Like most people, I love a good joke – except when I’m the butt of those jokes in some way. I quantify in some way because I’m my own favorite joke in that I have a self deprecating sense of humor. So it’s ok if I make fun of myself. And if someone makes fun of me in a non-malicious way, I’m up for it.
However, there are people who use jokes to show exactly what they are thinking. This annoys me because under the guise of a joke, people think that others don’t know what they are saying. Let me explain further.
A couple of weeks ago someone came up to me asking me about a spreadsheet I was working on. I had saved it to a shared drive once I was completed with it. The person stated that there was something wrong with the spreadsheet and couldn’t figure out what had happened. She told me all this in front of a couple of people. When I opened the spreadsheet, I could tell what had happened to the document.
People were confused and needed calming down which I did. After we got of the phone, the lady who had approached me made a joke saying ‘We can just blame Angie’. To which I replied “Sounds like that’s exactly what you are doing – blaming me.”
I then went on to explain that the person needed to clear the filter on the spreadsheet and then she would have seen what had happened to the information that had been there before.
Needless to say, I was pretty peeved with this person’s joke and I certainly wasn’t going to let her get away with those comments in my presence. You see what I mean about people using jokes to hide what they are up to or what they really intend. This particular person does it a lot and it’s annoying. I categorize this behavior into my phoney baloney category. I don’t like people who can’t just say it straight. If she’s going to blame me, blame me. Don’t joke about it and pretend to cushion the blow.
I intend to nip her antics in the bud if she continues to do this. So I guess the joke is on her in the end.
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