Annoying co-workers: Patty Photog.
written by Julie R. Neidlinger 8 comments link this post
Patty Photog thinks you really really really really want to know everything about her life, family, kids, hobbies -- it escapes her that sometimes the people who work with each other only have that connection: as co-workers.
But no.
Patty Photog wants to show you her life, fully illustrated.
If only the daguerreotype had never caught on...
Labels: cartoons
Copyright (c) Julie R. Neidlinger 9/11/2007 09:14:00 AM
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8 Comments:
As Christians who are supposed to be dead to self, we gave up all rights to be annoyed by others. Our call is to befriend the friendless, the people who fall through the cracks, or are desperate to be loved. If anything, our response should be one of excitement when other people share with us a part of their lives they find meaningful. Even if we don't see the meaning, we're still called to listen. The Golden Rule, and all, right? Our interest in another person's life may be the very thing that opens them to hearing the Gospel.
Just last week, an elderly man in a coffeeshop interrupted the conversation my brother-in-law and I were having. Though he wore a slight smile, the man clearly suffered from melancholy and perhaps some dementia. Though I had things to say to my relative, we instead listened to this man and engaged him. You could see him brighten as we did. I suspect that we may have been the only people willing to talk with him all day. I suspect most people just tune him out.
Always lead with love, even when it's painful.
By 
DLE, at
11/9/07 12:09
DLE: This is a cartoon. A badly drawn one at that.
Cartoon = joke.
Joke = not completely serious but based on something real.
I don't think, if you've even read a month's worth of posts, you'd ever think I believe I had "rights to be annoyed by others" or that I didn't value other people.
This. Is. A. Cartoon. It boggles my mind that you left this comment on a post with bizarrely drawn characters depicting exaggerated behavior.
Great for you and the coffee shop moment. If this were a serious post about relating to people, like maybe this one, or this one, I'd probably react differently.
As it is, it's a cartoon. And your comment, like this one I'm writing now, is overkill.
By Julie R. Neidlinger, at
11/9/07 12:54
Hahaha
Another fine cartoon.
I'm confused. I thought you were self-employed. Are these fantastical co-workers?
My coworkers, when I had a full time job, usually poured out their hearts talking on the phone. I thought the advent of cell phones would alleviate some of that, but not really.
By David Cho, at
11/9/07 14:51
"Dead to self."
That sounds creepy to me. Suicidal maybe.
Who wrote that? Some kind of weird suicidal Mary Poppins?
By 
, at
11/9/07 16:25
David,
I am self-employed, though I do work a day a week at what I fondly call my "real" job (i.e. a job where I get a pay check for time worked).
If you check out my resume...well, let's just say I've had my share of experiences working in a variety of jobs with a variety of people which have allowed me to formulate many of these co-worker cartoons.
By Julie R. Neidlinger, at
11/9/07 18:10
Julie,
So the cartoon has absolutely no basis in behavior exhibited by others? You note in your comments that it's loosely based on experiences you've had with co-workers.
No one is trying to correct you here. I'm not Ingrid or Ken. I thought your were making a statement with the cartoon. I commented on that statement. If anything, I thought I was supporting some of what you were trying to say in the cartoon.
If you weren't saying anything, then I guess I missed it.
By DLE, at
11/9/07 21:03
Sigh.
OK, DLE, I just touched on some of this in the latest post, here.
I'm not really feeling up to this conversation for personal reasons, so let me sum it up in a list sans any lovely segues.
1. All of my art and writing is based on personal experiences. That should be obvious.
2. People frequently annoy me, whether I have the "right" to be annoyed or not. I am human, other humans annoy me, I work to not let it show or affect how I treat them.
3. Feeling annoyed with other people, whether they are needy, melancholy, aggressive -- whatever their motives or interior emotional state is -- has nothing to do with rights as a Christian and more to do with human beings getting on each other's nerves because we are human and not perfect.
4. Not every moment is a "coffee house" moment, though I have had similar things happen to me as well.
5. This cartoon was not advocating treating people badly -- a proctologist? lethal injection? computer-using Luddite? -- it was meant to be a statement on people in general, both those that "annoy" and those that react badly.
6. It was a cartoon.
7. Like most humor, it makes a pointed statement on all parties involved while giving us a chance to chuckle and not feel like a dirt bag while realizing at the same time, through a gentle nudge, that we have behaved in a similar fashion and should take that into consideration.
I don't take it as a correction, or any kind of for/against response. I take this all as a moment of exasperation.
As of late, I am evidently losing my ability to communicate with other human beings, it seems. This is frustrating.
Possibly, more cartoon material.
By Julie R. Neidlinger, at
11/9/07 21:23
And now, a comment solely based on your cartoon:
You drew this in direct response to my obligatory first-day-of-school photos, didn't you? Harumph.
Well, just you wait. We have a new cat! Named Sully! And as soon as I can put my fully recharged battery back in the camera, I'm going to be posting photos of him, too!
Get ready for some serious cat snapshots.
