Man, Michelle Obama's speech last night was good.
Oh, smacked in the noggin with a 2x4 wrapped in velvet. Yeah, that's what it felt like.
Lorne ,'Smile Time'
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.
Dana - Jul 26, 2016 9:56:38 am PDT #25083 of 30003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Laura - Jul 26, 2016 10:09:50 am PDT #25084 of 30003
Our wings are not tired.
Man, Michelle Obama's speech last night was good.
Seriously moving. She made Booker and Warren pale in comparison and they are no lightweights. Just WoW!
Eeep! Tonight I am supposed to go to a neighbor's house for a viewing party. With strangers. Mostly I am cool with that and really social by nature, but I want to actually listen to the speakers and not chit chat.
Jesse - Jul 26, 2016 10:53:34 am PDT #25085 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Anyway, a month or two after his unsuccessful interview, the head receptionist asked my boss about him, because he seemed a little strange. It turned out that he was stashing his interview suit in the closet in our reception area and coming up to our floor an using the guest bathroom to change in and out of it as he went off to apparently a whole lot of interviews other places
!!!!!!!
Zenkitty - Jul 26, 2016 11:08:34 am PDT #25086 of 30003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
To be fair, I think our turnaround time is ridiculously tight, but I'm not in charge; I didn't decide to make it that tight. (I also don't think authors are told how tight the turnaround time is when their articles are accepted, but, again, that's not my decision.
Oh, ditto, on both points. Our authors have 2 days to return their comments on the edited article, and of course many of them cannot do that. Especially since our scheduling algorithm does not take weekends into account! We have 3 weeks from receipt of the unedited manuscript to online publish. It's basically impossible; if anything at all doesn't go according to schedule, it can't be done. Fortunately the bosses in my department know this, all they want is a reason to plug in for why.
SuitGuy has moxy. We don't like moxy.
Zenkitty - Jul 26, 2016 11:11:12 am PDT #25087 of 30003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I try really hard to make the Reason for Delay never be ME, but sometimes it is. Because sometimes I can't get everything done. "Too much work" is never an acceptable reason, alas. Also, I have one journal that basically makes me want to cry*, and I admit I put that one off until last, and sometimes I put it off too long.
*I am a professional.
Steph L. - Jul 26, 2016 12:07:36 pm PDT #25088 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Steph L. - Jul 26, 2016 12:09:57 pm PDT #25089 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Our authors have 2 days to return their comments on the edited article, and of course many of them cannot do that. Especially since our scheduling algorithm does not take weekends into account!
That's exactly us, literally. Authors get 2 days, and weekends are not taken into account. So an author who gets their article on Thursday is expected to return it on Saturday.
Zenkitty - Jul 26, 2016 12:31:05 pm PDT #25090 of 30003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I think it's just crazy unreasonable, but everyone in the industry seems focused on publishing the most papers as fast as possible.
Steph L. - Jul 26, 2016 12:42:12 pm PDT #25091 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Yup.
meara - Jul 26, 2016 1:00:11 pm PDT #25092 of 30003
Yeah, I feel like on the one hand if the response is "we will get it to you three days after your deadline", the answer should be "great, we will check if there is room for you in next month's edition and if not put you on a wait list!" But to not take weekends into account is ridiculous