arguing with your spouse/partner on the phone at work

It's the little things.

I used work as a spot welder for this place that made those big roadworks style pipes and culverts. the dude I worked with, his wife used to drive 30mins to drop his dinner off every night, dragging their 3 kids in two. If she didn't make it he'd ring her up in front of everyone in the lunch room and abuse the fuck out of her.

He was 23.

*tow

wow. what a cunt.

That's about what I said to him most days. He'd laugh at me and suck down another can of coke.

when i worked for a government dep't in brisbane, there was a guy who'd just busted up with his wife sitting near me. he used to ring his wife every lunch time and threaten to kill her. he got sacked after several people complained.

I used to work with a guy who would have the most teenage fights with his partner, except he was 54.

Once he accused her of upsetting him by sounding detached when she spoke to him on the phone while she was at work, and shouted at her that if she was too embarrassed to communicate ''loving kindness'' towards him in front of her colleagues then perhaps they had no future. This lead to an analysis of the sorts of tones they used with each other, what constituted a loving tone, and how he felt inside when she used a cold tone. He went on and on for ages and she was obviously telling him she had to get back to work, at which point he totally cracked it and said he was extremely disappointed as they had agreed to always talk things out completely if one of them had hurt feelings, until those hurt feelings were gone.

These conversations would go on for an hour sometimes. He got several warnings about it.

horrible.

He was actually quite a nice guy to work with but I lost all respect for him after the phone calls started. I just couldn’t help it.

understandable.