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'Serenity'


Natter 70: Hookers and Blow  

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.


Connie Neil - Sep 18, 2012 4:56:39 pm PDT #22669 of 30001
brillig

I keep getting dinged in reviews for attitude because I don't want to move up to the next level in tech support. I must be lazy if I don't want to be promoted. No, I know my strengths are talking to the customers and explaining things to the clueless. I don't want to change jobs to answering questions for techs who are talking to the customers. I think I need to put it that way during the next review.

Of course, there are salary caps on the various positions, so if you're happy with the job you have eventually they'll stop giving you raises.


Kat - Sep 18, 2012 5:00:08 pm PDT #22670 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Oh jesus. Are you in a room or the hallway? When Grace was there, a woman in the hall on a gurney hadn't been to the bathroom in the 18 hours I was there. But she need a catheter but had no room to have one placed. My image of hell.

Grace had surgery today. Everyone was freaked that we went to the ER because we never do that. We should have stopped by, ita. Also, for our purposes, we learned that the Santa Monica ER is about 27 times faster (in that we would have been in a room within an hour instead of 27).


Kat - Sep 18, 2012 5:27:53 pm PDT #22671 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Also, FYI, they were also filming on the second floor (the OR, the PTU and the recover rooms). Nurses were not thrilled by the sitch.


Theodosia - Sep 18, 2012 5:32:33 pm PDT #22672 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"

There's entirely too much ER today. I hope Grace is OK, because you would have said something, right?


Kat - Sep 18, 2012 5:49:36 pm PDT #22673 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Grace was in the ER about 2+ weeks ago. She had her regularly scheduled surgery today. What was good was she came out of it talking immediately (well after she was fighting mad and given phenobarbital) which is good. She should be even louder now. We don't go back for surgery again until November 20. Woo hoo! A month off!


erikaj - Sep 18, 2012 6:21:38 pm PDT #22674 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!

True enough, ita. I didn't count actual white supremacy. But my mom invented a handsign with the ASL "M" that we mock them with. Well, we think we're funny. (ita, your headache stuff sucks. I wish there were a real House you could go to.


P.M. Marc - Sep 18, 2012 6:43:28 pm PDT #22675 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I know! It drives me nuts. Most organizations (or large and/or corporate organizations) don't seem to acknowledge that some people don't want to manage, some people get to a point where they're content where they are, and some people do not have a burning desire to do anything except do a good job and then GO HOME.

Amen.


Connie Neil - Sep 18, 2012 6:58:24 pm PDT #22676 of 30001
brillig

There's a necessary place in the world for Sergeants, who know the job, who can teach the job, who can help new officers--and old, smart officers--figure out what can and can't be done.


Lee - Sep 18, 2012 7:20:53 pm PDT #22677 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

It's weird, but law firms are different in that regard, at least for support staff--I've always made it clear I don't want to be a manager, and no one has questioned that, and instead the focus has been how well I do as support staff.


DavidS - Sep 18, 2012 7:25:39 pm PDT #22678 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

at least for support staff

Of Counsel, too, for Associates who don't want to become Partners.