Here is your cup of coffee.  Brewed from the finest Colombian lighter fluid.

Xander ,'Chosen'


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.


Amy - Oct 23, 2014 9:24:02 am PDT #8698 of 30000
Because books.

I can bring peanuts.


-t - Oct 23, 2014 9:54:12 am PDT #8699 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

How sad is it that that meaning did not even occur to me?


Sophia Brooks - Oct 23, 2014 9:55:58 am PDT #8700 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

That sounds like fun!

Why do people in offices bring in those Glade Air Freshener things. I have a new co-worker/professor whom I support (but who is not my boss), and she is two doors down from me, and that damn Fresh Breeze scent is KILLING ME. I feel like my sinuses are being roto-rooted by a metal bottle brush.


§ ita § - Oct 23, 2014 10:15:26 am PDT #8701 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

NACHOS!

Someone called me way too late about a job last night. Like, not too late jobwise, but too late evening wise. I do my sleep hygiene which involves starting winding down at 8 or so (otherwise I watch TV and it ruins everything. If I'm going to be up at 4-5 anyway, might as well start soon, right?

So I don't know what the details were, but luckily she sent me an email with job description information, but I have no idea what the next steps are.

I'm just chuffed she jumped right on my resume, since I submitted it for the first time yesterday.

But now what? ::rechecks email:: okay, my resume is with the hiring manager. I hope they are similarly excited.

The banking-related interview I had this week which seemed iffy from my PoV because I don't have loan servicing experience may be less iffy than I had thought. I might go to the next level with that one. Location-wise, it's better than last night's lady--she's in downtown, which is with all the traffic, it's in the same neighbourhood I worked before.

If I get the downtown job, Colin and GF will be on me for moving for sure.

Why do people in offices bring in those Glade Air Freshener things

Object. Just object. You are in pain, right? Object.


Toddson - Oct 23, 2014 10:17:59 am PDT #8702 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

We have a couple women in my office who are a leetle too fond of perfume. One of them, about ten minutes after she'd arrived, I could smell her perfume in the lobby. Sometimes the perfume triggers my allergies ... which tempts me to sneeze on them.


meara - Oct 23, 2014 10:19:41 am PDT #8703 of 30000

Fingers crossed for you ita!!

And I would love one of you to open me a tab. ;)


Connie Neil - Oct 23, 2014 10:20:59 am PDT #8704 of 30000
brillig

Oh, I hate room fresheners. Fake floral and fruit scents are of the devil.


Maria - Oct 23, 2014 10:36:35 am PDT #8705 of 30000
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

I am so sick and tired of people hijacking my email address. It's first name dot last name at gmail, but any variation of that also comes to me, with or without punctuation. I've had people sign up for Facebook accounts, I get bills from Orange mobile in the Dominican, and I get order receipts and shipping notifications for Marks and Spencer in England amongst other things.

I wish there was some way to make it stop.

edit: And I get dance school notifications/bills and I'm on a kid's soccer league distribution list in New Zealand. These are run by people, yet I can't convince anyone to take me off of them because I'm not the person who lives in Auckland.


Steph L. - Oct 23, 2014 10:38:27 am PDT #8706 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

It happens to me, too. I don't know if people really think that their version of my address, but with a dot in the middle, is their actual email, or if they just use it as a burner, or whatever. But it's annoying as hell.

(I don't know how they can actually think it's their email, because they wouldn't be able to log in to gmail with that email address. It makes no sense to me.)

t edit I just tried it -- logging in with my email but a dot in the middle, and it logged me in as me. So I feel like these have to be throwaway addresses people use when they're forced to enter an email address to sign up for stuff.


Jesse - Oct 23, 2014 10:41:53 am PDT #8707 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

The dots in gmail addresses don't mean anything. I have a couple of those people, too -- mostly Jimmie H.