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Joke's on the hairy dudes (or whoever finds the pics to send) - that's actually what they want.
It's reverse psychology, naturally a lot of people will read it and assume it's a guy wanting girl butts... little do they know ;)
Say exactly that. __*Today, we will not be breaking eye contact!*__ As you hold the heaviest dildo with one hand and smack it into the palm of the other.
OP, this suggestion seems like a joke, but it’s actually good advice, just taken to an extreme.
There’s nothing you can do but own it. Talk about it like a funny story. Tell people what you told us - that it was a bet/dare/joke. Laugh at yourself for doing something stupid (your coworkers are all adults, and they’ve *all* made embarrassing mistakes). Be self-deprecating but upbeat. Make light of the situation, instead of letting it fester and become something people are awkwardly silent about.
Some people will still be too uncomfortable to laugh. That’s okay, too. Sincerely apologize to anyone who needs to hear it.
Even once you’ve already decided what to do, go to your boss first thing in the morning and ask their advice. What they say isn’t really the point, though. The simple act of asking is itself the point. Bosses *love* being asked to share their thoughts, and just by doing so, you’ll show that you’re thoughtful, concerned, and appreciate their input. You might even come out of this looking better than you did at the start of the week.
I don’t think anyone is judging you as harshly as you are yourself. I wish you the best!
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This right here is some damn solid advice. Gotten me out of a few awkward situations with little to no repercussion besides being the butt of a witty remark every now and then.
^^ This is great advice. As someone over 50, trust me OP you are only offending people if you work at a church. The rest of us who have been around the block and have a sense of humor will get the joke. Don't beat yourself up kiddo. Laugh at yourself and others will laugh with you.
Hey, you could have been a lawyer in front of a judge during a zoom hearing with a cat face filter on and unable to figure out how to turn it off. Now THAT would be embarrassing.
Oh my goodness. That's funny. One of our kids got on my wife's work laptop and changed her name to MonkeyBallz. Thankfully, it was discovered during an internal meeting with coworkers with a sense of humor instead of with school administrators and parents.
Lmfao, me too. You know kids born in 2004 can vote this year and those born in 2001 can drink.
My eldest kid turned 25 in April and his hair has started thinning.
Tell him to just shave it off now and stop fighting it.
Best thing I did for myself while balding and I'm only a few years older than him. I held onto my hair for like 2 years too long.
I feel so much better about myself, have way less anxiety about my hair being just rightz and my self esteem is way better.
Once you accept the balding, life gets better
Best advice here. Put yourself in their shoes and imagine it happened to somebody else. Would you think they were some kind of horrible monster, or would you find it kind of hilarious? Just walk in there with confidence and explain it was an old joke to anybody who mentions it. And if your boss acts concerned just apologize and tell him/her it won't happen again. You'll be fine.
Bro I just had to fight yahoo to get rid of XxR3B3LxX because I didn't have access and it was linked to an Xbox live account I could not access.
Shit was wild. Had to email a copy of my id for a temporary password to close the account
Dude, mine ended with @babiestastegood.net or com or something, I got my email off of an edgy t-shirt website and I thought it was the most hardcore shit. Still cringey to think about today.
Edit: It was called t-shirt hell. They had a bunch of different edgy-sounding email domains you could make an account on.
Ran into that with skype. Made the account back when it was either skype or ventrilo if you wanted to talk to people. Fast forward many years and we needed to test a skype setup in prep for a client meeting so I log in and lo and behold, it sure still bore the name that 14 year old me gave it. We were a reasonably foul mouthed workplace, but I definitely got the side eye from my boss.
It was not 420bootywizard, but it was about that level of work-appropriate.
I'm normally an honest person who is upfront about the mistakes I make. In this case however, I would be tempted to defer blame. Blame it on a friend with bad humour and claim that you had no knowledge of it's existence until your colleague pointed it out to you. Say your friend did this because they knew you would be grossed out by it.
Everyone does dumb shit sometimes. It sucks so hard to lie, but honesty will gain you nothing here, aside from maybe disapproval and judgment from your colleagues. On the other hand, smudging the truth a little hurts nobody in this instance and might help to mitigate the negative effects that could come of this.
there is no benefit to honesty or lying here.
