Xander: How? What? How? Giles: Three excellent questions.

Xander/Giles ,'Never Leave Me'


Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


tommyrot - Sep 09, 2014 6:42:13 am PDT #5817 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.

I've never been written up. Do they make you sign the write-up? If so, can you write that you don't agree with the write-up?


SuziQ - Sep 09, 2014 6:44:04 am PDT #5818 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

I got written up, put on a performance improvement plan, and was sure I was going to lose my job - I'm still here 23 years and going strong. I had a supervisor (who was never introduced as a supervisor until after she had been on disability leave for a few weeks). While she was on leave, I was covering her projects and found a bunch of errors, including things that meant we needed to send refunds to a few clients. When she returned, I "didn't have the proper respect" and she wrote me up. She was also fired about 4 months later.


Sophia Brooks - Sep 09, 2014 6:47:13 am PDT #5819 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Yes you have to sign. You can say you disagree, but with write up number 2, I actually salvaged my job (which I still have, my boss is gone) by saying I was horribly sorry, I didn't mean to upset her, I would try better and get my meds adjusted (which I did not). about 6 months later she was gone.


shrift - Sep 09, 2014 7:04:09 am PDT #5820 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I'm glad a coworker guilted me into going to meditation this morning, because it's definitely an "I will cut you if you put one more meeting on my calendar" kind of day.


flea - Sep 09, 2014 7:13:43 am PDT #5821 of 30000
information libertarian

So, I applied for an October work trip to SF in April, and was told in May it was a no-go, so planned to attend the conference virtually. TODAY my boss tells me, in a surprise to him, he received the travel approval for me to go. It's a month from today, we've already set our work schedules for October, and I am teaching 2 classes on the day I'd be coming back from the conference, so I'd need to reschedule those. ARGH, fiscal office, what the heck? I think I am just going to not go, because boss and I both figure if this year's funding makes no sense, nothing we do now is likely to have any effect on next year's funding, which will also make no sense.


§ ita § - Sep 09, 2014 7:50:50 am PDT #5822 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm glad a coworker guilted me into going to meditation this morning,

What's mediation?


Jesse - Sep 09, 2014 8:00:13 am PDT #5823 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

So I just got real scared I called the president of South Africa "President Zumba," but I'm pretty sure I actually did say Zuma, which is his name.


Connie Neil - Sep 09, 2014 8:12:58 am PDT #5824 of 30000
brillig

I so rarely worry about how I address presidents of sovereign nations.


Jesse - Sep 09, 2014 8:48:10 am PDT #5825 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

More referring to than addressing, but still. Zumba Zuma


shrift - Sep 09, 2014 8:54:25 am PDT #5826 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I may need to take a quick break after my next meeting before I start screaming incoherently.