Someone at NASA posted it too - same text. Ghastly.
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
Natter 78: I might need to watch some Buffy for inspiration
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.
brenda m - Jan 22, 2025 4:15:13 pm PST #4805 of 6551
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
JenP - Jan 22, 2025 4:19:10 pm PST #4806 of 6551
Ah, Atropa, that makes sense. I mean the kind of sense that is horrible, but that's where we are now.
Consuela - Jan 22, 2025 4:22:37 pm PST #4807 of 6551
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Yeah it was clearly a template they had to use. It's still gross and unprofessional and insulting to the staff.
I was supposed to take civil rights training within the next few months; I wonder if it will be cancelled?
brenda m - Jan 22, 2025 4:25:03 pm PST #4808 of 6551
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
lisah - Jan 22, 2025 5:02:33 pm PST #4809 of 6551
Punishingly Intricate
lisah, I didn’t realize you were federal now.
I’m back working as a federal contractor which I did for a long time before going to the private sector. I swore I’d never go back but needs must.
Karl - Jan 22, 2025 6:47:56 pm PST #4810 of 6551
I adore all you motherfuckers so much -- PMM.
Yes, my housemate here in the East Bay works for the federal Department of Health and Human Services in SF, and he got a notice exactly as JenP described.
So, can confirm that it looks like a horrible template.
Susan W. - Jan 22, 2025 8:08:24 pm PST #4811 of 6551
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I work for a state university, but I'm in research administration so we're directly downstream of this shitshow given how much of our money comes from federal grants. We got notices today to stop doing anything DEI-related on those grants, and I wonder how soon it will be threats to cut all our federal funding if we continue woke activities with our state and private funding.
Theodosia - Jan 23, 2025 5:19:46 am PST #4812 of 6551
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I just read that all funding for NIH projects has been suspended -- which affects up to 300K jobs at universities and research institutes.
I'm still sick, but at least my sinuses are no longer stopped up with concrete, and I can keep my eyes open for longer than ten minutes without them watering.
I am going to run out of Kleenex, though, so I may allow myself to resort to Instacart, which feels like such a wasteful luxury, except maybe not when you're sick.
askye - Jan 23, 2025 8:17:03 am PST #4813 of 6551
Thrive to spite them
I don't want to look at the news because I don't want to know how screwed we are.
I just want happy thoughts like Hec and Matilda in Japan .
And stuff like that.
askye - Jan 23, 2025 8:23:04 am PST #4814 of 6551
Thrive to spite them
Regarding the email to snitch about DEI I've seen some people suggest maybe flooding it with emails that are irrelevant. Some people have warned against it since they are worried about retaliation with real emails.
Another suggestion was to just use the email for a lot of websites that spam email all the time
I have no idea if that is a good idea or a bad one. But it amuses me to think of what that is signed up for