Can you make hummus with bacon fat? Maybe I'd like that.
Only one way to find out!
No, it's shiny! I like to meet new people. They've all got stories...
Kaylee ,'Serenity'
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.
Jessica - Jan 28, 2010 3:02:58 pm PST #4736 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 28, 2010 3:06:16 pm PST #4737 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I've been at this particular job 12 years and in my company for 22.
Vortex - Jan 28, 2010 3:16:58 pm PST #4738 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I've been at the University for 8 years, but this job for only 3. Ironically, I loved the two jobs that I had before this one that I have been at for the longest.
Calli - Jan 28, 2010 3:53:10 pm PST #4739 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I was at my previous job for 8 years. I could see staying at my current one for another 2 or 3, depending on how things go.
smonster - Jan 28, 2010 3:57:46 pm PST #4740 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Oh my dear lord. Apologies if this has already been linked. How to fail on Facebook: [link] I laughed out loud at least five times.
Kathy A - Jan 28, 2010 4:05:37 pm PST #4741 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Let's see:
Company #1: Exactly 1 year
Company #2: Ten months
Company #3: Nine months
Company #4: 17+ years
I had a few months off between the first three jobs due to layoffs/recession of the late 80s/early 90s, and have been really lucky to remain here as long as I have.
Funny thing is that the job I started with is a lower-level version of what I'm doing now (I did have three other positions in between), and I have the same two bosses I had 17 years ago, only they've switched places--my original manager is now my direct boss, and the assistant manager is now her boss.
billytea - Jan 28, 2010 4:19:56 pm PST #4742 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I was at my previous job for 8 years. I could see staying at my current one for another 2 or 3, depending on how things go.
Although I worked in three rather different positions over two continents (and technically for two different companies), when I was laid off I'd racked up almost 14 years' continuous service. I tend to have pretty high inertia where jobs are concerned.
sarameg - Jan 28, 2010 4:22:28 pm PST #4743 of 30001
I'll have been at my place of work 13 years this fall, 3 in the current position. My replacement started 10 years to the day after I did. I've got to do my annual review stuff this week or next. At least after this crazy year, I have a lot to put on it.
Locker rooms are odd places. I've had more fairly in-depth conversations, nude, with complete strangers, in the past 6 months than I probably have with coworkers (clothed! Clothed!) in the same period. I would have thought the collective nakedness would make people more reticent, but nsm.
ION, my sinuses still squeak when I dive more than a few feet deep. It's really disconcerting.
SuziQ - Jan 28, 2010 4:29:15 pm PST #4744 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I'm coming up on 19 years at my company. My official anniversary is May 29th, but I worked there a few months as a temp before I was hired. I've been there almost as long as K-Bug has been alive. Kinda freaky when I think about it.
§ ita § - Jan 28, 2010 4:41:41 pm PST #4745 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I worked nine years at my second job, until I had entirely enough. That was by far the longest employ I've had. I probably could have worked there forever, or until my bosses woke up on their own. The company's gone now--my leaving woke them up so they got rid of it and left themselves.
The two jobs I had before this in CA lasted not too long, and not under my control. This one? Technically I'm only guaranteed six months. Still on tenterhooks there.