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October 11, 2008 |
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Self-Assured
FOUND by Brad Mitchell
in Springfield, Missouri
Found this tucked away in a used copy of "The Martian Chronicles" I picked up the other day for a quarter.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
See? I don't know how Martians got such a bad reputation....
So, a peer evaluation at work? Seems like the recipient of our eval is doing a decent job at work, but maybe his/her coworkers are just being nice.
we did group work in my 10th grade english class, we had to evaluate eachother like this every time.....nobody ever told the truth.
Unpleasant memories of group therapy--a self-esteem building exercise where everyone had to write down one positive thing about each person. Like @ said, nobody said what they really meant. The same person who called you "very sweet" on the card was usually the one who insulted you regularly in group.
That's why I gave up group therapy. They're all screwed up worse than me, and they're supposed to give ME advice? Somehow I don't think so. And the therapist sits there and says nothing ("impartial moderator") and rakes in the money from the whole group. An easy way to get paid 6x the normal consultation fee for one hour.
"The Martian Chronicles" is a great book. But I digress.
This kind of exercise usually devolves into "How well can I disguise an insult as a compliment?" It's a fun game if you don't care about the other people's feelings.
I swear that the top comment is in my brother's handwriting. I don't know if he ever did group therapy, but he certainly needed some. He was a Bradbury fan and had a lot of the books at one time.
No, he's not dead, but I haven't seen him for like 17 years, which is fine with me. Human time bomb, that man.
I've played this game before.
1. You look tired
2. You seem cool, except what is with those shoes?
3. Fun person to work with, after about noon
4. Very sweet, after about noon (on a Friday)
5. You do your own thing
6. Does whatever when needed, whatever that means.
Ahahahaha!! This is such BS! We did this exercise at work, and let me tell you, BABY BASIL and NOT JUST ANOTHER are telling the truth!
Not like the two-faced co-workers (not all of them) who thought they could fool everyone. SHEESH!
Our boss or therapist thought they were being conducive with teamwork...little did they know what was being said behind their backs!
Ahhhhh well...the contention of brown-nosers trying to get a promotion!
Nice FIND!
Like with a fortune cookie, the items on the list are better if you add "In bed" at the end of each.
#5 and #6 especially
At the private Christian elementary school I used to work at, at one stupid "Devotions" time, we had to all walk around the room with a huge piece of colored construction paper pinned to our back and have people write positive and encouraging compliments on it, while we wrote on others. Talk about being forced to say nice things when you couldn't think of anything nice for many of them. It made me wonder how many were b.s.ing me as well.
I don't work there any more. I just couldn't blindly follow with a 'submissive and joyful heart.' I've never been happier. :o)
Geek, GREAT IDEA!!!!! Hahaha!
One of my favorite websites is http://demotivators.com/
despair, inc
Not that I rejoice in the sorrows of others, but sarcasm delights me. A list like this find makes me want to add stuff like, "Don't ever change: I always wanted to be better than you."
@ Teacher: glad to read you have left the dark side
These type of activities make me grown and inwardly cringe.
Last summer I directed a camp and had to oversee 'ice breaker' games for the staff. This find reminds me of the game we did with a ball of yarn...we all sat in a circle and took turns saying something positive about one person and throwing the ball of yarn their way. Blah blah blah. Didn't make me feel much better about myself, since no one knew me and (as others have commented) smells of b.s.
hmmmph.
whatever.
Makes my brain hurt
7. He is so gullible. I bet he will believe everything that's being said on this evaluation.
straight from the "All the Good Things" story which can be found on snopes.com :
http://www.snopes.com/glurge/allgood.asp
anyone else notice that number three looks like
'he a fun person to work with'?
I like the way intelligent looks very obscure, and the way you do your own thing :) yeah. number 5 is a positive motivator to have on your card
Ah yes... the ubiquitous "You seem pretty cool." High school code for "I just now realized that you actually exist." What's really unfortunate is getting a page full of those.
I don't SEEM cool. I AM cool, dammit.
This reminds me of something one of my high school teachers did with our class. No one in the class got along, so he stopped teaching and made us write our names on a paper and pass it around to have everyone write something nice...it was really a way for everyone to think of a nice way to say "Yeah you suck, but I will find a way to write something generic about you!"
Good times!
Weird...
When I saw this earlier, it reminded me of this thing we did when I was in second grade. Every kid had to write two nice things about every other kid in the class. Then, when everyone was done, we were each given a booklet with a construction paper cover, bound by one piece of yarn, with a picture of ourselves glued to the front. Inside the booklet were all the creative, interesting, and totally unique things that the other kids had written about us.
A few minutes ago, while going through a box of old stuff, in a stroke of sheer synchronicity, I re-Found my booklet (dated October 27, 1982). Now I'm going to use up a shitload of bandwidth, and share with you what the kids purported to think of me 26 years ago. (Note: I have substituted Flargy for my real name throughout, but the other kids' names have been left unchanged to expose the guilty.)
Thomas: Flargy is nice. Flargy is good.
Michael: Flargy is funny. And nice.
Justin: Flargy is good. Flargy is OK!
Lucinda: Flargy is a jenple [sic] boy. Flargy is a very nice boy.
Missy: Flargy is nice. Flargy is good.
Nellie: Flargy is a good reader. Flargy is smart.
Carlier: Flargy is nice. Flargy is cute.
Peter: Flargy likes E.T. Flargy is good.
Geoff!: Flargy you are good. Flargy you are nice.
Carole: Flargy likes Geofe [sic]. Flargy likes Justin.
Eddie: Flargy is my frend [sic]. Flargy is nice.
Sam: Flargy is o.k. Flargy is not bad.
Josh: 1. Flargy is good. 2. I like Flargy.
Leslie: Flargy is OK. Flargy can be nice some time.
Michael: Flargy is a good boy! Flargy is nice!
Jennifer: Flargy is small. Flargy is cute.
Alexis: Flargy is good. Flargy has lost teeth.
Thomas: Flargy is nice. Flargy is good. [Thomas was my best friend, so he's allowed to say it twice.]
Tony: Flargy draws good. Flargy is nice.
So there you have it! I'm a nice, good, jenple, toothless E.T. lover! I guess the truth had to come out eventually.
Nightingale: Flargy is a good speller. Flargy is still funny!
@Flargy: looks like once someone said you were nice, ther ewere no other synonyms to go by lol. You're so nice! XD
Side note/graphology stuff: everyone on this list is extroverted except for the person who wrote the fourth line.
person one is probably left-handed and feels the need to be a little pretentious although they don't want others to percieve them as such
person two is mostly a loner socially speaking and either doesn't *really* think the subject
is cool or they're just prone to lying a bit (not as much as a pathological liar though or someone who makes a habit out of it)
Person 3 isn't childish all around, but there are deffinately areas in their life where they come accross as immature
Person 4 is introverted but they have a desire to be an extrovert, they open up a lot once you get to know them and they may have feelings for the subject (not necessarily romantic)
Person 5 either values independence above most everything else even though s/he (I'm guessing she) is the most extroverted out of the bunch
Person 6 may be slightly bipolar or have ADD and probably has some manner of attention disorder. S/he feels underappreciated by those around them but considers themselves a "people" person.
go-go gadget graphology!
@ N8tiveMe
This site is so much more fun and interesting (not to forget: educational) with your participation!
Please do stick around and keep up the profiling!
only appears to be missing the -
Staurt Smalley ..."and doggonit I LIKE ME!"
The number 5 handwriting looks like my mothers. Strange. Could a piece of paper really go from Kansas to Missouri. I dunno. You tell me.