Ugh, Consuela, what a nightmare.
But good advice for Julie. Really, don't overplay your hand. And don't expect that having a place to air your grievance is necessarily a good thing for your career.
Handsome brooding vampire guy has to swoop in all sensitive mouth and overhanging forehead. How 'bout leaving some scraps for the homely-looking fellows who don't turn evil when they get some?
Doyle ,'Life of the Party'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DavidS - Mar 24, 2011 2:31:53 pm PDT #147 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Jesse - Mar 24, 2011 2:34:20 pm PDT #148 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jeezo pete, Suela. Fucking people.
Cass - Mar 24, 2011 2:34:42 pm PDT #149 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Scrappy is wise in this. As in so many things.
No one hangs in LJ land anymore?
I see and talk to plenty of people there. But YLJMV.
Scrappy - Mar 24, 2011 2:35:04 pm PDT #150 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
However, if you have substantive things to say and can present them intelligently, it can be a really good thing. I have gotten more than one promotion and/or change in protocol that way.
Connie Neil - Mar 24, 2011 2:35:56 pm PDT #151 of 30001
brillig
I may have done a dumb, but I couldn't help myself.
My stepdaughter's FB post was all "Don't buy the Pepsi in the new can with the Pledge of Allegiance! They didn't include Under God! We can't be indivisible if we're not under God!"
So I wrote. "Under God was added in the '50s. The Pledge was written in the 1890s. The writer of the pledge was a socialist." Because dammit, if she wants to consider me family, she can listen to me pointing out the idiocy of her ways. I'm the grumpy stepmom, it's my job.
I love Facebook, I can pretend not to see things if I don't want to deal with them. And I normally do ignore her inane, naive burblings. I don't know why this one triggered me.
Jesse - Mar 24, 2011 2:37:48 pm PDT #152 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Aside from it being a 10 year old load of malarky? [link]
Connie Neil - Mar 24, 2011 2:40:57 pm PDT #153 of 30001
brillig
Yeah, that got mentioned by another person, and she admitted she should have checked it out.
le nubian - Mar 24, 2011 3:15:53 pm PDT #154 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Juliebird,
In addition to what others have said, I have a question: is it possible for you to look for another job? I don't think that's an okay environment for you to be in if your boss is that bad. And I don't mean to be Negative Nancy here, but let's say your boss leaves, might they hire someone just as bad?
If I were in your position, I would start taking notes regarding this person's behavior, keeping a log, noting the things Scrappy has mentioned.
At this point, my justification for keeping the log would be to ward off attacks from my boss rather than going to her supervisors. Your boss sounds like a nightmare, and I'm not sure if she is capable of doing something negative to you (see Suela's anecdote). Keeping a log could be a nice defense in case something like this action would happen.
This log might also help you feel somewhat empowered in the meantime and not feeling like you have to be under this boss' thumb.
Hil R. - Mar 24, 2011 3:23:30 pm PDT #155 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Things I didn't know about Elizabeth Taylor: [link]
In 1977, JTA reported that Taylor had offered herself as a hostage for the Air France hijack victims being held captive by terrorists at Entebbe, Uganda, before Israelis rescued them. That offer, made personally to Israeli Ambassador Simcha Dinitz, was graciously declined, but Dinitz told Taylor, “The Jewish people will always remember it.”
Theodosia - Mar 24, 2011 3:34:50 pm PDT #156 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I'm pretty damn unmoved by the death of Taylor. I mean, I'm glad she beat the odds to have a long and fruitful life, but still to me she was just another pretty face from long ago.