I am annoyed. This is a PSA.

I hate it when people come to me with incomplete information and then expect me to have a response of some kind. I'm not a dba, I have no freaking clue what you are talking about.

sara, you are talking in initials.

PSA= Public Service Announcement

dba= it really doesn't matter, it suffices that I am not one

Smite, sara, smite!!

I might. But yeah, this is something of an etiquette challenge. It could be he was feeling guilty and gave he good feedback to assuge some of that. In which case, he's already gotten what he came for.

Yeah. I actually ran into him several months ago at an event, and we just pretended we used to work together and things were fine, so... eh. I think it's best to go forward like that.

Yikes! How'd she get that? Did she just get in touch with him based on your resume?

The application, really -- it asked for his name and phone number.

(One of E.M.A.'s principals, Allyson J. Beatrice, is the author of the upcoming Source Books title Will the Vampire People Please Leave the Lobby?, a collection of essays about fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.)

That's hot. Even if the description is slightly besides the point.

database administrator.

or

doing business as.

I'm just poking you ms. sara. sorry people are being stoopidheads. Perhaps today is a good day for me to launch Jackholia.

The application, really -- it asked for his name and phone number.

Ack. Although I've come to understand that poor references are rarely given, because of the potential for litigation (which is DUMB, if you ask me). Still, I like that I get to filter my references if I work through my recruiter.

I love the plug of Allyson's book!

Still, I like that I get to filter my references if I work through my recruiter.

I definitely have a carefully-edited list of references I give, but I guess you never know what will happen.

Around here they have really beaten, threatened, whatever into managers' heads that all they are allowed to do it provide dates of employment. I'm sure some ignore it, but seriously, we've had suits from the FBI show up to try to actually talk to someone when they couldn't get more info over the phone. It was really funny. Freaked the shit out of a couple people. It was for a background check, in addition to references, but I still think the guys just were bored and wanted to mess with people.

ita's week? Already ON THE LIST. Jeepers.

Allyson, you're all famous and junk. Yay for free advertising!

I sent an email at 10:30 this morning (est) to 3500 students. I had seven slots of free tutoring to fill. As of now, I've filled five. We're going to have a lot of cranky high school students tomorrow.

Aargh!

I upgraded my cell phone on-line. I have been waiting and waiting, and I have been trying to track it all weekend. I assumed that something went srong with my order, so no big. I would just have them cancel.

It turns out that it is being delivered to my old apartment! So the t-mobile lady said that all I can do is wait and see if the phone is shipped back to them, and then it can be shipped to me! So I ask what happens if the person chooses not to ship it back, and basically I will have to pay for the phone, extend my contract two year, and have no phone.

Which is my fault, becuase I confirmed the order-- I just assumed they had the right address because my bills come to the right address.

Anyway, I call UPS to see if I can change the shipping address. They are supposed to be forwarding it to local, and local will call me back. But although the website say "in transit" and the person on the phone said that it was out for delivery today, the website also shows an" Out for delivery" and a "destination scan" on 5/19. So the new people at the apartment might already have my phone!

I am wondering if I should drive to the old apartment and just see if they will give me the phone? Also the automated UPS phone thing is annoying!