Oh, indirect communication in midst of stress is extra tough. I hope your sister talks to you soon, Laga, and that the situation is resolved in some positive way.
You're not friends. You'll never be friends. You'll be in love till it kills you both.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
Spike's Bitches 37: You take the killing for granted.
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-t - Oct 08, 2007 3:40:22 pm PDT #8995 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
DavidS - Oct 08, 2007 4:23:11 pm PDT #8996 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
My temp job did a massive overhaul of their computer system over the weekend. The two results this monday were: (1) I was blocked from B.org and all other forums type places. (I think more people can expect this with new upgrades.); (2) The calendaring software we use (in the Calendar Department) wasn't installed. So we couldn't do any work all day.
Fortunately my boss is cool and let me stay instead of sending me home without temp pay. And I worked on my book edits most of the day.
But I can't see B.org from work now.
Gris - Oct 08, 2007 4:31:25 pm PDT #8997 of 10001
Hey. New board.
But I can't see B.org from work now.
Tragedy! I hate when things get blocked that I'm used to seeing at work. Recently, the NYC Board of Ed blocked Gmail. It was devastating, at least at first.
Pix - Oct 08, 2007 4:32:51 pm PDT #8998 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
((laga)) I hope she's kicking him to the curb. I also hope that you and Meg have your old relationship back soon.
Gris, high school. The student who wrote the email is a senior.
hippocampus - Oct 08, 2007 4:45:47 pm PDT #8999 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
This reminds me of Calvin Trillin's pride when his 4-year-old daughter, raised in New York, said "Daddy, how come in Kansas City the bagels taste like just round bread?"
swooches Ginger.
meara - Oct 08, 2007 4:52:45 pm PDT #9000 of 10001
Ooof. Evil blocked places.
I have not yet attempted to access much from new work.
Especially because the monitor was near to giving me a migraine (and I barely looked at it all day).
Do y'all think it's routine to take a new employee out for lunch the first day? I thought it was, but perhaps I am mistaken.
I am overwhelmed and emotional.
hippocampus - Oct 08, 2007 4:59:46 pm PDT #9001 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
swooches meara - just 'cause.
first days suck. you don't.
Um - monitors are one of my migraine triggers - so if yours is hedging your migraine, then yes -speak up. If I have to help someone with an old crt fix something, I am blind in about 3 minutes.
ION, the freelance I accepted on cold meds last week just phoned and asked if I'd be offended if they went with someone who could do the work a week earlier, and - guessing, cheaper - I said absolutely not. then they asked if I would mind hanging around on pending until they got the confirm from the other someone that they would take the job.
t /losing that agency's phone number.
Polter-Cow - Oct 08, 2007 5:00:24 pm PDT #9002 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Do y'all think it's routine to take a new employee out for lunch the first day? I thought it was, but perhaps I am mistaken.
If not the first day, at least the first week, usually, depending on what's going on. There's usually a lunch, somehow.
P.M. Marc - Oct 08, 2007 5:25:21 pm PDT #9003 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I don't think I've ever been taken out to lunch.
meara - Oct 08, 2007 5:29:14 pm PDT #9004 of 10001
Really Plei? Huh. At both of my previous companies, when we had a new person, the team would go out to lunch on their first day--partly as a "we know you didn't bring your lunch on the first day, and don't know anyone, and now you can meet us not standing in a cube" sorta thing. Depending on the company and the time, it might be "whole 20 person department" or "four people you'll be working on a project with" and might range from "pretty darn nice restaurant" to "random Thai place down the street", but...
I was pretty surprised when the director was like "Oh, did you bring your lunch? Let's go grab something" and drove me to a deli where we each bought our lunch, snarfed it in about 15 minutes, and drove back. Sigh.