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To quite enjoy it when a man says "while you;re done there" or similar?

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create · 28/07/2010 20:01

Obviously if he meant it or was doing it to make me uncomfortable, that would be very different, but when it's a joke, isn't that banter and therefore fun?

I quite often set the lines up for my colleagues to knock down - it's great seeing them so pleased with themselves for coming up with a joke I wrote for them! Makes office life far more fun too.

But, I am absolutely confident that I have their respect on a professional basis and I think the fact that I can deal with the banter adds to that respect TBH.

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sarah293 · 28/07/2010 20:02

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Gay40 · 28/07/2010 20:03

I know they don't like it when I say it to them.

HouseofCrazy · 28/07/2010 20:03

^^What she said.

LimaCharlie · 28/07/2010 20:03

what riven said

HouseofCrazy · 28/07/2010 20:03

(xposts, I meant Riven)

Littlefish · 28/07/2010 20:04

Completely inappropriate in a professional environment.

lorelilee · 28/07/2010 20:05

are you on medication?

scurryfunge · 28/07/2010 20:05

I'm hoping you are joking OP

Gigantaur · 28/07/2010 20:07

I think you are deluding yourself if you think you have their respect

HerBeatitude · 28/07/2010 20:12

Are you a bored man?

CaptainKirksNipples · 28/07/2010 20:15

I don't think that is the most respectful thing to say to a colleague!

msripley · 28/07/2010 20:15

What does this phrase mean? I've never heard it - probably just as well judging by the responses here.

scurryfunge · 28/07/2010 20:17

I think the OP meant, "while you are down there"

DuelingFanjo · 28/07/2010 20:22

Agreed, it's while you're down there. If my DH said it to me I would take it as a joke, if a workmate said it to me I would be surprised at their lack of sense.

msripley · 28/07/2010 20:22

In that case, completely, completely unprofessional and OP is bu to think it's anything else.

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Firawla · 28/07/2010 20:25

i still dont get what it means as "while your down there"
???

Alibabaandthe40nappies · 28/07/2010 20:25

Good God I thought you meant if your DH said it - but you mean work colleagues??

I'm sorry but they do not respect you.

Gleeb · 28/07/2010 20:27

Is your office stuck in the 1970s?

maresedotes · 28/07/2010 20:27

A friend of mine worked in a pub and was forever getting this comment when she bent down to get a packet of crisps. One day she had some dry skin on her nails so accidentally dropped some of it in one of the men's pints. Not big and not clever I know but it made her feel better!

scurryfunge · 28/07/2010 20:27

Firawla, it is a request for a blow job

Alibabaandthe40nappies · 28/07/2010 20:28

Firawla - it means 'while you are crawling on the floor to retrieve something from under your desk/plug your laptop in/see why your swivel chair is broken, you could give me a blowjob if you felt like it'.

Crass, and IME the kind of thing that 17 year olds say, or dickhead men who view women as sex objects having a mid-life crisis.

Gigantaur · 28/07/2010 20:28

you bend over in front of a pig and they say "while you're down there..."

meaning that whilst you are bent over they'd appreciate you giving them a blow job too.

just the sort of thing nice respectable people say to their workmates huh

SirBoobAlot · 28/07/2010 20:28

Firawla - they're suggestion that you could give them a blowjob...

janajos · 28/07/2010 20:28

At work?!!! I don't think so.....

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