I don't really have a security blanket... unless you count Mr. Pointy.

Buffy ,'Lessons'


Spike's Bitches 40: Buckle Up, Kids! Daddy's Puttin' the Hammer Down.  

[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.


Connie Neil - Mar 31, 2008 9:57:13 am PDT #2527 of 10001
brillig

"Happy Valley" is 90% tongue-in-cheek, but go anywhere in the state and everyone knows Happy Valley is Utah Valley, where Provo, Utah, home of Brigham Young University, is. People think Salt Lake City is the heart of the Mormon world, but it's not. Salt Lake is just the brain, the heart and soul is here in the valley where I live. LDS folk are actually a minority in Salt Lake City, there's a thriving gay/lesbian community, brewpubs are very successful, and many of my neighbors believe that only the church office building and the temple preserve the entire city from becoming Sodom and Gomorrah.

Maybe it's only 80% tongue-in-cheek. I know that a lot of my neighbors think that if they only believe hard enough, that life will be perfect, their children will be perfect, their marriages will be perfect, and those icky people who think differently than they do will all go away.

I'd probably be happier elsewhere, but my very presence is like a dot of penicllin in a virus culture, creating a small but spreading clear area where other things can grow.


Trudy Booth - Mar 31, 2008 9:58:37 am PDT #2528 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

What have I done with my life?

What have you done? You've had the good sense to become a person who does not think that this would be the very pinnacle of "fun" and "comedy".


Steph L. - Mar 31, 2008 10:00:08 am PDT #2529 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Is the HR manager aware of the issue?

The HR manager is the one who thinks it's funny. And the HR manager also knows that the Cranky Editorial Department finds it disruptive. And the HR manager is the person we went to to ask that the morons stop pounding on their desks. She said "Well, I'll tell them you don't like it."

Yeah, thanks for going that extra mile.


Miracleman - Mar 31, 2008 10:01:19 am PDT #2530 of 10001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020

What have you done? You've had the good sense to become a person who does not think that this would be the very pinnacle of "fun" and "comedy".

That seems like having the good sense to NOT do something, not actually, you know...DOING something.

Anyways, I think that's a genetic trait.


sumi - Mar 31, 2008 10:04:30 am PDT #2531 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

I lived in Maryland for 10 years and somehow completely managed to miss out on it's native cake.

Sad now.


Fred Pete - Mar 31, 2008 10:06:20 am PDT #2532 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.

Steph, I hope what you're doing works. If not, it seems the only option left is to make your workplace more fun for you. Maybe your favorite music (or at least a genre you like and the deskpounders don't), loud.

After all, if HR decides that the deskpounders have the right to have fun at work, can she deny you the same right?


beth b - Mar 31, 2008 10:07:01 am PDT #2533 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

We have potlucks - there are 8 of us and we bring food - for various holidays , birthdays , etc. But there is no singing. and honestly, it is for the food. Libraries run on their stomachs.


Steph L. - Mar 31, 2008 10:07:45 am PDT #2534 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

After all, if HR decides that the deskpounders have the right to have fun at work, can she deny you the same right?

Oooh! What would REALLY be fun is going over and punching each one in the back of the head! It won't be as loud as the desk-pounding, so SURELY it will be non-disruptive!


Tom Scola - Mar 31, 2008 10:08:12 am PDT #2535 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

I lived in Maryland for 10 years and somehow completely managed to miss out on it's native cake.

Crabcake?


beekaytee - Mar 31, 2008 10:10:09 am PDT #2536 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant

I lived in Maryland for 10 years and somehow completely managed to miss out on it's native cake.

I would love to try that cake and I so wish that the lovely woman quoted had not mentioned to the Gray Lady's reading public that her community does not lock their doors. Advertising a safe place makes it less safe! Or is that just me being paranoid?