Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Wednesday/Thursday training class, "Situational Awareness", cancelled because the instructor was apparently killed at the airport when stepping in front of a shuttle bus.

Which is even funnier than the original report (car accident).

I live in a James Thurber novel.

Only in Tucson. 

If you think about it, Tucson defines "justice".  But not "mercy".

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I would like to take a moment to mention that the final I just took, for the architecture class, counted toward one of my two required art humanities classes, which means there is only one class between me and my transfer degree. That class is "Analysis and Evaluation of Argument".

I hope it's as fun as it sounds. I also hope I'm not a totally insufferable pedant by the end of it.

I am waiting, with bated breath, for you to turn into a heel-digging monkey from the very depths of hell that one city with the bridges and shit.

[LMNO]

Wednesday/Thursday training class, "Situational Awareness", cancelled because the instructor was apparently killed at the airport when stepping in front of a shuttle bus.

Which is even funnier than the original report (car accident).

I live in a James Thurber novel.

That's fairly horrible.  I hope he didn't have much of a family.


I can see the humor though.  Still.  Death sucks.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I would like to take a moment to mention that the final I just took, for the architecture class, counted toward one of my two required art humanities classes, which means there is only one class between me and my transfer degree. That class is "Analysis and Evaluation of Argument".

I hope it's as fun as it sounds. I also hope I'm not a totally insufferable pedant by the end of it.

I am waiting, with bated breath, for you to turn into a heel-digging monkey from the very depths of hell that one city with the bridges and shit.

Thank you. We try not to acknowledge what everyone already knows. It's so clean here, you see, and so nice.

[Junkenstein]

Wednesday/Thursday training class, "Situational Awareness", cancelled because the instructor was apparently killed at the airport when stepping in front of a shuttle bus.

Which is even funnier than the original report (car accident).

I live in a James Thurber novel.

That's fairly horrible.  I hope he didn't have much of a family.


I can see the humor though.  Still.  Death sucks.

On the plus side, that trainer should reduce their rates substantially. It's going to be fun for them getting new business in for the next few years.

[Pæs]

Is the trainer the organisation behind the instructor? Because I don't think the instructor is going to be too worried about getting new business.

[Junkenstein]

That's who I meant. Depending on the size of them it could be a business killer. In the UK, a lot of training providers are fairly small outfits, 5-10 people at most usually. Anything like this is pretty devastating as not only is your colleague dead, he's cast a question on the general competence of the lot of you, regardless of the circumstances. The inevitable result is cancelled business and a bad few years. At best. A lot of folk will just shut down and set up again under a new name to avoid explaining the death in the safety statistics.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Wednesday/Thursday training class, "Situational Awareness", cancelled because the instructor was apparently killed at the airport when stepping in front of a shuttle bus.

Which is even funnier than the original report (car accident).

I live in a James Thurber novel.

That's fairly horrible.  I hope he didn't have much of a family.


I can see the humor though.  Still.  Death sucks.

You have to laugh.  It's Tucson, Jake.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I would like to take a moment to mention that the final I just took, for the architecture class, counted toward one of my two required art humanities classes, which means there is only one class between me and my transfer degree. That class is "Analysis and Evaluation of Argument".

I hope it's as fun as it sounds. I also hope I'm not a totally insufferable pedant by the end of it.

I am waiting, with bated breath, for you to turn into a heel-digging monkey from the very depths of hell that one city with the bridges and shit.

Thank you. We try not to acknowledge what everyone already knows. It's so clean here, you see, and so nice.

And you get to be friends with the city.  Best friends.  Drinking buddies.  It will match you drink for drink, and then drive you home afterwards.  You live in Teddy Kennedy.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Short training thing, 2 hours maybe, then writing.

I can't wait.

[LMNO]

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Wednesday/Thursday training class, "Situational Awareness", cancelled because the instructor was apparently killed at the airport when stepping in front of a shuttle bus.

Which is even funnier than the original report (car accident).

I live in a James Thurber novel.

That's fairly horrible.  I hope he didn't have much of a family.


I can see the humor though.  Still.  Death sucks.

On the plus side, that trainer should reduce their rates substantially. It's going to be fun for them getting new business in for the next few years.

SAFETY PART 1: Do not step in front of a moving vehicle.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I would like to take a moment to mention that the final I just took, for the architecture class, counted toward one of my two required art humanities classes, which means there is only one class between me and my transfer degree. That class is "Analysis and Evaluation of Argument".

I hope it's as fun as it sounds. I also hope I'm not a totally insufferable pedant by the end of it.

I am waiting, with bated breath, for you to turn into a heel-digging monkey from the very depths of hell that one city with the bridges and shit.

Thank you. We try not to acknowledge what everyone already knows. It's so clean here, you see, and so nice.

And you get to be friends with the city.  Best friends.  Drinking buddies.  It will match you drink for drink, and then drive you home afterwards.  You live in Teddy Kennedy.

PORTLAND: the town where people are alcoholic, and proud.

We're all worried about Jim, he hasn't been drinking as much lately.

[Cain]

Might have a job.  Been asked to a second interview...so long as the section manager is happy with me, I can be a kitchen bitch again.  Yay.

It's money though, at least.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Good luck!

The upsides: It will get you some cash while you're in school.
It's work you won't take home.
You won't be on call. Pretty much ever.
It's not forever.

I seriously considered looking for bar back work I could do for a few hours a week at night. It would be nice to have something I could just go do, put in the hours, and go home, and not think about it in between.