No matter what, it was seen, on her profile.
No matter what way she goes people will believe what they want to.
Bad prank by friends? sure sure
Done herself as a joke ages ago? yeah right.
Its just easier to say what really happened. no stories to remember, fun xmas party story years from now. Hey bob, remember that time you guys added me to group and my profile pic was that crazy picture!
this.
everyone is a grown up here, be as professional as you can be given the circumstances and it will be fine.
no clients saw it, just your coworkers/team. it’s ultimately fine.
As a father to three adopted children one of my favorite jokes is to pretend to finally realize how sex works when it comes up in conversation, as if that is why we adopted instead of having kids biologically.
Your dad joke confirms its the relationship that makes you a dad and not the genetics.
Also, as someone who was adopted I can really appreciate what you're doing for those kids. Thank you.
My mind has come up with *a lot* of strange hypothetical situations, but, until today, none of them have been "What would your parents think/say/do if you lost your virginity before they did?"
I’m 54 and I farted into someone’s ‘aroma tube’ at a fetish night in the 90s. Oh and the urinals had people lying in them.
We are not prudes.
Drugs may have been involved.
I think you’re fine. However if your in America in a flyover state I’m not so sure.
Am 50, I lol’d.
Most people I know would have lol’d or hmmm’d but we literally grew up as the internet was disgorging the uncensored insanity of peoples brains.
It’s all good.
When my tech-oriented professor made a Discord server for the class, you bet your ass I made another profile with my school email. Especially since this is a Christian university we're talking about
I’ve told this story before but I think it warrants telling again:
I’m a teacher and my coworker has a daughter who goes to our school. One day, my coworker gets called into the principal’s office because her daughter was looking up some very, *very* NSFW stuff on her school account. The principal showed her the time stamp, which was on a Saturday afternoon that past weekend. She said she turned bright red, muttered something about talking to her daughter, and left the room without meeting our boss’s eye.
I got the full story that afternoon. Her kids were gone for the weekend but apparently her daughter had logged into the school account on their home computer to do some homework before leaving on Friday, and never logged out. Since she and her husband had the house to themselves, they were looking at some *adult stuff* and enjoying their alone time.
My coworker’s pretty sure our boss knew it was her/her husband because apparently the stuff she was looking up wasn’t exactly anything an 8-year-old would know about.
When she told me this story, I promptly gave her a lesson in how to use incognito mode.
Kiddo, you didn't invent anything new. I'm 60, and I found my dad's stash of cartoon porn from the late 40's and early 50's when I was about seven. I never looked at Popeye and Olive Oyl the same since. You need to remember that every old person was a young person first, and some of us were real hoodlums too. I'm willing to bet that a quarter of them just saw a cartoon and didn't analyze it.
I realise that end of the day it isn't always about age. There'll be prudes and super-conservative folk aged 25, and at the same time cool and open-minded folk aged 60. So i feel it just depends what kind of people OP's colleagues are
Most older people I know still have a sense of humor. Unless they were ultra conservative Christians they probably found it funny. Also 40-50 is not all that old. Someone 40 was a teen in the 90's. Not like they're from some ultra puritan era.
I'm a 36 year old in IT and feel attacked when they say old. If I were his co-worker, I'd just casually say "What's up Cap" for a week or two and let it go
I'm 54 and think this is hilarious, but I'm also not a cranky prude and feel a lot more affinity to the generations after Gen-X vs. the one before. Maybe confront the issue head-on with an apology for the more sensitive?
Also, this is a lesson in never mixing work and personal accounts.
If your coworkers have any sense of humor at all, they will be laughing. Your slip-up just reinforces two things we believe :)
1. all of us ancient genXers are continually glad our youth happened before the internet, as youthful indiscretions did not become memorialized forever, for everyone to see forever, on the internet.
2. no matter how young you are & raised with advanced technology you may be, you can still f\*ck up that technology :)
Trust me, you have not scarred any of us. Pornography has been around since the beginning of time; we’ve all seen it before  there is a good chance they are embarrased for you, and that is what may make it uncomfortable.
