Two managers are in my cube, loudly discussing images for a brochure (or brox<\/em> as we type it in the biz) while the poor print designer cringes underneath their complaints.<\/p>\n “I am utterly sick of looking at over-water cabins in Tahiti,” one belts out to no one in particular, “And look at this one,” she says pulling a print out from the pile. “Look at that. That is so gay.”<\/p>\n Pause.<\/p>\n My glazed over eyes look up from my monitor. I’m a bit shocked and angered that she said this because we’ve been working side by side for nearly two years. She sees my face. Visions of calling HR dance in my head. “That’s ok, you ugly breeder,” I respond loudly.<\/p>\n We lock eyes. We start to laugh.<\/p>\n I think she’s laughing because ‘we understood each other’. I’m laughing because I got away with calling her ugly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two managers are in my cube, loudly discussing images for a brochure (or brox as we type it in the biz) while the poor print designer cringes underneath their complaints. “I am utterly sick of looking at over-water cabins in Tahiti,” one belts out to no one in particular, “And look at this one,” she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":430,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9WjY-dV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n“Not that there’s anything wro-” she tries to get out that old old old Seinfeld joke.<\/p>\n