Java, I feel some of your pain--due to the FDA wanting some stuff, our database lock just got moved up six weeks. As in "finish this week, instead of seven weeks from now". OMG, ridiculous crack-smoking people!!!! I've been making ridiculous phone calls all day, and having to change all my travel.
How did your brain even learn human speech? I'm just so curious.
Wash ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
meara - Mar 08, 2011 1:03:52 pm PST #27052 of 30001
javachik - Mar 08, 2011 1:05:20 pm PST #27053 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
meara, yeah, I saw that and was like "thank goodness I don't have to also re-arrange tons of travel right now too!" I'd go nuts.
§ ita § - Mar 08, 2011 1:05:50 pm PST #27054 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Well, bitching about my review made it happen, at least an abbreviated version. I still feel disappointed with myself, but that's par for course. No raise, but bonus. Which...I'm not complaining.
Liese S. - Mar 08, 2011 1:08:36 pm PST #27055 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Bonus is good! Yay bonus!
§ ita § - Mar 08, 2011 1:14:16 pm PST #27056 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Definite yay bonus. After my first ten or so years of working without them, it's kind of weird to be up for them now.
And we pulled off a hell of a migration/upgrade/implementation last year. I hope some of the other people on the team are getting hella big bucks.
Sue - Mar 08, 2011 1:22:06 pm PST #27057 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Yay bonus.
My onerous task day is pretty much a wash, thanks to PMS nausea/migraine. I also travelled back from my parent's plae today, and took a gravol to keep me from throwoing up. Now, I am too drowsy to move. I'll be lucky to get the trash out.
Also, I really want to go to Ireland.
Liese S. - Mar 08, 2011 1:24:49 pm PST #27058 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yeah, I'm declaring fail on my original onerous tasks. But I did things that were, in fact, onerous, so oh well. It's just that I still have the original tasks to do.
I want to go to Ireland. At one point in my fantasy vacation planning, I bought Ireland by Rail kinda guidebooks and stuff. But that was when I worked for the Man and had money. Funny, that.
Now the Biscuit has climbed up into my lap (all 55 pounds of him) to inform me that it is six minutes until his dinnertime, and do I feel adequately prepared to provide for his needs at that hour? Okay, dog, I'll go feed us both.
§ ita § - Mar 08, 2011 1:25:24 pm PST #27059 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Matt Smith to play Christopher Isherwood. Apparently "vigorous, naked gay-sex scenes" are in the offing. Hokay.
JZ - Mar 08, 2011 1:29:27 pm PST #27060 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.
Okay, cold letter and follow-up letter written. One more follow up, PR query letter, and financial counselor letter, and then I think I'm done for the day.
I am so envious of ita's bonus.
And yep, Tep, Hec was right--it's a lovely place full of lovely people, but I'm still in the same division with the same title; they played musical chairs with us without giving anyone a boost, and made it clear that no raises would be forthcoming for the next, well, ever.
megan... uhhhh, Merfolk of the Mountains? I truly suck at titles.
Cash, kill him. Kill him a lot.
Steph L. - Mar 08, 2011 1:35:16 pm PST #27061 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
And yep, Tep, Hec was right--it's a lovely place full of lovely people, but I'm still in the same division with the same title; they played musical chairs with us without giving anyone a boost, and made it clear that no raises would be forthcoming for the next, well, ever.
Well, getting away from Rage Nurse had to be good for your mental health, but getting a higher salary and more edit-y stuff would be good for you and more in line with what you want to do. Good luck!