What's weird is that's not how I pronounce WTF in my head. It's closer to "Wha-t'fuh?"

Of course that's how you pronounce it.

I left my previous job to freelance upon the birth of a child in 2004, and that I'm now seeking a return to full-time work

I completely understand your rationale for saying it, but this may cause red flags for some employers...kids mean having to take time off for illness, etc. Of course, do you really want to work for the employers it does cause red flags?

I'm more a "what-uff" person, myself.

I just overheard the oddest work-related discussion in the break room. I think they were applying some sort of Principle of Relativity to the truth of a co-worker's statement about something in a project. All about fluid, or fixed in time and space, and frames of reference for his reliability -- tres weird.

I ratted out the co-worker that won't play nice. It's weird, because he's higher up than I am, in a different group of the organisation. But I can't keep stringing along the people that need the info.

Which reminds me -- someone I was hanging out with the other day kept saying WTF. Like "double-you-tee-eff." It was weird.

There's that Internet video that's been out for a while, with everything being scribbled on a pad and the voiceover guy expounding on how we're all going to nuke each other out of orbit (the French complain that they are "le tired" before they fire the missiles), and Australia is down in the corner going "WTF, mate?" He pronounces it "double-you-tee-eff", but in a bad Aussie accent. Which is funny, and perhaps where the person got it?

Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

Which reminds me -- someone I was hanging out with the other day kept saying WTF. Like "double-you-tee-eff."

Dude. Saying it that way is two syllables too many.

What's weird is that's not how I pronounce WTF in my head. It's closer to "Wha-t'fuh?"

Hee. Yes, this exactly.

Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

Yes. I love that thing - whatever it's called.

Cereal:

My god. I found it by googling world "le tired"

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Pretty sure someone here linked it the first time I saw it, but anyway. It makes me laugh, so I'm re-linking.

Uh, there's sound, and it's not work-friendly.

I completely understand your rationale for saying it, but this may cause red flags for some employers...kids mean having to take time off for illness, etc. Of course, do you really want to work for the employers it does cause red flags?

I wouldn't, and they're going to find out I have a kid eventually anyway.

We'll see what happens with these first few cover letters I've sent out. If I don't get so much as a nibble, I may change my approach or ask advice from my old career counselor.

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Oh, yes. Even worse was when I was the first in my 5th-grade class to get her period, and had to deal with pads, etc., in full view of anyone else in that bathroom. Yuck.

Kathy A is me. And it's not like I'm freakishly shy or anything--I grew up in a house with five women and one bathroom. But this--this SUCKED BEYOND ALL SUCK when you're 11 years old. I wanted to die EVERY time it happened.

Theoretically, you could request a pass for the teachers' bathroom, which had a door that locked. But then everyone knew what was going on and the humilation was multiplied.

My boss prefers hiring people with kids. He thinks it means they're more stable and less likely to leave a job.