(Of course, "billion" is bigger than "million", but still funny.)

Nora, if that had happened to my brother, I think the very next thing that would have transpired would have involved police officers and then bail money.

Heh. I got a response from the owner theorizing that maybe they got a keg of La Chouffe instead. DUDE. NO. Not even a little bit like La Chouffe. I know La Chouffe. La Chouffe is a friend of mine and you sir, are not serving La Chouffe.

My bro is a big fan of McChouffe, and if someone tried to pass off something else as McChouffe, he would probably raise enough hell that he'd get kicked out (at the very least; possibly incarcerated). He's that most-dangerous of drinkers: a beer snob AND a thug.

ION, I have an incipient migraine that I'm trying to beat back with drugs, but I'm at work anyway even though I'd rather be in a dark room with ice on my head. This is because I received a thorough talking-to a couple of weeks ago that I'm "not working fast enough."

(Scola, please no links.)

The thing is, when it comes to editing pharmaceutical stuff, where a mistake could *literally* kill someone, I don't know how it's possible to quantify "working fast enough." And yet, I got my ass handed to me anyway. In the course of my reprimand, Incompetent!Boss said something along the lines of, "Well, I know you've missed some days because you said you were sick," and I interrupted with, "I *was* sick; I didn't just *say* I was sick." He hastily said, "If you say you were sick, we believe you...."

So now I'm all paranoid about being off work for anything less than a severed limb. And my head fucking HURTS.

And, oh -- there are NO NEW MANUSCRIPTS to be edited. None. When I finish the one I'm working on, there is NOTHING FOR ME TO DO.

But let's not forget that I'm working too slowly. Obviously. Because if I were working quickly, then maybe all the manuscripts...would be...finished....

Right. Jerkface.

Why don't employees get to do supervisor reviews?

Why don't employees get to do supervisor reviews?

Because turnover would be too great?

Why don't employees get to do supervisor reviews?

Because turnover would be too great?

True dat.

Why don't employees get to do supervisor reviews?

Wouldn't that be nice!

Warning: Rant ahead

On April 1, I sent a fairly scathing letter to the YMCA I'm a member of. I was approved as a sliding scale member last June, but have ALWAYS been charged the full amount. Every month I call, and every month they say they've fixed it. Well, I've had it. So, I wrote a letter to the Director of Member Services with all kinds of documentation and told him it better be fixed before my next automatic payment.

Well, not only have I not heard from him (which I find unacceptable, especially considering I gave him my e-mail address), but I just got charged the full amount again today. I'm about to call and give him a piece of my mind, and probably cancel my membership. I am SO angry.

I have another sort-of boss who has taken to telling us underling editors what mistakes we make when editing, which is fine, because we need to learn. But we're not allowed to do the same for the things *she* edits.

Plus, when she tells us what we did wrong, she frequently uses phrases such as "that makes us look stupid" or my personal favorite, stunning in its simplicity, "that's stupid."

True, she isn't *technically* saying, "Steph, *you're* stupid," but I really feel that, when one is in a supervisory capacity, using the word "stupid" to describe someone's work is a bad idea.

One might even say it's a STUPID idea.

He's that most-dangerous of drinkers: a beer snob AND a thug.

Heh. See, I'm pretty passive about stuff usually but this was SO EGREGIOUSLY WRONG that I couldn't help freaking out about it. I don't think that the cafe is trying to pull a fast one; I suspect that they are just THAT DUMB.

Also, ugh to your stupid incompetant boss. I'm sorry you have a migraine.

Ha! I just filled out my Boston census info. It asked for number of dogs in the household. Toto is getting counted!

Nora, I enjoyed your beer story enormously! And am unreasonably amused by the prospect of Teppy's beer snob thug sibling. 'Cuz that would be funny.

Teppy's boss, however - not so much with the funny. (Although it did send a little spasm of guilt through me; I never ever tell my kids they are stupid, but I have been known to say things like "I think you're too intelligent to do something like that" or, you know "See, that was a stupid thing to do. YOU aren't stupid, but that thing you just did? That was stupid. Please don't do that." [Generally this would be about behavioural stuff, not academic stuff. Er. the latter, at any rate.])

...which isn't the same thing, I realise, but - moment of guilt. However, back to the matter at hand - no freaking sticker for Teppy's boss, with the marked lack of people skillz.

t geekly glee

So Death Note, the manga that I have just been mainlining and for which I am currently all filled with fannish love? And the live action movies of which I tried to buy a few days ago from a PROPER shop, for quite a lot of baht, only to be told that they were in Japanese with Thai subtitles? This evening I have purchased the first of the 2 live action movies for very few baht (with English subtitles), and all 11 disks of the anime for a total of maybe 12 pounds.

I may even resort to emoticons, such is my level of fannish joy right now

t / geekly glee

(Dear God, please let all of these disks feature either English subtitles or English dubbing. My Thai sucks. Hell, my Japanese is better than my Thai, and I don't speak any Japanese. Thank you. Also, could you send the Empress a camel? Cheers. Love, Fay.)

NB - I have also purchased Moonlight, or whatever it's called. Because, you know - hot boys mincing around being all vampy. I'm braced for crap, but I figure - hot boys being vampy. I can spend a few quid on that. ALSO I have found a stall that has Avatar, of which I have heard much from P-C and other people. I'm thinking that will be my next purchase...

...yeah, okay, that glee tag? Not closing properly, apparently.

bounds off to DVD, beaming, anticipating not so much in the way of sleep this evening...