Keeping my mouth shut at work.

[Touchdown]

Ugh! Just over the partition in my cube, the mouth breathing has been going on for 20 minutes. Don't they have any work to do?:eyes:

Global Warming is a scam. None of the Democrats are accepting public financing...how hypocritical. Nancy Pelosi wants a big plane to party on. These are the people who we should trust with our health care? They can't take care of the government, much less the rest of us. As well...when you look at the other countries, their don't have good health care either....blah, blah, blah, verbal diahrrea, poisoning the well vomiting of talking points, yada, yada, yada.

AAAAARGH!

SERENITY NOW!

[Caoimhe]

1. Play some Dixie Chicks

hehe

[MADem]

20. How deliciously evil!! What a wonderful idea! NT

[redqueen]

2. Awww

I usually would jump right in there and debate!

:evilgrin:

The way I figure it... if they're taking a break and distracting me, well I might as well try to help them get rid of some of those delusions.

:hi:

[raccoon]

3. Get you some noise-cancelling headphones. nt

[mcscajun]

4. Who is "it" talking to?

I like the Dixie Chicks idea...and if you're so inclined just drop this one in: Only two of the "Developed" Nations do not have universal health care: The United States...and South Africa.

[Bluebear]

5. Don't these people have any work to do?

:evilgrin:

[ronnykmarshall]

6. Start singing this REAL LOUD!

I'm not ready to make nice,
I'm not ready to back down,
I'm still mad as hell
And I don't have time
To go round and round and round
It's too late to make it right
I probably wouldn't if I could
Cause I'm mad as hell
Can't bring myself to do what it is
You think I should

[dogday]

7. Politics and Paychecks do not

go together well....

[SoCalDem]

34. AMEN.. EVERY place I have ever worked at had a strict policy

about what was allowed at work. NO POLITICS and NO RELIGION were at the top of the list..

We always chit-chatted about our kids, families, pet, vacations, cars etc..but NO politics or religion.

everyone got along well, and plenty of work was done :)

[PLF]

8. Tell them to got to Iraq or shut the fuck up

[MADem]

22. Better still, give their email address to an Army recruiter!! NT

[maxsolomon]

9. one reason why i can't leave my job in seattle

because i work in a liberal bubble office & live in a liberal bubble neighborhood inside a larger liberal bubble city. i buy groceries in a liberal bubble.

i'd
a. go ask them not to discuss politics within earshot of me.
b. go ask them questions until their logic falls apart.
c. move away

[lectrobyte]

10. Put the volume on 11, and play some of these

http://www.thepimps.org/songs/someonestryingtokillmeman.mp3

http://www.compadrerecords.net/audio/We_Cant_Band.mp3

http://www.ericblumrich.com/ihr.html

[Norquist Nemesis]

11. Drop off a few flyers on citizenship in foreign countries

Mention the education system here in the U.S. has failed them miserably.

:evilgrin:

[Horse with no Name]

12. I've had to do it more and more lately

One of my supervisors acclaims her hero as Ann Coulter and reads Drudge faithfully.:puke:
She was ranting on and on about global warming and Obama's Christianity the other day.
I just have to suck it in and walk away.
These are the 20% that still support this failed pResident.
If they haven't got a clue by now, they never will.

[The Backlash Cometh]

13. God bless you.

I think I would go postal if I had to work under that environment. Unless the money was good, that is.

[colbertforpresident]

15. Wingnuts

I have a dumbass rightwing co worker that is up in arms about Obama's middle name!

[The Backlash Cometh]

19. How do you get across to them, that they're wearing their prejudices

on their sleeve? I mean, I have prejudices too, but when 80% of the planet is telling you that you're wrong and the data is certainly looking that way, when do you stop to think that maybe it's time to listen to other news sources?

[LibDemAlways]

26. WTF? I'm sure infant Barack Obama had a lot of

say in the matter and was fully consulted by his parents when they chose his name.

Dumbass doesn't begin to cover it.

Oh, and welcome to DU. You'll like it here.

