Happy Birthday Nora! May it rock like a rocking thing!
Friend arrives for the weekend tonight...guess I should make the guest bed and find some clean towels.
Sorry, Captain. I'm real sorry. I shoulda kept better care of her. Usually she lets me know when something's wrong. Maybe she did, I just wasn't paying attention...
Kaylee ,'Out Of Gas'
Spike's Bitches 32: I think I'm sobering up.
[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.
Volans - Sep 15, 2006 6:07:23 am PDT #3293 of 10000
move out and draw fire
tommyrot - Sep 15, 2006 6:08:08 am PDT #3294 of 10000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Then again, my first temp job was working with the email manager at Novell, which is where I learned my basics of computer knowledge, and look at me now.
Yeah, I learned Microsoft Access at my first temp job, which lead to my current job....
Jessica - Sep 15, 2006 6:09:22 am PDT #3295 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I don't miss temp work at all.
God, me neither. The only good thing about temping was that it kept me from being broke, and not being broke was the only thing keeping the soul-sucking depression at bay. (Temp-to-perm is a whole nother thing. Chronic temping made me want to curl up in a ball and cry. For two years.)
Aims - Sep 15, 2006 6:18:35 am PDT #3296 of 10000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY NORA!!!
Trudy Booth - Sep 15, 2006 6:20:34 am PDT #3297 of 10000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
HAPPY B-DAY NORA!!!!
askye - Sep 15, 2006 6:24:54 am PDT #3298 of 10000
Thrive to spite them
My first temp job lasted 2 hours, but I got paid for 4 hrs (it wasn't my fault they didn't want me). My second job one of the first things I heard was "We haven't had a temp last all day, they go to lunch and don't come back." Less than an hour there and I figured out why, but I stuck it out for the day and then told the agency I didn't want to go back.
juliana - Sep 15, 2006 6:32:00 am PDT #3299 of 10000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NORA!!!!
I liked temping, but I was temping at the height of the boom & could command a very nice hourly wage and long-term gigs. I don't think I could do it now.
megan walker - Sep 15, 2006 6:38:49 am PDT #3300 of 10000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I liked temping, but I was temping at the height of the boom & could command a very nice hourly wage and long-term gigs. I don't think I could do it now.When I first moved to NYC for grad school, I loved temping, when I returned to it about 8 or 9 years later, the hourly wage hadn't changed and it sucked.
Cashmere - Sep 15, 2006 6:45:40 am PDT #3301 of 10000
Now tagless for your comfort.
My favorite temp job was sorting apples in an apple orchard. Most fun. Smelled great and I got to eat all the apples I wanted.
esse - Sep 15, 2006 6:55:40 am PDT #3302 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
well, the definite non-careerness of temping takes the edge off it some for me. What I'd really like is a nice, three month gig using my IT skills. Coming off three years working pretty upper-level university IT training jobs to answering phones is kind of... huh.