What do you do?
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Noodleface
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Mine did the same thing. She no longer works thank fucking God.
I hate when my wife asks about work. I always answer "I programmed all day" and she gets pissy.
What do you want me to say?
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She wants you to tell her that fuck face in the next cubicle ruined your day. Maybe you guys are better at shrugging shit off than I am, but I find it therapeutic to discuss some of the trivial stuff that goes on at work. Doesn't take long, helps you get shit off your mind.
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alavaz
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I always talked as technically as I possibly could to my wife to see how long she would keep asking what I did. She stopped asking what I did after about 3 days and has just asked how my day was ever since.
I tried to get really over the top like this guy:
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Noodleface
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I know that's what she wants because that's how she would talk about work.
The guy at work eating chips from 8am to 3pm nonstop bothers me but I forget about him when I leave. He's doing it now BTW
The only minor annoyance I have is a guy looks like Mac from IASIP and he is also constantly talking about being a power lifter. I'm talking about fat Mac btw.
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Well every previous place I've had a solo cube. Here I have a double sized cube with a 65 year old dude that eats chips drinks mtn dew as soon as he comes in
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I talk as technically as possible to my wife about work. Of course she's not going to understand what a null pointer dereference is, but if she wants to know, I'll be happy to explain it. If she wants to know how my day went, explaining why it was frustrating to feel like I spent too much time cleaning up someone else's shit code, she can deal with the details. And she does, seems I take that for granted based on some of the other replies in this thread.
My wife knows about the annoying people I work with that she hasn't even met. I've been here almost 3 years and she knows all about Bob because Bob never comes to any company functions(she's been to more than he has). It's fun to gossip with your spouse about the shortcomings of others, helps you bond. WTF else are you going to talk about? Squash?
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OK here's some background.
I used to work at a grocery store chain for like 13 years. My brother and I both worked in the same department and I generally had fun even though my life was shit. Ended up meeting my wife there. Her mother and her brother also worked there.
Anytime the 3 of them got together it was a nonstop bitch fest for hours about work. Like 3 catty old ladies.
It was at that point I never talked about work to anyone in her family ever again.
Plus security clearance blah blah missiles blah blah
I used to work at a grocery store chain for like 13 years. My brother and I both worked in the same department and I generally had fun even though my life was shit. Ended up meeting my wife there. Her mother and her brother also worked there.
Anytime the 3 of them got together it was a nonstop bitch fest for hours about work. Like 3 catty old ladies.
It was at that point I never talked about work to anyone in her family ever again.
Plus security clearance blah blah missiles blah blah
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I try to talk to my wife about work sometimes because I can tell she really wants me too, but the amount of backstory required just annoys me. If I have to get out a whiteboard and explain inodes to your before we can get to the part where the new guy tanked the HD on the server, I'm just exhausted at that point.
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Babe before I explain to you about why our FICON card wasn't bifurcating to x4x4 instead of straight x8 please read this book on PCI architecture and take this 40 hour course.
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Heh, my wife and I do similar work (both research) in different but related areas. Since we used to share some co-workers, she assumes I know who she's talking about or care about the office drama. I really, really don't. She's also never learned to get to the point, so every story starts from the very beginning, and then backs up two or three times Inception-style before she reaches the end.
Then she asks me how my day was and my response is, "Busy, but good." I don't spend time with my wife at home to talk about work. I spend all day dealing with that, and it's the last thing I want to discuss over Netflix and take out curry.
Then she asks me how my day was and my response is, "Busy, but good." I don't spend time with my wife at home to talk about work. I spend all day dealing with that, and it's the last thing I want to discuss over Netflix and take out curry.
