Oooh, bar with a live feed of the escape room sounds great!
ETA Bummer aurelia.
...burning baby fish swimming all round your head.
Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
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.
-t - Dec 12, 2018 6:09:14 pm PST #2971 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Beverly - Dec 12, 2018 10:13:19 pm PST #2972 of 30019
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I feel you, Aurelia. With added wheat sensitivity.
Also? I miss tomatoes. It's been years. They even smell dangerous now--alarm! alarm! goes off in my head when I smell cooking tomatoes. Peppers. Onions. But I would kill for two slices of white Wonder bread, a good dollop of mayo, salt, and paprika with sliced tomato. Well, I'd use harsh language.
Laura - Dec 13, 2018 3:20:04 am PST #2973 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
Laura, I hope you aren't seeing this production [link]
Whew, totally different people. That sounds just awful.
Jesse - Dec 13, 2018 8:56:51 am PST #2974 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Y'all -- on Ask A Manager, a boss who won't give her employee the annual birthday day off that everyone else gets because the employee was born on Feb 29 wrote back with an update! [link] Or not an update, but a continued assertion of the boss's rightness! It's the most bananapants thing!!
Steph L. - Dec 13, 2018 8:59:14 am PST #2975 of 30019
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Jesse, I literally JUST commented on that post! (I'm SLB, who called the manager a lousy human being but also cheap and unfair. But seriously, time off IS part of an employee's total compensation package, so that employee is receiving less compensation than employees in a similar position whose mothers weren't silly enough to deliver on February 29. And that's some kind of bullshit.)
Jesse - Dec 13, 2018 9:33:24 am PST #2976 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
If they had this policy in my office, I guess I would get Jan 2 off every year, which would be amazing. Ridiculous, but great.
-t - Dec 13, 2018 9:39:09 am PST #2977 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Dang. (a) what a weird policy and (b) how mean to be so literal!
Laura - Dec 13, 2018 10:06:50 am PST #2978 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
Dang. (a) what a weird policy and (b) how mean to be so literal!
True. I have taken off my birthday all of my life. It was a school holiday and I never went to school on that day, so I carried over the policy to my work life. I did go to work when I worked in Philadelphia because the office there had really great parties.
Jessica - Dec 13, 2018 10:09:24 am PST #2979 of 30019
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I like the idea of an extra personal day so everyone can take their birthday off, but (a) MANDATORY? Seriously? and (b) it's not like people born on Feb 29th don't *age* the other three years!
-t - Dec 13, 2018 10:34:36 am PST #2980 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Right?
Maybe they are under some kind of curse, if any employees are on site on the anniversary of their birth they'll, I dunno, ascend?