BF2S Forums Ass Appreciation Thread

yore an idiot and i can't help you.

why are you so preternaturally concerned with my sleeping patterns? it's a bit creepy.

i've already offered you a webcam. i work from home all day, i have bf2s open all day. it's a fun respite from work and depressing news cycles.

well done for only coming on twice a day at specified times. is that when your dad isn't using the office?

people don't tend to sign in on teams/outlook for my job much before 10. that went for regular office days, pre-corona, too. tend to work 7 hours or so a day from 10--whenever. up to 2 hours for lunch. it's very relaxed.

what dilbert is referring to is that i was posting at 3am after napping after dinner earlier this week. i ate a whole bag of lindt easter chocolates and sugar nope'd out from about 8--10 pm. a classic 'beetus nap. so i couldn't sleep until 3.30am that night. the day after i obviously only made it until about 10pm on my regular day. i went to bed really early because i was zapped. so i woke up at like 5am and was posting on bf2s by about 5.30. none of this means anything except that i keep a bf2s tab open and keep my own hours at work.

how ridiculous is it that the guy is monitoring my online patterns this much? deeply fucking weird.

yep, deadlines, particularly print deadlines, are not really negotiable. printers have print jobs lined up for weeks, if not months ahead. they don't appreciate you dropping them files late or according to your own whim. the pre-press process and set-up actually takes a decent chunk of their time.

for the rest, yep, the managerial attitude goes with the dress-code: casual as you like. i only dress up or act punctual if i'm dealing with authors. that pertained more in book publishing than academic publishing. most of my authors now aren't even in the same country, and there's much less of a 'liquid luncheon' culture. academics network at conferences. it's a 'loafers and lanyards' culture.

are you being corralled into lots of zoom or video conferences? they are weirdly exhausting. i've actually been signing out of all the comms platforms in between important meetings. the days feel more demanding, not less, than the regular office routine.

why don't you just put a piece of black tape over your webcam?

I always repeat the same lame joke when in web meetings and asked why I'm not sharing my handsome face- "i'm the strong, silent type and I was horribly disfigured in a car accident as a child". It's usually enough to throw them off.

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

why don't you just put a piece of black tape over your webcam?

I always repeat the same lame joke when in web meetings and asked why I'm not sharing my handsome face- "i'm the strong, silent type and I was horribly disfigured in a car accident as a child". It's usually enough to throw them off.

the best strategy for this is to commit to a 'i don't have a webcam' excuse from day 1 and to just keep to this line. i've mostly done that with wider company meetings. they can look at my pretty static picture instead.

my work insisted on sending me their crappy microsoft surface laptop and accessories. i have a work MacBook pro and a desktop PC. they still insisted. it's just sitting in its little travel case. i hate work laptops.

most computers/laptops these days come with the little switch at the top where you can toggle the webcam on and off.

One time i was in a bluejeans conference with some colleagues in Taiwan and one of our huuuuge customers and I was sharing my screen. I went to the browser to go to my dropbox i think and of course when i went to the address bar a pornhub link was right there. I'm almost certain no one in Taiwan caught it, but can't be certain. I immediately muted my mic and started laughing.

Just get a docking station for your laptop and a splitter. That's what I do...

uziq wrote:

i never made fun of your depression. i’ve commented on your anti-psychotics because half your posts here you delete, and the half of the ones you do post are in this affectless tone where you write the worst most racist, sexist, hateful stuff imaginable. like a person on anti-psychotic drugs. your posting patterns are weird. depression doesn’t have anything to do with it.

My post aren't hateful. I am in fact possibly the friendliest and easiest to get along with person here.

Look, I think you just need to apologize to Dilbert, and me for all the mean things you have said. After that we can move on from this and go back to the way things were before. The ball is in your court. I eagerly await your response.

SuperJail Warden wrote:

uziq wrote:

i never made fun of your depression. i’ve commented on your anti-psychotics because half your posts here you delete, and the half of the ones you do post are in this affectless tone where you write the worst most racist, sexist, hateful stuff imaginable. like a person on anti-psychotic drugs. your posting patterns are weird. depression doesn’t have anything to do with it.

My post aren't hateful. I am in fact possibly the friendliest and easiest to get along with person here.

Look, I think you just need to apologize to Dilbert, and me for all the mean things you have said. After that we can move on from this and go back to the way things were before. The ball is in your court. I eagerly await your response.

i know your real name now so be careful  m8. don't push me!!!

i will acknowledge dilbert as a human being and not a soul-less ginger when he actually ventures anything of himself on this forum. as it stands i'm not being cross-examined by the invisible inquisitor over there who's too chickenshit to even post a picture or divulge anything of his life to the only friends and social contact he has in this world.

Last edited by uziq (2020-04-20 17:26:11)

plenty of FANTASIES!

That was a riveting read.