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Give Me a Really Sarcastic Way of Ending a Friendship Forever...

  • 11-01-2012 2:23am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 333 ✭✭


    Basically, someone has been a total dick and resigned from a position in such a way that it makes me look really bad. I once considered him an extremely close friend...

    I want to say something like:
    "That is the last time I ever want to be graced by your presence", but that doesn't seem sarcastic or elegant enough for my needs.

    I want something that is so good that he won't be able to respond he will be so shocked...

    But it has to be elegant, not stupid...

    V.

    EDIT: See Post #11 for Clarification


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Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,949 ✭✭✭Samich


    Ride me sideways


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,118 ✭✭✭Babybuff


    Tell him you love him, watch him run


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    Smell ya later... Smell ya later forever


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,861 ✭✭✭IrishEyes19


    Honestly, if you act that childish, you're guaranteed he wont respond.
    Suck it up and try and end a bad situation amiably or if it's not reparable, ignore the guy and get on with your life.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭✭later12


    Ignore him.

    If he considers himself a friend of yours, turning a cold, uncaring shoulder will have a far greater impact than any one-liner you might offer.

    If he doesn't consider himself a friend of yours, he's likely to scoff at whatever one-liner you offer anyway, regardless of how smart it seems.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    fuck off cuntface.

    keep it simple.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,817 ✭✭✭pebbles21


    Just call him a cunt!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 333 ✭✭Vivara


    Forgot to clarify, this will be in PERSON. I will be handing him an acceptance of resignation letter and then I will say what I want...

    And TRUST ME, I have tried to end it amicably and in a mature way, but what he did takes the cake...

    So any elegant responses?

    I have heard the 'take a shíte in/on his X'... my favourite being 'take a shíte in his gear bag'... :D

    V.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,118 ✭✭✭Babybuff


    so is it a boss or a friend?

    edt;sorry just caught the letter of resignation part


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    Vivara wrote: »
    Forgot to clarify, this will be in PERSON. I will be handing him an acceptance of resignation letter and then I will say what I want...

    And TRUST ME, I have tried to end it amicably and in a mature way, but what he did takes the cake...

    So any elegant responses?

    I have heard the 'take a shíte in/on his X'... my favourite being 'take a shíte in his gear bag'... :D

    V.

    What did he do? We need background info if you want something good. C'mon, spill it.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Be like a Honey Badger. Don't give a shit.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    I wouldnt piss on you if you were on fire after you fell out of the ugly tree
    you bollox you *shake fist*

    I wouldnt piss on you if you were on fire, Id sell tickets to homeless people to decide who got to throw more petrol on :mad:

    bang door for extra effect

    if there were prizes for everybody that is a prick, youd grab two wouldnt you.. you greedy bollox :mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,762 ✭✭✭✭stupidusername


    Be like a Honey Badger. Don't give a shit.

    them feckers are the business.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,643 ✭✭✭R.D. aka MR.D


    Say something like 'i'm disappointed' or 'i thought you were better than this'. In the long run that will have more impact.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,792 ✭✭✭Gandalph


    Buy him a box of roses and eat all the strawberry ones, thats a big middle finger if I ever did see one.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,980 ✭✭✭Dotrel


    Gandalph wrote: »
    Buy him a box of roses and eat all the strawberry ones, thats a big middle finger if I ever did see one.

    Eh? I've a tin of them in my kitchen and nothing left but all the strawberry and a few orange. They're mank.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,300 ✭✭✭HazDanz


    Here's my resignation now off with yourself you pringle popping prick.

    Jazz hands out the door then


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭Sindri


    If we win do receive a cash prize.

    I'll PM you my address.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,213 ✭✭✭PrettyBoy




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,762 ✭✭✭✭stupidusername


    Dotrel wrote: »
    Eh? I've a tin of them in my kitchen and nothing left but all the strawberry and a few orange. They're mank.

    Send em this way.lets call it a late christmas present.or an early birthday present.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭Jay D


    Here's my direct line for references, I'll sum you up nicely.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    them feckers are the business.

    Yep.

    Not a single fuck does the Honey Badger give.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 621 ✭✭✭dave3004


    Coward.

    Always find that word cuts deeper than most !


