Avatars
Posted: Tue 25 April, 2006 Filed under: Charm School, Thoughts, Work-related 4 Comments »
At work, Arsehole Boss has insisted that we use Google Talk as a messaging client so he can keep tabs on everyone, and/or nag them at a moment’s notice.
Google Talk is an utter piece of crap. However, it does have one semi-fun feature. You can have a photo as your “avatar”, an image that sits beside every thing you type, and beside your ID in the main screen.
Because Arsehole Boss has been treating us all like dicks, and because one of my colleagues has the head of Michelangelo’s David as his avatar, I opted for the image you see in this post. Everyone else in the office has seen the humour, but Arsehole Boss has just sent me the following message…
AB: dude please use a different image for gtalk i cant look at the fucking dick all day.
AB: remember we are using this as a company tool here…
Me: and i’ve a tool as an avatar. Seems apt.
Anyway, I’ve now changed it.
To a tube of Anusol.
Getting on the wrong side of you and being subjected to your sense of humour is one thing I do not intend to do in my whole life.
But it seems that your boss deserves it.
“dude”
Anyone who uses that term deserves to be looking at much WORSE avatars…
ditto what they said.
Although I assumed that you’d changed your name to dude to protect the (not so) innocent?