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Started by Cain, March 04, 2016, 04:52:44 PM

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Don Coyote

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on June 30, 2016, 02:23:39 AM
Quote from: Don Coyote on June 29, 2016, 09:25:58 PM
Quote from: Fernando Poo on June 29, 2016, 07:18:12 PM
Quote from: LMNO on June 29, 2016, 07:04:44 PM
I'm not sure you understand Roger and ECH's various relationships with food preparation.

Probably not. Should I be checking out Discordian Recipes for examples?

Roger is so not meant to prepare food that the universe warps probability so things always burst into flames.

Could have happened to anybody, really.

Could have, but yet, really only happens to you.

Junkenstein

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on June 30, 2016, 02:24:48 AM
Quote from: Fernando Poo on June 29, 2016, 07:18:12 PM
Quote from: LMNO on June 29, 2016, 07:04:44 PM
I'm not sure you understand Roger and ECH's various relationships with food preparation.

Probably not. Should I be checking out Discordian Recipes for examples?

I don't recommend it.  2 kitchen fires, a notch out of my ear, a skillet through the (closed) window, and I failed spectacularly at toast.

What genius let you near a skillet? Those fucking things are just designed to burn everything around them anyway so giving one to you was just asking for that.
Nine naked Men just walking down the road will cause a heap of trouble for all concerned.

POFP

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on June 30, 2016, 02:24:48 AM
Quote from: Fernando Poo on June 29, 2016, 07:18:12 PM
Quote from: LMNO on June 29, 2016, 07:04:44 PM
I'm not sure you understand Roger and ECH's various relationships with food preparation.

Probably not. Should I be checking out Discordian Recipes for examples?

I don't recommend it.  2 kitchen fires, a notch out of my ear, a skillet through the (closed) window, and I failed spectacularly at toast.

:lulz:

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on June 30, 2016, 02:23:39 AM
Quote from: Don Coyote on June 29, 2016, 09:25:58 PM
Quote from: Fernando Poo on June 29, 2016, 07:18:12 PM
Quote from: LMNO on June 29, 2016, 07:04:44 PM
I'm not sure you understand Roger and ECH's various relationships with food preparation.

Probably not. Should I be checking out Discordian Recipes for examples?

Roger is so not meant to prepare food that the universe warps probability so things always burst into flames.

Could have happened to anybody, really.

:lulz: :lulz:
This Certified Pope™ reserves the Right to, on occasion, "be a complete dumbass", and otherwise ponder "idiotic" and/or "useless" ideas and other such "tomfoolery." [Aforementioned] are only responsible for the results of these actions and tendencies when they have had their addictive substance of choice for that day.

Being a Product of their Environment's Collective Order and Disorder, [Aforementioned] also reserves the Right to have their ideas, technologies, and otherwise all Intellectual Property stolen, re-purposed, and re-attributed at Will ONLY by other Certified Popes. Corporations, LLC's, and otherwise Capitalist-based organizations are NOT capable of being Certified Popes.

Battering Rams not included.

Da6s

Moving back to Boulder. All that's left to do is decide the day. Tentatively next weekend, but work may change that for a trip up to Richmond before i go.

Looking forward to winter again. Especially the mountains - will be doing the Epic Local pass this year, mostly for Beaver Creek.
We appear to be doomed by our DNA to repeat the same destructive behaviors our forebears have repeated for millenia. If anything our problem solving skills have actually diminished with the advent of technology & our ubiquitous modern conveniences. & yet despite our predisposition towards fear-driven hostility; towards what we anachronistically term primitive behavior another instinct is just as firmly encoded in our make-up. We are capable as our ancestors were of incredible breathtaking acts of kindness. Every hour of every day a man risks his life at a moments notice to save another. Forget for a moment the belligerent benevolent billionaires who grant the unfortunate a crumb of costfree cake. I speak of pure acts of selflessness. A Mother who rushes into the street to save a child from a speeding vehicle. A person who runs into a burning building to reach a family trapped on the upper story. Such actions,such moments,such unconscious selfless decisions,define what it is to be human

Suu

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on June 29, 2016, 01:50:46 AM
So.

A week or so, my boss tells me I'm off probation, with the official letter due today.  Last Thursday, he demands - based on one janitor's (Debra) griping - that I fire the lady I just hired out of the kitchen (Tonya).  There's old HR stuff there, and so he wants me to fire her so he isn't The Guy in a labor board/legal issue.  Roger didn't fall off the turnip truck yesterday and I don't find myself inclined to fire a single mother of three because Debra had a feud with Tonya's mother (who died YEARS ago), so I decline to fire her.  (There are no grounds to fire her except that her change of jobs restarted her probationary period, even though she's been there for 7 years, and you can fire someone on probation for any reason or no reason at all.)

So today, my paperwork says my probation is being extended until October 31st.  which just happens to be the last day of the fiscal year.  Nobody before has had their probation extended (they have either been let go or taken off of probation), and in my 20 years of doing this kind of work, I have never seen any one survive an extended probation.

Results:
1.  My career is toast.  May as well just accept it.
2.  Because of that, the promotion I was arranging for Debra based on her seniority isn't going to happen, because I now very tragically lack the juice to make it happen.
3.  There will be butthurt about that, and about a whole lot more.
4.  Looking for a new job, while I still have this one (which all depends on how long it takes for the boss to "suggest" getting rid of Tonya again, whereupon I will refuse and then my probation will end as I am found to be unsuitable for the job anyway.)

This all sucks, because I love the place, but I can't work for a weasel.

What in the seven levels of fuckery is this shitmongering? That place is so....YOU. I wish petty bullshit had no place at work, but it's where it breeds the most. I'm assuming Arizona is a right to work state as well.

