Scrappy's Fuck-up Update. Talked to Boss. He has cooled off a bit but is still plenty displeased. Sent a Mea Culpa email to execs, hope it helps. Did NOT mention my eval and will bring it up in a couple of weeks, when I hope heads are cooler.
Xander, don't speak Latin in front of the books!
Giles ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds
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.
Scrappy - Sep 03, 2008 12:32:42 pm PDT #6914 of 10003
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Daisy Jane - Sep 03, 2008 12:33:49 pm PDT #6915 of 10003
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I try to have a policy of never looking at comments on a newspaper's online edition. That way lies head explosions. But sometimes it's irrestible.
I have no idea why I ever read our editorial blog. It does nothing but show me the icky side of the humans who live in this city. I just want to repost John Donne in every thread.
Glamcookie - Sep 03, 2008 12:33:57 pm PDT #6916 of 10003
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
My (large software) company gets lots o' bashing as well. Deservedly so, I might add. Hell, I might just join in!
P.M. Marc - Sep 03, 2008 12:34:46 pm PDT #6917 of 10003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Feel free to criticise anywhere I've ever worked, including my next employer, whoever that may be. It's all good.
Constructive crit's fine.
Slashdot-level inanity with little substance, on the other hand, makes me want to bust heads.
beth b - Sep 03, 2008 12:41:58 pm PDT #6918 of 10003
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
It is like the phrase 'lazy government workers', which often gets tossed around when I am around. I am one, I am not lazy and I can't name a lazy one. slow, chickenshit, or easily overwhelmed by bureaucracy , but not lazy.
Burrell - Sep 03, 2008 12:47:24 pm PDT #6919 of 10003
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I can totally understand not wanting to hear knee-jerk insults, whatever the context. Sure sometimes I can turn the other cheek when I hear someone use a stupid stereotype to insult my school, my job, my hometown, my neighborhood, whatever. It happens. Other times it makes me angry.
Gudanov - Sep 03, 2008 12:47:40 pm PDT #6920 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
Shoot, our Internet is out and I'll have to call support. It drives me nuts when my wife calls me at work to have me call support for something at home. Inevitably, they ask me to do something and I have to explain that I can't because I'm not there.
hippocampus - Sep 03, 2008 12:51:08 pm PDT #6921 of 10003
not your mom's socks.
It drives me nuts when my wife calls me at work to have me call support for something at home.
hm. my uncle got that exact same call today.
::notes how odd the universe is, and goes back to festering::
§ ita § - Sep 03, 2008 12:55:23 pm PDT #6922 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I can't name a lazy one.
I can. Not your co-workers, but some I knew in my last job. And my job before that (at Countrywide) generated lots of knee jerk negativity upon mention, but I guess I just never identified enough with them to care. If you make the criticism about me (and some tried) it was different, but I wasn't working for the SS and it rolled off my back relatively easily.
erikaj - Sep 03, 2008 1:04:43 pm PDT #6923 of 10003
Always Anti-fascist!
Weird that there is a crowd where I'm a news junkie, but a lot of it started with the Olbermann blog. (six days till the Maddow Tv show!!) So I read Washington Post, Kos, local paper(except opinions...BAD juju) And watch "Countdown" every day, and mostly wonder if I'm ever gonna hear mom say "Turn Keith on!" without thinking "Huh, huh, huh!" and cursing the continent between us.