Why was this not routed through the technical editor?
Because the technical editors keep getting laid off due to budget cuts?
t sorry, not closing the bitter tag any time soon
Mal: Well, you were right about this being a bad idea. Zoe: Thanks for sayin', sir.
'Serenity'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Atropa - Aug 10, 2011 9:06:18 am PDT #20027 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
smonster - Aug 10, 2011 9:08:04 am PDT #20028 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
What if male superheroes were posed like Wonder Woman? [link]
Bless that artist, and bless you for linking it. It's the perfect rebuttal to the "but male superheroes have stylized bodies, tooo!" whine.
§ ita § - Aug 10, 2011 9:11:25 am PDT #20029 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Ugh. I really cannot focus on this document with the noises around me. I wonder if I can go home and work there?
As well as everything else, I have to pull the "solutioning" out of the requirements. And that's going to require juggling.
le nubian - Aug 10, 2011 9:13:19 am PDT #20030 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
erikaj - Aug 10, 2011 9:14:11 am PDT #20031 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Good one, Frank. I sort of feel like I melted down some in the thread today. But it used to be worse, although I've never been a slammer.
askye - Aug 10, 2011 9:14:22 am PDT #20032 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
When I worked for the Florida Dental Association sometimes we'd get calls for the Food and Drug Administration which often led to some confusing and interesting conversations.
Consuela - Aug 10, 2011 9:21:05 am PDT #20033 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Okay, they seriously want us to update our voicemail outgoing message with the date EVERY DAY?
OMG I hate that so much. I dread the day they require us to to that. As it is, I don't even update my VM for my regular day off (every other Friday). But then very little I do is time-sensitive.
Because the technical editors keep getting laid off due to budget cuts?
True! But in this case, I know the tech editor, and I would have heard if he got laid off. He's still there, but I'm damned if I know why they're not having him review this stuff.
ION, I talked to HR again. Apparently all three veterans on the list above me have to get knocked off the list as unqualified before they can reach me. Because if there's even one vet on the qualified list, they're supposed to pick them.
I think I need to start keeping a bottle of whiskey in my office for this.
erikaj - Aug 10, 2011 9:33:01 am PDT #20034 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Philip Marlowe did it. Of course, one way or another he ended up unconscious once a week, so there are reasons it's not "What would Marlowe do?"
smonster - Aug 10, 2011 9:37:00 am PDT #20035 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I don't even understand the purpose of updating your vm every day.
§ ita § - Aug 10, 2011 9:41:40 am PDT #20036 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think I need to start keeping a bottle of whiskey in my office for this.
Jesus, yes. A bit of on the job self-medication would not be overdoing it in this situation.
The guy whose document I'm rewriting has been updating his OGM every day for months now. This is part and parcel of why he'd been making me feel inadequate.