Man, Ohio is red (well, pink) again on 538. Stop it, Ohio!
Glory: Lesson number one, Vampires equal impure! Spike: Damn right I'm impure, I'm as impure as the driven yellow snow!
'Dirty Girls'
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.
Steph L. - Oct 28, 2016 5:05:50 am PDT #274 of 30002
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
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."
Jesse - Oct 28, 2016 6:21:30 am PDT #281 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
(I said I already resented this poor woman, right? I'm not actually trying to say I am in the right here.)
Steph L. - Oct 28, 2016 6:26:30 am PDT #282 of 30002
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Oh, it was the "I need to leave by noon" part. Okay, I wouldn't have done that, so I feel a little less like I'm completely unsuited to working with other humans.
I'm not actually trying to say I am in the right here.
Well, there are appropriate standards of conversation (email, etc.) in the office, and they're different based on the relative status of the people involved in the conversation. I just misunderstood and thought it wasn't okay for someone to use "touch base" with their superior. I think I've got it sorted out now, though.
aurelia - Oct 28, 2016 6:28:26 am PDT #283 of 30002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
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