Shrift, you have my sincerest sympathies! And my fervent wish that this turns out to be one of the best things that could have happened, that is when you get your next job that turns out to be really spiffy and within taunting distance of the old job.
Willow: You know what they say. The bigger they are... Anya: The faster they stomp you into nothin'.
'The Killer In Me'
Natter 59: Dominate Your Face!
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.
Theodosia - Jun 30, 2008 11:20:05 am PDT #5757 of 10003
'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"
Toddson - Jun 30, 2008 11:20:22 am PDT #5758 of 10003
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
The fun part of my workplace news - it's not my responsibility! Someone yanked it away from me, didn't allow me any access to it ... so I can say, with a completely clear conscience (and total honesty), "it's not my job". (And, it turns out, the person who was supposed to be backing it up in Access? didn't ... not for several years.)
amych - Jun 30, 2008 11:20:25 am PDT #5759 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Yo! I'm dating a Canuck, that should give me a pass.
Totally! Happy Canada Day in exile!
Jesse - Jun 30, 2008 11:20:41 am PDT #5760 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Seriously -- when my friend's publishing company got bought by the Germans, they got a lot more time off!
Tom Scola - Jun 30, 2008 11:21:05 am PDT #5761 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I work for a Canadian company, and I don't get Canada Day off!
hippocampus - Jun 30, 2008 11:25:51 am PDT #5762 of 10003
not your mom's socks.
In my workplace news ... turns out our web host has, somehow, lost an entire database. With no back-up. No explanation, just "it's gone".
WTF, today???!!! Seriously?
Toddson - Jun 30, 2008 11:28:56 am PDT #5763 of 10003
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
yes, seriously. Seemingly the guy who was responsible for it was fired ... so this may have been malice or incompetence. Whatever the cause, I am just INFINITELY relieved that I can't be held responsible for it ('cause if I were? I'd be keying in the stuff we have paper records for ... the kind of job security I really don't want).
hippocampus - Jun 30, 2008 11:30:24 am PDT #5764 of 10003
not your mom's socks.
yuck.
msbelle - Jun 30, 2008 11:31:46 am PDT #5765 of 10003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
wow - that is gonna suck for someone, or several someones.
For those keeping score, I know have approval on both sets of minutes and can distribute them as well as enter tasks assigned in them into the job tracking thingy.
Toddson - Jun 30, 2008 11:46:45 am PDT #5766 of 10003
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
our web site is seriously screwed - the current version went live about a year ago. BUT! it's basically the old web site with a different look and organization. The fun part - everyone's responsible (supposedly) for doing their own updates. I'm supposed to be managing and editing this ... but there's no mechanism for me to see what's new (that is, without checking every single page every single day ... and trust me, there isn't that much time in the world). So ... we have people slapping all kinds of junk up every which way. Periodically they come to me asking for help, or with instructions for me to do something for them. The real fun is that we have a bunch of external web sites ... which I can't touch; I'm not even authorized to contact the external company to make changes.
Mess sums it up, right?