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭Sindri


    The most sarcastic, biting (I think you're looking for biting) thing to do-

    Is tell him your promoting him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 333 ✭✭Vivara


    Sindri wrote: »
    If we win do receive a cash prize.

    I'll PM you my address.

    Yes, the prize is €1000, but first you'll have to pay a transfer fee of €400 which we be reimbursed upon payment. I'll send you the Bank Transfer details there...

    In all seriousness, I've tried this ignoring him business but it just doesn't satisfy it for me. I want him to know I am disappointed in him... that's good, but I want to do it in a clever and elegant way...

    Is there a more elegant way of saying you are disappointed, with slight sarcasm?

    Like 'I've never been more disappointed in my life' but more elegant? :D :rolleyes:


    V.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭Sindri


    Yep.

    Not a single fuck does the Honey Badger give.

    :eek:

    How do they reproduce man?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,792 ✭✭✭Gandalph


    Dotrel wrote: »
    Eh? I've a tin of them in my kitchen and nothing left but all the strawberry and a few orange. They're mank.

    This. is. absolute. blasphemy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 333 ✭✭Vivara


    Sindri wrote: »
    The most sarcastic, biting (I think you're looking for biting) thing to do-

    Is tell him your promoting him.

    He was my right-hand man, who resigned due to other commitments. We then had a personal argument several weeks later, and he decided to do a revised letter incorporating the unrelated personal stuff and sending it to the chairperson of the board of directors, too, even though it is my sole prerogative to appoint/dismiss/accept resignation. This makes me look really bad to the board, who already seem to have slight doubts about my managing style.

    V.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭Sindri


    Vivara wrote: »
    Yes, the prize is €1000, but first you'll have to pay a transfer fee of €400 which we be reimbursed upon payment. I'll send you the Bank Transfer details there...

    In all seriousness, I've tried this ignoring him business but it just doesn't satisfy it for me. I want him to know I am disappointed in him... that's good, but I want to do it in a clever and elegant way...

    Is there a more elegant way of saying you are disappointed, with slight sarcasm?

    Like 'I've never been more disappointed in my life' but more elegant? :D :rolleyes:


    V.

    1. Take a seat.
    2. Light your pipe.
    3. Sit him on your knee.
    4. Tell him you are very disappointed.
    5. Offer to play baseball with him.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭Sindri


    Vivara wrote: »
    He was my right-hand man, who resigned due to other commitments. We then had a personal argument several weeks later, and he decided to do a revised letter incorporating the unrelated personal stuff and sending it to the chairperson of the board of directors, too, even though it is my sole prerogative to appoint/dismiss/accept resignation. This makes me look really bad to the board, who already seem to have slight doubts about my managing style.

    V.

    :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,980 ✭✭✭Dotrel


    Vivara wrote: »
    to the board, who already seem to have slight doubts about my managing style.

    They're not the only ones.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭Jay D


    Vivara wrote: »
    Yes, the prize is €1000, but first you'll have to pay a transfer fee of €400 which we be reimbursed upon payment. I'll send you the Bank Transfer details there...

    In all seriousness, I've tried this ignoring him business but it just doesn't satisfy it for me. I want him to know I am disappointed in him... that's good, but I want to do it in a clever and elegant way...

    Is there a more elegant way of saying you are disappointed, with slight sarcasm?

    Like 'I've never been more disappointed in my life' but more elegant? :D :rolleyes:


    V.

    It's strange how sometimes you completely misjudge someone you thought was a friend. Good luck in finding a new job.

    You're smart but disappointed and still coming across as someone he should not have let down, my two cents.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 333 ✭✭Vivara


    Dotrel wrote: »
    They're not the only ones.

    I see what you did there. And I think you're probably right, actually.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,620 ✭✭✭_AVALANCHE_


    Vivara: "Most cutting insult Afterhours can come with"
    C-untface: "Your're Vivara!!!!!!! LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL"

    From what you've said OP, it doesn't look like it'll matter what you say to him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 856 ✭✭✭Karona


    Get the wooden spoon to him, who needs disappointment when the wooden spoon is out!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭Sindri


    If you want him to know how disappointed you are tell him. And tell him how badly his actions reflected on you.