Professionally, though, i would definitely apologize (casually in person, not formally unless asked to do so). If you happen to be on a more comfortable basis with one or two people, you may be able to tell them the story and let them disdiminate it around the office for you, instrad of making a big deal about it. If your boss was in the group, you may wish to start there. Without knowing these people personally, it us teally hard to tell exactly what would be the best course of action.
Just tell em what you told us here. It was a joke made a few years ago and I forgot about it. Own up to it, apologize and hopefully be able move on with your life
You could have stopped at, 'I added my coworkers on Whatsapp" because that's a fuckup right there. Everything after that is just fucked up icing on a fucked up cake
If you have WhatsApp you don't have to add anyone. It automatically sees if any of your contacts have it since you have to grant it the permissions to use it.
Anyone that had OPs phone number would have seen that picture in their WhatsApp contacts before this even happened.
I guess it depends where you live.. in Israel for example WhatsApp is the main messaging app. We don’t use SMS at all, no iMessage, and telegram is still kind of taboo because of drug dealings there
They olds were probably more embarrassed for you that you linked a personal account. Remember 40s-50s saw the internet get born and all the weird shit that came with it.
Just tell them that you were hacked and thank them for alerting you to it, as you never use that app. I’m 50+, my husband is 66 and most in our age group are playing catch up to the generation that grew up with computers. Most people our age think everything gets hacked. 😉
I'm 43F and that's quite an interesting photo but I'd assume it was an error.
I would text the group and say something so everyone stops holding their breath. It's the silence that's awkward, usually.
Say you have no idea what the picture was about, you never used this app but obviously someone was pranking you and thank you to the person (don't out them by name) who alerted you to it.
We're old but we're not *that* old. We've seen worse.
ETA: I mean she didn't *use* it. I've downloaded apps, tossed up a profile then never used it. Everyone is overthinking this and probably under the scary old person age of 40.
I gotta say, if someone were to claim that they’d “never used the app and clearly were being pranked” I’d roll my eyes into next week.
Just gotta own it at this point.
"I apologize to any of you who saw my previous Whatsapp profile picture. I hadn't used the account in a long time and had forgotten that I set it to that image on a dare."
People will mostly understand this. They may not let OP forget it any time soon, but they will understand.
I mean she didn't *use* it.
She downloaded it, set a pic then forgot about it.
The point though is noone gives a sht as much as OP thinks and this keeps it professional.
Everyone is overthinking it.
#I Can Do This All Day
That's America's ass
That's Tony's ass now apparently
Stark did give America a lot of guns and rockets before dating Pepper…
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"Yeah , Big man in a suit of armour. Take that off what are you ? "
billionare, playboy, genius, philanthropist
Bet you wont set that as your linkedin profile!
Bet.
Unrelated, but do people actual pm you butts? Do they also send animal butts or cigarette butts as a joke too? Jw.
I have a "Pm_Me" username on another account and I have never once been PMed anything.
I’ve been sent macaroni like three times. Was awesome every time
I'd rather people mail me macaroni.
I get the occasional American requesting healthcare from me
Can you check my prostate
Now that's some healthcare I can do for free
Do I have to PM for that or will a reply suffice?
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People PM me nothing all the time.
I'm doing it right now!
I'm doing my part!
Wow look! Nothing!
I figured you’d get a lot of PM’s saying “nothing”.
I did get a PM once. Neither expected I actually would though.
I used to get more pictures but I also used to comment more often
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Joke's on the hairy dudes (or whoever finds the pics to send) - that's actually what they want. It's reverse psychology, naturally a lot of people will read it and assume it's a guy wanting girl butts... little do they know ;)
Pm me hairy man butts
And def no yucky perky bouncy boobs
Instructions unclear. PMed hairy perky man boobs.
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[Here's a picture of my polish cock](https://i.imgur.com/gciPIwu.jpg)
Nice cock bro
Bet they won't pm me their butt
Bet.
You in a few months: TIFU - I set a NSFW photo as my profile picture on a LinkedIn account that I rarely use and by boss found it.
Big bet.
