I'm not going anywhere near Google+. I don't mind being a product, I mind being an easily disposable product.

I did not know that it was possible to get kicked out of ComicCon for a costume that was too skimpy.

Ahaha, I feel like I need to go post that link in the Reality thread. Oh, Adrienne.

Now I'm homesick for NC in the fall.

busted tees has a new shirt: you shall not pass go

into mordor.

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Ugh. I just got my formal job offer, and it is the lowest possible offer that HR is legally required to make. My new admin director fought back on it, but HR categorically refused to budge. I mean, it's still good because I'm now at least at the bottom of a much higher career track instead of near the top of a dead-end one (and they're going try to make up for it by enrolling me in the managers' mentorship program and any upper level training courses I want - maybe web development?), but damn how I wanted things to just be Better, not marginally better with another 2-year hard slog ahead to the next step once I've clocked in another 12 months. But I've been here 18 1/2 years. It'd be insane to start over from scratch somewhere else.

And yet, it's still miles better than the completely disheartening and sickening shitfest at Suela's workplace.

That's...really interesting about the G+ stuff. I'd read about the pseud stuff, but i didn't know about the pulling of all the Google stuff. That's...effed up.

JZ, ugh. I'm sorry -- I wish they'd given you piles more of money.

There needs to be a website or something called "get me away from this terrible weather" and you can put in where you are and what you want to escape from/get to and it tells you where to go.

I did this in a very crude way using the weather.com temperature map, and the nearest place with a temperature below 80 degrees (except Charleston which is currently mid-thunderstorm) is western CT. Unfortunately that is not a reasonable day trip for me.

Ugh. I just got my formal job offer, and it is the lowest possible offer that HR is legally required to make. My new admin director fought back on it, but HR categorically refused to budge. I mean, it's still good because I'm now at least at the bottom of a much higher career track instead of near the top of a dead-end one

This is why I am relieved to be out of higher ed. Though for how long, who knows. I do know that if I ever want to be in "professional staff" in higher ed, I need to bulk up my experience and title growth outside its horrid HR ivory tower and then come back in.

Check out these pretty "Witch Potion" cookie.

I'm sorry about the job offer stuff, JZ.

JZ, I'm sorry -- that's crappy and disappointing. If you don't mind my asking, is it at least a step up from the salary you're at now, or is it actually a decrease?