Lorne: Back in Pylea they used to call me "sweet potato." Connor: Really. Lorne: Yeah, well, the exact translation was "fragrant tuber" but…

'Conviction (1)'


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.


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.


sarameg - Jan 28, 2010 4:49:22 pm PST #4746 of 30001

Speaking of jobs, newest big boss is an astronaut who fixed Hubble, most recently in May. And he's a jokester, as is his boss. I think it will be a good team.