[Caoimhe]

27. Welcome to DU colbertforpresident!

:hi:

[Debau2005]

14. Print out a recruitment form and hand it to them.

Smile sweetly and say, "Let us know when you get back, we'll throw you a homecoming party." This has stopped several in my office from even looking me in the eye when they pass me...:evilgrin:

[lectrobyte]

23. enlistment forms link, pdf's ready to print:

http://www.hqda.army.mil/ocll/DOC/Presentation_Slides/Enlistment%20Re%20enlistment%20Forms.pdf

[Az]

16. Um.... why are you keeping your mouth shut?

As long as they think they are unopposed they will continue with their verbal diahrea. As long as you remain silent your ideals will remain silenced. Its sort of how the human condition works. We spread our ideas by talking about them. They are being very effective in spreading their ideas and reinforcing them with one another. If you want to see your ideas spread then you have to talk about them.

[Touchdown]

28. Well, one of them is a red faced heart attack in waiting.

He's about 60 years old, and on some serious heart meds. I can't take that responsibility. The other one is almost 60 and a total blockhead, and nothing gets through anyhow. I told him that the Stella story with McDonald's coffee was mostly wives tales and bunk, that the actual court case was for sure negligence on McD's side. He refused to read the court case, because his mind was made up that she was stupid for putting 180 degree coffee in between her legs, as if 180 degrees is safe to put in anybody's mouth, much less give her 3rd degree burns on her vagina. Her award? One days worth of coffee sales from McDonald's. He thought McD's was the victim.:silly:

[Az]

30. re the McD Case

Simply tell them that the restaurant had recieved multiple warnings and citations that they were serving their coffee too hot. They refused to comply and thus when someone got hurt they were liable.

[LibDemAlways]

17. I feel your pain. A few years ago I

took a parttime job in an office crawling with rw knuckledraggers. They played Rush in the morning, Hannity in the afternoon. One guy had a photo of chimp in his cubicle.

I would bring a walkman and listen to an oldies station (this was before AAR) as much as I could. But it got to be too much. I had to leave for my mental health.

Sounds like you are only being subjected to the views of the idiots right there and not being held captive to rw radio. As bad as it is, it could be worse!

[demnan]

18. I hear ya!

In Virginia I'm constantly surrounded by assholes. I'm very active in local grassroots stuff right now but I only tell the gay guy and the lady whose husband is in the union what I'm up to. The other four only know that I worked for some Democrats in the last election. They don't know I'm a peace marcher every week and that I've joined an impeachment committee, and that's the way it stays.

They have toned their rehetoric down from when I first arrived here. They no longer say that nonsense like liberals think this and liberals think that because I won't talk to them about it.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

21. This is why I like my ipod.

Background voices sound like unintelligible murmurs, I can hear the phone ring, other than that I'm just working and listening to Mozart.

I hope Mozart wasn't a freeper. If so, oh well ...

Political arguments at work are pointless. Save it for happy hour.

:)

[Pied Piper]

31. Bingo!

I do the same thing to ignore my obnoxious office mate. He talks all the time, never listens. He started bringing in his iPod, but was listening on iHome speakers. The volume wasn't so much a problem, but his taste in music is, lol! And it didn't keep him from talking.

Once I started wearing my headphones, he stopped talking to me - Great!

[Javaman]

24. Hoochy Mama!!! nt

[HughBeaumont]

25. Geeez, thank GOD I work with people who hate the Simian.

These are predominantly people from other countries, so it goes without saying there isn't a good word said about this administration in here.

[EstimatedProphet]

29. Maybe you should talk to their supervisor

The fact is, if they are doing what you describe, not only are they not working, they're preventing you from working too.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

32. I'm unemployed

Benefits of the shitty economy for us people with master's degrees and doctorates. We're too expensive.

Benefits besides sleeping late and not burning gas, and not wasting my breath and energy trying to convince people who don't give a damn that I am smart, brilliant, in fact, and competent. Because I'm too old and too expensive I guess.

Why should we waste money sending our kids to college, if it doesn't get them any decent jobs. It didn't get my boomer ass any good jobs, even though I graduated from two expensive private schools. It's who you know, it has nothing to do with competence.

[not_a_robot]

33. They are good robots.

And good robots check and comply with their programming.