The AI has moved on to questioning my competence.
I'm afraid I can't do that Dana; I can't allow anything to jeopardize this mission.
Buffy: A Guide, but no water or food. So it leads me to the sacred place and then a week later it leads you to my bleached bones? Giles: Buffy, really. It takes more than a week to bleach bones.
'Dirty Girls'
Natter 45: Smooth as Billy Dee Williams.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 18, 2006 7:41:18 am PDT #7217 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
sarameg - Jul 18, 2006 7:43:02 am PDT #7218 of 10002
Dana, must you work with this creature?
Dana - Jul 18, 2006 7:44:28 am PDT #7219 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
She's like the opposite of HAL, though. She's bureaucrat HAL. HAL at least would get things done, though I might be dead by the end. Bureaucrat HAL dislikes the pace at which things are moving. Gee, you think it's because you don't return my calls or my e-mails, you refuse to let me talk to subject matter experts, and you promise edits which you never send?
God, I'm really pissed. And I think I'm going to get kicked off this project.
Vortex - Jul 18, 2006 7:49:03 am PDT #7220 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Seriously. I mean, they could lower the A/C -- it technically doesn't NEED to be 65 degrees in here, but that's about it.
nope, dont' take the risk. next thing you know, it will be 75 in your office, and when you complain they'll say "but you said we could"
bon bon - Jul 18, 2006 7:51:34 am PDT #7221 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
This building is impossible to keep comfortable. A third of the offices are in direct sunlight, a third shaded by the neighboring buildings, and the other third are midway, like mine. So I'm sure if I'm freezing in my office they're sweltering over on the west side.
Jesse - Jul 18, 2006 7:52:32 am PDT #7222 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
nope, dont' take the risk. next thing you know, it will be 75 in your office, and when you complain they'll say "but you said we could"
Oh yeah, I'd never say anything, especially because I know that when we're freezing, other people are barely comfortable.
sarameg - Jul 18, 2006 7:53:53 am PDT #7223 of 10002
When the a/c goes off here, we get sent home. It's only happened a couple of times, once a brownout and once the line that powers the wings blew up or something. There was still power in the core of the building, but the ac was dead.
§ ita § - Jul 18, 2006 7:55:29 am PDT #7224 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Dana, could you get kicked off in a good way?
Heating my office building is an exercise in no one being happy. It's huge, and very open--I've heard people say it's the size of a football field, two floors with the centre of the second floor open so you can throw things at the people below. There are offices fringing most of the outside walls, getting varying amounts of near-desert sun.
Unrelatedly, one of the funniest videos I've ever seen.
Jars - Jul 18, 2006 7:55:55 am PDT #7225 of 10002
One place I worked, we used to get sent home if the generator ran out and the electricity went. And as they never remembered to buy oil, that was every couple of weeks. Yay!
Frankenbuddha - Jul 18, 2006 7:56:22 am PDT #7226 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
When the a/c goes off here, we get sent home. It's only happened a couple of times, once a brownout and once the line that powers the wings blew up or something. There was still power in the core of the building, but the ac was dead.
We had this happen twice when a nearby water main has broke, but never with the a/c. Of course that's because we've never had the a/c go down (although it's needed serious re-adjustment several times, both up and down).