Pop
I’m rather pleased with myself concerning the title today… ‘Pop’ – since it can be used in reference to pills (pill popping), email (Post Office Protocol) and to the sudden burst of rage that help coin the term ‘postal’.
Going postal, as a phrase, first appeared in print in 1993 after a spate of postal workers going on killing sprees from around 1986. Usually mowing down managers, co-workers and members of the public.
What caused all the killing? Possibly a mundane, repetitive job with little satisfaction, long and odd hours and comparatively poor pay.
Though, that sounds like most forms of employment to me…
…but perhaps people in different careers react to the stress in different ways, maybe it’s only postal workers that are driven to killing.
To go adminal, all you have to do is throw a large stack of paperwork to the ground with a short but blood-curdling scream… only to spend the next few minutes picking it all up again.
And going stackeral only involves pricing up a whole aisle of tinned goods at ridiculous prices (our ‘pricing guns’ had the option of fractions, leading to such creative pricing as 65½p).
I’m sure there are more, actually I wanted to see who could come up with the best term for SWR (specific workplace rage). There’s no prize as such, just that warm glow that comes from knowing you’ve invented a term.
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>after a speight of postal
Been following the expolits of certain kids’ TV presenters a little too closely, have we? http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spate
Anyway, yes- spelling flames in poor taste aside, to use my own line of employment we could suggest that going Designeral would be to *think* of exactly how you’d go about going on a killing spree.
Also, typo in a spelling comment! Oh the irony.
*goes pedantal*
Ha. Noted and changed… That’s probably *exactly* how that happened… listening to the radio whilst typing dulls my mind.
Still, poor show, eh? There goes another generation of children that have been taught the essential lesson that their TV heroes are fallable, prone to drug use, and likely to bail.
Designeral, good one.
a friend of mines mother works at the water treatment plant, she informed us that quite a few water treatment employees ‘go postal’
…purifying the population?
OK, shortening down ‘water treatment’ to ‘ment’, and following the pattern used for postal… gives us ‘mental’. Water treatment employees go mental.
that’s probably in better taste
I’ve gone mental,
without working in
water treatment,
though I never
considered it might
be something
in the water
that caused it.
erm, I got nothing.
About this WSR, it occurred to me today to wonder how many underground miners development agoraphobia from being in small confined spaces all the time.
Compare that to the ones that develop claustrophobia from the exact same thing.
I think we should take all the affected individuals and place them in the opposite environ that they like, leaving only a small door to get to the other environ.
Is this a normal work day thought?
A guy went berko at work on sunday after running over a survey tripod.
He quit over it.
Couldn’t do it myself, I’d probably suffer from both… a paralyzing fear that not matter what I do leaves me unhappy…
I think you have just designed an extreme choice chamber there…
…it is not a normal work day thought… not for me anyway, but I don’t work down in holes, perhaps that’s what happens to you when you go groundal…
And, he loved that tripod, he really did.
From wht recounts of the event that I have heard, the descriptive language used by the involved person suggests that he didn’t love that tripod.
As a side note, the guys nickname was “Hobbit”.
Nicknaming anyone that works in, or around, a mine ‘hobbit’ is a mark of cruel genius.
I think that it may be something to do with the way he looked.
Being short, a redhead, with sideburns, looking angry, being of scottish decent, there really was no other name for him.
Working UG was just the icing on the cake.
Well, I didn’t think I’d beat that story about the Hobbit, but……..
There is a guy at work with a last name “UnderHill”.
We (gaggle of teachers) read a health report recently that by the end of each day teachers suffer from a type of add (attention deficit disorder) caused by the amount of multiple stimuli they have to respond to in their day.
When teachers go bad they torture small kids with pointless maths tests, trying to think of a funny way to put it….but it’s just not funny.
Go postal-go mathmatical?
Like I said not funny………….
I had a maths teacher in high school that liked to make the answers to algebra questions “4q,” because he was fond of the way it sounded when pronounced.
Poor guy got fired. And I always thought he was hilarious.
I don’t know, teachers going ‘mathematical’ sounds good to me.
Anyway, we all know that you get pleasure from tormenting children… why else would you become a teacher?
Seriously, I had read about the ADD thing with teachers and I can see why… it’s like contact with children makes it rub off on you.
hey, child in the vicinity!
oh, its definitely true about the torture thing, though. ive had some of the coolest maths teachers ever, and they all admit to it.
My pre-algebra teacher taught us about credit cards when we were learning about percentages. At the end of the lesson was Q&A time, and I raised my hand (I was at the back of the class).
M. Chang: Yes?
Me: So what you’re saying is…credit cards are the devil?
M. Chang: (laughing) Yes! Exactly!
I win at math, sometimes.
Hmmm…. going biological: the act of cruelly and senselessly dismember an amoeba.
I work for a digital arts organisation - so its obvious really…i go digital…the act of swearing in 0’s and 1’s whilst repeatedly smashing a random computer component…and lo and behold you’ve got art…its a win-win situation y’know
Ha! That’s great… and I can confirm it to be true.
…but what happens when you go ‘Brigital’?
brigital is the zen like state you achieve through going digital - everyone knows that!
I’d pay money for that performance arts piece!
so, am i the first student to contribute? i really cant think of any form of crazy that we go, apart from just plain old crazy. the other day i had literature crazies, today i had calculus crazies.
that being said, my teachers have a tendency to go ‘departmental’
You go Literal, or however it is spelt/spelled.
And you do, I have heard you do it before.
you have? when have i ever done that?
I’m just worried about what happens to the person in the chair or the people in the waiting room when a dentist goes Dental.
*Thinks of Steve Martin in Little Shop of Horrors*
Man, I saw a children’s theatre put that on once: amazing performance, very disturbing to see twelve-year-olds in those roles.
“Gas? Don’t mind if I do!”
Do wine tasters go Decantal?
oh, they surely must!
Yeah, but it might be a bit cheesy to say so.
Do cheesemakers go Emmental?
Yes, but only brie-fully.
Points awarded for pun-run… many, much many.
I think everyone in this thread has gone Puntal now.
Although that sounds like it could involve attacking people with a massive pole while standing on a particular type of boat.
Either way it’s all good… just pass me that pole.
The alternative would be to go Oaral, which may or may not bear thinking about.
I go theatrical when I’m pissed off–that is, I start monologuing. Usually to my imaginary friends.
…
Yes, I still have imaginary friends, at nineteen. They keep me sane.
}@#$½%µ&^! racka-frassin bad-numbers-puzzles-and-stupid-trying-to-make-up-a-word-posts….
:: deep breath ::
sorry, I just when post-al… or was it comment-al.
As for a general terms… “work-al”, “job-al”, “employ-mental”, alternately you might call it “bene-fit”, “hire consequences”, &c.
when = went
Hehe, how about going “Green” as in Walgreens? Grab the register laser gun and start shooting people in the eyes to make them blind… of course, youd have to make them stand still long enough for that to work but Im sure you could find a way.