I can guarantee I was not the one who was supposed to share the information. I'm the temp!
Temps should get automatic neutrality in office kerfluffles. Sort of like an underpaid Switzerland.
A man walks down the street in that hat, people know he's not afraid of anything.
Wash ,'The Message'
Natter 42, the Universe, and Everything
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, flaming otters, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Calli - Jan 19, 2006 10:13:20 am PST #1394 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Jesse - Jan 19, 2006 10:15:05 am PST #1395 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm actually a well-paid temp, but yet? Still not the person responsible for transmitting information between two department heads, one of whom said she would talk to the other one.
They want to bring it? It's already been broughten.
Calli - Jan 19, 2006 10:17:32 am PST #1396 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I'm actually a well-paid temp, but yet?
Oh, cool.
When I temped I was fairly underpaid. But the person paying for me constantly bitched about my paycheck. Turns out she was bitching about what she paid to my temp agency, which was about three times what I was making. Hmmmmmm. 15 years later and I'm still a tad bitter. Go figure.
amych - Jan 19, 2006 10:19:47 am PST #1397 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Turns out she was bitching about what she paid to my temp agency, which was about three times what I was making.
That's the temp market for you. Still, it seems like really bad form to bitch to any kind of employee about having to pay them -- and why do I suspect that she was the type who constantly reminded her children of how expensive they were to raise?
Jesse - Jan 19, 2006 10:22:37 am PST #1398 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ooh, that's so tacky, Calli! I'm actually a consultant, and the org is paying me directly, so I'm sure I'm getting more in my paycheck and they are paying less for me than for the actual through-an-agency temp who's doing the same work I am. (Maternity leave + busy time.)
flea - Jan 19, 2006 10:30:02 am PST #1399 of 10002
information libertarian
My boss, who makes a lot more than me, obviously, is always bitching to me about her low salary. People! Welcome to the Tact Factory! We don't complain about our diamond shoes in front of the one-legged woman with no root!
Jesse - Jan 19, 2006 10:32:18 am PST #1400 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Har, flea.
msbelle - Jan 19, 2006 10:36:33 am PST #1401 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Ain't nuthin as funny as a woman with root.
Calli - Jan 19, 2006 10:38:47 am PST #1402 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Welcome to the Tact Factory!
Hee!
tommyrot - Jan 19, 2006 10:48:24 am PST #1403 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Info on a bipedal goat. Unfortunatly, no photos, but there are diagrams of bone structure. [link]
West-Eberhard discusses another particularly instructive paper, some observations made by Slijper in the 1940's on a bipedal goat. This poor beast was born with missing forelimbs. Surprisingly, it lived for a year before it died in an accident (presumably unrelated to its deformities), and adapted in unexpected ways. It could hop around on its two hind legs, and developed additional peculiarities: enlarged hind limbs, a curved spine, and large neck.