Some of the Worst Compliments I Have Ever Received:
1. Whoever marries you will be lucky, because you will be better looking at 40 than you are today. (I was 20) from a dude I was casually dating
2. You look better naked than you do in clothes. from boyfriend at the time
3. You look like you could be on 90120 from some dude also trying to pick me up, circa whenever that show was watched
4. I had more fun with you when we were together than I've ever had with anyone. I really loved you. from a guy I'd dated over ten years prior to this conversation, who had insisted we keep our relationship casual because he wasn't *feeling it*
5. It hurt me to think that an employee as loyal as you, who has been with us for so long, could betray us. I realize now I was wrong and that you didn't in fact steal that $3.50 rice paper card, and for that we will always be grateful. However, we have already made an example of you to the other employees; they know if we could fire YOU, we would certainly fire them. So we have to let you go. from the owner of the retail store in which I spent years working for during college
Some of the Best Compliments I Have Ever Received:
1. Whoever marries you will be lucky, because you will be better looking at 40 than you are today. (I was 20) from a dude I was casually dating
2. You look better naked than you do in clothes. from boyfriend at the time
3. You look like you could be on 90120 from some dude also trying to pick me up, circa whenever that show was watched
4. I had more fun with you when we were together than I've ever had with anyone. I really loved you. from a guy I'd dated over ten years prior to this conversation, who had insisted we keep our relationship casual because he wasn't *feeling it*.
5. It hurt me to think that an employee as loyal as you, who has been with us for so long, could betray us. I realize now I was wrong and that you didn't in fact steal that $3.50 rice paper card, and for that we will always be grateful. However, we have already made an example of you to the other employees; they know if we could fire YOU, we would certainly fire them. So we have to let you go. from the owner of the retail store in which I spent years working for during college.
Good ones!!! Although, isn't it 90210? Tee hee!!! Still, you should have been on it!
ReplyDeleteHow about "hey, you look 200 tons of TNT!" (as always, from some gross guy on the street).
I was about 18ish at the time. I think it was a compliment. But I don't know, that is A LOT of weight of TNT.
That is a good one. You had me going. You're right - they are all, in a way , a compliment too. Just maybe not so much AT THE TIME. : )
ReplyDeleteAnd your boss one - that is lame! What they totally needed to say was: She, in fact, did not steal it. But we would have let her go if she had. But we can admit our mistakes; she didn't; she rocks. She's back.