I can’t decide which is more annoying: having to listen to a coworker spend two hours on the phone with a customer service rep, complaining (unjustifiably, in my opinion) about some alleged wrong that has been done to him, swearing and yelling — or listening to him brag about his manly, tough phone call for the rest of the day, as if he’d just killed a wild lion with his bare hands.
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03 June | 11:02 | ss
Wasn't it Hemingway who said the only true sports were boxing, auto racing and battling customer service reps?
03 June | 16:19 | karen
that is SUCH a guy thing to do.
03 June | 21:54 | xena
Only guys that need to be reassured of their manliness go on incessantly about things like that. Much like the old adage "..those who can do, whose who can't talk about it..." - or something like that.
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