Those people get a forward of the original email with the old time/date stamp and an intro note of, "As I previously provided.....".

so, it is a bit more subtle than that.

I think they didn't quite understand what I sent before, or it wasn't in a format they wanted. So instead of saying, thank you for this, we actually need THAT. They just ask me the same question again.

It's like ask: "how many animals do you need?"

and I say: "I need 100 monkeys."

what they wanted to know is: what breed of monkey, delivered in what manner, but they ask instead: "how many monkeys?"

So we have moved to them knowing I need monkeys (out of all the animals), but they need more specificity. Because I don't really know which specifics they need, I cannot help.

That Kickstarter for Capes - that's my late sister in law's sister and the cutie pie boy in the yellow cape - my nephew. Edited - I had no idea she was doing this.

Or I knew she was making capes but didn't know about the Kickstarter thing.

In December, I get another email: how much $$ should we send?

Send them a random large number.

Askye, that's adorable!

I don't know why I'm sourcing soft core (totally SFW) fetish porn for Hec, but whatevs: [link]

Ugh, I don't want to open work email again. Maybe I'll go put on a pot of tea, make a PBJ (instead of eating the lone remaining test apple) and then catch up on fifteen minutes of nobody doing the thing I expect/want (I was in the developer's design review today explaining MIME types and how you have no responsibility for what happens on the user's machine once you have correctly matched the type to the content--our developer didn't understand that, the testers didn't understand that, just the one guy who runs the place, apparently, because he backed my bewildered ejaculation up))

Oh, and Granny Smith's are too sour to eat a week's worth. I need to mix some sweet in.

Right. Tea. With our without pesticides?

So I just talked to my current boss, and he said that if there's any veteran on the qualified list, there's almost no chance they can hire me. (And I was told there's a veteran on the list, but not whether they're on the Most Qualified list.)

I made a joke about shooting myself in the head and he reminded me that he's obligated to take that kind of threat seriously.

t cries

I don't know why I'm sourcing soft core (totally SFW) fetish porn for Hec, but whatevs: [link]

Woot! I don't expect Anne to stay in the short-hair zone but I'm certainly enjoying it right now. I think she looks fantastic with her cool little crop. (Obvs, NSM the one she gets in the movie.)

Oh, if you can't commit suicide it's not a job worth having...

And that goes on the list of least sympathetic things I've ever said.

But, more seriously, Consuela--I know my amazement that you're even remotely vertical or eloquent at this point doesn't mean shit, but you are doing amazingly for what life has thrown at you, which I think should be life's cue to stop. I...if I knew how to distract veterans, I totally would. I mean, you're clearly at the point where you're the best suited for the job because you've had it so bloody long. Rules are not always our friends.

Consuela, what happens if they hire a veteran? You've said that you are basically the only person who's actually qualified to do your job. So how long would a veteran last in that position before getting fired?

It just seems like if they hired a veteran, that due to the vet's total lack of qualifications, they'd be firing the vet and begging you to come back inside of 2 months.

It just seems like if they hired a veteran, that due to the vet's total lack of qualifications, they'd be firing the vet and begging you to come back inside of 2 months.

Hardly anyone ever gets fired in the federal government. And the veterans aren't supposed to make the list if they're completely unqualified. So this person is likely an environmental engineer or someone with some hazardous waste background who can pass as an environmental protection specialist (and likely to be appalled by the amount of non-environmental work I actually do).

My one hope is that they tell the vet they're not paying relocation expenses, or something like that, and they remove themselves from consideration.

Ugh Suela, your work situation has been such a clusterfuck of wrongness for so long, and you've endured it with such grace. I don't know why they aren't bending over backwards trying to fix it for you. Also what ita said about life backing off about now.