HAPPY B-DAY NORA!!!!
Wash: Little River just gets more colorful by the moment. What'll she do next? Zoe: Either blow us all up or rub soup in our hair. It's a toss-up. Wash: I hope she does the soup thing. It's always a hoot, and we don't all die from it.
'Objects In Space'
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.
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
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.
DavidS - Sep 15, 2006 7:02:15 am PDT #3303 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I temped for 10 years by choice since I could afford to take about three months off out of a year to write. I worked my way up to where I got the plumb assignments filling in for maternity leaves. I did that at the Federal Reserve Bank for almost two years, going from leave to leave. Work three months, then take six weeks off. I worked in the Internal Audit department and the Federal Regulations Department (where I got to see interesting reports on credit card fraud [very hard to catch] and how the divestiture movement affected South African banks [quite a lot]).
I also temped for two years in Boston where I worked at Lotus Development (when it was the biggest software seller in the world, and Microsoft was "just the company that makes the operating system for IBM); WGBH (I ate fresh produce from the Victory Garden and worked near Bob Villa. Also met adults who had been on Zoom), and Harvard Business School (where I had the cushiest gig ever and read all of One Hundred Years of Solitude at my desk).
Happy birthday, Nora! Drink a beer today!
lisah - Sep 15, 2006 7:04:06 am PDT #3304 of 10000
Punishingly Intricate
Happy birthday, Nora!!! And great wedding date, Jars!
My temp jobs were almost all office work except for one job where I was working in a warehouse for a couple of weeks. And getting paid like $2 an hour more then the people I was working next to who were doing the same thing as me because I normally did office work and they did warehouse work. So unfair. We were putting together binders of some kind of printed material or something? I don't really remember. I had the job right after getting to SF 15 or so years ago. Then I temped at Schwab for a while and that led to me getting a permanent job there. Uh...so no interesting temp stories at all.
I had a very mixed day yesterday which consisted of my friend's dog, who I am dogsitting while they are in England, throwing up a lot. Mostly on my new-this-year sofa. Per vet's recommendation, she fasted for 12 hours (hard with the other animals in the house getting fed and treats) and now is on a bland diet. She seems to be doing okay but sheesh. Not fun. She's got kidney disease and had a terrible jaw infection a couple of months ago and she really can't afford to lose much weight. poor pooch. poor sofa.
On the positive side of yesterday, I am getting what I asked for for this big freelance proofreading project due at the end of October and since god forbid I use ALL the money sensibly I made plans to go to California in November!! Including spending a long weekend in Palm Springs!!!
esse - Sep 15, 2006 7:06:21 am PDT #3305 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Well, the one thing temping is teaching me is what I don't want to do. And what things I'm more comfortable with. So I guess it's a learning experience--even if I still have no idea what I want to do with my life.
ChiKat - Sep 15, 2006 7:14:24 am PDT #3306 of 10000
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?
Well, the one thing temping is teaching me is what I don't want to do. And what things I'm more comfortable with.
This. I've done a lot of temping off and on and this was an invaluable thing for me to learn.
In fact, the job I'm in now started out as a temp to perm position. 11 years ago.