Where'd they get CAT scan from?... I mean, did they test it on cats? Or does the machine sort of look like a cat?

Dawn ,'Sleeper'


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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.


lisah - Mar 21, 2008 12:14:03 pm PDT #6595 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

oh man I not only couldn't leave early but I just was yelled by my fucking rude ass co-worker for not intuiting that the developer who is helping us with this document needed more work to do.

On 5pm on a Friday!

I am spitting mad right now. Should I tattle on him to our boss (a few weeks ago I had a meeting about this guy with boss, about how rude he is).

I'm shaking angry.


Daisy Jane - Mar 21, 2008 12:15:47 pm PDT #6596 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

I would tattle, but I'm like that.


sarameg - Mar 21, 2008 12:16:53 pm PDT #6597 of 10001

Since it's been enough of an issue that you've met with your boss about it before, it needs to be mentioned.


Typo Boy - Mar 21, 2008 12:17:30 pm PDT #6598 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Beating a dead mortgage discusson, example that fraud was involved: [link]


amych - Mar 21, 2008 12:17:49 pm PDT #6599 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Agreed -- it's not tattling, it's documentation of a known issue.


lisah - Mar 21, 2008 12:22:12 pm PDT #6600 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

the hard thing is that he's such a bad communicator I can't even relate the conversation accurately. So not what I want to deal with today AT ALL


Theodosia - Mar 21, 2008 12:30:28 pm PDT #6601 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

In perhaps slightly brighter news, the guy who insulted me in class the other week got an incomplete in one class for his absences and will have to take it over again. I know he has Issues with a capital Ish (including a brother-in-law who committed suicide a month ago) so I'm not taking 100% Schadenfreude on this circumstance, but honestly his behavior has made it hard for anyone to sympathize too much.


bon bon - Mar 21, 2008 12:32:22 pm PDT #6602 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Beating a dead mortgage discusson, example that fraud was involved: [link]

Well, as I tried to explain yesterday, potentially criminal activity on the loan-writing level did not cause the credit crunch; again, you have to prove fraud with regard to the securitization and ratings agencies. I would not hold the position that every single mortgage was properly papered. Every time there is a major market movement downward, people want to find a criminal who apparently "caused" all this, but that's an overly simplistic view.


tommyrot - Mar 21, 2008 12:33:44 pm PDT #6603 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.

Beating a dead mortgage discusson, example that fraud was involved: [link]

Huh.

Gee, you give people a financial incentive to screw over the customer without repercussions, and people screw over customers. Wow.

Kinda' like that recent case where an executive got huge bonuses for canceling people's health insurance because these people had used their insurance a lot. They got sued by a customer who lost her health insurance when they found out she had cancer. (The customer won.)


tommyrot - Mar 21, 2008 12:40:09 pm PDT #6604 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.

you have to prove fraud with regard to the securitization and ratings agencies.

Here someone is alleging that: Author Alleges Banks Have Master Minded An Asset Securitization Fraud

(I haven't had time to read the whole thing.)