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Jeremy Hsieh's avatar

My office urinal situation has exactly two side-by-side urinals and one stall.

The day after reading through RECEG, I entered the office bathroom, wherein I encountered exactly one senior manager using a urinal. As I pulled up next to him, my brain simultaneously flashed back to my RECEG reading as I said, "Hey, P---."

I briefly second-guessed my choice. Had I made an RECEG faux pas? But then I decided, nah, that'd be weirder, RECEG seems to only apply to strangers and celebrities and polar bears, not known work acquaintances? If I took the stall, that'd be weirder, as if I were deliberately trying to avoid him.

After working that out, and my business underway, I realized I had, in fact, made a social error. The senior manager's name was indeed a four-letter name beginning with P. But I called him by the wrong one, one of our other colleagues who's name begins with P and is four letters.

Aghast, I apologized and corrected myself. Awkwardly.

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Kevin Beutler's avatar

Hoping the RECEG has some guidance on the men who insist on pulling their under garments way below where it needs to be, voyeuristically exposing their ass. I work in a law firm with supposed PROFESSIONALS and this has happened more than once. Help me RECEG!

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