Sparky, just applied for another job at your U. It's with undergrads, which I had hoped to avoid, but it would be a good promotion in title.
Mal: Then I call it a win. What's the problem? Inara: Should I start with the part where you're stranded in the middle of nowhere, or the part where you have no clothes?
'Trash'
Spike's Bitches 43: Who am I kidding? I love to brag.
[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.
Vortex - Nov 19, 2008 2:26:43 pm PST #1856 of 10000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Ginger - Nov 19, 2008 2:30:30 pm PST #1857 of 10000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
As Vortex says, it's not calling me by my name; it's calling me by my first name.
I'm sure Connie is not one of these people, but my biggest peeve is people who obviously go through a spiel, no matter what you've told them. I usually sum up what I've done, including multiple reboots and turning the equipment on and off, yet they start with "Please turn off your computer." Also, they assume everyone is equally idiotic. One recent CSR put me through a whole series of steps, until it became clear that she wanted me to open the Control Panel, something I could have done in a third the steps. Why not say "Open the Control Panel" and only go through the steps if someone responds "Do I need a screwdriver?"
billytea - Nov 19, 2008 2:32:02 pm PST #1858 of 10000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I guess it was coming. My firm's just announced that there will be layoffs in our future.
WindSparrow - Nov 19, 2008 2:41:25 pm PST #1859 of 10000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Well, that sucks, billytea. Much job~ma to you.
Sparky1 - Nov 19, 2008 2:48:42 pm PST #1860 of 10000
Librarian Warlord
Sparky, just applied for another job at your U
YAY! Er, was it actually listed on the HR site? We got the memo freezing all hires last week, but I think it's safe if it is on the HR site. Otherwise, we're all waiting for more direction from above as to what this means to our individual schools/departments. Not to try and quash your ambition, or anything, but we're looking at not getting a librarian replacement and having to cut 5% of this year's budget.
Good luck, bt!
(Note to Perkins: No one should be that hawt when standing next to dusty reporters in the law library. And it makes my students look even worse.)
Gadget_Girl - Nov 19, 2008 3:00:36 pm PST #1861 of 10000
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".
Okay, I'm going home now. I should grade... but I doubt it. Bye!
Erin is me.
Ginger - Nov 19, 2008 3:10:51 pm PST #1862 of 10000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Dear LUSH products:
An e-mail headed "HAPPY ANNIVERSARY LUSH" makes me wonder whether someone is judging my drinking habits and, if he is, how does he know when I started drinking?
I hope you are spared both from a layoff and from having to work twice as hard to make up for the people laid off, BT.
omnis_audis - Nov 19, 2008 3:15:11 pm PST #1863 of 10000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
The problem with having dinner with the boss is, you have conversations that you aren't allowed to share with folks. And of course, me being the nosy one, who can see the writing on the wall, ASKS questions, that he then answers with the caveat "you can't tell anyone, but...".
:: head-desk ::
WindSparrow - Nov 19, 2008 3:24:48 pm PST #1864 of 10000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Poor omnis, you've hoist yourself on your own whatever.
Ooooh, I must be getting better - I cut decided to go easy on the ibuprofen, took only 200mg with the 1000mg Tylenol about an hour and a half ago, so not only has the headache eased up, but also, the throat is still much easier to swallow with than it was yesterday.
Vortex - Nov 19, 2008 3:35:56 pm PST #1865 of 10000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
YAY! Er, was it actually listed on the HR site? We got the memo freezing all hires last week, but I think it's safe if it is on the HR site.
yes, and it wasn't on there last week (I do a weekly web search of all of the university HR sites in the area. I want to get the fuck out of here)