This here's a recipe for unpleasantness.

Mal ,'Objects In Space'


Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet  

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.


Lee - Feb 27, 2013 12:22:15 pm PST #12996 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

end of business day?


P.M. Marc - Feb 27, 2013 12:25:35 pm PST #12997 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

Explanation of Benefits.


Liese S. - Feb 27, 2013 12:31:50 pm PST #12998 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

I learned a new blues progression, though, does that count?


Consuela - Feb 27, 2013 12:31:58 pm PST #12999 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

So in my frustration I called the hiring manager for my job (since my current boss is out of town). He says he's heard nothing about a hiring freeze, and so far as he knows the process is going forward.

Argh, indeed. On Friday it will be a month since I interviewed.


§ ita § - Feb 27, 2013 12:32:15 pm PST #13000 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Now the developer has sent an email saying she worked out what is the problem (and it has nothing to do with me, remarkably) and I don't have the energy to read it. I think I'll read the scary stuff from the new director who wants things from me I don't understand. Yeah, I'll do that instead.


Amy - Feb 27, 2013 12:33:59 pm PST #13001 of 30001
Because books.

I don't know why "explanation of benefits" never occurred to me. Thanks!

On Friday it will be a month since I interviewed.

Ugh.

I think I'll read the scary stuff from the new director who wants things from me I don't understand. Yeah, I'll do that instead.

Maybe with a tasty muffin?


SuziQ - Feb 27, 2013 12:56:00 pm PST #13002 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Consuela - Amy has it right with Ugh.

I still don't have the answers I need on the project I'm covering on. I think everyone but me is in a client meeting. I have given a gal a couple of excel lessons on conditional formatting and the iferror function. Joy.


Liese S. - Feb 27, 2013 12:56:46 pm PST #13003 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Incompetent!developer is incompetent.

Of course, so am I today, but I don't have any coworkers around to complain about it. The SO is out feeding China Wok to the high schoolers at the moment.

I think part of my problem is that I have the NAS setup stuff running in the background, so I just keep obsessively checking that, which *feels* like work, but isn't actually.

And I can't work out a problem I have with the current cigar box build, so my spare time brain is occupied too.

AND there's all this other background emotional stuff going on. No wonder I can't focus. Time for the timer, for the rest of the day, I think. 'Cause, shit, from Friday on I will be completely busy through spring break.


Connie Neil - Feb 27, 2013 1:03:34 pm PST #13004 of 30001
brillig

Boy, do I have my co-workers fooled. The head of our QA department was crutching her way to door on her way out, paused by my desk and said, "I heard the nicest thing about you today. They said you were kind and sweet and approachable." I blinked and said, "And they work here?" She grinned and said, "Yes."

And now I'm wavering between "Oh, how nice!" and "My god, I have to revise my demeanor, or they'll all start talking to me!"


Consuela - Feb 27, 2013 1:11:27 pm PST #13005 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Amy has it right with Ugh.

And yet when I was originally hired, I think I interviewed in October and got the offer in mid to late December. So I guess I shouldn't be surprised? Sigh.

I am being marginally more productive today. Go me.