I hope you feel better, soon, JZ.

The further Hec's hideous and harrowing week from hell recedes into the past, the better I feel.

I'm sorry you're being Peter Principled into management. Resist if at all possible; IME, the people who want and deserve better and are trapped in low or mid-level work are only the second bitterest and most miserable people in any office, but far more bitter and miserable are the people who were fine and happy and productive where they were and got muscled upstairs against their will.

My boss keeps trying to talk me into taking a university-procedures accounting course; I live in fear that someday he'll succeed.

eta: Not looking at tommyrot's link 'cause I know it will flip my shit out. But very very happy that everyone survived.

My boss keeps trying to talk me into taking a university-procedures accounting course; I live in fear that someday he'll succeed.

That sounds like something to be avoided, indeed. Which is not to say you wouldn't be good at something that paid better than what you make now, but I'm pretty much anti-accounting.

Some people are into the numbers; I'm not one of them, really. And it's part of the problem.

Damn. The front end of that plane just snapped off.

I haven't seen a C-5 in person, but I have seen a C-130 flying at low altitude, over the surface of a loch, from above.

I think the C-5 was one of those planes I was fascinated with as a kid. With kid-logic, I assumed that a plane that big had to be something like a flying battleship. When I found out it was just used to transport things, I was disappointed and relieved.

Some people are into the numbers; I'm not one of them, really. And it's part of the problem.

In this regard, I am you (sadly, NSM with the homeowning or rock-climbing agility). Also, it's not like a university accounting course would have any application to anything outside the university, since our procedures are so byzantine and convoluted. Not that I'm really planning to leave its cozy state-employee embrace, but it's nice to at least fantasize about some vague degree of flexibility.

Plus, byzantine and convoluted. Taking the time and effort to learn all the intricacies only encourages them.

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there must be new stuff in banking that I didn't know about.

C-130s are pretty big.

Yeah, but they look like baby ducklings next to a C-5.

One of my favorites bits of useless aviation trivia is that the interior of a C-5 is big and tall enough to have accomodated the Wright Brothers' first flight.

but I have seen a C-130 flying at low altitude

The RI ANG flies C-130s out of the airport that's a mile from where I work. They practice at really low altitude around these parts all the time.

Damn. The front end of that plane just snapped off.

My minion's uncle was part of the McDonnell Douglas team that put up a competing design for the C-5, which lost out to Boeing, and apparently he's ranted for years it's too top heavy and that that's exactly what would happen with a hard impact. Don't suppose he really expected to be proved right so dramatically.

My minion's uncle was part of the McDonnell Douglas team that put up a competing design for the C-5, which lost out to Boeing, and apparently he's ranted for years it's too top heavy and that that's exactly what would happen with a hard impact. Don't suppose he really expected to be proved right so dramatically.

Um, it's the other way around - Boeing lost the C-5 contract to (I think) McDonnell....

eta: Nope, Lockheed won the C-5 contract.

Could be. Competitor, anywho.