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Tangential: my favorite conversation starter at parties / gatherings is getting people to describe their spouse's job in front of them.
by schwartzworld 4y ago
Tangential: my favorite conversation starter at parties / gatherings is getting people to describe their spouse's job in front of them.
- smithcoin 4y agoThat’s a good one, I’m going to use this.
- BoGs83 4y agoThis is by far the best to watch. My wife used to describe "He works for <insert company name> (ecommerce) and makes the systems scale for famous stars flash sales and black friday cyber monday."
- atonse 4y agoI’m totally stealing this. In fact, I had to explain to my wife (and mother in law) what my father in law dad and her brother did in their careers. They claim the guys never explain it but I found that their eyes glaze over!
- dsr_ 4y agoMy spouse used to run technical customer support for ISPs. Then she ran technical customer support for a big CDN. Now she translates software engineering bug fix reports into customer-appropriate release notes for a big process-automation company.
- technothrasher 4y agoI tell people my wife is a product manager, and when they invariable ask what that means, I say, "I dunno, it's like marketing I think, you know, sales." She used to hit me. Now she just roles her eyes.
- formerkrogemp 4y agoWhen people are told I'm in accounting, one of the most common questions is related to taxes despite that not being my actual line of work. Oh well.
- peteradio 4y agoSomehow people learned I was working on my doctorate and I had several relatives/in-laws start telling me about their chronic symptoms, one time I was just sat there patiently at my own wedding dance listening to this guy talk about his droopy balls or whatever for 5 minutes only to inform him I was studying physics. Bunch of clowns the lot of them, maybe they were effin with me.
- Gigachad 4y agoThat’s easy for me, they do the same job at the same company I used to work at.