kissing

This might be the kissing up that the prior post is talking about. Did I technically 'have' to do it?

Yes, gay propaganda, like kissing your loved one in public. Or admitting that you find someone of the same sex "hot".

When people so alike bicker like this in movies, they're usually about a minute away from kissing.

If im not mistaken kissing forheads and rubbing is commen place with your male friends. You mention multiple coworkers.

Is it me or does this read like a big ass-kissing of Bezos after he tore him apart in the accidentally leaked memo? Not saying it isnt true but...

The way I read it that if you're not a superstar, you're investing lots of time horse trading and kissing babies to get the big bucks. That time would probably be better spent doing work productive to the business.

Also, you're living in a pretty fucked up society when your neighbours call the cops because they saw you kissing your kid 'on the lips'. I'm pretty sure my entire family is a bunch of pedophiles by those standards.

This reads mostly like a content-free puff piece, where Pincus' former assistant is kissing his former boss' ass. Typical corporate cheerleading.

I've watched some of them lately, and the Congressmen always seem to be butt-kissing the company or agency they are supposed to investigate. These past 2 hearings don't seem to intend to shed any light on this.

I like the remark in the movie Hunt for Red October: "I'm a politician which means that I'm a liar and a cheat and when I'm not kissing babies I'm stealing their lollypops. But it also means I keep my options open."

However I've talked my way out of around 9 out of 12 speeding fines in various states by being nice and kissing a bit of ass during the last decade. Cops are people too and when they walk up to your window after pulling you over, they may actually be scared.

I was 8 years old when I started dabbling with Pravetz in the school lab and the 16 year old "Informatics TA" pulled me aside one day to show me a picture of two people kissing to tell me in the most awkward possible way that he wanted to kiss me. Who does that to an 8-year-old?

IMO one of the main reasons for performing some sort of redirection, kissing the boo-boo, etc is to find out if they are actually injured. In my experience my son may still indicate that his boo boo hurts a bit but he remains calm and verbalizes that fact.

Learn the critical formula, success = ass_kissing + buzzword_compliance, and you're off on your magical race to the middle! Within 20 years, you'll be staring at the layoff pink slip in your hand, looking back on a life of mediocrity and forward to being unhireable anywhere else, wondering what went wrong.

Not to mention "forcibly kissing me with his tongue"... How is that even possible unless the other person opens their mouth and lets your tongue in? If a girl doesn't want your tongue in her mouth at a public bar, guess what? Your tongue is not going in her mouth! That's how kissing works in case any readers here are rusty on the subject!

That's why members of Congress are good at smiling, kissing babies, shaking hands, speaking in generalities with platitudes and cliches, etc. : Find ways to please or sooth voters, ways that don't torque off even 1%.

You can simultaneously think that what Joe is claimed to have done is totally and utterly wrong and that doing body shots and allowing back rubbing and head kissing with coworkers, let alone supervisors, is incredibly stupid.

Pictures of kissing couples, that "ring in a book with the shadow of a heart" thing wedding people use all the time, portraits of the homeless, etc etc. Stuff that's conceptually and technically been done to death, and IMO makes the artist appear more self-absorbed than anything else.

In order of decreasing effectiveness: Kissing Bezos's ass, Kissing your manager's bosses ass, kissing your manager's ass, kissing your manager's peers ass, making up initiatives that sounded really effective, even if they had no actual effect and then propagandizing them around the company, sabotaging your co-workers products, knifing your co-workers in the back verbally, deliberately mistranslating instructions from your boss to others in the team, hyping yourself with other teams, conspiring with others at other teams, and just generally lying. I saw all of this occur.