Do your coworkers take your pool game seriously?

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Every job I've ever had it seems to go like this.

*pool get mentioned randomly*
me: I like to play pool, you play pool?
them: I could beat you
me: you want to bet on that?
them: sure, I used to play a lot
me: lets bet paychecks. my check vs yours. how does that sound? first person to win 10 games? that way I cant get 'lucky' on you in one game.
them *hem haw blah blah blah*

I figure one day I'll actually play pool with a coworker and play em for a little, just for the satisfaction of seeing their faces. :)

anybody else run into this much though?
 
Yeah I get this every now and then. I typically laugh it off.

I'll offer to play sometime, but I typically don't make a competition out of it unless they do. Generally a game 8 ball and a couple of drinks.

I don't get this at work much anymore as most of my co-workers have seen me play and usually jump in on my behalf should anyone challenge me in such a way.
 
None of my coworkers challenge (i can't even get them to walk across the street and play pool during lunch for an hour) me but they laugh when it gets brought up that I practice for 5 hours last week. Like practicing pool for 5 hours is torture or something.
 
I told my boss that I spent ~$300 on a new cue. The next day he said, "I told my wife about your pool cue - she said it sounds like you need to get your priorities in order."

I said, "It sounds like she needs to keep her opinions to herself."

Not really, but I wanted to.
 
I'm in IT and several of the guys I work with like to play as well. I do get a little ribbing every now and then from other people when I bring my cue in so that it isn't subjected to the cold/heat outside. It's interesting, people who wouldn't think twice about spending thousands of dollars on golf clubs just can't seem to understand why I would want my own cue.

I also get the normal reactions when I'm bringing my case in:
"Is that a gun?"
"Here comes a hustler!"
"How's it going Fats?"
 
My coworkers are cool with it. They always want me to go and teach them stuff. Every "happy hour" has been in a bar with a pool table.
Everybody in my company (about 100 people) knows I am a pool player. They always ask me how I do in tournaments and if I took someone's money (hehe). They think its cool that I have a passion for something.
 
Really, at work especially where I work, if I say anything about a pool hall convo usually ends up with them talking about when they were young and wild and used to score drugs at the pool halls. Trust me it gives you a warm and fuzzy for sure.
 
Almost everyday after lunch, jcurry from these boards goes to his desk and cries for like 30 mins after we play. We finally got his boss believing that it was menstrual but that was really difficult being that he is a man.
 
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I am waaaaaaay to busy to talk to any coworkers while I'm here on AZ at work.:cool: Everyone thinks they got game until they play me.;)
 
Only about 2 of you will believe this because you know me in person, but we actually have a pool table at work. Lunches are good.
 
mikeyfrost said:
Really, at work especially where I work, if I say anything about a pool hall convo usually ends up with them talking about when they were young and wild and used to score drugs at the pool halls. Trust me it gives you a warm and fuzzy for sure.
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I dont know where I work.
Everyday they ask me " So.. are you going to go play pool tonight?"
They know my schedule.
The whole building knows what I do and they think it's cool.
 
My coworkers know I play, but I usually try not to play with them. The only game they know is 8-ball, and 8-ball is definitely not the game you want to play when newbies are expecting you to be good. It requires too much planning, and when necessary, defense. They won't understand the defense, so your only option is to try to run everything out. When you're doing this on bad equipment and half-drunk, and make the first 5 or 6 and then get safe, you're in for a realllllly bad time. Through sheer luck they will safe you their next 50 innings, and now your coworkers have just seen you "miss" 50 consecutive shots.

All this happened one night (I wasn't wearing my contacts either), and now my boss legitimately thinks I stink at pool. I tell him I have to take time off for the world championships and he looks at me like I have lost my mind. Kinda funny actually.

- Steve
 
QueenB said:
I dont know where I work.
Everyday they ask me " So.. are you going to go play pool tonight?"
They know my schedule.
The whole building knows what I do and they think it's cool.
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OK let's trade companies and locations I'm from Jersey anyway and jealous your prob around the BX. You can be a boring project manager in Iowa for a corn seed company and attempt to talk about pool. Now fishing or golf and you'd be in like Flynn, but pool reminds them of greenery and LSD! If you don't go to bed by like 10 PM you're a slacker here, needless to say I catch the evil eye almost every morning and thats at 7:45-8 AM!!!
 
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Steve Lipsky said:
My coworkers know I play, but I usually try not to play with them. The only game they know is 8-ball, and 8-ball is definitely not the game you want to play when newbies are expecting you to be good. It requires too much planning, and when necessary, defense. They won't understand the defense, so your only option is to try to run everything out. When you're doing this on bad equipment and half-drunk, and make the first 5 or 6 and then get safe, you're in for a realllllly bad time. Through sheer luck they will safe you their next 50 innings, and now your coworkers have just seen you "miss" 50 consecutive shots.

All this happened one night (I wasn't wearing my contacts either), and now my boss legitimately thinks I stink at pool. I tell him I have to take time off for the world championships and he looks at me like I have lost my mind. Kinda funny actually.

- Steve
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Now that's the truth.:thumbup: When I play 8 ball with someone that's decent, the game may last 1-2 minutes. When playing with a banger it could last a half hour:eek: By that time I have already lost interest.:)
 
People I work with hardly ever challenge me. Many want to get together and play, and after they do, they REALLY never challenge me.

The owner of the last company I worked for did sponsor me in a few tournaments, and a couple of times, I was able to put a big smile on his face on Monday morning when he got his split!

Steve
 
Steve Lipsky said:
My coworkers know I play, but I usually try not to play with them. The only game they know is 8-ball, and 8-ball is definitely not the game you want to play when newbies are expecting you to be good. It requires too much planning, and when necessary, defense. They won't understand the defense, so your only option is to try to run everything out. When you're doing this on bad equipment and half-drunk, and make the first 5 or 6 and then get safe, you're in for a realllllly bad time. Through sheer luck they will safe you their next 50 innings, and now your coworkers have just seen you "miss" 50 consecutive shots.

All this happened one night (I wasn't wearing my contacts either), and now my boss legitimately thinks I stink at pool. I tell him I have to take time off for the world championships and he looks at me like I have lost my mind. Kinda funny actually.

- Steve
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LOL I know exactly where you come from about the 8-ball with guys at work thing.

There are a few players here at my company, but most give then same remarks about the pool case, and really have no idea.
 
I explained them the whole safety thing in * ball and they got it.
And when I shit something in by luck, I tell them I meant it and they believe me. HA!
 
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