I don't know, I have been in both situations. I prefer one where things are kept professional.
At one job, there was this one person who was buddies with the owner, and would set up these elaborate 'jokes' that would often result in sabotaging products and lots of busy work for no good reason. He would set up massive, server-crippling load tests at the time of important development meetings, forward e-mail discussions to the entire company which were carefully edited to make him look clever (taken in the true context, however, he would be totally wrong), and sometimes get the owner involved in programmer tasks so as to get his way on completely bogus issues. By the time I left the organization, this guy was being promoted to technical director. He resigned six months later after me and five other programmers quit. The experience was frustrating and a complete waste of my time. I suppose this doesn't exactly fall into the category of teasing, but it certainly is relevant to the broader discussion of appropriate workplace behavior. M -----Original Message----- From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 1:40 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: RE: Fat Brat sues, Now is Teasing Well, I'd assume the military would be a bit... different. ;) Again, I've worked w/ jerks before, but I've never worked with people who were verbally abusive, and if I had, I would have known that it would not have lasted. If I call a coworker a fat f---, I'm sure to get disciplined, where in school it will probably be ignored. -rc > -----Original Message----- > From: Heald, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 11:08 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: RE: Fat Brat sues, Now is Teasing > > > Not sure where you work, but teasing has been pretty normal > fare wherever I have worked. I mean the military was really > bad about it, and here it's still pretty common. I mean I > have even had guys do the school yard "lets take it outside" > thing. Pretty funny really. I know my friends and I give > each other a very hard time. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
