It is quite windy here today, and as it's also recycling day, that's not working out too well.
I just said that you're pretty. Even when you're covered in...engine grease, you're... No, especially, especially when you're covered in engine grease.
Simon ,'Jaynestown'
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.
Dana - Mar 26, 2014 8:36:23 am PDT #23511 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
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.
shrift - Mar 26, 2014 9:45:17 am PDT #23518 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Good for you, though, JZ. People need to know what's up!
What Jesse said!
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?
Obviously I would never say this about antidepressants, but your co-worker did what I'm trying to stop myself from doing, especially in meetings, which is to make statements based on truthiness.
erikaj - Mar 26, 2014 10:05:04 am PDT #23519 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
I got $15.33.Pretty cool, I think.
Theodosia - Mar 26, 2014 10:08:14 am PDT #23520 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
It was good of you to reassure/educate your coworker, JZ. She clearly needed it.