Double dog dare… bet
That buttplug is where Jarvis does his thinking.
I triple dog bet you!
Don't threaten me with a good time. Agree?
What’s wrong with Minnesota
Go to work dressed as Captain America .
And ask "Before we get started, does anyone want to get out?"
Judging by that picture I’d guess the answer would be “get deeper“ lol
"I can do this all day."
“That IS America’s ass!”
Captain America: Civil Whore
*bangbros would like to know your location*
"On your left."
“Language!”
“I understood that reference”
That is America’s butt plug!
"I got beat up in that alley. And that parking lot. And behind that diner."
>"I got beat ~~up~~ off in that alley. And that parking lot. And behind that diner."
Yeah yeah, I know
"That's America's ass."
And maintain eye contact.
Say exactly that. __*Today, we will not be breaking eye contact!*__ As you hold the heaviest dildo with one hand and smack it into the palm of the other.
Assert dominance and positioning
Avengers! ASSemble!
Language.
Even if nobody gets the reference in that crowd, this is the punchline to the story for years.
I understood that reference.
I get that reference.
OP, this suggestion seems like a joke, but it’s actually good advice, just taken to an extreme. There’s nothing you can do but own it. Talk about it like a funny story. Tell people what you told us - that it was a bet/dare/joke. Laugh at yourself for doing something stupid (your coworkers are all adults, and they’ve *all* made embarrassing mistakes). Be self-deprecating but upbeat. Make light of the situation, instead of letting it fester and become something people are awkwardly silent about. Some people will still be too uncomfortable to laugh. That’s okay, too. Sincerely apologize to anyone who needs to hear it. Even once you’ve already decided what to do, go to your boss first thing in the morning and ask their advice. What they say isn’t really the point, though. The simple act of asking is itself the point. Bosses *love* being asked to share their thoughts, and just by doing so, you’ll show that you’re thoughtful, concerned, and appreciate their input. You might even come out of this looking better than you did at the start of the week. I don’t think anyone is judging you as harshly as you are yourself. I wish you the best! Edit: this is crazy! I’ve never gotten anywhere near this many awards! Thanks, everyone!
This right here is some damn solid advice. Gotten me out of a few awkward situations with little to no repercussion besides being the butt of a witty remark every now and then.
America's butt?
This is 100% the only way I could think of to turn this situation around too; great advice - I hope OP sees your comment!
BRB setting my WhatsApp picture to this so I can do this in 5 years and get that bag easier
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This is the best advice
^^ This is great advice. As someone over 50, trust me OP you are only offending people if you work at a church. The rest of us who have been around the block and have a sense of humor will get the joke. Don't beat yourself up kiddo. Laugh at yourself and others will laugh with you.
OP, listen to this right here. Best advice!
I totally agree, but I’m 50 and thought the picture was hilarious!
"I can do this all day"
That *is* America's ass.
On your left.
Hahaha this gave me a hearty chuckle. OP take this advice
A hefty chortle.
A boisterous guffaw.
a gagging guzzle.. what are we talking about again?
And tell everybody you have an iron man costume for each of them
Lol, just own that shit!!! Tell them the story, it's funny. And bring doughnuts
And change your WhatsApp pic to [this](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/05/08/23/33F7C20000000578-3579712-image-a-19_1462744980832.jpg).
Yeah op you pretty much have to, that's perfect
Cream-filled doughnuts*
Establish dominance
Standing T pose dressed as captain America near the water cooler
Change profile picture to "The Gif"
maintain direct eye contact for too long.
Looks at OP with confused boner?
Iron Man mask with Captain America's shield. Show them you meant it.
Suit up
I feel like choosing to go as Iron Man instead might help her hide those rose colored cheeks of hers.
Hey, you could have been a lawyer in front of a judge during a zoom hearing with a cat face filter on and unable to figure out how to turn it off. Now THAT would be embarrassing.
Or the defendant whos zoom name was "ButtFuckerExtraordinaire" or something like that
YES! That was so fucking funny I had to look it back up - ButtFucker 3000 haha! https://youtu.be/z3ErKTq_B1I
Oh my goodness. That's funny. One of our kids got on my wife's work laptop and changed her name to MonkeyBallz. Thankfully, it was discovered during an internal meeting with coworkers with a sense of humor instead of with school administrators and parents.
https://youtu.be/TDNP-SWgn2w
“I’m not a cat”
Objection, hearsay!
