Kaylee: You're nice, too. Mal: No, I'm not. I'm a mean old man.

'Serenity'


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.


Liese S. - May 20, 2016 3:18:17 pm PDT #21789 of 30003
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

I posted this big long thing and all I got back was #please. Hashtag please? All I'm getting is hashtag please? I'm going to chose to read that as, you are powerless against my excellent arguments and will be mulling them over on your own time, eventually coming to a gentle and subtle realization that everything you know is wrong and you have been an idiot every time you've opened your mouth for your entire life.

I private messaged the dude whose page it was to say, hey, should I disengage here? Because sheesh.


Kat - May 20, 2016 3:24:27 pm PDT #21790 of 30003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I think I might be done! I haven't had my period in three months. FINGERS CROSSED.

I can go almost 3 months without a period and then bam. It's back. But yes, hot flashes at night are no good.


SuziQ - May 20, 2016 3:31:16 pm PDT #21791 of 30003
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Well hell. My cousin posted something along the lines of "Because I am obligated as a moral person to oppose the gleeful encouragement of hate crimes, racism, sexism, lying, bribery, not to mention really awful toupees." Her brother-in-law posted "when has he gleefully encouraged hate crimes".

Seriously?!?!? I need to come up with links. Wow.


-t - May 20, 2016 3:33:43 pm PDT #21792 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

If I was responsible person I would be mowing the lawn right now. I'm telling myself that I can't because it is too windy, but really I just would prefer not to.

Wrong 'uns gonna be wrong.


sarameg - May 20, 2016 3:42:05 pm PDT #21793 of 30003

Things got so fucked up I had to call my boss ON VACATION to get her to make the necessary players stand up and take notice. Y'all know me, I'm not really a shrinking violet, it was that bad. But when we can't ingest data, the next step is informing the mission and that is BAD.

So she conference called everyone in on their personal phones (since they were not responding to me on the usual lines-they'll answer a boss calling from vacation) on her cell while she was driving with her visiting sister to Annapolis and we at least got things fixed enough we can limp through the weekend. Come to Jesus and FIX THIS Monday meeting, including chief engineer who will be really unhappy because he doesn't want to allocate more scant resources to us, but something is seriously broken.

And I'm frustrated because it feels like I couldn't even hold up my end, but part of the problem is that people didn't take seriously that I was making executive decisions. And no one else wanted to take responsibility. IT kept saying the infrastructure looked fine. Well, it wasn't working, so no, it isn't.

I ended up staying 2.5 hrs late. Swam 2 very necessary miles and now I'm headed straight to the bourbon.


SuziQ - May 20, 2016 3:49:05 pm PDT #21794 of 30003
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Relax and deal on Monday, sara. Glad you boss had your back.


-t - May 20, 2016 4:07:39 pm PDT #21795 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Oh, man, sara, that is a lot of suckage.


Jessica - May 20, 2016 4:17:49 pm PDT #21796 of 30003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I'm real! Jesse and Tom can vouch for my very recent existence!

Her brother-in-law posted "when has he gleefully encouraged hate crimes".

I think my favorite part of this response is how blatantly it assumes that there's nothing wrong with racism, sexism, lying, and bribery.


Jesse - May 20, 2016 4:42:30 pm PDT #21797 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I'm real! Jesse and Tom can vouch for my very recent existence!

The problem is that it was Tom asking the question, so.

Uggghhhhh, sara.


sarameg - May 20, 2016 4:54:05 pm PDT #21798 of 30003

I hate feeling impotent. In most of the other sub-projects I'm designated head, people hotstep when I cry foul. But the same people who see me as expert in xyz, wouldn't take me as the same authority as my boss for big ops. It's frustrating. Partly tied to everyone being overextended right now, they wanted to be able to ignore it (big build for the other mission is in dev production the next 2 weeks and they're behind.)

But I had people in my own branch doing the opposite of what I told them and pushing back when I told them no. Which, I mean, I got them to do what I said eventually, but it wasted time. And made more mess for me to clean up. And is demoralizing.

Pretty much a horrid day on so many levels, not just the actual computer shit that went wrong. I'm gonna need a talk with my boss. After she comes back from vacation. After Memorial Day.