The Bay City Rollers, now that's music.

Giles ,'Sleeper'


The Crying of Natter 49  

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.


DavidS - Jan 18, 2007 8:40:08 am PST #4033 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

In more return-to-nature news from the BBC, Man moves into treehouse after domestic spat and stays there for 15 years.


shrift - Jan 18, 2007 8:48:06 am PST #4034 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Dana!

You are a dork! And I need to update my Netflix queue with some Creek!


Dana - Jan 18, 2007 8:54:04 am PST #4035 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Look, it's not my fault. The show is just like that. I'm not even telling you half of the stuff.


Cashmere - Jan 18, 2007 8:57:38 am PST #4036 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

My boss is a Difficult Person. HR has a thick folder of complaints on her; she's driven several people to quit; every few years they send her to a how-to-be-nice class and she's better for a couple weeks. Why can't her superiors say, look, your behavior is causing us problems and costing us good people; get some therapy, we'll pay for it; work it out or hand in your resignation?

In brief, why is it impossible to do anything about toxic bosses?

I wish I knew. One of my old bosses was pretty high up in the organization. He fired an executive because the guy was bat-shit crazy--kept driving a lot of employees away and scaring away the board of trustees. So my boss told him to hit the road. Fired Guy appealed to my bosses' boss who actually gave him a second chance. On the basis that he get counseling and quit making the organization bleed good people.

I often wonder if it's worth more to a company to lose a lot of good low-level employees than to fire one incompetent executive. Because that wasn't the first time I saw something like that happen. My next boss had serious competency issues and he's still there, after causing a number of people to jump ship.

I just don't get it.


Cashmere - Jan 18, 2007 9:02:01 am PST #4037 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

Huh, breaking news on MSNBC.com says Consumer Reports is retracting their infant car seat study. I wish they'd get the story up so I knew why.


shrift - Jan 18, 2007 9:03:08 am PST #4038 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Dude, you told me about his feetsies. That's holding back?


Nutty - Jan 18, 2007 9:05:24 am PST #4039 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

Hostile-Aggressives, Complainers, Silent and Unresponsives, Super-Agreeables, Know-It-All Experts, Negativists and Indecisives

I'm a bit of an Unresponsive, a bit Negativist, and can be slandered by the completely wrong label of Know-it-All now and then. I used to have a coworker I called the Smarm King, who was what happens when Super-Agreeables have really truly bought into the corporate cult.

And then, there was my boss, the one who did things like disappear for three days without telling anybody where he would be, and then blame me for not intuiting his location when he returned. Good times, good times.


Dana - Jan 18, 2007 9:05:41 am PST #4040 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I told you that in private! You're the one plastering it over the internet and making me look crazy. Perfectly sane devotion, I'm telling you.

You'll understand once you see it. And then I will laugh at you.


shrift - Jan 18, 2007 9:07:48 am PST #4041 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Okay, fine, I'll stop mentioning that you mentioned it, because god knows you must have plenty of blackmail material in our ICQ history.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 18, 2007 9:20:36 am PST #4042 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Grey's Anatomy cast at the Golden Globes

Clearly, Chandra Wilson heard everyone's comments earlier this month about the fugly purple silk pajamas and brought her A game Monday night.