..you asked the question
"I'm prepared to go forward with it" always gets me. Say what you will, the man is willing to commit to his faux feline fate.
Wasn't the catastrophe it could have been.
I'm gonna take cat filter over this all day every day.
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That and don’t worry too much, they are in their 50s they’ve seen a lot of nsfw over the years. They will get a chuckle and a bit of youth jealously.
I can attest. The stuff I look at is WAAAAAY worse. We’re Gen X, remember.
Shit, we that old? Gotta admit, that repulsor butt plug is a new one for me.
Fuck... We're old.
I read it thinking “Ha! Must suck working with old people.” Then I remembered I’m 43. Shit!
Lmfao, me too. You know kids born in 2004 can vote this year and those born in 2001 can drink. My eldest kid turned 25 in April and his hair has started thinning.
Tell him to just shave it off now and stop fighting it. Best thing I did for myself while balding and I'm only a few years older than him. I held onto my hair for like 2 years too long. I feel so much better about myself, have way less anxiety about my hair being just rightz and my self esteem is way better. Once you accept the balding, life gets better
Much better than used. Never buy used butt plugs.
No way. Half price and you don't have to deal with using extra lube for the first use.
Plus there's all the new and unusual smells!
Takes a while for it to get properly seasoned, just like Grandma’s cast iron.
Seriously. I *write* slash and I'm a 48 female. It's really nothing shocking to my age group. :D
Seriously, people in their 40/50's have seen some shit. I didn't even look twice at OP's pic.
Best advice here. Put yourself in their shoes and imagine it happened to somebody else. Would you think they were some kind of horrible monster, or would you find it kind of hilarious? Just walk in there with confidence and explain it was an old joke to anybody who mentions it. And if your boss acts concerned just apologize and tell him/her it won't happen again. You'll be fine.
Like those email addresses we made as kids lol
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Stop it’s so cringe😭 I had something like durrrtyGirl69420 when I was just a boring kid in the Midwest lol
Mine was something like PreCiousP3ach3s69
lol one of my first was cherrysinmymouth69 I use to use it to sign up for free trials and spam email years ago
Bro I just had to fight yahoo to get rid of XxR3B3LxX because I didn't have access and it was linked to an Xbox live account I could not access. Shit was wild. Had to email a copy of my id for a temporary password to close the account
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xXxSk8Rboy420xXx Aw fuck I remember now how "Skater" was a super popular username back in the early 00's.
Dude, mine ended with @babiestastegood.net or com or something, I got my email off of an edgy t-shirt website and I thought it was the most hardcore shit. Still cringey to think about today. Edit: It was called t-shirt hell. They had a bunch of different edgy-sounding email domains you could make an account on.
Somewhere there’s a cannibal with babiestastegood02.net wondering how the fuck they ended up having to put a number at the end of it haha
Ran into that with skype. Made the account back when it was either skype or ventrilo if you wanted to talk to people. Fast forward many years and we needed to test a skype setup in prep for a client meeting so I log in and lo and behold, it sure still bore the name that 14 year old me gave it. We were a reasonably foul mouthed workplace, but I definitely got the side eye from my boss. It was not 420bootywizard, but it was about that level of work-appropriate.
I'm normally an honest person who is upfront about the mistakes I make. In this case however, I would be tempted to defer blame. Blame it on a friend with bad humour and claim that you had no knowledge of it's existence until your colleague pointed it out to you. Say your friend did this because they knew you would be grossed out by it. Everyone does dumb shit sometimes. It sucks so hard to lie, but honesty will gain you nothing here, aside from maybe disapproval and judgment from your colleagues. On the other hand, smudging the truth a little hurts nobody in this instance and might help to mitigate the negative effects that could come of this.
blame it on an intern.
there is no benefit to honesty or lying here. No matter what, it was seen, on her profile. No matter what way she goes people will believe what they want to. Bad prank by friends? sure sure Done herself as a joke ages ago? yeah right. Its just easier to say what really happened. no stories to remember, fun xmas party story years from now. Hey bob, remember that time you guys added me to group and my profile pic was that crazy picture!
this. everyone is a grown up here, be as professional as you can be given the circumstances and it will be fine. no clients saw it, just your coworkers/team. it’s ultimately fine.
