This office is rated E for Everyone

I think I am becoming a prude.

Some would argue that I always have been but really, I try to be open minded. Live and let live. But from time to time, I see signs of my age. The office has a new clerk, and she is young. Very young. Pre-cellulite young. She used to be a figure skater and so she's a bit fearless (also a fan of American Apparel, which as a feminist makes me irate but that is fodder for another post.)

This morning she waddles into the office à la Amy Winehouse after a bender. Evidently she had a roller blading mishap, took a big old wipe out and got some big old road rash on her hip and ass. The reason I know this, is because she took a photo of herself post wipe-out, bottomless, so she could show off her wound. Then she insisted on showing every single staff member (in spite of my refusing) her naked ass/hip area covered in road rash.

I'm not entirely sure why it's necessary for me see her wounded naked ass. Nor am I sure why she felt compelled to take photographic evidence of it. But this is when I see myself turning into the crotchety old woman sitting on the stoop shaking her fist at the world. "Why in my day, sonny..." But I am of the distinct belief that it is totally ok to describe what happened and tell people here how big the wound is, and all that jazz... BUT I'm pretty sure i don't need to see it.

Comments

[Absurdist]

Maybe this is all normal, but I just don't get the young generation. They are so open with sex, and just don't understand corporate environments. And if you try to teach it to them, they resist, letting you know that things have changed. Conformation is not in their vocabulary.

I guess I am an old fart. I see 25 year olds as young little kids.

[Selma]

Oh, me too. I used to work with a girl who was 22. She was obsessed with shopping and make-up and guys. She was extremely explicit about her sex life. I hadn't regarded myself as a prude until I started working with her but maybe I am. As my son says, it was a constant case of TMI (too much information.) It made me very glad I wasn't 22 any more - I couldn't have kept up the pace. Hahaha.

[alison]

Ewwwww. There are very few people I know that I would want to see a bottomless picture of. Very few. And none are at work. I'm thinking this is kind of pushing the appropriateness envelope in a corporate environment.

[alison]

Oh, and you should email me and maybe we could meet for coffee and buttertarts some Saturday at the market.

[Marcy]

Ummmmmmmm what? Maybe I'm getting older too because I don't see how that's appropriate for the work environment. If she wants to show off her pictures in the bar or whatever, fine. But work? Come on. Are you working for Playboy because then maybe it would be ok :P

[Beth]

This is actually fairly normal. We want to share our battle wounds, it's like showing off a scar ya know? OH yeah I got this when blah blah happened.

Now being that the wound was in a inappropiate place to in an office environment, well that's kids these days, they have no shame, they post everything facebook and myspace and proclaim it to the world. They have never been censured so don't understand the concept of work appropriate.

[Dagny]

I'm not much of a prude but I do think that one's place of business is not the appropriate place to show off one's backside. Unless you work for Hef, as Marcy pointed out.

[sizzle]

I don't think that makes you a prude. I think that makes you professional. :)