There was a great article in Bitch magazine on Wonder Woman's creator and his interests.

What's QI? Aside from being an apparently unstoppable fount of knowledge, I mean.

It would never occur to me to call this in. Ever.

I love it! Even when I don't end up using the coupon, which happened last time I had a defective snack product. I'm not sure why, but I have no compunction about calling a company when their product isn't right.

Note that I am unsure about my use/spelling of both "fount" and "compunction," but not enough to look them up.

It's been my experience that high level executives are the only people (well, aside from the relatively rare Hollywood celebrity) that get their knickers in a twist over things like the right brand of bottled water

Oh, I don't know, Matt. I just got a complaint from a worker that the free fruit in the breakroom had too many apples and not enough oranges. The fruit is for regular folks, not execs. And did I mention it was free?

Thank GOD for the baffled atheists on b.org,

This phrase amuses me.

I just got a complaint from a worker that the free fruit in the breakroom had too many apples and not enough oranges.

OMG people are nutty. Was there at least one of each? How many oranges did this person want?

Thank GOD for the baffled atheists on b.org

Well, if my coworkers hadn't confused me this morning, I certainly would have asked after going to get lunch. Forehead schmutz everywhere!

What's QI? Aside from being an apparently unstoppable fount of knowledge, I mean.

Only the best show ever.

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There's a couple of other factors to the perqs issue aside from just the competitive nature of compensating higher employees. One, if you provide something cheap to a limited number of people, it's relatively cheap to provide (rather than giving free sodas to all employees). But that's only important if you have factor number two-- it is seemingly valued out of proportion to its cost. For a dime a can you can make someone feel like a VIP.

I also assume there is a tax thing to how much perq you can deduct per salary, but that I'm not positive about.

My Saturday job provides lunch to the entire service department. EVERY WEEK people bitch about what we order. Drives. Me. Nuts. I want to just slap them around and tell them to STFU.

Of course, this has a lot to do with the fact that take the orders and place it and get bitched at. Like I chose it?

Reredos is a word!

1. Eccl. a. An ornamental facing or screen of stone or wood covering the wall at the back of an altar, frequently of ornate design, with niches, statues, and other decorations.
b. A choir-screen.
2. A hanging of velvet or silk for covering the wall at the back of an altar. Obs. Usually named together with a dos, dorse, or vant dorse: the precise distinction from these is not clear.
3. A wooden panelling attached to a wall behind a seat. Obs.
4. The brick or stone back of a fire-place or open hearth; an iron plate forming a fire-back. Obs. exc. arch.
¶b. A brazier. rare
5. The back or rear. Obs. rare
6. A piece of armour for the back; a backplate. Obs. rare.

Also, I just saw athere was a special weather statement posted from this morning. Keep in mind, it's 50 and I wasn't aware of any significant weather patterns. Well, it's not weather....exactly:... Be alert for falling chunks of ice...