Many people attributed his early success to the fake org chart.
Or maybe he's a precog.
Maybe he got promoted *because* he's a precog.
Tracy: Well-- That call -- That call means you just murdered me. Mal: No, son. You murdered yourself. I just carried the bullet a while.
'The Message'
Natter 47: My Brilliance Is Wasted On You People
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.
Steph L. - Oct 20, 2006 7:50:59 am PDT #4530 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Gudanov - Oct 20, 2006 7:59:08 am PDT #4531 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
Maybe he got promoted *because* he's a precog.
Well if he was a precog and stated that he was going to get a promotion, the management would have to promote him or risk a temporal disruption that would result in a subspace rift and would destroy the entire planet.
Ginger - Oct 20, 2006 7:59:55 am PDT #4532 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
He got the promotions because he was as devious as hell. He was also one of those people with a freaky talent for remembering names. He could recognize at least a third of the 12,000 people in the company, and usually remembered what they did and some other personal detail about them.
Kathy A - Oct 20, 2006 8:01:58 am PDT #4533 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
"You've got to know your Shakespeare, but...if you do, collect these texts and you can just playfully kick butt the way wizards do."
Brush up your Shakespeare;
Start quoting him now.
Brush up your Shakespeare;
And the geeks will all kowtow.
Gudanov - Oct 20, 2006 8:02:05 am PDT #4534 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
He got the promotions because he was as devious as hell.
Well okay, I suppose that's an alternative to the precog theory.
Connie Neil - Oct 20, 2006 8:03:04 am PDT #4535 of 10001
brillig
I so love the idea of a Shakespeare world.
shrift - Oct 20, 2006 8:09:18 am PDT #4536 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I would have been here at 8AM had my battery not died, necessitating calling roadside assistance for a jump, and then sitting at NTB for an hour and a half while they replaced the battery.
Clearly you're still paying for all the gelato and lovely scenery.
I woke up late and had to scramble to make the bus, and now I'm finding all the ways humans and software can misspell "usury."
flea - Oct 20, 2006 8:12:35 am PDT #4537 of 10001
information libertarian
He was also one of those people with a freaky talent for remembering names. He could recognize at least a third of the 12,000 people in the company, and usually remembered what they did and some other personal detail about them.
You worked with Dubya?
I mean, that kind of inherent political ability is so completely alien to me it's hard for me to remember it's not always evil.
Gudanov - Oct 20, 2006 8:13:54 am PDT #4538 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
It looks like China is trying to crack down on sweatshops, which is cool, but American companies are trying to stop it.
Sometimes it's hard to believe that companies are run by people.
tommyrot - Oct 20, 2006 8:17:09 am PDT #4539 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Anyone know Italian? WTF is going on here?: [link]