I am weirdly outraged at the news that Burger King might buy Tim Horton.
I've never heard of Tim Horton, but this still pisses me off. Burger King wants to exploit a tax loophole that will save them billions in taxes by merging with a foreign company.
IRS, Eh? Tim Hortons Deal Could Lower Burger King's Tax Bill | Fox Business
Lots of companies have been doing this recently--it's costing the US tons in lost tax revenue.
I'm surprised Canada's tax rate would be lower than ours!
Note to self: more responsibility means they like you. It is not the universe saying "Let's give her another opportunity to fail and look like an idiot."
Note to self: more responsibility means they like you. It is not the universe saying "Let's give her another opportunity to fail and look like an idiot."
I'm going through the same thing. We should start a club! (My boss told me today it usually takes editors 18 months to get totally up to speed on all the style points. The AMA style manual is an actual published hardbound book and it is enormous.) So all my articles come back with lots of feedback pointing out where I missed stuff. So frustrating. But then my boss says "Good job!" and gives me longer stuff to edit. So...I know she has faith in me and believes I can do it. But it *feels* like an opportunity to fail and look like an idiot.
Today is my six year work anniversary and I still feel like that sometimes.
I so envy people who get tossed new and complicated situations and are excited by the opportunity rather than horrified at the potential for catastrophe.
I've worked here for eight years, and the company keeps evolving and adding things that tech support is responsible for, and I hate change.
I so envy people who get tossed new and complicated situations and are excited by the opportunity rather than horrified at the potential for catastrophe.
Or who at the very least can say it with a straight face.
Ugh. I've been dealing with the fact that apparently sometime in early August I had a complete brain meltdown and didn't even realize it? I sent a bunch of letters with big errors (like the wrong date of what the letter was about), no signatures, or completely forgot to send them (which is a big deal, both of those things, because our signatures are digital, so if you do it late, it says "signed on [date after the thing you were sending the letter about already happened]"). Normally I don't do this at ALL, and instead i had I think FOUR different instances where I had to be like "Um, hi, can you also file this revised version?"