NecroJoe
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Note: Feel free to ignore this post as it really doesn't further the conversation, and isn't really a joke with a punchline...just an amusing annecdote I wanted to share that is only somewhat-related.
A couple jobs ago, I had two coworkers with different points of view. One was a self-described "devout christian" (referred to as DC from here on out) We would hear DC spout on and on about her faith, and "the gays" and how they should never EVER be allowed to marry and startedworking there shortly after I did. The other, just a cool chick (CC for the rest of the post) who had been working there for a couple years.
About 4 months into my stint at this place, CC, out of the blue in the middle of a long-ish work-day silence, asked DC a question. It took me by suprise, if for no other reason than it sounded completely thought-out and almost rehearsed...as if the 4 months of listening to "Jesus freak" had been building aggrivation up inside her and she had been preparing her "speech" for some time.
CC: "So...my husband and I have been married for 29 years, and we have no children. We met at church, and entered our marriage with the understanding that there would be no children, but still wanted to proclaim our life-long commitment to each other, our faith and to God. Because we entered this marriage knowing it would result in no children...what do you think of us?
DC: "You're sinners, and you're going to hell."
CC: "You honestly believe that?"
DC: "Yep."
CC: "We knew going into the marriage that there would be no children, because before we were married, we discovered that neither of us were physically capable of producing children. Hi was the result of testicular cancer before we met, and I had my own health problems after we met, but before we married."
DC: "(awkward pause, where you could tell DC didn't really know what to say, but didn't want to backtrack, and then was suddenly cock-sure)Doesn't matter. I'm assuming you have sex...it's no different than using birth control or having an abortion."
Within one or two weeks, every person in this place of employment (a big-box office supply retail store) stopped even acknowledging DC. People no longer said "hi" or "bye." People stopped asking for her assistance, even if they needed it. They stopped answering DCs questions. When DC would call to double-check a schedule, or to call in sick one day, people just hung up. It was a depressing-as-hell place to work. I've never experienced anything like that before, or since.
After about a month of this conversation, and the couple weeks of being made an outcast, DC just stopped showing up. The Friday after everyone learned she had been let go for failing to show up for work, there was an impromptu ad-hoc after-work "BBQ" with no announcement. Barely anyone mentioned anything about the past month...and everyone was suddenly happier.
About 2 years after I left that job, one of my old co-workers sent me a link to DCs Friendster page. and I had to laugh.
I shit you not: not only divorced, but gay. How did we know? Photos of her commitment ceremony, with her new partner, in Hawaii.
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A couple jobs ago, I had two coworkers with different points of view. One was a self-described "devout christian" (referred to as DC from here on out) We would hear DC spout on and on about her faith, and "the gays" and how they should never EVER be allowed to marry and startedworking there shortly after I did. The other, just a cool chick (CC for the rest of the post) who had been working there for a couple years.
About 4 months into my stint at this place, CC, out of the blue in the middle of a long-ish work-day silence, asked DC a question. It took me by suprise, if for no other reason than it sounded completely thought-out and almost rehearsed...as if the 4 months of listening to "Jesus freak" had been building aggrivation up inside her and she had been preparing her "speech" for some time.
CC: "So...my husband and I have been married for 29 years, and we have no children. We met at church, and entered our marriage with the understanding that there would be no children, but still wanted to proclaim our life-long commitment to each other, our faith and to God. Because we entered this marriage knowing it would result in no children...what do you think of us?
DC: "You're sinners, and you're going to hell."
CC: "You honestly believe that?"
DC: "Yep."
CC: "We knew going into the marriage that there would be no children, because before we were married, we discovered that neither of us were physically capable of producing children. Hi was the result of testicular cancer before we met, and I had my own health problems after we met, but before we married."
DC: "(awkward pause, where you could tell DC didn't really know what to say, but didn't want to backtrack, and then was suddenly cock-sure)Doesn't matter. I'm assuming you have sex...it's no different than using birth control or having an abortion."
Within one or two weeks, every person in this place of employment (a big-box office supply retail store) stopped even acknowledging DC. People no longer said "hi" or "bye." People stopped asking for her assistance, even if they needed it. They stopped answering DCs questions. When DC would call to double-check a schedule, or to call in sick one day, people just hung up. It was a depressing-as-hell place to work. I've never experienced anything like that before, or since.
After about a month of this conversation, and the couple weeks of being made an outcast, DC just stopped showing up. The Friday after everyone learned she had been let go for failing to show up for work, there was an impromptu ad-hoc after-work "BBQ" with no announcement. Barely anyone mentioned anything about the past month...and everyone was suddenly happier.
About 2 years after I left that job, one of my old co-workers sent me a link to DCs Friendster page. and I had to laugh.
I shit you not: not only divorced, but gay. How did we know? Photos of her commitment ceremony, with her new partner, in Hawaii.
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