Where the Kids Come to Mouth Off

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
The partner I was helping on this who is working for free is jewish. Where do you get the fucking nerve? How often does this happen to people on this board? I'd like to know.

I once dated a girl named Fawn Lebowitz.

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by Flinty_McFlint
Yes, yes, we all know you make tons of money, Chester.

Let's talk.

[LessinSF]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
People fucking suck. ... How often does this happen to people on this board? I'd like to know.

Not often enough. Is ABBA's couch open:

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by TexLex
I get a lot of anti-gay emails from one client in particular and anti-immigrant emails from a couple of others. I guess white English speaking immigrants are OK. Unfortunately they are paying clients and I can't afford to lose them. If I get that crap from non-clients they get an earful.

I can't do it. My clients aren't really mine, so I may be in a different situation than you, but I wouldn't put with that shit from the CEO of Bank of America. I'm not saying I'd be yelling and screaming about it, but I won't tolerate people thinking I'm someone it's okay to spout that shit to.

TM

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I can't do it. My clients aren't really mine, so I may be in a different situation than you, but I wouldn't put with that shit from the CEO of Bank of America. I'm not saying I'd be yelling and screaming about it, but I won't tolerate people thinking I'm someone it's okay to spout that shit to.

TM

2.

Screw whether the clients are yours or not. Life's too short to have to put up with bigots.

I have had very few conversations like this, but for some reason most of my clients tend to be very liberal and pc. On the occasions when people have made such comments, I've usually been related to them and they've usually taken significant grief for the comment.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
I do have this big to-do list at home, but the speed with which you are willing to give the number up makes the notion less appealing.

But he wants to show you his O-face!

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
My clients aren't really mine, so I may be in a different situation than you, but I wouldn't put with that shit from the CEO of Bank of America.

The one in particular is my bread and butter - long term client and nothing is going to change his views. I think he does it partly to antagonize me, since I have made a very clear point at board meetings of telling this (business entity) client that they cannot discriminate, etc.

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Life's too short to have to put up with bigots.

And by bread and butter, I mean Mortgage Payment, so sometimes you do have to put up with it, especially if they are a very good client otherwise.

[Flinty_McFlint]

Originally posted by Gattigap
Let's talk.

No way. Last time I woke up with a hangover and some bad memories.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Flinty_McFlint
No way. Last time I woke up with a hangover and some bad memories.

Usually for me bad hangover and memories are mutually exclusive. It's a toss up on which I'd rather have.

[TalkSock]

Originally posted by TexLex
I left my old firm in part* because they were anti-everyone-who-isn't-a-churchgoing-white-guy. It was a really offensive atmosphere. He liked to hire women, because "they work for less." Nice guy.

-TL

*Well, that and they escorted me out.

I'm really surprised they hired you in the first place - seeing how those kinds of guys usually have a "boys club" type of mentality.

My previous job was with a financial giant, and shall remain nameless, (however, think Martha Stewart). Shortly after 9-11, all the Catholics in the office went to a special prayer at some big cathedral here in the city and took the whole afternoon off. 2 of us left in the office to "hold the fort down." We got a little offended and we plotted to just leave the fucking place with the door open.

[mmm3587]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
[anti-semitism]

Anti-semitism still seems acceptable to some people, and I just don't get it. People make comments that they wouldn't make anymore about racial minorities, and people even seem to hide their anti-homosexual prejudices.

Anyway, I have heard comments like this recently, and I think they're more common in other parts of the country than they are in New York. I have heard people use "Jew" as a derogatory verb, and I've certainly heard derisive references to the practices of Jews. That sucks, but it still goes on. I always wonder if those kinds of prejudices will still be around in 100 years, or if we will all just have fucked each other beige (and culturally beige, too) by then.

I never hear that shit from clients, though. Maybe it's the kind of stuff that I do, or the kind of clients I have, but I'm amazed that there are people out there being that obvious about their prejudices in a business context.

[mmm3587]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
West Elm is right beside my gym so I was thinking of going there on Saturday. I have never been there but saw a catalog once and the stuff looked kind of up my alley. I will check it out.

ETA - thank you all for the bed suggestions. I feel a little less clueless now.

Maybe it's different where they have retail stores (NY/NJ only, I thought), but the real thing I have against West Elm in the patch is that it's all Ikea-style. They ship you the stuff in a box, and you put it together. I am past the point in my life where I want to put together furniture with those metal locking head screws that you insert other screws into. It is pretty cheap, though.

I think it is part of Pottery Barn or Crate and Barrel or something like that, so you may find very similar stuff at those stores.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by mmm3587
People make comments that they wouldn't make anymore about racial minorities

What surprises me is the need to point out someone's race - i.e. "he's black and he's really smart". As if one has anything to do with the other - no one would say "he's white and he's really smart", even if they were just being descriptive. I have heard that kind of thing more than once.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by mmm3587
Maybe it's different where they have retail stores (NY/NJ only, I thought), but the real thing I have against West Elm in the patch is that it's all Ikea-style. They ship you the stuff in a box, and you put it together. I am past the point in my life where I want to put together furniture with those metal locking head screws that you insert other screws into. It is pretty cheap, though.

I think it is part of Pottery Barn or Crate and Barrel or something like that, so you may find very similar stuff at those stores.

hmm. that makes me not want to buy from there. thanks. although I like putting things together, putting furniture together with screws makes me think I am still in school.

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by Flinty_McFlint
No way. Last time I woke up with a hangover and some bad memories.

Dude, I told you. Playing "Let's Meet The New FBers" is a game not without risk.