"Oh, Zazu, do lighten up. Sing something with a little bounce in it!"
"It's a small world after all..."
"No, not that! Anything but that!"
Right, there comes a point where you have to either move on, or just buy yourself a Klingon costume and go with it.
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 57 Varieties
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 - Mar 05, 2008 12:00:11 pm PST #3174 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Kathy A - Mar 05, 2008 12:01:20 pm PST #3175 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Bad x-post.
Sad to hear about the Swayz. Pancreatic cancer is truly nasty, too (my SIL's mom had it).
msbelle - Mar 05, 2008 12:04:12 pm PST #3176 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
That is sad news.
meara - Mar 05, 2008 12:05:33 pm PST #3177 of 10001
AAAAAGH. I may yet kill this recruiter.
He is annoying the crap out of me, calling and emailing. I have a phone interview with the people tomorrow, and he's sending me oh ONE MORE form, and Oh, he needs me to GO TO THE DMV and get my driving record because Washington state won't give it as part of a background check? And I point out I've only had a WA license since January, but that doesn't matter, I have to GO TO THE DMV. And when I ask how quickly I need to do that (like, buster, they haven't fuckin' HIRED me yet--that'll be a few weeks at least), he's like "It would've been great to have it today". And then has the GALL to suggest that I should postpone plans to "have a mojito" in the afternoon to go there. WTF, jackass???
§ ita § - Mar 05, 2008 12:06:49 pm PST #3178 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Kathy, I was wondering if that post was purposeful.
I am sad to hear that about Swayze. Reading that article I hadn't known he was stil working. Cool.
I've been meandering through flickr looking at other people's photos, and I've fallen in love with Franca Alejandra's. She makes every day of her year an event. Marvellous.
sumi - Mar 05, 2008 12:08:19 pm PST #3179 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Why do they need your driving record? That seems odd. And seriously, a background check won't find that? Also - odd.
meara - Mar 05, 2008 12:09:28 pm PST #3180 of 10001
The job would require a fair bit of driving, and apparently normally the background check signature allows the DMV to release that, but WA State won't, and requires the person whose driving record it is go to the DMV. RIDICULOUS.
Susan W. - Mar 05, 2008 12:10:17 pm PST #3181 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
That's lame, meara.
meara - Mar 05, 2008 12:14:26 pm PST #3182 of 10001
Even better. I just checked the WA State website. They can TOTALLY request it on their own, if I sign a form. He just doesn't want to wait, I think. It's a mail in request, and i can get it quicker if I go in person. Except that requires me to GO TO THE DMV, and I avoid that at all costs. Fucker.
I just emailed him and pointed him to the website and copied the relevant "prospective employer" section. And pointed out that since the phone interview is tomorrow, and I would still need an in-person interview, surely that would take some time.
GRRRRR.
lisah - Mar 05, 2008 12:31:13 pm PST #3183 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate