Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
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.
Also, I meant the pagers were useless, not the IT staff!!!
I got called at home ALL THE TIME for almost every job I have ever had, because I was an "assistant", and sometimes bosses can't find things like keys, or room reservations, or how to use fax machines.
We take turns with the pager. Luckily my team is big enough that I only get it 1 week every couple of years.
Oh, that's sweet. I've got one every 6 weeks, but it tends to be a very quiet pager.
my boss does not have my home number. I do, however, have a BlackBerry and it is expected to be on for weekends.
My friend Miriam is a hospice nurse (mostly for kids with cancer). She's on call once a week. Sometimes we'll go out in the evening on such days, taking a chance that she won't get called. Sometimes she does, and has to leave. Once she was getting up from a movie (in the theater) to answer her phone, and I was tempted to say loudly, "What, is the kid dying now?" (If I did that, I'm sure she'd say something to continue the joke.)
Do people not know that IT folk are often chained with pagers? I'm surprised by how often they're still considered the purview of doctors and drug dealers, although all my employers have tried to shackle me with one.
I guess it makes sense in a 24-hour business, but yeah, I wouldn't have thought of it.
Do people not know that IT folk are often chained with pagers?
When I lived in San Francisco in '95 and '96, I saw lots of IT people with pagers. So I'm surprised now by people who don't know that.
I do, however, have a BlackBerry and it is expected to be on for weekends.
Yeah, everyone around here has BlackBerrys.
BlackBerries?
I wish I had a donut.
Have a donut, Jesse! Today is National Donut Day. Free donuts at Krispie Kreme.
We had our 1 hour walkout today. Now I'm tired and don't want to work. 1st period is the only one I like!
Have a donut, Jesse! Today is National Donut Day. Free donuts at Krispie Kreme.
One of my co-workers is engaged to be married, and she's having the wife of another co-worker make her wedding cake.
Co-worker's wife just brought in 5 cakes for us all to try, so that engaged!co-worker would have lots of input on the cake flavors to choose. (Raspberry swirl w/vanilla buttercream frosting, blueberry swirl w/vanilla buttercream frosting, chocolate w/almond buttercream frosting, lemon w/champagne buttercream frosting, banana w/marshmellow-ish buttercream frosting. GUH.)
The winner was lemon, followed by chocolate. I voted for raspberry swirl, but with the champagne frosting instead of vanilla. The banana cake was too dense, much like banana bread -- REALLY yummy, but the texture was all wrong for a wedding cake.
I'm now eating seconds of the chocolate and raspberry swirl (our portions were wee little pinky-sized pieces, so I don't feel bad about eating seconds).
(Well, I wouldn't feel bad about eating seconds even if the pieces were plate-sized.)
Okay guys, help me out. This is the last day of school, and I have to do all the sorting/cleaning/putting away stuff, and I am OUT of oomph. It's all gone. Bye-bye, oomph.
But I have to get it done, because I'm leaving on Wednesday, so I won't be able to get back in here before they clean. Argh.