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Don't bring your work home with you.

  • 16-06-2014 11:26PM
    #1
    WhiteWalls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 945 ✭✭✭WhiteWalls


    Do you talk about your job much when your at home or socializing? Sick to the teeth of hearing two of my siblings who are in the same sector talking about their job. My girlfriend and her nurse friends can spend hours talking about their jobs.


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  • #2
    Un Croissant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,052 ✭✭✭Un Croissant


    I'm a full time nazi hunter,OP. Ive got some crazy stories. Buuuut, if you don't want to hear them........


  • #3
    Lisha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,713 ✭✭✭Lisha


    I never talk about work once I'm off the clock .. Life's too short.


  • #4
    Tilly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,987 ✭✭✭Tilly


    Oh look at me with my nurse GF. She gives me bed baths in her uniform.


  • #5
    Clareman
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 24,074 Mod ✭✭✭✭Clareman


    WhiteWalls wrote: »
    My girlfriend and her nurse friends can spend hours talking about their jobs.

    In Coppers


  • #6
    Gran Hermano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,329 ✭✭✭Gran Hermano


    Gynaecologist who'll have a look for a nixer.


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  • #7
    shruikan2553
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


    Once my contract hours are done thats the end of work. Most that happens outside of that is if people ask me what im working on.


  • #8
    Temptamperu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    I love people who only talk about work. They are the best.


  • #9
    Renegade Mechanic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,928 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    Un Croissant wrote: »
    I'm a full time nazi hunter,OP. Ive got some crazy stories. Buuuut, if you don't want to hear them........

    Tell me about all the stuff you did nazi coming! I've got a few hours to burn:D


  • #10
    cloud493
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493


    No. My job is boring and ****.


  • #11
    quadrifoglio verde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,669 ✭✭✭quadrifoglio verde


    Gran Hermano wrote: »
    Gynaecologist who'll have a look for a nixer.

    If you were one you wouldn't be saying that :pac:


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  • #12
    shopaholic01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭shopaholic01


    WhiteWalls wrote: »
    My girlfriend and her nurse friends can spend hours talking about their jobs.
    You never got with your neighbours wife in the end then?


  • #13
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    I never talk about what I do, unless I meet another geek.


  • #14
    WhiteWalls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 945 ✭✭✭WhiteWalls


    shopaholic01 wrote: »
    You never got with your neighbours wife in the end then?

    Haha, no.. It never worked out for him either though.. All on his lonesome now!!


  • #15
    Zen65
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭Zen65


    Gran Hermano wrote: »
    Gynaecologist who'll have a look for a nixer.

    Reminds me a line by the great Rik Mayall in that film 'Guest House Paradiso' (somewhere around 1.35 below).

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy3tr5gdMsI


  • #16
    Un Croissant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,052 ✭✭✭Un Croissant


    Renegade Mechanic wrote: »
    Tell me about all the stuff you did nazi coming! I've got a few hours to burn:D

    Jew wouldn't believe it.


  • #17
    Arthur Beesley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Arthur Beesley


    Tilly wrote: »
    Oh look at me with my nurse GF. She gives me bed baths in her uniform.

    Is she hot?


  • #18
    looking_around
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,491 ✭✭✭looking_around


    Depends on he job and the people

    I fix pc's and will often talk to others about odd issues with the pc's.. or idiotic things people ask us.
    It's more of sharing of information(virus going around etc.) or venting.
    _
    I have a side job that I don't talk much about at all.
    _
    I find women are more likely to talk shop then men. One of the reasons I prefer to hang around the lads.


  • #19
    beks101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,802 ✭✭✭beks101


    Depends on the audience.

    If I'm with college friends, my parents or my boyfriend then yeah, because 1. they all have an interest in world news and a knowledge about the industry so it's relevant and 2. part of our relationship is being there for each other and listening to each other's shyte.

    Most other company though, no. I love being able to switch off and allowing what I do for way too many hours every week become irrelevant.


  • #20
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I talk to my dog about work.


  • #21
    stefan idiot jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭stefan idiot jones


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    I talk to my dog about work.

    In Wales we refer to them as wives.


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  • #22
    Adamantium
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭Adamantium


    Un Croissant wrote: »
    I'm a full time nazi hunter,OP. Ive got some crazy stories. Buuuut, if you don't want to hear them........

    For tangential reason your story made me think of Christopher Lee: (TV Tropes here)

    During World War II, Lee served with the Royal Air Force and intelligence service, and has mentioned in the past that he also served with Special Operations Executive (otherwise known as The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare). The SOE was set up by Churchill to "set Europe ablaze", and it included - among others - Christopher Lee and Ian Fleming, making it the obvious inspiration for the James Bond series. So there's a good reason that Lee was cast in one of the film versions. After the War, he also became a Nazi Hunter, hunting down War Criminals due to being fluent in both French and German.

    During the filming of The Lord of the Rings, he disagreed with Peter Jackson over certain aspects of his character's death scene, insinuating that he knows firsthand the sound a man makes when he's stabbed in the back . Take that as you will.

    From Peter Jackson's commentary on the extended edition of Two Towers:
    When I was shooting the stabbing shot with Christopher, as a director would I was explaining to him what he should do"... "And he says, 'Peter, have you ever heard the sound a man makes when he’s stabbed in the back?' And I said, 'Um, no.' And he says 'Well, I have, and I know what to do.' "
    Apparently the original script called for him to scream in pain, and Lee explained how that just wasn't accurate.


  • #23
    Wompa1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,360 ✭✭✭Wompa1


    For the past 6 months, I've been working from my apartment. So now I can't escape work, my office is staring at me every moment I'm in the place. So, yes, I talk about work but I don't want to. I CAN'T LEAVE!! I'M NEVER GETTING OUT OF HERE!!


  • #24
    zl1whqvjs75cdy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭zl1whqvjs75cdy


    looking_around wrote: »
    Depends on he job and the people


    _
    I have a side job that I don't talk much about at all.
    .

    That doesn't sound seedy or sinister at all, no sir.


  • #25
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,426 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    I don't talk about work when I go home because I'm a grumpy old man, living alone, who nobody would willingly speak to. However, while some people dream in glorious Technicolour and some in black and white, I dream in SAP...

    (True story.)


  • #26
    Barely There
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,481 ✭✭✭Barely There


    Zen65 wrote: »
    Reminds me a line by the great Rik Mayall in that film 'Guest House Paradiso' (somewhere around 1.35 below).

    Rik Mayall quotes!

    They are so hot right now.


  • #27
    irish_goat
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 6,007 Mod ✭✭✭✭irish_goat


    The gf and her friend's from college are terrible for this. Anytime they meet up it's all about their work, every so often one would apologise to me and say something like "oh god, you must be sick hearing about all this", and then carry on nattering about it!


  • #28
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    biko wrote: »
    I never talk about what I do, unless I meet another geek.

    We are Hugh.


  • #29
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    jimgoose wrote: »
    We are Hugh.


    I actually got that! :eek: (not the sharpest pencil in the box :D)

    But no, I work from home, well, that's where I'm mainly based, but I keep my office space separate from my living space, precisely so I have that separation between the two. I wouldn't talk about work when I'm out either.


  • #30
    Tilly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,987 ✭✭✭Tilly


    Arthur Beesley wrote: »
    Is she hot?
    Yup but only cause of the weather.


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  • #31
    Matt_Trakker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,052 ✭✭✭Matt_Trakker


    You should probably change your job to one you like so. If you liked it you'd talk about it.


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