On the subject of bad form

[azekeil]

I've just realised that it's now probably rather bad form for me to retort to my team members with "You're fired!".

Comments

[beeby.livejournal.com]

Blimey, did you? How's it going?

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

No, luckily that occurred to me before I opened my big mouth ;)

It's going well, thanks :)

[theeighth.livejournal.com]

Hmm... I say "Silence! Rebel Scum" to my engineers all the time.

I also threaten them with being Force Choked.

I'm from the Darth Vader School.

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Yes.. I shall clearly have to give this some thought. :)

[meltie.livejournal.com]

Yeeeah, i've had to ask my new boss to stop doing that. It was rather unnerving.

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Score one point for diplomacy.

[ev1ldonut.livejournal.com]

'm sure when said with a groan or a grin they'd take it how it was intended. Though it may cause slight issue if you ever had to do it for real later on down the line...

You: "That's it, you're fired. Sorry."
Them: *chuckle* You had me worried there!
You: "...."
Them: "Oh."

;)

Where are your Rome photos anyway dude? I've been waiting to see them since we got back! :p

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Er, Thursday evening's going to be the first time I get a chance to sit down with them, and to be fair I think my priorities will be elsewhere that night...

So, Friday evening / Saturday?

[dj-pooka.livejournal.com]

The poor little phonemonkeys who come up to my team (account/network admin) they tend to get greeted with things like "Fuck off, we're closed."

Unless they're cute and female, but that doesn't happen too often.

For some reason, even though I started telling frontline to fuck off, I made the team "more approachable" according to my team leader in my appraisal last week....

That just doesn't seem right!

[easternpromise.livejournal.com]

*snort*

But really fuckin' funny...

[malcygoff.livejournal.com]

heh heh, I do that all the time; but I guess I've got a few more years of knowing the guys that work for me... Still, I bet you'll get their respect and ears in no time if you do go down that route :)