How to Accept Help That Isn't Actually Helpful

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We’ve all worked with that person who presents everything you do as a mistake and everything they do as a tremendous success. I’ve found that over time the rest of the staff tends to avoid that person, a fact the person usually considers to be a mistake on everyone else’s part, or an unfortunate side-effect of their tremendous success.

Note from Missy: This comic fills me with rage, because I’ve worked with that person in many a job. Side note: I feel like if this strip had been written a couple of years later, it’d definitely be Jenkins being the total work jerk, instead of Earth Mother here. I don’t think he’d fully grown into his true Jenkinsness at this point.

 

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How to Accept Help That Isn't Actually Helpful

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We’ve all worked with that person who presents everything you do as a mistake and everything they do as a tremendous success. I’ve found that over time the rest of the staff tends to avoid that person, a fact the person usually considers to be a mistake on everyone else’s part, or an unfortunate side-effect of their tremendous success.

Note from Missy: This comic fills me with rage, because I’ve worked with that person in many a job. Side note: I feel like if this strip had been written a couple of years later, it’d definitely be Jenkins being the total work jerk, instead of Earth Mother here. I don’t think he’d fully grown into his true Jenkinsness at this point.

 

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How to Insult Someone Without Offending Them

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The phrase “with all due respect” has always cracked me up. We use it to soften the blow when we’re about to criticize someone, but when you really think about it, it makes an insult that much more cutting. You’re basically prefacing your insult with “You’re not going to like what I’m going to say, but please understand, you totally deserve it.”

 

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How to Insult Someone Without Offending Them

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The phrase “with all due respect” has always cracked me up. We use it to soften the blow when we’re about to criticize someone, but when you really think about it, it makes an insult that much more cutting. You’re basically prefacing your insult with “You’re not going to like what I’m going to say, but please understand, you totally deserve it.”

 

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How to Talk Behind Someone's Back

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Once, a long, long time ago, I got into a fight with one of my older brother’s friends. I won’t get into the reasons. I was 14, he was 17, none of us handled the situation particularly well. My brother ended up taking his friend’s side and there was quite a bit of yelling.

Later that evening, when things had cooled down a bit, my brother (who I remind you, was 17 at the time, an age at which most of us say a lot of stupid things) told me, “I don’t like your friends either, but at least I have the guts to insult them when they’re not around.”

The guy I’d been arguing with and I looked at each other, then started laughing so hard that any ill will left from our argument completely dissipated.

 

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How to Talk Behind Someone's Back

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Once, a long, long time ago, I got into a fight with one of my older brother’s friends. I won’t get into the reasons. I was 14, he was 17, none of us handled the situation particularly well. My brother ended up taking his friend’s side and there was quite a bit of yelling.

Later that evening, when things had cooled down a bit, my brother (who I remind you, was 17 at the time, an age at which most of us say a lot of stupid things) told me, “I don’t like your friends either, but at least I have the guts to insult them when they’re not around.”

The guy I’d been arguing with and I looked at each other, then started laughing so hard that any ill will left from our argument completely dissipated.

 

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How to Mind Your Manners

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I’ve always found the idea of denouncing Yale graduates as uncouth barbarians to be hilarious. It’s probably a side-effect of the fact that the first sitcom I remember enjoying as a child was Gilligan’s Island. That also explains my love of sword canes. Obviously, Thurston Howell III was my favorite character, which only made it more hurtful when my father bought me a white bucket hat and started calling me Gilligan.

Note from Missy: I’m one of those wrong-hand food-cutters. I’ve never understood the whole deal with switching your knife to your fork hand to cut, then switching back to eat. So I roll with fork in the right hand, knife in the left, and anyone who has a problem with it can go suck an egg.

 

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How to Mind Your Manners

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I’ve always found the idea of denouncing Yale graduates as uncouth barbarians to be hilarious. It’s probably a side-effect of the fact that the first sitcom I remember enjoying as a child was Gilligan’s Island. That also explains my love of sword canes. Obviously, Thurston Howell III was my favorite character, which only made it more hurtful when my father bought me a white bucket hat and started calling me Gilligan.

Note from Missy: I’m one of those wrong-hand food-cutters. I’ve never understood the whole deal with switching your knife to your fork hand to cut, then switching back to eat. So I roll with fork in the right hand, knife in the left, and anyone who has a problem with it can go suck an egg.

 

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How to Maintain a Healthy Diet

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Sun Chips were a triumph of marketing. I mean, don’t get me wrong, they taste good, and I’ve eaten my share of them, but at the end of the day they’re just empty carbs covered with salt, just like almost everything else on the chips aisle.

I don’t blame them for trying to position Sun Chips as a healthier alternative. You have to differentiate your product some way, and the ways in which Sun Chips differ from potato and tortilla chips don’t make for great ad copy.

“It’s the snack made from compressed wheat fragments that would otherwise go to waste!”

“It’s the perfect snack for the early ’90s! It’s half cracker, half chip! It’s a Crip!”

“The snack that’s corrugated, for increased longitudinal stiffness!”

 

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How to Maintain a Healthy Diet

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Sun Chips were a triumph of marketing. I mean, don’t get me wrong, they taste good, and I’ve eaten my share of them, but at the end of the day they’re just empty carbs covered with salt, just like almost everything else on the chips aisle.

I don’t blame them for trying to position Sun Chips as a healthier alternative. You have to differentiate your product some way, and the ways in which Sun Chips differ from potato and tortilla chips don’t make for great ad copy.

“It’s the snack made from compressed wheat fragments that would otherwise go to waste!”

“It’s the perfect snack for the early ’90s! It’s half cracker, half chip! It’s a Crip!”

“The snack that’s corrugated, for increased longitudinal stiffness!”

 

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