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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.
Same can be said of people who complain about their bosses or their co-workers or the customers at EVERY job they have.
I'm pretty sure my multitude of bad bosses have actually been bad bosses.... For one thing, they have been bad in different ways. For another, I have had good bosses too, so I do know what that looks like.
Also, I just got bit by something I didn't see, and now my finger's swelling up and I don't like it. I think I'd better go home.
ION, you know how at airshows you'll have a daredevil who stands on the wing of a plane as it flies about? Here's a picture of a guy riding on top of a DC-8: [link]
I remember thinking, after I got canned from my first job out of college, that it was all my fault and I was a sucky worker. Then, a year later, I saw the ad in the paper with the job listed and her initials as the department contact, and I would then see it almost every year for several years afterwards. It was apparent that she couldn't keep an editorial assistant for more than 12 months, whether she fired them or they quit.
So it wasn't just me!
I remember thinking, after I got canned from my first job out of college, that it was all my fault and I was a sucky worker. Then, a year later, I saw the ad in the paper with the job listed and her initials as the department contact, and I would then see it almost every year for several years afterwards. It was apparent that she couldn't keep an editorial assistant for more than 12 months, whether she fired them or they quit.
OMG yes! It totally goes both ways!
Man, just found out my diabetic cat is also hyperthyroid. Goddamn cats and their illnesses and expensive vet bills! And they are too old to start modeling and paying their own expenses. And have always been useless mousers so I can't hire them out for that. dag.
And they are too old to start modeling and paying their own expenses. And have always been useless mousers so I can't hire them out for that. dag.
Can they be taught to play the keyboard?
I'm pretty sure my multitude of bad bosses have actually been bad bosses.... For one thing, they have been bad in different ways. For another, I have had good bosses too, so I do know what that looks like.
Sadly, many people rise with no managerial skills at all. I've been blessed with pretty good bosses over the years, and the bad ones (the one that essentially drove me to grad school and this one) have mostly just been really really bad managers, not bad people.
Can they be taught to play the keyboard?
Unfortunately they've never shown any musical inclinations at all. They'd hide when we used to have band practice in my basement (as opposed to the dog who would come down to the basement and lay down on the guitarist's pedals).
Sadly, many people rise with no managerial skills at all.
Absolutely. I'm a total believer in the Peter Principle -- people get promoted to their level of incompetence. It makes sense in a stupid way: people who are good at their jobs get promoted. Too bad they get promoted out of the jobs they are good at!
The nice guy thing is so overdone in movies. He just hangs around while his love interest chases around after all manner of "bad guys" until finally realizing that she really does owe him nookie for being by her side the whole time.
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The one movie I can think of off the top of my head that turns this around is P.S. I Love You.
OK, that was a driveby from HQ. Easypeasy, I didn't have to do anything. But lord were people freaking out.