Mal: Take your people and go. Captain: You would have done the same. Mal: We can already see I haven't.

'Out Of Gas'


Natter 55: It's the 55th Natter  

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.


Kat - Dec 12, 2007 2:05:05 pm PST #6955 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

But with the cat owner!

oh man. I have a boatload of things to do.

ita, I had to get a physical when I started at the district. AND I have to have my TB test updated every 4 years or something. Which means I have to go to the central office and let them inject me with something then go back and have it read. It makes me twitchy.


tommyrot - Dec 12, 2007 2:05:15 pm PST #6956 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.

Heh, it's Extreme Stuff on My Cat. Without the cat.

I've probably told this story before, but in college this kid showed up to our house party, was extremely obnoxious, and then passed out on the comfy chair at 9:45. So yes, he did get stuff stacked on him.

My only contribution was pointing out where the food coloring was....


Burrell - Dec 12, 2007 2:08:19 pm PST #6957 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Can I say I'm a bit creeped out at the Orwellian level of testing y'all go through for your jobs?! Weird. I had to show somebody a passport to prove I was me, that was about it.


juliana - Dec 12, 2007 2:12:48 pm PST #6958 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

There's also this one: [link]

And this one: [link]

Can I say I'm a bit creeped out at the Orwellian level of testing y'all go through for your jobs?

Yeah, I've never had to be tested OR fingerprinted.


sarameg - Dec 12, 2007 2:16:25 pm PST #6959 of 10001

I had to be fingerprinted for work at some point. Oh & I had to prove I was either a citizen or legally in the country recently. That made me roll my eyes, cause it is only that I've been working for them for TEN YEARS.

OTOH, the company does a lot of defense or similarly sensitive contracts, so my guess is that they required it of everyone because they couldn't figure out how to do just the sensitive types. Which I'm not, really. There are things that might bring the wrath of the gov't down on me & my employer, but they wouldn't rate a congressional hearing or anything.


tommyrot - Dec 12, 2007 2:16:35 pm PST #6960 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.

And this one: [link]

That one seems to me the dude could roll over, fall and break his neck....


msbelle - Dec 12, 2007 2:20:25 pm PST #6961 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

my new job will be the first one where I have to get drug tested.


Jessica - Dec 12, 2007 2:21:17 pm PST #6962 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I love the idea of a baby food tasting room, even if it does sound a bit messy. I wonder if they just line the walls and floor with plastic so they can hose everything down after each session.

(Yesterday I discovered that the One True Way to get Dylan's face clean after eating solids is to let him do it. Me wiping his face and hands with a wet washcloth = torture. Him chewing on a wet washcloth and in the process wiping his face and hands clean = playtime!)


§ ita § - Dec 12, 2007 2:21:31 pm PST #6963 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

As a permanent resident I've been all but had my DNA sequenced and encoded in a master database.

Krav got cancelled tonight because of a bomb scare in another part of the building. This might be perfect, but I do feel a little lost, since I was looking forward to pretending I could do it.

They keep asking me about TB here, and I keep telling them I'll test positive and that seems to wrap things up. Which is weird. I know there's something more to it, but I can never remember what.


Ginger - Dec 12, 2007 2:24:02 pm PST #6964 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I asked the doctor what would happen if, say, I couldn't touch my toes like he asked, but he didn't know.

The doctor at one pre-employment physical said it was mainly to get a baseline to have if people claimed they were injured on the job.

Can I say I'm a bit creeped out at the Orwellian level of testing y'all go through for your jobs?!

I worked in the electric utility and nuclear power industry for 15 years. Continuous random drug tests. Annual physicals. MMPIs. Background checks. The occasional whole body scan for radiation. And I was just going in and out of plants to write about them.