Now you can luxuriate in a nice jail cell, but if your hand touches metal, I swear by my pretty flowered bonnet, I will end you.

Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns  

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.


Kathy A - Aug 21, 2007 1:07:39 pm PDT #5985 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Wow, my company is totally cool with hours and time off. As long as you put in your 40 hours throughout the week and get your work done, and make sure there's someone from the department in the office available for questions 9-5ish, it's up to you when you come in and/or leave.

In fact, out of the four of us in my department, one is on maternity leave but works from either the city office or home when she's not on leave, my boss works out of the city office all but a few days a month, I work from here exclusively (no working from home or the other office), and the fourth just arranged with the boss to work from home three days a week due to construction making her commute a real PITA for the time being.


Zenkitty - Aug 21, 2007 1:10:06 pm PDT #5986 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Is "unicorn" in the KJV a mistranslation of another word? I hope?


Burrell - Aug 21, 2007 1:11:01 pm PDT #5987 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

oh dear, sounds like a lot of people are having a very crappy day.

I read an interesting article on the Creation Museum written by a hard core atheist. He interviewed several of the people responsible for it.


megan walker - Aug 21, 2007 1:15:06 pm PDT #5988 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Wow, my company is totally cool with hours and time off. As long as you put in your 40 hours throughout the week and get your work done, and make sure there's someone from the department in the office available for questions 9-5ish, it's up to you when you come in and/or leave.

As is mine. And I only have to clock 35 hours/week. People are constantly leaving early for appointments and the like. And we all work vaguely different shifts (I chose 8:30 to 4:30) so it's hard to notice if a person even should be there.

The guilt, she is all coming from me. That's the really lame part since much of why I changed careers is the schedule.

Seekrit message to Hec: And, of course, San Francisco.


Zenkitty - Aug 21, 2007 1:17:49 pm PDT #5989 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Dear god no: Your gut has taste receptors

That's COOL. I love it that there's essentially a second brain down there. Did you know that the gut, given a nutrient supply, can continue to function without being connected to a brain? It's the only bodily system that doesn't just shut down without input from the brain.


flea - Aug 21, 2007 1:24:36 pm PDT #5990 of 10001
information libertarian

Casper just said, "Oh! Fiddlesticks. I have to go to the bathroom."

Sometimes I love having kids.


Kathy A - Aug 21, 2007 1:25:28 pm PDT #5991 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

And we all work vaguely different shifts (I chose 8:30 to 4:30) so it's hard to notice if a person even should be there.

That's the way it is here--people have shifts ranging from 7-3 to 11-7, even though everyone is technically on "the day shift."


msbelle - Aug 21, 2007 1:40:01 pm PDT #5992 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I would like to work for Kathy or megan's co. please.

I just got a call from my boss, we had a 5 pm conf. call to go over a big meeting we have tomorrow. The call now was to ask if I had the prep stuff for a meeting I thought was cancelled on account of our big meeting. Nope, not cancelled and everyone in my dept. has left for the day, so I get to fake a report, sometime after mac goes to bed.


Ginger - Aug 21, 2007 1:40:04 pm PDT #5993 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I love it that there's essentially a second brain down there.

Except it's often the brain in charge. I saw a PBS special that said that some researchers are beginning to think that bypass surgery works not because it makes the stomach smaller, but because it cuts some of the nerves in your gut so that they stop sending, "OMG I'm starving" messagess.


Kathy A - Aug 21, 2007 1:46:58 pm PDT #5994 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I would like to work for Kathy or megan's co. please.

The big downfall here is the pay, which is really average, and bonuses are just about nonexistent (I've been here 15 years this November, and have received a grand total of about $300 in bonuses in that time).