Nora, I'm sorry you're dealing with so much crap.
Vortex, I hope the job shift is okay in the long run despite your trepidation. A bad boss can be murder, I know.
Harmony: Somebody remembered to pick me up the sweetest unicorn. Guess someone was feeling guilty for standing me up in tenth grade. Brad: What? Had to get her something. She sired me. Peaches: Sire-whipped.
'Beneath You'
Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
[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.
Pix - Jan 26, 2011 4:10:05 pm PST #14014 of 30000
The status is NOT quo.
Laga - Jan 26, 2011 4:25:33 pm PST #14015 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Just on a whim I stuck a yogurt in the freezer and now I've got something quite like strawberry banana kulfi. Frosty goodness!
smonster - Jan 26, 2011 4:29:33 pm PST #14016 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Condo suckfest continues. Just crossing everything that the crazy lady living there leaves as planned.
GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT!!!
Quester--I don't think you have to change yourself, you simply have to change a few of your behaviors. A coach could help you pinpoint specific things to work on--eye contaqct, tone of voice, smiling, whatever, and you will be able to freaking ace the workplace without changing who you are inside.
This is what I was trying to say.
Well, have a short-term temp job at the Airport, telling people where the bathroom is. I train tomorrow and then I work, not this weekend, but next weekend.
Oof. Well, a chance to practice those skills, I guess.
meara - Jan 26, 2011 4:35:26 pm PST #14017 of 30000
Nora, did the Tenant go crazy on the neighbor or Sid the lawyer? First I read it as the lawyer and was impressed. Then I realized you probably meant the tenant. Sorry b
Nora Deirdre - Jan 26, 2011 4:38:15 pm PST #14018 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
on the neighbor, heh. It's just funny because they are basically mad at me and my property managers because we don't snap to whenever they complain. Because there's not much that can be done... witness, when I mildly asked the tenant about the neighbor's complaint, she went BANANAS on me via text and banging on their door.
See, engaging can backfire too!
Aims - Jan 26, 2011 4:55:23 pm PST #14019 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Let there be lighthouse!! [link]
Barb - Jan 26, 2011 7:15:27 pm PST #14020 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
Nora, I'm almost tempted to suggest you find a santero and put a hex on the lot of them-- and I don't say stuff like that lightly.
Burrell - Jan 26, 2011 7:23:27 pm PST #14021 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
That's a great lighthouse.
WindSparrow - Jan 26, 2011 8:04:25 pm PST #14022 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
That's a great lighthouse.
I agree.
Shir - Jan 26, 2011 8:58:06 pm PST #14023 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Nora, I'm sorry about the shitty situation. Wish I could say something more helpful.
In other note, quester, I totally understand (as many other Buffista do). Whenever I'm lucky enough to work with non-zombies who can understand the difference between "workmates" and "friends", surprisingly enough they become friends faster and easier than any social or bossy pressure to "act friendly". As others say, in order to "fake it" one has to change few behaviors, but not herself.
Oh, and.
I think I am friendly...with my friends
I'm erika.
Aims, that lighthouse rocks.
I don't think I've ever been to/seen a lighthouse IRL, y'all.