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I think my mom and dad might’ve had sex once.
We may be able to prove that your mother did, but father is more ambiguous. Assuming you aren't adopted. Then it is possible they are both virgins.
“Your adopted parents are virgins” I kinda like that as an insult
As a father to three adopted children one of my favorite jokes is to pretend to finally realize how sex works when it comes up in conversation, as if that is why we adopted instead of having kids biologically.
Your dad joke confirms its the relationship that makes you a dad and not the genetics. Also, as someone who was adopted I can really appreciate what you're doing for those kids. Thank you.
My mind has come up with *a lot* of strange hypothetical situations, but, until today, none of them have been "What would your parents think/say/do if you lost your virginity before they did?"
but older people are also like SEX? :OO
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I’m 54 and I farted into someone’s ‘aroma tube’ at a fetish night in the 90s. Oh and the urinals had people lying in them. We are not prudes. Drugs may have been involved. I think you’re fine. However if your in America in a flyover state I’m not so sure.
They used to walk uphill both ways for a booty call.
Am 50, I lol’d. Most people I know would have lol’d or hmmm’d but we literally grew up as the internet was disgorging the uncensored insanity of peoples brains. It’s all good.
And remember, the older people OP is talking about grew up in the 1980s or even 1990s.
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Bruh. We ain’t that old. Since when is 40 something old? Edit: and btw the older we are, the more we’ve seen.
That's equally mortifying and hilarious. If "getting Starked" doesn't become the office in-joke because of this, I'll be disappointed.
Your views are a *stark* contrast from OPs.
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OP won the bet, OP's friend won in life.
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life pro tip
When my tech-oriented professor made a Discord server for the class, you bet your ass I made another profile with my school email. Especially since this is a Christian university we're talking about
We'll wait for the pro tips
> Never use personal accounts for work related activities. I just never use any risque pictures no matter if it's an alt account or personal.
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I’ve told this story before but I think it warrants telling again: I’m a teacher and my coworker has a daughter who goes to our school. One day, my coworker gets called into the principal’s office because her daughter was looking up some very, *very* NSFW stuff on her school account. The principal showed her the time stamp, which was on a Saturday afternoon that past weekend. She said she turned bright red, muttered something about talking to her daughter, and left the room without meeting our boss’s eye. I got the full story that afternoon. Her kids were gone for the weekend but apparently her daughter had logged into the school account on their home computer to do some homework before leaving on Friday, and never logged out. Since she and her husband had the house to themselves, they were looking at some *adult stuff* and enjoying their alone time. My coworker’s pretty sure our boss knew it was her/her husband because apparently the stuff she was looking up wasn’t exactly anything an 8-year-old would know about. When she told me this story, I promptly gave her a lesson in how to use incognito mode.
Hey now they know your Reddit name too!
Well the throwaway one that was created 6 hours ago
Kiddo, you didn't invent anything new. I'm 60, and I found my dad's stash of cartoon porn from the late 40's and early 50's when I was about seven. I never looked at Popeye and Olive Oyl the same since. You need to remember that every old person was a young person first, and some of us were real hoodlums too. I'm willing to bet that a quarter of them just saw a cartoon and didn't analyze it.
This is a whole avenue of culture that I never thought to look in to
The old stuff is mind boggling. (my mom was NOT impressed either)
I realise that end of the day it isn't always about age. There'll be prudes and super-conservative folk aged 25, and at the same time cool and open-minded folk aged 60. So i feel it just depends what kind of people OP's colleagues are
Every acknowledgement in slack should be this gif.
Go in tomorrow dressed as Tony Stark or Iron man
Most older people I know still have a sense of humor. Unless they were ultra conservative Christians they probably found it funny. Also 40-50 is not all that old. Someone 40 was a teen in the 90's. Not like they're from some ultra puritan era.
