Yay, Maria! Congrats!
Best of luck in catchup mode, Suzi!
I have no additional wisdom on the blister, Vortex, but how is the Couch to 5K coming?
Mal: Go on. Get in there. Give your brother a thrashing for messing up your plan. River: He takes so much looking after.
'Objects In Space'
Spike's Bitches 48: I Say, We Go Out There, and Kick a Little Demon Ass.
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EpicTangent - Aug 06, 2013 7:49:40 am PDT #2780 of 30002
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Pix - Aug 06, 2013 8:30:39 am PDT #2781 of 30002
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Vortex, I waved to you when I drove through Hartford at 5am on the way to the airport. One of these days I will be in CT and not be scheduled within an inch of my life so I can see you. Congrats on the couch to 5K! You can do it!
omnis_audis - Aug 06, 2013 9:41:09 am PDT #2782 of 30002
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
They gave me everything I wanted
That is fabulous news!!! Should I be looking for you at an airport near me? We got a bunch in Southern California. The weather is great (if you like sunny, mid 70's-80's, blue sky, low humidity).
Now go enjoy turning in that letter of "Kiss off, I'm outta here" to the old job. Hopefully you have some sick time or vacation time you can take so those two weeks aren't spent in the office of doom.
SuziQ - Aug 06, 2013 9:41:25 am PDT #2783 of 30002
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Oy. This all day meeting I got pulled into today...they said they had complex costing workbooks that needed major revisions and matching to a couple of corporate systems and very difficult and technical and did I even have the skills to help them out. Ummmm, simple excel spreadsheet, I've already completed as much as I can without input from the project manager. Yes, the corporate systems will be fun to match but that is pretty straight forward.
So now I'm working on other stuff while they get their info together. Wheee.
JZ - Aug 06, 2013 9:55:31 am PDT #2784 of 30002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
YAY MARIA!
How soon do you get to tell the current employers to stuff it? Are you going to film it and show it every Christmas?
EpicTangent - Aug 06, 2013 10:05:35 am PDT #2785 of 30002
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Don't tell, Suzi! Just let them think you're Brilliant!
SuziQ - Aug 06, 2013 10:44:23 am PDT #2786 of 30002
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Naw, I'm letting them think I'm magic. My manager checked in with me to make sure things were going well and I told him that the work was much simpler than originally expected. But it is still detailed.
So, I'm hanging in the conference room with them, plugging away at getting caught up, working on their stuff as needed.
Maria - Aug 06, 2013 11:26:30 am PDT #2787 of 30002
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Thanks, everyone!
How soon do you get to tell the current employers to stuff it? Are you going to film it and show it every Christmas?
I should be able to give notice on Monday, assuming the drug test comes back negative (which it will).
As much as I'd love to tell them to fuck off, I'm just going to tell them that this job gives me the opportunity to move to PA and leave it at that. They did not make me sign a non-solicitation agreement, so when I take my customers with me I don't want karma to bite me in the ass.
Suzi, you ARE magic!
SuziQ - Aug 06, 2013 11:51:05 am PDT #2788 of 30002
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Suzi, you ARE magic!
Blush. It is kinda fun. They mention something about maybe wanting a monthly burn rate analysis and a couple of minutes later I have one for them while they have rambled on. Ta-da!
Hil R. - Aug 06, 2013 11:58:16 am PDT #2789 of 30002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Product question: a few years ago, I bought a some hair-remover-remover cleanser stuff. You'd use Nair or Neet or whatever hair remover cream like that, and then clean with this stuff. If there was still Nair left, it would turn pink, but after washing a few times, it stayed white. It was the only way I was ever able to use Nair without either smelling like the chemicals for days or scrubbing so much that I irritated my skin. I have no idea what it was called, and none of my google searches have yielded anything. Anyone know what this stuff was called, and if it's still being sold?