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Trivial Pursuits => Wild Card => Topic started by: side_show on October 30, 2009, 05:43:38 pm

Title: Phoning it in.
Post by: side_show on October 30, 2009, 05:43:38 pm: Imagine this scenario:

You are on your way out at your job. Either you have found a better one, or are soon to find one, or you are otherwise going to be leaving your work place. You have not yet tendered your resignation as your future job change has not been resolved entirely. You don't hate your current employer, but you are basically unmotivated to do anything above an beyond the basics of "phoning it in. (http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/1578/)" There is no point in starting new projects at the job, as you hope your departure will be soon. You must appear each day at the prescribed time, sit at your desk for that time, do a basic level of work, and behave in a manner that is socially acceptable. This leaves you with several hours of sitting at a desk, with no one looking too closely at you, but knowing your physical absence would be notable because you are occasionally needed on the phone or in person to answer questions.

What do you do to fill the time?
Title: Re: Phoning it in.
Post by: jaydub on October 30, 2009, 05:57:50 pm: Post on internet messageboards.
Title: Re: Phoning it in.
Post by: Bobby Isosceles on October 30, 2009, 06:07:46 pm: TL;DR
Title: Re: Phoning it in.
Post by: bluemoon72 on October 30, 2009, 06:15:04 pm: Quote from: Bobby Isosceles on October 30, 2009, 06:07:46 pm
TL;DR
I keep seeing this phrase here; what does it mean?
Title: Re: Phoning it in.
Post by: dejavroom on October 30, 2009, 06:18:13 pm: "too long, didn't read"
Title: Re: Phoning it in.
Post by: bluemoon72 on October 30, 2009, 06:20:24 pm: Quote from: dejavroom on October 30, 2009, 06:18:13 pm
"too long, didn't read"
Wow...seven sentences is too long? C'mon dude, with a name like Isosceles, I know you can plow through worse than that.
Title: Re: Phoning it in.
Post by: dejavroom on October 30, 2009, 06:22:13 pm: Don't try to use logic on Isosceles. He's kinda non-Euclidean that way.
Title: Re: Phoning it in.
Post by: Bobby Isosceles on October 30, 2009, 06:24:03 pm: Quote from: bluemoon72 on October 30, 2009, 06:20:24 pm
Wow...seven sentences is too long? C'mon dude, with a name like Isosceles, I know you can plow through worse than that.

the joke being that i, too, am "phoning it in" as regards the reading of topics on the board.

now this beautiful, understated joke has been ritually eviscerated by the act of explanation but hopefully by sprinkling its bloody entrails upon this thread i shall provide all readers with mystical protection that will both ward off the the evil eye and the curse of not getting deadpan humor

hugs
Title: Re: Phoning it in.
Post by: Bobby Isosceles on October 30, 2009, 06:24:47 pm: Quote from: dejavroom on October 30, 2009, 06:22:13 pm
Don't try to use logic on Isosceles. He's kinda non-Euclidean that way.

If my real last name were Minkowski this would be the funniest comment ever
Title: Re: Phoning it in.
Post by: bluemoon72 on October 30, 2009, 06:29:42 pm: Quote from: Bobby Isosceles on October 30, 2009, 06:24:03 pm
the joke being that i, too, am "phoning it in" as regards the reading of topics on the board.

OGLIAI;MA

(Oh good lord I'm an idiot; my apologies)
Title: Re: Phoning it in.
Post by: dejavroom on October 30, 2009, 06:30:34 pm: Quote from: Bobby Isosceles on October 30, 2009, 06:24:03 pm
(...) and the curse of not getting deadpan humor

deadpan humor needs deadpan delivery. wrong medium

(http://15.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kscbpgOyZH1qzryvmo1_400.jpg)
acceptable medium
Title: Re: Phoning it in.
Post by: CortJstr on October 30, 2009, 07:05:41 pm: For a while last year I was playing Interactive Fiction games. Minimal installation + lots of text = hours of fun.
Title: Re: Phoning it in.
Post by: side_show on October 30, 2009, 07:07:13 pm: There is, naturally, on-line shopping.

