I think my lunch is going to be split-pea soup and cheese melted on a corn tortilla. And maybe a banana.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
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.
Steph L. - Mar 26, 2014 8:10:53 am PDT #23508 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
tommyrot - Mar 26, 2014 8:18:51 am PDT #23509 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
A compilation of videos of people behaving very badly at work: THE GREATEST WORKPLACE FREAK OUTS EVER - YouTube
People smashing their computers, desks, etc. One guy hits another over the head with a keyboard....
Jesse - Mar 26, 2014 8:22:02 am PDT #23510 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Shocking new school lice policies: [link]
Dana - Mar 26, 2014 8:36:23 am PDT #23511 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
It is quite windy here today, and as it's also recycling day, that's not working out too well.
Amy - Mar 26, 2014 8:55:34 am PDT #23512 of 30000
Because books.
It's really windy here, too.
Shocking new school lice policies
I guess it makes sense, the way he explains it.
JZ - Mar 26, 2014 9:24:05 am PDT #23513 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
sarameg, that policy is bonkers. I can't imagine any way that a serious attempt to adhere to it would lead to anything but the office environment demon baby of Ayn Rand and Lord of the Flies. I hope there's a metric shitton of pushback.
Fun conversation this morning:
Co-Worker: I can't believe they put my mother on Zoloft! She's on a hundred milligrams a day. That's too much. She must be high as a kite. That terrible drug! Why would they do that?
Me: I'm on a hundred fifty a day.
Co-Worker: ...
We then had a longer, better talk about the mechanisms of various ADs and her mom's differential diagnoses and the importance in controlling anxiety in patients with memory loss and conflict-and-uncertainty-avoidance issues, and it turned out okay. But... fuuuuck, that was not how I wanted to start the morning. It's just that there was no way I could sit there and listen to that and say nothing.
Jesse - Mar 26, 2014 9:25:27 am PDT #23514 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Good for you, though, JZ. People need to know what's up!
shrift - Mar 26, 2014 9:29:47 am PDT #23515 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I ate too much phở for lunch. Like you do.
I got to work at 7:30am, which allowed me to get some stuff done before training started at 8:30am. I'm leaving at 4:30 regardless of what my inbox looks like.
Connie Neil - Mar 26, 2014 9:33:59 am PDT #23516 of 30000
brillig
I am always boggled by the personal information people are willing to throw out on their co-workers.
JZ - Mar 26, 2014 9:38:28 am PDT #23517 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Well, 90% of the time it's a 3-person office, so sharing is truly unavoidable.
This is why I dread the impending move to an open-plan office to be shared with the entire department instead of just our tiny subdivision.