Erotic Asphyxiation in the Office

[eumelia]

I still haven't gotten the hang of the fact that I am working full time.

All the time I once had for writing here, I now tweet, because I don't have access to DW/LJ at work.

However, because I now work in an office space, I actually have a funny anecdote to share!

As those of you who follow my twitter know, The Company is an Evil Corporation, but my Boss is a lovely person and we get along pretty well for people who only met a month and a half ago.

I work in metadata and content editing for online videos, I'm basically the drudge worker of the IT world. But it does make for very interesting conversation - because we're a team of six people and each of us works on different topics, we often ask each other for advice about how to tag a video.

Today a conversation went something like this:

Colleague: "Mel, what do you call auto-erotic asphyxiation when someone else does it you?"
Yours Truly: "Erotic asphyxiation"
Colleague: *frowning* "Are you sure?"
Yours Truly: "Yes, K, I'm sure."
Boss: "I don't even want to know how you know that"
Your Truly: *grin* "Better not ask then"

And that is some of the stuff we get up to in the office.

I'm very happy to tell you that the sexual harassment law hangs for all to see in the kitchen and that the uber-competent office manager is the ombudsman - that is, she's the one we go to should anyone feel therer is a need to report a case of inter-office sexual harassment.

I'm enjoying the job. Even if it sucks the life out of me!

Comments

[silveradept]

Huh. Then again, people do have problems with prefixes and suffixes normally. It really was a case of grammar-fu, although we approve of you building mystique about yourself in the process.

[eumelia]

It made me laugh, the whole thing. And my Boss is a great sport, so it was okay.
And yeah, I'm all about mytique ;)

[st_aurafina]

Gotta love a workplace where you get to demonstrate immense knowledge of such things!

[eumelia]

It also the casual way he asked me. This colleague is a close friend, we've known each other for nearly a decade so there was added in-jokes there too :)