This is when you get up from your desk, join the group and start giving them unwanted advice. When they start to move away, follow them for a few steps -- they'll move away that much faster.
But that would require getting up and talking to them.
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
Natter Area 51: The Truthiness Is in Here
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.
Lee - May 11, 2007 10:41:53 am PDT #6799 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
§ ita § - May 11, 2007 10:42:31 am PDT #6800 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
But that would require getting up and talking to them.
But there's looming!
Okay, I'm so avoiding what I need to be doing, and what I really should do is just ask for clarification.
Jessica - May 11, 2007 10:42:46 am PDT #6801 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Our summer hours don't result in extra time off -- because of the way my department works it we actually work an extra hour every week. (We alternate Fridays off for 8 weeks, but work 9-6 instead of 9:30-5:30 the rest of the week.)
I think it's set up this way so that by Labor Day we're all sick of coming in early and are happy to start working 5 days a week again if it means sleeping in a little.
Sparky1 - May 11, 2007 10:43:20 am PDT #6802 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
But that would require getting up and talking to them.
Then shout, "GETOFFAMYLAWN!" from your desk. That should work, too.
sumi - May 11, 2007 10:44:57 am PDT #6803 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
My university is closed on Fridays starting in June - but it means we have to work extra hours the rest of the week.
Liese S. - May 11, 2007 10:46:48 am PDT #6804 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
My brother in law's response would be to quack occassionally. And otherwise act as though everything were normal.
Theodosia - May 11, 2007 10:47:57 am PDT #6805 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Get a pencil sharpener and/or paper shredder, and just happen to use it whenever people are congregating....
Lee - May 11, 2007 10:48:33 am PDT #6806 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
But there's looming!
So I should get Pete to come down?
Then shout, "GETOFFAMYLAWN!" from your desk.
Oh dear. Now I really want to do this.
eta: these too
My brother in law's response would be to quack occassionally. And otherwise act as though everything were normal.
Get a pencil sharpener and/or paper shredder, and just happen to use it whenever people are congregating....
Jesse - May 11, 2007 10:50:50 am PDT #6807 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Of course the idea that one gets any extra time off for any given season...well, let's just say that Jesse's diamond flip flops may be chafing a bit, and I'm just not going to weep for her.
Yeah, I know... I think the summer hours are left over from years when there were no raises for years on end, so it's a little bonus that doesn't cost the company money.
I do feel the need to reiterate that I've never worked anywhere where annual raises were a given. Four free hours is the least they can do!
shrift - May 11, 2007 11:02:57 am PDT #6808 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Everything always breaks on Friday. It's a conspiracy of technological meltdowns all up in my business.