Maybe
He was trying to give you an opening to offload about all the problems with psycho manager. It's a fairly common tactic as people can't be seen to be leading you to criticise someone. If they know there's a problem with someone they're more likely to say "how are things going with your manager?" than "so what's that mental bitch done now?" (even if that's what they're thinking).
( SteamedCleaner, Fri 19 Jun 2009, 14:42, 3 replies)

^
uh huh
( rofl harris, Fri 19 Jun 2009, 14:49, closed)

oops
To be honest, it didn't seem like that at all.

It seemed like he was trying to antagonise me - and it worked if that was his plan.

...but if it was - and in hindsight it certainly looks like that, then balls!

In my defence, I was young and naive ;-)

Bah - it was a shit job anyway!
(dchurch bah, Fri 19 Jun 2009, 15:41, closed)

Young and naive
We were all like that once. Old and cynical takes years of practice :)
( SteamedCleaner, Sat 20 Jun 2009, 1:16, closed)

Hindsight
It's 15/44.

Wait, shit.
(Scritty Bakerman., Sun 21 Jun 2009, 8:52, closed)

^^
what SteamedCleaner said - it sounds like the answer he wanted to hear was not why you'd use swearwords, but what had wound you up in the first place.
( sanityclause is waiting until, Fri 19 Jun 2009, 16:22, closed)

Maybe
But then the second question should have been "What are you angry about", instead of repeating the same thing over and over and antagonising an already irate person. Bit late now to worry about it, I suppose!
(richardm, Wed 24 Jun 2009, 16:40, closed)