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.

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.

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.

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.

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::

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.

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.

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.

I've heard writers of other genres bash romance as "easy, cheap porn for women," or young adult as "that kiddie crap," so often, that I've learned to let most of it roll off my back-- most of the time. But then there are times it just absolutely gets to me and makes me want to smack people.

eta: I think Chrome is going to give SA a stiffie, because I've never seen her have less than 9 tabs open at a time.

I average about 5 or 6 tabs open at a time. Often I have multiple browser windows open with multiple tabs.

Anyway, Chrome is cool. In some ways the browser has been adopting OS functions for a while now, so it makes sense for browsers to be more OS-like.

Oh, fuck, man. I'm going to have to download Chrome, aren't I?

Heh. I work, technically, (through a couple levels of company-holding) for an insurance company. And contract through them to work for a drug company. There's plenty of evil to spread around, in that!

But the actual job-ness that I do, I feel is good. And I feel free to hate the insurance provided by the company I work for, so I have no problem with others hating on them. I occasionally will correct people when they are flat-out wrong on how some stuff works, about how drug companies do things in re: testing drugs, but...doesn't mean I disagree in how there is evil in some other bits of the business model. Lord knows there's a reason I'm not in the sales part of the company. Not enough showers in the universe.