There's this guy I half work with.

[Newt]

And he says "more or less" in almost every sentence. It's his filler word. Like how some kids say "like" he says "more or less" at the beginning of a sentence, or after a rest. "More or less, we need to get this done." or "So I was thinking, more or less, this needs to get done." and every time he says more or less, I want to punch him in the face. More or less...

[frankfrost2]

Thank you for that lovely story.

In all seriousness though, just tell him it annoys you and to please stop. He will understand.

[Someone]

That sounds tiring, more or less.

[Psychospacecow]

I don't see what the big deal is personally.

[ThisGuyInTheSuit]

I don't see what the big deal is personally.

If you heard it so often, you would understand. This one person I was friends with would say "Golly" every other word (probably not that often, but whatever), and hearing the same thing over and over would just drive me crazy. But you learn to deal with it... More or less...

[SERIOUSLY THOUGH*]

I don't see what the big deal is personally.

If you heard it so often, you would understand. This one person I was friends with would say "Golly" every other word (probably not that often, but whatever), and hearing the same thing over and over would just drive me crazy. But you learn to deal with it... More or less...

How does that even work ?
"More or less", I can understand being used everywhere. But what situation warrants several "gollies" ? Was your friend one of those people who try to use olde sayings all the time, but can't pull it off ?

[Newt]

It isn't a "big" deal. If it was really something that flat out bothered me, I'd probably make a thread on things people do that annoy you. It seemed more appropriate for Playground, because it's not really a place where your posts are counted. Seemed an amusing place to be like "My coworker is weird."

[Psychospacecow]

Ah, don't get me started about weird co-workers and friends. There's this guy I know who thinks he's a demon that changes bodies along his family line.

[ThisGuyInTheSuit]

How does that even work ?
"More or less", I can understand being used everywhere. But what situation warrants several "gollies" ? Was your friend one of those people who try to use olde sayings all the time, but can't pull it off ?

He would say things like "Golly, what do you want to do?" and "By golly, that looks cool." It was literally every sentence. But as I said, you sorta get used to it.

I still cringe every time i hear the word golly...

[Newt]

My boss says overly censored things, and it's really adorable. He says things like "Holy moley" or "we sold the snot out of these candy bars" I think I heard him say "gadzooks" once. He's not 80. He's like. 37. He's very young, and he says things like that. He's kind of precious. I love my boss. If you get mad at him, he gets uncomfortable and sad, and it's very obvious that he wants everyone to be his friend, even though he's our boss.

One time I yelled at him, but instead of being mad and yelling back or getting me in trouble, he just lowered his head and didn't make eye contact for the rest of the shift, and everyone looked uncomfortable, so I had to go say I was sorry. He asked me to go to a store three towns away on what was supposed to be my day off, and when I said no, he tried to pressure me, saying they really needed the help and I got really stern and was like "Tom, I'm not going to the god damn store. It's f***ing three towns away and you guys don't pay me enough money to drive 35 miles to help out a team I've never met. I'm not f***ing doing it dude. Find someone else." Commence Butthurt Mode for the next two hours.

I've seen assistant managers yell at him before, too. He gets yelled at a lot. Poor guy.