So I've moved on to telling some of my internal "clients" that I'm leaving, and they've started sending me random job announcements. Which is really nice, except they're in Seattle, and for jobs for which I'm not qualified, and are only available to "status candidates" (i.e., people who are already federal employees). It's endearing but dorky and useless.
I've got two words that are going to make all the pain go away. Miniature Golf.
Mayor ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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.
Consuela - Apr 22, 2013 7:21:05 am PDT #20052 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
tommyrot - Apr 22, 2013 7:21:40 am PDT #20053 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
And now you know it involves vans and parking lots!
Yep.
§ ita § - Apr 22, 2013 7:27:24 am PDT #20054 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm listening to a phone interview, and I have to wonder why some questions even get asked. "I see you have had jobs that are not like the job I'm interviewing you for. How do you feel about doing the job you applied for?"
I wonder how many people ever fuck up on that.
Why have I set up a day with half-hour gaps between meetings? Really optimistic about that lunch thing, but I have a doctor's appointment at 4, so perhaps this is for the best.
What am I thinking? This is never for the best. I'm just dumb today.
Today is business formal again, and that one guy again isn't dressed to code, and I really wish there were a management stance on this. He thinks I'm both an ass-kisser and a rabble rouser on this topic, but seriously...ties are not shackles. Get over it.
brenda m - Apr 22, 2013 7:41:31 am PDT #20055 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
"I see you have had jobs that are not like the job I'm interviewing you for. How do you feel about doing the job you applied for?"
I wonder how many people ever fuck up on that.
You would be surprised. This is the kind of question where people who either have barely really thought about the position (beyond, I need and job and this has some key words!) or who are really trying to find a route in to the company to then look for something else tend to expose themselves.
Jesse - Apr 22, 2013 7:54:22 am PDT #20056 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
My poor coworker whose last day was supposed to be Friday is here today packing up, but his party was not rescheduled! Poor thing. And he's been here 18 years in a variety of roles, so a lot of people are sad to see him go. (Unlike when my last day at a job was supposed to be 9/12/01.)
SuziQ - Apr 22, 2013 7:57:04 am PDT #20057 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Poor ex coworker.
One of my project managers just announced that she was taking 3 months paternity leave for a new 4 footed addition to her family. I.... I don't know what my response is.
brenda m - Apr 22, 2013 7:58:38 am PDT #20058 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Um, what? The apparent gender confusion notwithstanding.
le nubian - Apr 22, 2013 7:59:46 am PDT #20059 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
suzi,
how can that occur? there is no mandated leave for pets (I assume we are talking about a pet and not a new human hybrid).
SuziQ - Apr 22, 2013 8:00:08 am PDT #20060 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Yeah, the gender thing makes sense (I was there when she married her wife right before I moved to Colorado). But...for a puppy? And announcing it like that?
le nubian - Apr 22, 2013 8:00:51 am PDT #20061 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
but how was the leave approved?