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.

Well, "loose motions" sure didn't mean what I thought it meant...

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.

ita, the more I hear about New Guy, the more I wonder how long it will be before he's Fired Guy.

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.

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.

Man, on another board, where someone objected to the use of the word "rape" metaphorically (like, "I got raped by that parking ticket!"), due to having been actually raped, someone else replied (and I'm paraphrasing, although the ASSCAPS are as the person used them) with "I have freedom of speech so if I want to use RAPE then I'll use RAPE as often as I want and I don't care if you don't like it when I say RAPE. LOL!"

And -- completely ignoring what a rude, tacky-ass bitch she was being -- all I could really think was, why the damn "LOL"? I mean, she may have actually been laughing out loud as she typed, but it SO undermined the perceived "gotcha" of her response.

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Tep, using LOL as punctuation is a first ammendment RIGHT!! Why do you hate America LOL????

Hey, wordsmiths, how can I say "I just want to point out this part of the law to you and make sure you know what it says" to a judge without sounding like I'm calling him stupid. (I'm not; there's no reason to think he would be familiar with this part of the law because it's not his area. And his clerk told me to send it to him.)

ION, hey Teppy - Joe and I were talking about grammar pedants today and he asked me "You mean, like, people who love semi-colons?" I told him about your shirt and he thought it was awesome.

eta: to clarify who I was talking about/to

Tep, using LOL as punctuation is a first ammendment RIGHT!! Why do you hate America LOL????

At -- I think -- Shakesville, some troll commented with "LOL your fat" (lack of punctuation and incorrect word usage are as posted), which led people to ask things like "Uh, *how* do I LOL my fat? Is there a special technique?"