Big stop just to renew your license to companion. Can I use companion as a verb?

Wash ,'Ariel'


Natter 74: Ready or Not  

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.


shrift - May 04, 2016 8:58:32 am PDT #20926 of 30003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

As I recall in my brief time as a not-actually-a-Google-employee, you can do a good job and still get what sounds like a pretty bad review.

You're not wrong.

I have to increase my visibility and sell the things I'm working on when I would rather just do the work. Ugh. Maybe I'll distract myself by writing more code.


Gudanov - May 04, 2016 9:06:08 am PDT #20927 of 30003
Coding and Sleeping

My manager spent about half my review just explaining how Google performance reviews weren't a bell curve like Motorola's were. Still it was pretty demoralizing to be told you're doing a perfectly good job, but then get these low numbers.


SuziQ - May 04, 2016 9:06:56 am PDT #20928 of 30003
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

CJ has found a car so we are in the dealership and all that crap. Vonn Miller is here filming a commercial. I'm not a big football fan...but I do know he was the Super Bowl MVP and was on Dancing with the Stars.


Dana - May 04, 2016 9:18:19 am PDT #20929 of 30003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

UGH performance reviews. They are the worst.

It is why I have Garfield fun facts in my head!

And I thought for a second you meant the cat.


-t - May 04, 2016 9:43:30 am PDT #20930 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Oh, ugh, shrift, I hate upping visibility. Doing the work should be enough.

And I thought for a second you meant the cat.

A) Hates Mondays 2) Loves lasagna iii) Was nominated as a Dark Horse

Dammit, I keep not having time to call the person with the cat! She left me a message on my work phone after I left yesterday and I thought 7 am was probably too early to call and then I forgot until I was in a meeting and now I'm off toget my hair cut. Maybe I can reachher on the way.


Calli - May 04, 2016 9:45:53 am PDT #20931 of 30003
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I have to increase my visibility and sell the things I'm working on when I would rather just do the work. Ugh. Maybe I'll distract myself by writing more code.

That sucks. It seems like sales and code writing should be different positions.


msbelle - May 04, 2016 9:55:16 am PDT #20932 of 30003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Thoughts on running mates at this point?

I read Newt somewhere.


shrift - May 04, 2016 9:57:17 am PDT #20933 of 30003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

It's 'selling' in the form of self-promotion and visibility with upper management.


Jesse - May 04, 2016 10:00:33 am PDT #20934 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Thoughts on running mates at this point?

I read Newt somewhere.

OMG, that would be amazing. Just in that he might be the only person who is a bigger asshole?


Calli - May 04, 2016 10:04:10 am PDT #20935 of 30003
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

For Trump? I heard Chris Christie somewhere on twitter. Seems plausible.

For Clinton? Harder to say.

For Sanders? Even harder to say.

I've heard people talk about Elizabeth Warren as a potential VP pick for the Democratic nominee, but I'd rather have her kicking butt in the Senate. And wouldn't her seat be filled by the MA governor, a Republican? Nah. Maybe one of the few remaining Democratic governors? Jay Inslee (WA) or Maggi Hassan (NH)?