Well, if we followed the recipe...should be cake. A demon-violence-free-zone cake.
Lorne ,'Why We Fight'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
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.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 02, 2012 10:16:53 am PDT #29239 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
Zenkitty - Apr 02, 2012 10:40:33 am PDT #29240 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Quantum Theory of Mitt Romney
I wish I had thought up the phrase "face-time continuum"! That was funny.
§ ita § - Apr 02, 2012 11:48:50 am PDT #29241 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That warehouse shipping story was a bit...damn. You really have a hand scanner that tells you how many steps it's supposed to take you to get to the goods you're fetching? That's ridic.
eta: Today is not a good day. My manager was already not happy with me, and I pissed her off further by doing work that wasn't actually mine, but I was helping someone out. Which meant that she had to sign off on it, and she refused, and I had to officially throw the work back out into the pool.
I'm just trying to not say no, and to be helpful, dammit.
Zenkitty - Apr 02, 2012 11:51:41 am PDT #29242 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Okay, fuck this. I'm a farm kid. I can deal with a goddam tick.
puts on nitrile glove
snap!
Ginger - Apr 02, 2012 11:52:35 am PDT #29243 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Do you have tweezers?
Connie Neil - Apr 02, 2012 11:55:35 am PDT #29244 of 30001
brillig
We always used the blown out match trick to get the tick to let go.
Typo Boy - Apr 02, 2012 12:00:26 pm PDT #29245 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Practical jokes. In a place a I used to work in back in 2000, a new hire top manager was greeted by finding TRS-80 with a 300 baud modem on his desk. He trumped that by keeping both for his personal collection. Proved himself and fit right in. But it meets the ita ! test of not being a hoax or a deception.
SuziQ - Apr 02, 2012 12:00:38 pm PDT #29246 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I have been put in the position of mentoring two other people who are part of our group - one is multiple grade levels higher than I am. I hadn't realized he was a higher grade until today. Based on his knowledge and the training time I've put in with him, I'm surprised.
But now I understand why he has been the more difficult of the two to work with. And, of course, I'm getting the most pressure regarding his projects. I'm trying to step lightly, but, I fear, at some point I'm going to have to be a pushy b*tch.
Zenkitty - Apr 02, 2012 12:03:06 pm PDT #29247 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Turns out, a bathroom sink is a great place to trap a squirming screeching cat while you do something like pluck a tick off his nethers.
In conclusion, ew.
§ ita § - Apr 02, 2012 12:33:30 pm PDT #29248 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
::sigh::
Why won't some people read the documentation? I keep getting asked for explanations when I know they haven't read the email, or the attachment, or clicked on the link. And they'll get defensive about a lack of information, but honestly, it's all there and they don't want to do the work.
And they won't ask questions either, which is a pretty big giveaway. It's more like pouting and saying "But I don't have details!" as they cross their arms. I did give you, in two different phrasings, enough information for you to specify where you need more context. I can't just magically explain it properly if I don't know where I fell short.
We had a thing way back where people kept saying "Your boss doesn't like X's document!" and I had to keep telling them that my boss had never read the document. He'd opened it, skimmed the first page, gotten upset with what he saw, and not only stopped reading it, but didn't read any of the updates.
And even in that situation, when we were being asked to pay for delivery of the document, I had to read it and approve it, because everyone else refused. All they knew was they didn't like it, so they weren't going to read it. Because that's the order it works in.