Lorne: Once the word spreads you beat up an innocent old man, well, the truly terrible will think twice before going toe-to-toe with our Avenging Angel. Spike: Yes. The geriatric community will be soiling their nappies when they hear you're on the case. Bravo.

'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'


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.


brenda m - Aug 05, 2015 9:26:25 am PDT #2686 of 30003
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Here's a new one. We are considering rescinding a job offer.

Pro-tip: when you are hired for a very junior role, commensurate with your very junior level of experience, sitting on the offer for several days and then calling to exhaustively review whether you will be able to impact strategy, what guarantees you had that your work would be "high level" and not tactical stuff, how you might move into a different and more visible role if that were what you decided you wanted, how quickly you could expect to be able to do that, what steps would you need to take to move into other areas of the firm, etc etc? For 45 minutes? Not the greatest idea.

I assume there was also a request for more money buried in there somewhere, but my manager was so flabbergasted at all of this it probably barely registered.

I mean seriously, who has time for that? You know every three days would be some new complaint about being asked to do stuff that was in her job description beneath her.


brenda m - Aug 05, 2015 9:26:49 am PDT #2687 of 30003
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

I'm glad your sister seems to be doing better Zen.


Dana - Aug 05, 2015 9:29:34 am PDT #2688 of 30003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

That person sounds like a nightmare, Brenda.


Sue - Aug 05, 2015 9:29:34 am PDT #2689 of 30003
hip deep in pie

Good news, Zen.

Brenda, wtf? Entitled much?


tommyrot - Aug 05, 2015 9:38:21 am PDT #2690 of 30003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Brenda, is she leaning in?


shrift - Aug 05, 2015 9:38:25 am PDT #2691 of 30003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

We are considering rescinding a job offer.

Oh, I really hope you continue posting details about this because I bet it's going to be entertaining.


brenda m - Aug 05, 2015 9:38:56 am PDT #2692 of 30003
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Leaning in to unemployment.


Maria - Aug 05, 2015 9:41:20 am PDT #2693 of 30003
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

Wow, brenda, that's a little OTT and presumptuous. I wouldn't blame you if you did.

I will not be nearly as demanding if I should ever work with/for you.

(Speaking of companies, mine is trying to do business with yours. We seem to be making some headway. Consolidation in my industry has not been good for the companies who are being acquired. It's been great for us.)


meara - Aug 05, 2015 9:41:36 am PDT #2694 of 30003

Wow Brenda. That's definitely over the top.

And I feel many of us should win the lottery and have a roving travel-theater-cute animals-good food plan.

My job is also usually fine, and he last couple days were a nice relief from some stress of the past few weeks...but today was a reminder that it's just going to be worse for the next two weeks. That said, in theory late August and September won't be SO bad?


Maria - Aug 05, 2015 9:42:09 am PDT #2695 of 30003
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

-t, what headphones did you get? I'm always on the lookout for good, yet affordable ones.