Learning Experience

I learned a new lesson today.

Make sure you know exactly who’ve you’ve invited into an IM conversation before sending off-color winks at work.

I feel wiser now.

The wink was of a (cartoon) bull running down the street and taking a steaming dump. It’s called “B.S.” and I was sending it to my colleague who I’ll refer to as “Tom”.

I sent the B.S. wink simply because he is filled with crap and it often comes spewing out of his mouth.

Well I tried inviting another colleague into the conversation before sending it off, but it didn’t work. So I decided to send the wink off to “Tom” anyway. Everyone in the department knew I was going to send him the wink because we had just been joking around about it. So I send it off. And then the whole company gets invited into the conversation! Luckily about half the company has an older version of Instant Message and can’t receive the wink. But my boss has the current version. She hasn’t said anything yet.

I guess I feel stupider now too.

- Susan in Seattle