There is far too little amulet smashing being done these days
The Bay City Rollers, now that's music.
Giles ,'Sleeper'
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 13, 2018 10:50:46 am PST #2982 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
sj - Dec 13, 2018 11:09:06 am PST #2983 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
It should be more of a floating holiday. Take it when you want.
JohnSweden - Dec 13, 2018 12:09:07 pm PST #2984 of 30019
I can't even.
I spend a vacation day to take my birthday off every year, and I sit on a patio with a fancy coffee and thank people on Facebook for their good wishes, because that beats the fork out of going into the office.
Sheryl - Dec 13, 2018 12:55:56 pm PST #2985 of 30019
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
I took my birthday off this year because it was a milestone and I gave myself a spa day. Not something I'm likely to do other years.
billytea - Dec 13, 2018 1:56:44 pm PST #2986 of 30019
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I love the updates on Ask a Manager. This one is just the weirdest hill to die on. (I think it got quite possibly the most negative reaction to an update since this occasion: [link]
Meanwhile, here's a thing that just happened in my office: I just had to explain to my manager what IIRC means. As if I needed another reason to feel like the odd one out in this office.
Steph L. - Dec 13, 2018 2:23:44 pm PST #2987 of 30019
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I think it got quite possibly the most negative reaction to an update since this occasion: [link].
Oh damn, that one was bonkers. The OP updated a couple of times, and mentioned that she was in counseling, which I think made the commentariat collectively say THANK GOD.
shrift - Dec 13, 2018 2:28:41 pm PST #2988 of 30019
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I'm on a shuttle and saw something move out of the corner of my eye, and flailed at the spider crawling on my jacket. Then I flailed it off my shirt where it landed, and NOW I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT IS.
-t - Dec 13, 2018 3:08:16 pm PST #2989 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It's GONE shrift. I firmly believe this.
billytea - Dec 13, 2018 3:20:27 pm PST #2990 of 30019
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Oh damn, that one was bonkers. The OP updated a couple of times, and mentioned that she was in counseling, which I think made the commentariat collectively say THANK GOD.
It was such a roller coaster ride! There was the original post, and that was bad, and then the OP gave more info in the comments and it was SO MUCH WORSE, and then she comes in with the update that she's been fired and her entire team was shown the door and she's still blaming the person they victimised and that she doesn't get why everyone is so mean about it and she thought Allison would support her because she was the manager and the site is Ask a Manager and it's just wall-to-wall WTF; and then in the (new) comments she says she's in therapy, and finally seems to get it, and there's the final update that she's realised she just shouldn't be a manager and she won't be doing that again.
My gob, it was smacked.
meara - Dec 13, 2018 3:30:30 pm PST #2991 of 30019
Both of those updates are bananacrackers (as someone was saying over there, and I've decided I like as an alternative to batshit)
Apparently the team in singapore liked me enough and I'll now be working on a project there. Which is fine except I'm also still going to be working on a project where the main person is in europe. So...may have to start being good about carving out parts of my day in the middle?? I feel like that's harder than starting early or finishing late!