Yay, Trudy!
Congratulations, Aims!
Teppy, I'm sorry about the pile up of crap on you. I know what that's like. As a matter of fact, I have this pain....
Sometimes I miss having powers... Oh. Oh! I know what this is! This is peer pressure! Any second now you're gonna make me smoke tobacco and--and have drugs!
Anya ,'Showtime'
Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
[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.
Ginger - Aug 19, 2010 8:57:50 am PDT #29206 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
amyth - Aug 19, 2010 9:02:10 am PDT #29207 of 30000
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
Go Trudy!
So sorry, Tep.
I just have to ask: since when did me hiring people at time-and-a-half for this weekend (on my department's dime) become a right, and not a privilege? To the point where, when I get twice as many responses as I have slots to fill, and I call you to tell you that I don't have room for you to work this weekend (because I'm filling slots on a first come, first serve basis), you hang up on me mid-sentence? This is still a workplace, buddy. I'm not your ex-girlfriend. GOOD GRAVY.
DavidS - Aug 19, 2010 9:02:44 am PDT #29208 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I just want to go home. To my un-air-conditioned house.
Go to an air-conditioned movie! A long one. Or possibly a good one.
Vortex - Aug 19, 2010 9:07:07 am PDT #29209 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I call you to tell you that I don't have room for you to work this weekend (because I'm filling slots on a first come, first serve basis), you hang up on me mid-sentence? This is still a workplace, buddy.
I would call back and say "there must have been some error with your phone, because it appears that you hung up on me when I told you that you couldn't work. Let's be clear that this is an opportunity, not a right, and you just lost your chance to take advantage of it in the future."
Aims - Aug 19, 2010 9:08:40 am PDT #29210 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
You know, I really want to work for Vortex. I have a feeling I would ALWAYS know where I stood with her.
amyth - Aug 19, 2010 9:11:03 am PDT #29211 of 30000
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
Oh they lost their chance. Every year, I keep a spreadsheet for the following year, with notes that include the no-shows, the people who hid in their trucks and don't work, and now, the people who hang up on me when they get bad news. They go on THE LIST for next year. THE LIST was very useful this year, when some of the no-shows from last year tried to apply again this year, or the woman who read romance novels behind one of the residence halls the whole time applied. Or the guy who hung out in the basement of the dorm he was assigned to with all the Housing Support guys. THEY THINK I DON'T KNOW.
Gudanov - Aug 19, 2010 9:12:04 am PDT #29212 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
Go to an air-conditioned movie! A long one. Or possibly a good one.
Libraries are great for air-conditioning too. Plus they have books!
Atropa - Aug 19, 2010 9:23:59 am PDT #29213 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Yay Trudy!
Yay for checks arriving, Sean!
I really admire people who can do freelance/contract work - I'm just not emotionally cut out for it. Selling out to the man was ultimately very relaxing for me.)
I think I would be okay with freelance work, but I also KNOW that both Pete and I being freelancers would be hugely stressful.
Calli - Aug 19, 2010 9:45:02 am PDT #29214 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Spreadsheets? Day-um, amyth. When you keep a list you go hardcore.
amyth - Aug 19, 2010 9:58:21 am PDT #29215 of 30000
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
There's no way to staff 28 residence hall dumpster sites over three days, charge those days to separate account numbers, show all of those people's supervisors how to charge the overtime to the different account numbers, equip those people with grabbers, work gloves, and box cutters, make sure that they have adequate snacks and water and Gatorade over the weekend, coordinate six trucks, and have handmade signs made and placed on the dumpsters at all of those residence halls (and sometimes replaced due to weather), and, oh yeah, implement a shrink wrap recycling pilot without SPREADSHEETS.
The very idea terrifies me.