I think my lunch is going to be split-pea soup and cheese melted on a corn tortilla. And maybe a banana.
Big stop just to renew your license to companion. Can I use companion as a verb?
Wash ,'Ariel'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
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.
Steph L. - Mar 26, 2014 8:10:53 am PDT #23508 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
tommyrot - Mar 26, 2014 8:18:51 am PDT #23509 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
A compilation of videos of people behaving very badly at work: THE GREATEST WORKPLACE FREAK OUTS EVER - YouTube
People smashing their computers, desks, etc. One guy hits another over the head with a keyboard....
Jesse - Mar 26, 2014 8:22:02 am PDT #23510 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Shocking new school lice policies: [link]
Dana - Mar 26, 2014 8:36:23 am PDT #23511 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
It is quite windy here today, and as it's also recycling day, that's not working out too well.
Amy - Mar 26, 2014 8:55:34 am PDT #23512 of 30000
Because books.
It's really windy here, too.
Shocking new school lice policies
I guess it makes sense, the way he explains it.
JZ - Mar 26, 2014 9:24:05 am PDT #23513 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
sarameg, that policy is bonkers. I can't imagine any way that a serious attempt to adhere to it would lead to anything but the office environment demon baby of Ayn Rand and Lord of the Flies. I hope there's a metric shitton of pushback.
Fun conversation this morning:
Co-Worker: I can't believe they put my mother on Zoloft! She's on a hundred milligrams a day. That's too much. She must be high as a kite. That terrible drug! Why would they do that?
Me: I'm on a hundred fifty a day.
Co-Worker: ...
We then had a longer, better talk about the mechanisms of various ADs and her mom's differential diagnoses and the importance in controlling anxiety in patients with memory loss and conflict-and-uncertainty-avoidance issues, and it turned out okay. But... fuuuuck, that was not how I wanted to start the morning. It's just that there was no way I could sit there and listen to that and say nothing.
Jesse - Mar 26, 2014 9:25:27 am PDT #23514 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Good for you, though, JZ. People need to know what's up!
shrift - Mar 26, 2014 9:29:47 am PDT #23515 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I ate too much phở for lunch. Like you do.
I got to work at 7:30am, which allowed me to get some stuff done before training started at 8:30am. I'm leaving at 4:30 regardless of what my inbox looks like.
Connie Neil - Mar 26, 2014 9:33:59 am PDT #23516 of 30000
brillig
I am always boggled by the personal information people are willing to throw out on their co-workers.
JZ - Mar 26, 2014 9:38:28 am PDT #23517 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Well, 90% of the time it's a 3-person office, so sharing is truly unavoidable.
This is why I dread the impending move to an open-plan office to be shared with the entire department instead of just our tiny subdivision.