-words..."
My boss (as I'm telling her the story): [sigh], "She wanted to punch you in the head didn't she?"
Me: "Really? I didn't think it was rude. I mean, I didn't say it in a rude way. I even cushioned it with, 'I don't understand everyone else's responsibility...'"
My boss: "She wanted to punch you in the head."
4 comments:
the blog is quite amusing! I'll have to come back. And as someone who understands (and used to speak) German, I can appreciate that too dammit!
It's terrible. All I can remember is profanity and stupid shit like, "Where us the train station?"; "stamp"; "That is a good idea!"; and "geld" which is different from the Yiddish "gelt" I learned during an exchange with an in-law where we kept "politely" correcting each other, with increasing degree's of frustration. Oh! And the slang for "sperm", who could forget that?
"Wir machen tanzen!" Pretty much I use that one every day.
Ja, naturlich! yeah, I went through a phase where I used "genau" and "scheisse" all the time in place of the english words.. that was when I got back from Vienna/Berlin and was missing the fact that I wasn't awkwardly trying to converse with people and getting angry with them for switching to English as soon as they heard my awful German accent. Sigh.
Das ist genau wie so.
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