    Also apologise to the board.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,118 ✭✭✭Babybuff


    learn from the experience and move on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 407 ✭✭CliffHuxtabel


    Shoot him in the head and then say "Consider that a divorce"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,762 ✭✭✭✭stupidusername


    Say i'm disappointed in you.how much? This much.
    Then kick him in the nuts and walk out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Vivara wrote: »
    Yes, the prize is €1000, but first you'll have to pay a transfer fee of €400 which we be reimbursed upon payment. I'll send you the Bank Transfer details there...

    In all seriousness, I've tried this ignoring him business but it just doesn't satisfy it for me. I want him to know I am disappointed in him... that's good, but I want to do it in a clever and elegant way...

    Is there a more elegant way of saying you are disappointed, with slight sarcasm?

    Like 'I've never been more disappointed in my life' but more elegant? :D :rolleyes:


    V.

    Then being sarcastic is not such a good idea as he might not pick up on the sarcasm, though like Sindri, I don't think sarcasm is what you're asking for.
    BLAST
    Anyway, my boring answer is to tell him exactly how disappointed you are in the clearest possible fashion.
    HIM
    If you come out with a clearly pre-prepared cutting remark, then it might seem like you're exaggerating.
    WITH
    Don't leave any room for misinterpretation or ambiguity and just come out and say how you feel.
    PISS
    If you're as disappointed as you say you are then it'll show, even if you feel that your words don't convey your disappointment.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,915 ✭✭✭MungBean


    The fact that you want him to know how disappointed you are by being "elegantly sarcastic" basically means your a dick, you do realise that ?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,001 ✭✭✭✭opinion guy


    When did after hours become 90210 ?

    OP needs to grow up and be professional methinks


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40 ChairmanCow




    Its the only way to do it!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 621 ✭✭✭dave3004


    At the next board meeting …. Hide in the ice sculpture !


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭Sindri


    I really want to buy a prostitute so if you do what I said, can I please have the money.

    If your in management you must have plenty and all my ideas are intellectually copyrighted and I am entitled to a commission.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,723 ✭✭✭nice_very


    very very very dissapointed nobody suggested blasting him with.... his ma..


    anyway, OP I would (when he walks in to the office).. offer to shake hands then point at the chair saying "have a seat"..

    followed by a "what can I do for you?"

    when he hands over letter, open it, read it grinning, toss it into bin saying "excellent"

    call security (if you have in work - if not, responsible person) then, when they get there....

    stand up offering to shake hands, by the time he is on his feet hand out, you are opening the door, grinning, saying to the security guy.. "accompany Mr. Name to the front door please..

    while he is still within earshot slam the door of your office, shouting yessssssss, or woo-hooooooo


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 333 ✭✭Vivara


    nice_very wrote: »
    very very very dissapointed nobody suggested blasting him with.... his ma..


    anyway, OP I would (when he walks in to the office).. offer to shake hands then point at the chair saying "have a seat"..

    followed by a "what can I do for you?"

    when he hands over letter, open it, read it grinning, toss it into bin saying "excellent"

    call security (if you have in work - if not, responsible person) then, when they get there....

    stand up offering to shake hands, by the time he is on his feet hand out, you are opening the door, grinning, saying to the security guy.. "accompany Mr. Name to the front door please..

    while he is still within earshot slam the door of your office, shouting yessssssss, or woo-hooooooo

    Would be funny, except he has already handed me his resignation... Policy states I have to accept it first and he is still working on his 15 working day notice.

    What I need is something to say when I hand him my resignation letter. I think on the professional side (trust me, I am actually professional), I do agree that saying I'm really disappointed is the best. However, now I suppose I want to know how to hit him hard with what I say and make him feel bad... i.e. disappointed but +1000. Possible?

    V.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,762 ✭✭✭✭stupidusername


    Am I missing something,he gave you his resignation and now you're giving him yours? Isn't it usually your superior you give it to?

    If he's a dick he probably wont care whatever you think of him


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,723 ✭✭✭nice_very


    Vivara, is he leaving or you? or both? why do you have to give him a resig letter? how long have you, so I can think...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,039 ✭✭✭face1990


    Am I missing something,he gave you his resignation and now you're giving him yours?

    'Tis very confusing. OP hasn't explained it well.

    My advice, grow up and get over it.


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