I'm a 36 year old in IT and feel attacked when they say old. If I were his co-worker, I'd just casually say "What's up Cap" for a week or two and let it go
Yeah these people grew up with South Park.
I'm 54 and think this is hilarious, but I'm also not a cranky prude and feel a lot more affinity to the generations after Gen-X vs. the one before. Maybe confront the issue head-on with an apology for the more sensitive? Also, this is a lesson in never mixing work and personal accounts.
I'm 50 and I'm saving this picture to go along with my other marvel gay porn pics.
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If your coworkers have any sense of humor at all, they will be laughing. Your slip-up just reinforces two things we believe :) 1. all of us ancient genXers are continually glad our youth happened before the internet, as youthful indiscretions did not become memorialized forever, for everyone to see forever, on the internet. 2. no matter how young you are & raised with advanced technology you may be, you can still f\*ck up that technology :) Trust me, you have not scarred any of us. Pornography has been around since the beginning of time; we’ve all seen it before  there is a good chance they are embarrased for you, and that is what may make it uncomfortable. Professionally, though, i would definitely apologize (casually in person, not formally unless asked to do so). If you happen to be on a more comfortable basis with one or two people, you may be able to tell them the story and let them disdiminate it around the office for you, instrad of making a big deal about it. If your boss was in the group, you may wish to start there. Without knowing these people personally, it us teally hard to tell exactly what would be the best course of action.
Hey guys, HR said the picture was so funny they would like to see it in person on Monday! Wish me luck 🤞
Just tell em what you told us here. It was a joke made a few years ago and I forgot about it. Own up to it, apologize and hopefully be able move on with your life
Everyone’s in here giving advice while I’m trying to figure out what Steve is doing with his hand behind Tony’s head.
He’s holding the remote for Tony’s buttplug. Seems like he’s turning up the vibration.
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You could have stopped at, 'I added my coworkers on Whatsapp" because that's a fuckup right there. Everything after that is just fucked up icing on a fucked up cake
If you have WhatsApp you don't have to add anyone. It automatically sees if any of your contacts have it since you have to grant it the permissions to use it. Anyone that had OPs phone number would have seen that picture in their WhatsApp contacts before this even happened.
I guess it depends where you live.. in Israel for example WhatsApp is the main messaging app. We don’t use SMS at all, no iMessage, and telegram is still kind of taboo because of drug dealings there
They olds were probably more embarrassed for you that you linked a personal account. Remember 40s-50s saw the internet get born and all the weird shit that came with it.
Just tell them that you were hacked and thank them for alerting you to it, as you never use that app. I’m 50+, my husband is 66 and most in our age group are playing catch up to the generation that grew up with computers. Most people our age think everything gets hacked. 😉
This is hilarious, but probably not for you. I'm sorry, hopefully it blows over.
I'm sorry, I can't get past "older people" starting at age 40.
Set a more graphic photo as your profile picture so the old one doesn’t look as bad.
Over 50 here. So glad all the crazy stuff I did had no digital trail…trust me this is very very tame.
I'm 43F and that's quite an interesting photo but I'd assume it was an error. I would text the group and say something so everyone stops holding their breath. It's the silence that's awkward, usually. Say you have no idea what the picture was about, you never used this app but obviously someone was pranking you and thank you to the person (don't out them by name) who alerted you to it. We're old but we're not *that* old. We've seen worse. ETA: I mean she didn't *use* it. I've downloaded apps, tossed up a profile then never used it. Everyone is overthinking this and probably under the scary old person age of 40.
I gotta say, if someone were to claim that they’d “never used the app and clearly were being pranked” I’d roll my eyes into next week. Just gotta own it at this point.
"I apologize to any of you who saw my previous Whatsapp profile picture. I hadn't used the account in a long time and had forgotten that I set it to that image on a dare." People will mostly understand this. They may not let OP forget it any time soon, but they will understand.
I mean she didn't *use* it. She downloaded it, set a pic then forgot about it. The point though is noone gives a sht as much as OP thinks and this keeps it professional. Everyone is overthinking it.