I couldn't believe it the first twenty times you told us, but it's starting to sink in now.

Riley ,'Lessons'


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.


Jesse - May 17, 2013 5:55:23 am PDT #22705 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I was going to put food in my pockets yesterday when they kept bringing us more bread! But then I realized the rolls were only irresistible because they were warm. (I went out to lunch with coworkers.)


Matt the Bruins fan - May 17, 2013 6:30:17 am PDT #22706 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

It seems really crazy to me to remove coffee makers as a cost-cutting measure. Like Sophia, people here bring their own pods.

This seems more like a person-in-charge-doesn't-like-seeing-employees-in-the-breakroom measure than a cost-cutting one. I suggest everyone staging a sleep-in the next time the person responsible is in the building.


brenda m - May 17, 2013 6:37:12 am PDT #22707 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

Also we are not allowed to provide bottled water, only tap.

We had a presentation with a major client a while back and they put out both bottled water and pitchers of ice water. Our biggest competitor met with them the day before and, apparently, all bee-lined for the bottled stuff, despite the fact that one of the key topic areas was around sustainability. It was Pointedly Noticed.


Sue - May 17, 2013 6:44:43 am PDT #22708 of 30001
hip deep in pie

Geoguess just gave me a place about an hour from here, and about 5 minutes from a friend's place.


Sue - May 17, 2013 6:46:44 am PDT #22709 of 30001
hip deep in pie

Our company doesn't do bottled water either but it is part of our green corporate environment.

Ours was couched as a green measure, but really was a cost-saving measure. It makes sense to me. Except that now people often don't provide water at all.


brenda m - May 17, 2013 6:52:14 am PDT #22710 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

Mayor of DC TORONTO caught on tape smoking crack. [link] No word on whether the bitch set him up.


le nubian - May 17, 2013 6:57:47 am PDT #22711 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

hahahaha! oh you know I was thinking the same thing.

I just can't get over it.


Sophia Brooks - May 17, 2013 7:18:10 am PDT #22712 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

There was just an earthquake there a couple of hours ago (Toronto)


§ ita § - May 17, 2013 7:22:14 am PDT #22713 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

This morning (which started an hour early when I gave in and stopped trying to force it) has been a cascade of fail--what's worse than being ten minutes late for your own meeting? Finding out that despite the meeting being on your calendar, invites never went out, so people think you're insane for telling them you'll be late. And there's no way to get those people on the same call this week.

Reading emails, tonight's release is in jeopardy. The release for which I cancelled going to my cousin's fortieth is off, so I could have gone.

My manager and my potential new boss are not both going to be here at the same time today, it seems, so I don't even know how that is going to go.

My parking/security pass is...somewhere not here.

I am terrified to catch up on my email any more, because...it's bad enough as it is. Maybe I can wait out the rest of the shit.


meara - May 17, 2013 7:25:10 am PDT #22714 of 30001

ayor of DC TORONTO caught on tape smoking crack. [link] No word on whether the bitch set him up.

Hahahah! Oh, from everything my Toronto friends have said they will be very glad to laugh and point. The question is, can he, like Marion Berry, because Mayor4Life?!