My Manager

"soulpunx" (soulpunx)
12/10/2013 at 12:32 • Filed to: None

Is Lithuanian, and English is his 3rd language.

He keeps talking about how his truck has "back wheel drive" and I'm sitting over here cracking up.

I'm so slap happy this morning!

DISCUSSION (20)

Brian Silvestro > soulpunx
12/10/2013 at 12:37

Kinja'd!!!

" Don't make me slap you! "

HammerheadFistpunch > soulpunx
12/10/2013 at 12:37

reminds me of a story about my old boss. He was Japanese and english was his 2nd and...super cool dude btw...he had some great engrish.

I would find video clips labled things like "hammer" (hummer) and "slow crap" (slow clap). But the best was during campaign season we were working on a candidates video and we had a client in the office and the owner came in to show the client the edit bay and that we were hard at work on neat stuff.

"And here are our editors, what are you working on today guys?"

"Oh I'm just working on Marty Stevens erection (election)"

Died. I died.

E30Joe drives a Subaru > soulpunx
12/10/2013 at 12:38

I got double what my boss got on the ACT and he makes a lot more dollars than me. It's upsetting knowing that I'm working for a halfwit.

oldirtybootz > soulpunx
12/10/2013 at 12:44

I work with a Guatemalan and English is his second language. He speaks it very well, but sometimes he can't find the proper word in English so you get phrases like that.

When I took Spanish in school, I was amazed at how much easier everything is than English.

CalzoneGolem > HammerheadFistpunch
12/10/2013 at 12:45

RIP HammerheadFistpunch

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > soulpunx
12/10/2013 at 12:48

I was at a GM event when this French lady, she had some function in their design department exclaimed, during a speech she did at the event: "You must find a penis in the design!" (happiness).

HammerheadFistpunch > CalzoneGolem
12/10/2013 at 12:49

im back. Fortunately we had plenty of NONI juice or some other miracle crap in the fridge from the shoots earlier on.

soulpunx > oldirtybootz
12/10/2013 at 12:49

That's usually my managers problem too! He's always saying "I don't know the word for English" I've learned to communicate with him pretty well though. It's pretty funny.

soulpunx > HammerheadFistpunch
12/10/2013 at 12:50

That's hilarious! Last month I got my hair done and came into work the next day, he asked me if I got my hair painted. He's always saying goof stuff like that. He's a funny guy.

oldirtybootz > soulpunx
12/10/2013 at 12:52

Lmao that's how they all say it! Alot of the car transporters are foreign and I had one say that same thing to me last week.

To be fair, I leave Long Island and everyone knows I'm from New York.

CalzoneGolem > HammerheadFistpunch
12/10/2013 at 12:57

Like the phoenix from the ashes

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > oldirtybootz
12/10/2013 at 13:01

If you leave Long Island, they should know you're from Long Island, not just NY.

Cajun Ginger > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
12/10/2013 at 13:07

Aren't those two things the same? Finding a penis in the design would make me laugh so it would be happiness.

soulpunx > E30Joe drives a Subaru
12/10/2013 at 13:09

To be fair, I don't think the ACT means shit. Some people just do written tests better than others. Plus it's something you do you in highschool. Maybe I'm just sore because I only got a 26.

E30Joe drives a Subaru > soulpunx
12/10/2013 at 13:41

You can tell he got a 16. He misspelled my name on my uniform order so I was "Joesph" instead of "Joseph" for over a month, misspells various things and has extremely obvious grammar errors in 95% of his emails. This one time we were having vacuum pressure issues in the car wash, (we have 4 vacuums that all lead in to one big tube from 4 smaller ones, so if all of them are off the hook suction is shit and if one is off the hook suction is unholy.) but on this day they were kinda shitty, so he said "Put all them off the hook it will make the one with bad suction work better" Where on earth does that logic come from?

I'm sure it seems unimportant from your point of view, but I'm not even graduated from college and I'm at least 10 time more intelligent than him. He's a round peg square hole kinda guy, doesn't quite get why it wont fit.

oldirtybootz > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
12/10/2013 at 14:12

I've had people not know what Long Island is. A few have pinpointed it though.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > oldirtybootz
12/10/2013 at 14:22

Well I grew up in North NJ and currently live in Michigan, and I can spot it a mile away. People are sometimes surprised that I can and also surprised that I've buried my NJ accent and no one knows anymore. Except for my usage of Soda, because to my death I will never call it "pop" and I call them "sneakers" and everyone out here calls them "tennis shoes".

My favorite shoe convo involved "well you shouldn't call them sneakers becuase you don't 'sneak' in them!" My response- "Sometimes I sneak in them! But you've NEVER played tennis in them!"

oldirtybootz > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
12/10/2013 at 15:33

I will never ever say pop or tennis shoes when referring to soda or sneakers.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > oldirtybootz
12/10/2013 at 15:36

Damn right.

The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123 > soulpunx
12/10/2013 at 17:01

I had a German professor. We were talking about can lights, the type you put in a ceiling. He combined inset and recessed into what he pronounced as incest.