'Out Of Gas'
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.
I want my computer to shoot lasers out at them when they open my e-mails.
Ooooh. I would abuse the hell out of that functionality.
That does sound cute, Connie.
Tep, that guy deserves to be beaten about the head and shoulders with a hardback copy of Eats, Shoots & Leaves. I'm sorry, but I am laughing rather a lot.
I'm feeling pretty good about making the decision to transfer out here.
Woohoo affirmation of life decisions!
Teppy, I would want to bonk that guy on the head with a cartoon anvil.
Tep, that guy deserves to be beaten about the head and shoulders with a hardback copy of Eats, Shoots & Leaves. I'm sorry, but I am laughing rather a lot.
I am filled with a white-hot rage I can't let go. If you reply in a deliberately vague manner that you can't bother to punctuate, you deserve your article to be fucked up. You don't get to get all shirty with us.
(He's also being a dick about other stuff, too. His article is a super-short one, and they can't go over 2 pages. His goes onto about 1/4 of page 3. We asked him during editing to shorten the article, and he replied "I already shortened it while writing it and it cannot be any shorter than it is." Once it was typeset and we knew for sure it was too long, we showed him the galley and said he needed to shorten it, and he answered, "I already said it cannot be any shorter than it is. Perhaps you should change the layout."
I kind of hate what I'm about to say, but -- does this assclown even KNOW who we ARE? You don't tell the AMA what to do, son. If they publish you, you say thank you and shut the fuck up.)
(Okay, yeah, saying "Do you KNOW who we ARE?", even in my head, is AWFUL. But still. This dude sucks. I stand by my "Don't tell us what to do, son. Just follow our rules, which you were given when we accepted your precious baby paper.)
I used to have to edit abstracts submitted for a meeting that had a character limit, including spaces. We explained this very carefully. VERY CAREFULLY. The number of people who got huffy about it, I can't even tell you. Let alone the "I'm too busy to bother with your little demands" people.
Oh ffs, that's asshole right there. "If your paper can't fit the requirements you'll need to withdraw it and resubmit for a different journal/space/availability". Grr.
Worked my butt off today, and there is still more than I can get done tomorrow, left to do. But I leave tomorrow night. Ugh. And I found lots of issues (a couple I should've found before but mostly new) that are big, and which will take more time to fix....So I had to reschedule my next visit. I had everything worked out so I'd be able to go on the annual alumni boat cruise (evening of booze and food and alums on a boat on the lake!) and now I can't. Boo.
What a jerk!
In case this is useful information for anyone else, one packet of True Lemon in 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise is a lot of fucking lemon.
(Okay, yeah, saying "Do you KNOW who we ARE?", even in my head, is AWFUL. But still.
No it isn't. Not in this case.
(Also, I may have occasionally said "Do you KNOW who I AM?" in project planning meetings for work. But I get backed up by my VP saying "Don't make her mad".)
Happy Birthday, Zen and Kiba!
Steph, what an asshat. I bet he goes through assistants like tic-tacs.
I used to have to edit abstracts submitted for a meeting that had a character limit, including spaces.
No one gets that a character limit includes spaces, and it makes me BONKERS.
Justdon'tusespacesandeverythingwillbeeasy