Re:Benefits of Sarcasm
by moonchrome on Thursday November 19, 2015 @01:17PM
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The worst thing about using sarcasm with coworkers who aren't on the same page is when they miss it and not only take it seriously but accept the statement. If you tell them/they figure out you were being sarcastic not only did they miss it in the first place they actually supported a sarcastic statement so they hate you for making them look stupid. If you don't tell them they find out it's wrong and think you're an idiot for suggesting it. It really curbed my use of sarcasm after school :(
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I'd hate you mostly because of the lost brain power. Obvious sarcasm is OK, it's the guesswork that gets under my skin.
Re:Benefits of Sarcasm
by moonchrome on Thursday November 19, 2015 @07:05PM
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But that's just it - how "obvious" something is is completely subjective. I was baffled that the other person took me seriously because it seemed obviously ridiculous to me. After a while I just accepted that I can't be sarcastic with people I don't know well enough if I care about getting my point across.
Point was that it's not necessarily "because you made me look stupid". If that was the case, I would believe to be utter moron by now. (Getting sarcasm is not my thing, but that doesn't keep me from using it..)