Keep turning those thumbscrews, baby.
Tara: That was funny if you've studied Taglarin mystic rites and... are a total dork... Riley: Then how come Xander didn't laugh?
'Selfless'
Spike's Bitches 29: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
JZ - Mar 23, 2006 1:48:16 pm PST #5064 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
EpicTangent - Mar 23, 2006 1:49:39 pm PST #5065 of 10001
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Aww. It's a new trend! Significant others are in this spring!
Not scarves? I thought it would be scarves. Damn. Now I have to go shopping.
I know how to do *that*, I just need to actually meet one before we go for the safe word place.
JZ's Bro? Paging JZ's Bro.
Luckily, I'm getting paid for the time taking the test or else there's no way I'd invest so much in something that might not pan out.
Okay, much less indignant on your behalf in that case. Also, test~ma.
DavidS - Mar 23, 2006 1:53:47 pm PST #5066 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
David, keep tormenting. I know she's the nice!boss, but still, take what amusement you can from playing dense.
I like her, but they're skeezing me in a lot of ways.
No performance meetings or discussions. No complaints about anything I've done. And I've initiated many meetings with her and only gotten positive feedback.
Firing on the last of the month to cheap me out of benefits.
No notice. Fire and leave the same day so you don't get to at least deal with your desk, or say goodbye.
Only two weeks severance after working here almost three years.
Being so fucking Not Subtle about it by hiring a temp with my job title and then lying to me about what that means.
Plus they're totally shooting themselves in the foot. For the three HR admin positions in April they're going to have one woman who started this month and has never processed anything in the payroll system yet, and one temp who started this week. And the managers don't know how to use the systems here either.
Not to mention I created the CLE tracking database and the vacation balance reports and there's no way they can have somebody step in and take those over. Both of those will be fucking disasters that they'll have to fix with either a very expensive consulting fee (CLE will need an Access expert) or hours and hours of tedious handwork (for the vacation reports).
Whatev.
ChiKat - Mar 23, 2006 1:55:39 pm PST #5067 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Plus they're totally shooting themselves in the foot
This makes me very happy.
tommyrot - Mar 23, 2006 1:56:13 pm PST #5068 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I don't know if I missed it, but are they firing you to save money by using the temp? Or because they have taken some crazy disliking to you?
Atropa - Mar 23, 2006 1:58:16 pm PST #5069 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Plus they're totally shooting themselves in the foot.
Good. It's only what they deserve right now.
Cass - Mar 23, 2006 1:59:00 pm PST #5070 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Paging JZ's Bro.Now that would just make me sound a little slutty. Maybe just coffee or a drink first.
erikaj - Mar 23, 2006 2:01:17 pm PST #5071 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
So sorry, gallant Hecubus. And I may lose about a billion hours of tough-girl cred but I feel the need. {{Hecubus}}} Or maybe I should play it Homicide style and thank you for not bending me over a radio car to have your way with me. I said that to somebody Simon-ignorant once. She's a social worker who works with abused children and she wanted to know "if I had anything to talk to her about." I felt really dumb.
Sparky1 - Mar 23, 2006 2:02:24 pm PST #5072 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
I think that after they shoot themselves in the foot, and Hec has left the building, we should flood the switchboard with calls asking for him. We could insist on speaking only to him, and pretend we are big clients of the firm.
DavidS - Mar 23, 2006 2:04:01 pm PST #5073 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Or because they have taken some crazy disliking to you?
I don't really know. There's been no precipitating event. But basically the LA!Boss never liked my ex-good-boss' hires of me and my ex-coworker. (Is that all straight?)
LA!Boss is very...country club Republican blonde with ADD. And as I sort of figured out today - she just doesn't like the kind of people you're likely to find in San Francisco. Like ex-coworker being a gay black man. Or middle aged music writing guy. She likes young women in HR. Young perky Southern California women. Like my new co-worker.
So...when my good boss left and my coworker left, she basically decided (I think) to take this opportunity to "fix" our office in her image. It started when she over-rode my new good!boss' decision to hire my minion (musician with a nose ring) in ex-coworkers position back in January.
It's sort of a Stepford Wife takeover.