Jonathan ,'Touched'
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.
My co-worker is a tiny tuxedo kitten who will Not let me pick her up!
Darn these co-workers and their insistence on proper workplace etiquette.
It's a scary thought, starting to think about a retirement date for real.
I tend to start gibbering and considering living out of my car to save money at that point.
My co-worker is a tiny tuxedo kitten who will Not let me pick her up!
Aw. I have been missing kittens lately.
How can I have only been at work for an hour? It should be lunchtime!
I actually checked multiple clocks because I was sure the one I was looking at was wrong.
Congratulations, Sheryl and Gary!
My longest job was the military--14 years. This job will probably just match that, due to the oddball calculations the state goes by: your age plus the number of years worked has to add up to 80. So, if you start at 25, you have to work until you're 55 (which is the earliest you can retire, anyway.) Since I started here at 52, I have to work 14 years (66+14=80), before I qualify for retirement. Since I can't claim social security until I'm 66 and 6 months, that actually works out pretty well.
I have been with my giant monolith for 12 years, but in Four different jobs. I can retire in 11 years, but I don't think I will survive with my sanity intact for that long. Frankly, if I make it through the summer without having a hissy fit, it will be a miracle.
Aw, I wish I had a tuxedo kitten that wouldn't let me pick it up.
That would be better than what I'm doing right now, which is finding out that I have to set up a new renters insurance policy with an agency in CA and then cancel my current insurance policy in Illinois, because licensing.
I've been at my current job for 15 years. If I stay until I retire and I take early retirement, which is the current plan, I'll have been here 25 years. Early retirement may not happen, but man, I want out of the corporate culture asap.
I'm listening to a webinar about science publishing in Africa, specifically Tanzania. If this lady would stop telling pointless personal anecdotes about her Africa trip that mainly just highlight what a sheltered white girl she is, we could cut this hour-long speech down to about twenty minutes. Seriously, I just need the information about publishing in a third-world country. I don't care how scared you were about flying in a tiny plane!
Oh, she's discovered that many of the problems Africa faces are the result of colonialism! Yes, that's why the kids have to make paper out of rice stalks. And her two-day African safari was a NIGHTMARE, oh my god, thank god for the Masai warrior who protected me, look at this photo of a giraffe.
Her talk is over, and people are asking lots of questions, about all the actually important things she didn't talk about, like how networking works in a country where people tend not to answer email or their phones.
Hey, she got paid to tell travel stories and show her slides!