Work: Today, I was at a symposium at which my colleague was a co-chair....

By singingseattlite - 06/04/2009 06:14 - United States

Today, I was at a symposium at which my colleague was a co-chair. She and a new acquaintance asked me how it was going. I joked that the discussant's only job at this conference was to be an asshole. The acquaintance was the symposium's discussant. The topic was Rude Behavior at Work. FML

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bambiibee 0

Monday 6 April 2009 21:54

Some people may not understand those words, because they may have never had to encounter it. I don't think you should be calling them morons for never using the words "Symposium" and "discussant" before.

Rupus 0

Monday 6 April 2009 19:39

I didn't understand any of those words =/

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poliphila 0

Tuesday 7 April 2009 20:29

You totally could have played that off as a very funny joke you were making.

agave274 0

Friday 10 April 2009 1:53

Im sorry, but I have to say that this is pretty funny and ironic. I aggree with poliphia, you could have made this into a pretty funny joke.

auds_fml 0

Thursday 16 April 2009 9:39

I don't understand this. If the discussion had already started, then why didn't you recognize your acquaintance when they were speaking? If the discussion had not started yet, then why would the joke be offensive to them?

24788 6

Thursday 7 May 2009 10:14

lol, I could just imagine how awkward that meeting must of been.

NightmareLink561 0

Sunday 28 June 2009 2:21

Go figure =)

Fentown_fml 4

Sunday 18 October 2009 1:47

Haha, well she can use you as her first example.

moggzz24 0

Monday 19 April 2010 22:59

too many big words in this fml!!D: dumb it down? x)

starberries 0

Sunday 24 October 2010 5:04

At a symposium where you didn't know who the discussant was, you saw a person you didn't know talking to the co-chair, and it didn't occur to you that it could possibly be the discussant?

Exposi 1

Friday 21 January 2011 19:36

I didn't understand a word of this. Still, it lets you know that the OP is white, because there's no way a coloured person or a Hispanic or a Chinese person would know these big words.