Angel: I can stay in town as long as you want me. Buffy: How's forever? Does forever work for you?

'Lies My Parents Told Me'


Natter 54: Right here, dammit.  

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.


brenda m - Oct 22, 2007 5:49:52 am PDT #7905 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Also, a public service announcement. People, exit interviews are not free-for-alls! We had someone leave this spring who was, legitimately, very frustrated with some things. And took the opportunity to vent, at length, to some of the higer-ups in my group.

And since then, I've heard from various sources that his new job ain't all that, and he'd been putting feelers out about coming back. Now comes news that he's left the new job entirely. And he's good, and we could really, really use him back around here.

Not a chance in the 'verse.

Idiot.


Jesse - Oct 22, 2007 5:52:08 am PDT #7906 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

People really need to think twice before they talk. My most slam-y exit interview was still done with a lot of significant eye contact rather than actual venting!

Speaking of talking at work, I just ran into the CFO in the bathroom who said I "look really good," and I accepted her compliment on my outfit before I realized she was talking about my numbers. Har!


lisah - Oct 22, 2007 5:52:16 am PDT #7907 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

just catching up and wanted to say Corwood, I'm so sorry for your family's loss.


Nilly - Oct 22, 2007 5:57:49 am PDT #7908 of 10001
Swouncing

Yes, Corwood, what lisa said.


amych - Oct 22, 2007 5:58:09 am PDT #7909 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

exit interviews are not free-for-alls!

I've never been on the interviewing side of exit interviews (thank doG!), but it seems fairly obvious that there's a difference between "there were some issues that might have gone differently, and that contributed to my decision to take the other offer" and "y'all suck and I hate you!"


§ ita § - Oct 22, 2007 5:58:44 am PDT #7910 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I've never had an exit interview. And I hope not to, because I'd be very torn.


tommyrot - Oct 22, 2007 6:20:11 am PDT #7911 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Monkey attack kills Delhi leader

Is this entirely the monkeys' fault? Or is "don't fall off a terrace while fighting off hordes of monkeys" something that adults should know?

The deputy mayor of the Indian capital Delhi has died a day after being attacked by a horde of wild monkeys.

SS Bajwa suffered serious head injuries when he fell from the first-floor terrace of his home on Saturday morning trying to fight off the monkeys.

The city has long struggled to counter its plague of monkeys, which invade government complexes and temples, snatch food and scare passers-by.

The High Court ordered the city to find an answer to the problem last year.

One approach has been to train bands of larger, more ferocious langur monkeys to go after the smaller groups of Rhesus macaques.

The city has also employed monkey catchers to round them up so they can be moved to forests.

But the problem has persisted.


Gudanov - Oct 22, 2007 6:39:24 am PDT #7912 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

The Geek Hierarchy Chart

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Unabridged [link]


tommyrot - Oct 22, 2007 6:43:54 am PDT #7913 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

The Geek Hierarchy Chart

Actually, I'd be curious to read some of the stuff from the bottom level of that hierarchy. Just to see it it'd be as funny as I think it would.


Connie Neil - Oct 22, 2007 6:47:33 am PDT #7914 of 10001
brillig

The Geek Hierarchy Chart

I liked the SCA bit on the left hand side of the unabridged chart.