Raise your hand if 'ew.'

Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'


Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.

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 - Jan 14, 2021 12:42:59 pm PST #2387 of 29428
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Well, this is just silly. My department used to maintain sales forecasts for all our accounts - that's done at an aggregate level now so that has supposedly lessened my workload by removing that task. I have stuff I could say about that, but that is not my current purpose. Another department that I work closely with now has to maintain their sales forecasts and didn't before, so I have my coworker in that department leaning on my expertise for how to do the thing that is not my responsibility any more VERY HEAVILY.

I don't mind that she asks, and I do remember how to do it, but it's a ridiculous situation. Streamlined my ass.


-t - Jan 14, 2021 1:02:13 pm PST #2388 of 29428
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Hahahaha no one told that department anything at all. Oops. Communication is a core value. Sigh.


Toddson - Jan 14, 2021 1:16:33 pm PST #2389 of 29428
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

We have a "Strategic Communications" team that refuses to share information with the rest of the staff. This morning my boss asked me to include some information about a blog post that they'd sent out ... except they didn't share with staff, so I had to go into our mass email system, find the message and send it to myself, since the preview wouldn't let me get the information or the URL to link to.


-t - Jan 14, 2021 1:21:52 pm PST #2390 of 29428
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Oh, I think you have mentioned them before, Toddson. That's Kafkaesque. Or maybe Orwellian.


Dana - Jan 14, 2021 1:22:08 pm PST #2391 of 29428
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

We have a "Strategic Communications" team that refuses to share information with the rest of the staff.

I guess technically that's a strategy.


chrismg - Jan 14, 2021 1:27:00 pm PST #2392 of 29428
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade

-t actually, it's more like a Kafkaesque satire on Orwell.

(5 points for anyone that gets the reference)


Jessica - Jan 14, 2021 1:42:59 pm PST #2393 of 29428
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

I guess technically that's a strategy.

Dana beat me to it.


Laura - Jan 14, 2021 1:44:13 pm PST #2394 of 29428
Our wings are not tired.

Our strategic communication is more like me yelling, "Are you listening to me?" across the house to DH. We try meetings from time to time.


DavidS - Jan 14, 2021 1:51:05 pm PST #2395 of 29428
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Speaking of Kafka-esque and Orwellian, I had a moment the other day that was slightly weird and I thought...."This feels Charlie Kaufmann-esque." Not Fellini-esque. Not Lynchian. Kaufmannesque.

[I was in line at TJ's and the woman in front of me was a slender woman with red-auburn hair and yoga pants. And I looked to the left and there was a woman of exact same typology - same reddish brown hair, same length, similar mask, yoga pants. And I felt certain if I looked to the right or behind me, I would be surrounded by the Auburn Lululemons.]


-t - Jan 14, 2021 1:56:00 pm PST #2396 of 29428
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

That sounds like a situation where you would really want to know what genre you are in