What are you getting at?

We were having a meeting and we were reviewing issues we had been having with the performance of our application for one of our customers. Sometimes these guys used 'air cards' on their laptops which are really slow. (I don't think any of our customers use them anymore.) I mentioned that their network performance might be a problem. One of the senior consultants said, 'No. We know that's never an issue.'

What he meant was, something along the lines of, 'See. I told you! You guys are always saying it's our fault. We can't make their network any better. But you guys want to blame someone and you blame us.'

The problem is that I wasn't on the blaming side. My boss's boss would have been. I didn't say anything and the meeting moved along, but in retrospect I might have said, 'Chill out man. I'm not the one busting your chops about this shit. Also, let's just try to fix the fucking thing without making this another pissing contest.' Actually, I can see why I didn't say anything. Never mind.

Another time, I was eating lunch in the cafeteria and I overheard one of my co-workers talking about MicroSoft. He has been saying negative things about Vista. He doesn't see the 'business case' for it. It strikes him as a sort of rip off by them.

He said, 'One of these days, they're going to make one change too many and then people are just going to give up on them', shaking head left to right as if MicroSoft or Bill Gates needed his advice but weren't taking it. He was apparently upset that the company was doing something he didn't agree with. He was predicting their financial distress for not appreciating his point of view, and he was shaking his head as if upset by their folly. Who was asking for his opinion on that anyway? What the fuck was that about? This is kind of a common motif for this guy. When someone disagrees with him, he shakes his head and smirks knowingly.