I love being the only person in the bakery, although that's always in the evening when I'm closing, not in the morning. It's so wonderfully quiet when I'm alone there.
Oh, yeah, baby, it's snakalicious in here.
Xander ,'Empty Places'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
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.
Amy - Oct 28, 2016 4:50:44 am PDT #271 of 30002
Because books.
Kalshane - Oct 28, 2016 4:55:35 am PDT #272 of 30002
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
I work with crazy people, so by the time I wander in at 7:30 am half my team is already there. (Two of them get here at 5:30 am. I'm not even awake yet.) We also always have someone at the front desk and our Help Desk is here 24/7 so the building is never empty.
Laura - Oct 28, 2016 5:02:02 am PDT #273 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
The interesting thing I've learned from Wikileaks is that things are pretty much the way one suspects they are.
Listening to the shocking details this morning DH and I were mostly looking at each other and shrugging at the news that the campaign was competent. Like wow, they prepared themselves for possible questions from the press. How practical! That is some October surprise.
Steph L. - Oct 28, 2016 5:05:50 am PDT #274 of 30002
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Man, Ohio is red (well, pink) again on 538. Stop it, Ohio!
Jesse - Oct 28, 2016 5:57:20 am PDT #275 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Since I don't work in an office, I genuinely have no idea: what's the proper way to ask someone higher up than you if the two of you can discuss XYZ project? Is "touch base" something that only goes from higher-up to lower-down?
Yeah, I don't know. And I don't know that I could come up with an actual rule, it was just the whole tone was "here's what I need from you," which is not the right tone to take with your new boss IMO.
Gudanov - Oct 28, 2016 5:58:44 am PDT #276 of 30002
Coding and Sleeping
I've always just walked up and asked. But maybe that's in the tech world which might be different.
Jesse - Oct 28, 2016 6:06:10 am PDT #277 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
She was emailing before work, so neither one of us was here yet.
Connie Neil - Oct 28, 2016 6:10:17 am PDT #278 of 30002
brillig
One of my co-workers is pregnant, the girlfriend of another co-worker is mysteriously ill. Much discussion of childbirth and "I should definitely not have a kid but it could be cool" has resulted. I feel old. And amused.
Steph L. - Oct 28, 2016 6:15:37 am PDT #279 of 30002
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Yeah, I don't know. And I don't know that I could come up with an actual rule, it was just the whole tone was "here's what I need from you," which is not the right tone to take with your new boss IMO.
Would it be better to word it as "Would you be available to discuss my project"?
Jesse - Oct 28, 2016 6:20:32 am PDT #280 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
She can say touch base! But more "I hope I can leave early today due to family emergency; are you around to touch base this morning?" rather than "I need to leave by noon; let's touch base."