This is all theoretical. It is in no way in reference to what I am doing right now. No. Way. At. All.
Title: Re: Phoning it in.
Post by: Bobby Isosceles on October 30, 2009, 07:11:09 pm: Quote from: dejavroom on October 30, 2009, 06:30:34 pm
deadpan humor needs deadpan delivery. wrong medium

(http://15.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kscbpgOyZH1qzryvmo1_400.jpg)
acceptable medium

(http://bobbyisosceles.com/images/gurudalek.jpg)
GURU DALEK

am i doin' it rite boss?
Title: Re: Phoning it in.
Post by: lprkn on October 30, 2009, 07:12:03 pm: I believe we have discussed workplace empowerment elsewhere on this board.
Title: Re: Phoning it in.
Post by: Carlos del Vaca on October 30, 2009, 07:13:45 pm: I'd look for projects that I should do on the computer at home but haven't made time for. SFW stuff of course. Like making cover art for my year-end mix CDs (I still have to do that for 2007, let alone 2008 or 2009), calculating the potential value of having more insulation put in our attic, stuff like that.
Title: Re: Phoning it in.
Post by: smick on October 30, 2009, 07:19:50 pm: Quote from: Bobby Isosceles on October 30, 2009, 07:11:09 pm
(http://bobbyisosceles.com/images/gurudalek.jpg)
GURU DALEK

am i doin' it rite boss?

ELUCIDATE...ELUCIDATE...ELUCIDATE
Title: Re: Phoning it in.
Post by: dejavroom on October 30, 2009, 07:26:27 pm: Quote from: Bobby Isosceles on October 30, 2009, 07:11:09 pm
(http://bobbyisosceles.com/images/gurudalek.jpg)
GURU DALEK

am i doin' it rite boss?

As is the way of all things that must pass under the Sun, the student has truly surpassed the master. Now we party.

(http://22.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksce4ykiEA1qzryvmo1_400.jpg)
Title: Re: Phoning it in.
Post by: Bobby Isosceles on October 30, 2009, 07:29:39 pm: Quote from: dejavroom on October 30, 2009, 07:26:27 pm
As is the way of all things that must pass under the Sun, the student has truly surpassed the master. Now we party.

I would totally party with a *****ic member of an Indo-Aryan religion.
Title: Re: Phoning it in.
Post by: jay-ell on October 30, 2009, 08:18:13 pm: Quote from: Bobby Isosceles on October 30, 2009, 07:11:09 pm
(http://bobbyisosceles.com/images/gurudalek.jpg)
GURU DALEK

am i doin' it rite boss?

THIS.
Title: Re: Phoning it in.
Post by: Bobby Isosceles on October 30, 2009, 08:50:43 pm: Quote from: dejavroom on October 30, 2009, 07:26:27 pm
As is the way of all things that must pass under the Sun, the student has truly surpassed the master. Now we party.

(http://22.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksce4ykiEA1qzryvmo1_400.jpg)

I have had the privilege of seeing Daler Mehndi live in concert exactly four years and four hours (and as of this edit, four minutes) ago today.
Title: Re: Phoning it in.
Post by: side_show on October 30, 2009, 09:12:35 pm: I have no idea what is going on, or what that imagery is all about. It's facinating though.
Title: Re: Phoning it in.
Post by: dejavroom on October 30, 2009, 11:07:44 pm: Ever since Zalgo came to the board, things have been (more) warped. Bobby Isosceles you asshole.
Title: Re: Phoning it in.
Post by: Bobby Isosceles on October 30, 2009, 11:08:02 pm: Quote from: side_show on October 30, 2009, 09:12:35 pm
I have no idea what is going on, or what that imagery is all about. It's facinating though.

they're just jabbing at my propensity to make puns

a pun jab, if you will
Title: Re: Phoning it in.
Post by: Bobby Isosceles on October 30, 2009, 11:16:31 pm: Quote from: dejavroom on October 30, 2009, 11:07:44 pm
Ever since Zalgo came to the board, things have been (more) warped. Bobby Isosceles you asshole.

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