Sometimes YM is so creepy

[yogiii]

I started a new job recently, same company but different location and the job is so different I may as well have no experience with anything. Anyway, I've come across two recent YM topics.

1.  I'm new to everyone so again I'm seeing the fresh looks of "oh your name is weird" go across all the faces.  It's kind of funny

2.  I don't have pics of the kids at my desk but somehow it came up in conversation and one of my new co-workers said "Wow, I can't believe you are old enough to have kids.  I thought you were single and just out of school!".  Now although I'm not sure what that says about my work  (actually it doesn't matter much, I'm new!), it really was one of the nicest things anyone had ever said to me!  Maybe I should just say I'm 21 now, or maybe this person is really in need of an eye appt.

[GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl]

We control the world and can see the future.

Everything in your life happens because YMOT makes it so.

Do not be frightened or creeped out, we come in peace and want only to see your budget.

[MJ2.0]

do you have a really ethnic first/last name? I have a really common first name (you all probably know it by now) and an almost equally common last name (and even more common maiden name) so I don't know what that's like.

Maybe you should put up a sign in your cube that says "yes I have kids. No you can't see them."

[yogiii]

Yes it's ethnic and the nickname is also ethnic and no, I won't go by anything else people can deal  .

Another funny aspect is that I did work here my first two years at the company (so back when I really was 21-22).  Almost every day, I see someone in the hall who I haven't seen in 12ish years (gulp) and the overwhelming response is "Hey, you're all grown up!", after the "good to see you" and what nots.

[Deleted]

In my experience it is not good to be known as "too young".  When I got my first corporate job out of college I was 20 and got hired into a professional position beyond entry level.  I was 6'4 and looked 24, no way they would have hired me had I actually looked 20.  My boss found out when we were out at a restaurant after work with some colleagues from out of town, they were riding me pretty hard for not drinking and my boss kept asking me why I wasn't, I finally got sick of it and said "because I'm 20".  He was stunned, and also didn't treat me very well after it so I was really lucky he moved on from that role 4 months later.

[Lizard Queen]

Don't you know that you're not supposed to get the opportunity for a good job if you have a weird name?     Off to McJobs to you!  

I also got the "look, you're all grown up!" comment, too.  I pointed out that I was actually older than some of the others in the office.

[yogiii]

Feb 18, 2016 10:29:48 GMT -5 @aj said:

In my experience it is not good to be known as "too young".  When I got my first corporate job out of college I was 20 and got hired into a professional position beyond entry level.  I was 6'4 and looked 24, no way they would have hired me had I actually looked 20.  My boss found out when we were out at a restaurant after work with some colleagues from out of town, they were riding me pretty hard for not drinking and my boss kept asking me why I wasn't, I finally got sick of it and said "because I'm 20".  He was stunned, and also didn't treat me very well after it so I was really lucky he moved on from that role 4 months later.

Color me vain, I'd rather look good.

[GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl]

Feb 18, 2016 11:08:02 GMT -5 yogiii said:

Feb 18, 2016 10:29:48 GMT -5 @aj said:

In my experience it is not good to be known as "too young".  When I got my first corporate job out of college I was 20 and got hired into a professional position beyond entry level.  I was 6'4 and looked 24, no way they would have hired me had I actually looked 20.  My boss found out when we were out at a restaurant after work with some colleagues from out of town, they were riding me pretty hard for not drinking and my boss kept asking me why I wasn't, I finally got sick of it and said "because I'm 20".  He was stunned, and also didn't treat me very well after it so I was really lucky he moved on from that role 4 months later.

Color me vain, I'd rather look good.

Having met yogiii at the New England meet up last month, I can verify that she does look like she is in her early twenties.

Biotch.  

[tloonya]

How does it make YM creepy?

[yogiii]

Feb 18, 2016 13:39:20 GMT -5 GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl said:

Feb 18, 2016 11:08:02 GMT -5 yogiii said:

Color me vain, I'd rather look good.

Having met yogiii at the New England meet up last month, I can verify that she does look like she is in her early twenties.

Biotch.  

I have a new favorite

[MJ2.0]

Feb 18, 2016 11:08:02 GMT -5 yogiii said:

Feb 18, 2016 10:29:48 GMT -5 @aj said:

In my experience it is not good to be known as "too young".  When I got my first corporate job out of college I was 20 and got hired into a professional position beyond entry level.  I was 6'4 and looked 24, no way they would have hired me had I actually looked 20.  My boss found out when we were out at a restaurant after work with some colleagues from out of town, they were riding me pretty hard for not drinking and my boss kept asking me why I wasn't, I finally got sick of it and said "because I'm 20".  He was stunned, and also didn't treat me very well after it so I was really lucky he moved on from that role 4 months later.

Color me vain, I'd rather look good.

it's different for men though. They want to look older. When X first started working for the school library, they thought he was 35 and that I was an undergrad. Little did they know that I was 25 and older than him

[zibazinski]

Feb 18, 2016 13:39:20 GMT -5 GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl said:

Feb 18, 2016 11:08:02 GMT -5 yogiii said:

Color me vain, I'd rather look good.

Having met yogiii at the New England meet up last month, I can verify that she does look like she is in her early twenties.

Biotch.  

Did you see the picture of MJ? She could pass for late teens early twenties. Lawsy!

[GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl]

Feb 18, 2016 21:00:49 GMT -5 zibazinski said:

Feb 18, 2016 13:39:20 GMT -5 GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl said:

Having met yogiii at the New England meet up last month, I can verify that she does look like she is in her early twenties.

Biotch.  

Did you see the picture of MJ? She could pass for late teens early twenties. Lawsy!

I missed it. That's okay, MJ's and Yogii's kids are young. When their kids are teenagers, they'll have grey hairs like the rest of us. ;-)

[MJ2.0]

Feb 18, 2016 21:00:49 GMT -5 zibazinski said:

Feb 18, 2016 13:39:20 GMT -5 GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl said:

Having met yogiii at the New England meet up last month, I can verify that she does look like she is in her early twenties.

Biotch.  

Did you see the picture of MJ? She could pass for late teens early twenties. Lawsy!

You are being WAY too generous!

[zibazinski]

Feb 19, 2016 5:41:07 GMT -5 MJ2.0 said:

Feb 18, 2016 21:00:49 GMT -5 zibazinski said:

Did you see the picture of MJ? She could pass for late teens early twenties. Lawsy!

You are being WAY too generous!

Not a bit Other posters can back me up!!