Oh, Steph... the continual horror that is other people. Can you kick it to senior management along with the email string showing that you tried? Your company ought to adopt the policy my company has apparently secretly adopted: Give them whatever they want so they'll shut up and be happy.
Saffron: You won't tell anyone about me breaking down? Mal: I won't. Saffron: Then I won't tell anyone how easily I got your gun out of your holster. Mal: I'll take that as a kindness.
'Trash'
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.
Zenkitty - Aug 24, 2015 6:13:52 am PDT #3958 of 30003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
billytea - Aug 24, 2015 6:16:06 am PDT #3959 of 30003
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
This morning I've been all "Blah blah blah Monday blah blah stock market plummets blah blah..."
I spent a couple of days last week at a portfolio management convention. It was very useful really, and included some debates (for instance, "Australia is totes heading for a recession" versus "No, no, no, it'll only feel like one"). It also included the quote, from an American practitioner, "I think the greatest market failure during the Global Financial Crisis was that we couldn't find a way to put a single banker in jail for what happened."
-t - Aug 24, 2015 6:16:36 am PDT #3960 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
"You are editing this as though it is a manuscript."
HOW DARE YOU!
He opened his last email to me with "This is becoming too much work."
You know what would make it easier? If he just accepted your edits.
-t - Aug 24, 2015 6:17:29 am PDT #3961 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
"I think the greatest market failure during the Global Financial Crisis was that we couldn't find a way to put a single banker in jail for what happened."
So true, and so sad.
Jesse - Aug 24, 2015 6:17:47 am PDT #3962 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
"I do not wish to explain something the reader can look up."
Hahahaha!
billytea - Aug 24, 2015 6:21:16 am PDT #3963 of 30003
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
"I do not wish to explain something the reader can look up."
Look for his next article to be a series of Wikipedia links interspersed with commentary like "SCARY!", "DEJECTION" and possibly "KITTENS!".
Tom Scola - Aug 24, 2015 6:25:06 am PDT #3964 of 30003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
So basically what this guy is saying is that it is more important for him to look smart than to communicate information to his readers.
Ginger - Aug 24, 2015 6:25:22 am PDT #3965 of 30003
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Poor Zoe. Poor Laura. I'm glad she's going to be okay.
He opened his last email to me with "This is becoming too much work."
"I'm sorry you find being published in a prestigious journal too taxing. Perhaps you can suggest someone else to write a commentary."
My cold has reached the stage in which it hurts to put on my glasses.
-t - Aug 24, 2015 6:28:25 am PDT #3966 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, Ginger. I hate that.
So basically what this guy is saying is that it is more important for him to look smart than to communicate information to his readers.
Ding ding ding!
Steph L. - Aug 24, 2015 6:28:34 am PDT #3967 of 30003
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Oh, Steph... the continual horror that is other people. Can you kick it to senior management along with the email string showing that you tried?
I documented the hell out of it, and all the emails are in the AMA's tracking system, so they can refer to the emails and see that he's being a special snowflake about his precious baby words. I am hoping SO HARD that senior management is all "Fuck you, buddy; these words are coming out."
I just uploaded the "corrected" document, so from this point on, it's out of my hands. If he continues to complain, it will be to someone who is higher on the food chain than me.
He opened his last email to me with "This is becoming too much work."
You know what would make it easier? If he just accepted your edits.
Right??? This yahoo went through the article and made comments in each paragraph, saying "I accept these minor edits if they are journal policy." Every. Single. Paragraph.