The next time you decide to stab me in the back... have the guts to do it to my face.

Mal ,'Ariel'


Spike's Bitches 37: You take the killing for granted.  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


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.


Laga - Oct 08, 2007 5:46:09 pm PDT #9005 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

At my sister's company if you take a new person out to lunch you can comp the entire meal. I think it's for the first week but it might be longer.


Laga - Oct 08, 2007 5:47:15 pm PDT #9006 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

granola

The Heroes WnP is on East Coast time so I should stay out of there until I've watched this week's episode, right?