Jesus, not your boss, right?
Jesus is not her boss, though sometimes her boss gets confused.
No, no, no, sir. No more chick pit for you. Come on.
Riley ,'Lessons'
Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DavidS - Jan 20, 2010 10:11:57 am PST #2966 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
-t - Jan 20, 2010 10:12:38 am PST #2967 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Now that I've browsed the site ita linked to and see the gamut of pets (pigs, chickens and goats!) and alternatives to stick figures (you can have your whole family represented by penguins, or turtles, or flip-flops!) I am a little bit seduced by the cute.
JZ - Jan 20, 2010 10:14:32 am PST #2968 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
This is the woman boss, who has a teenage daughter and sits on various high school advisory councils and thus spends much of her free time assaulted by emoticons. I'm sure she will just roll her eyes right out of her head, grit her teeth, and sign the damn thing.
I can't decide whether it makes it worse or better that this is actually not an emoticon but a hand-drawn smiley.
Daisy Jane - Jan 20, 2010 10:18:23 am PST #2969 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Gah.
I don't think this guy knows that I can't switch the graphic on one of his pages because THAT PAGE NO LONGER EXISTS.
We have also started a regular Wednesday meeting which I am in charge of that is not just herding cats, it's herding feral cats while someone is spraying them with a hose and they've just eaten a bag of catnip-each.
Finally I have to update 10 lists that use SQL which I do not know. Therefore the rest of my afternoon will be spent painstakingly copying and pasting numbers into lines of code and hoping to christ that nothing gets moved or deleted or repeated or added because I won't know the difference. At least if I'm mucking around in HTML, I know enough to know if something is off.
This is my day. How is everyone else's?
Daisy Jane - Jan 20, 2010 10:19:35 am PST #2970 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I can't decide whether it makes it worse or better that this is actually not an emoticon but a hand-drawn smiley.
Dude. That's some serious obliviousness. Might as well have written LOL on the damn thing.
Calli - Jan 20, 2010 10:23:30 am PST #2971 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I'm waiting to start a conference call with subcontractors so they can tell us how doing something they agreed to do a year ago will be impossible, and by the way, the fact that we have documentation showing they agreed to do it in no way suggests that they can get it done.
Not that I'm cynical. Or bitter. Or wishing I could drink scotch at 3:25 pm on a work day.
Polter-Cow - Jan 20, 2010 10:24:54 am PST #2972 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Well, "loose motions" sure didn't mean what I thought it meant...
§ ita § - Jan 20, 2010 10:27:35 am PST #2973 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have a query that doesn't make sense, and it's all my fault. 2+2 is just not adding up for me. Damned subqueries. That is my day. That and being spoken to pissily by the New Guy. He doesn't like when I redline his documents. I don't like when he sends them outside the team wrong. But I'm moving on. Now I want to ask him why his voicemail received indicator has been on for weeks, and how he knows when new mail comes in. Just need to frame it right.
Anne W. - Jan 20, 2010 10:32:35 am PST #2974 of 30001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
ita, the more I hear about New Guy, the more I wonder how long it will be before he's Fired Guy.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 20, 2010 10:34:09 am PST #2975 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Now I want to ask him why his voicemail received indicator has been on for weeks, and how he knows when new mail comes in.
I swear at least a quarter of the people I work with have this going on. I don't get it.
Granted, you have to jump through hoops to delete voicemails around here, but still.