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Our Lady of Perpetual Confusion; 1st Church of Discordia

"Add a dab of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it."

Suu

Speaking on the job front, I already lost my first grown-up job without being fully hired.  :horrormirth:

The project did not have the funding for the museum archivist they wanted to hire, so the position got dumped. They're still hiring a project archivist, but they want someone with a Masters of Library Science and some ungodly amount of experience with archiving and digitizing, in addition to an ungodly amount of practiced library shit in order to create the archival system,  which I do not have, because that's not my degree. My job was going to be condition reports, scanning, re-archiving in acid-free paper, and basically making sure that the librarian doesn't ruin 100 year old photos and plates. It's not that I don't trust a librarian with artifacts, because they typically have comparable training, it's that they're going to give this poor schmuck a massive workload. But, such is the world of museums: you can't do jack shit without money. "It's gotta get done, but we don't have the grants to get it done properly."

I'll just go work with Cain, too.
Sovereign Episkopos-Princess Kaousuu; Esq., Battle Nun, Bene Gesserit.
Our Lady of Perpetual Confusion; 1st Church of Discordia

"Add a dab of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it."

Cain

It's fun.  You can sit in an office for 12 and 1/2 hours a day, and look at paperwork filled in by people who think formatting, punctuation and spelling are optional extras.

LMNO


Ziegejunge

I want to see that Discordian food truck happen, friends.

P3nT4gR4m

After being informed that I wouldn't be getting it til at least August, imagine my pant-exploding surprise when I checked on Oculus site 5 mins ago for a status update only to find out it shipped today!

On the downside, I'll prolly be sitting with it, in the box, for at least a week til a new PC with a 1080 in it arrives  :argh!:

I'm up to my arse in Brexit Numpties, but I want more.  Target-rich environments are the new sexy.
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Awful and Bent Behemothic Results of Last Night's Painful Squat.
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walking the fine line line between genius and batshit fucking crazy

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POFP

Quote from: Cain on June 30, 2016, 06:41:03 PM
It's fun.  You can sit in an office for 12 and 1/2 hours a day, and look at paperwork filled in by people who think formatting, punctuation and spelling are optional extras.

Almost thought you worked where I did. Replace "paperwork" with "Emails and Request tickets" and you've got my job to a T.
This Certified Pope™ reserves the Right to, on occasion, "be a complete dumbass", and otherwise ponder "idiotic" and/or "useless" ideas and other such "tomfoolery." [Aforementioned] are only responsible for the results of these actions and tendencies when they have had their addictive substance of choice for that day.

Being a Product of their Environment's Collective Order and Disorder, [Aforementioned] also reserves the Right to have their ideas, technologies, and otherwise all Intellectual Property stolen, re-purposed, and re-attributed at Will ONLY by other Certified Popes. Corporations, LLC's, and otherwise Capitalist-based organizations are NOT capable of being Certified Popes.

Battering Rams not included.

Cain

Quote from: Fernando Poo on June 30, 2016, 08:30:32 PM
Quote from: Cain on June 30, 2016, 06:41:03 PM
It's fun.  You can sit in an office for 12 and 1/2 hours a day, and look at paperwork filled in by people who think formatting, punctuation and spelling are optional extras.

Almost thought you worked where I did. Replace "paperwork" with "Emails and Request tickets" and you've got my job to a T.

We also have to deal with 150+ foreign students, complaining about pretty much everything under the sun.

POFP

Quote from: Cain on June 30, 2016, 09:58:46 PM
Quote from: Fernando Poo on June 30, 2016, 08:30:32 PM
Quote from: Cain on June 30, 2016, 06:41:03 PM
It's fun.  You can sit in an office for 12 and 1/2 hours a day, and look at paperwork filled in by people who think formatting, punctuation and spelling are optional extras.

Almost thought you worked where I did. Replace "paperwork" with "Emails and Request tickets" and you've got my job to a T.

We also have to deal with 150+ foreign students, complaining about pretty much everything under the sun.

Try 1000+ foreign, 1st generation Call Center associates, mostly from India.

Contrary to the stereotype, the level 1 associates in India are not all computer technical geniuses. Most of them don't know how to login to the computer for the first few months. Not that that's their fault or anything. They are a developing country. ANYWAYS, language barriers are FUN.

(Also, I think our call quality monitoring department decided to fuck with us by making it mandatory to pronounce and use the caller's name in every call to make it more personal.)
This Certified Pope™ reserves the Right to, on occasion, "be a complete dumbass", and otherwise ponder "idiotic" and/or "useless" ideas and other such "tomfoolery." [Aforementioned] are only responsible for the results of these actions and tendencies when they have had their addictive substance of choice for that day.

Being a Product of their Environment's Collective Order and Disorder, [Aforementioned] also reserves the Right to have their ideas, technologies, and otherwise all Intellectual Property stolen, re-purposed, and re-attributed at Will ONLY by other Certified Popes. Corporations, LLC's, and otherwise Capitalist-based organizations are NOT capable of being Certified Popes.

Battering Rams not included.

Suu

Quote from: LMNO on June 30, 2016, 07:25:41 PM
Oh yeah, that wouldn't give Suu an embolism, at all.

:horror:


I actually had this vision of Cain, Roger, and I, as some sort of beat cops around the dormitories. Armed only with bad ideas, and paracord.
Sovereign Episkopos-Princess Kaousuu; Esq., Battle Nun, Bene Gesserit.
Our Lady of Perpetual Confusion; 1st Church of Discordia

"Add a dab of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it."

The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: SuuCal on June 30, 2016, 11:15:33 PM
Quote from: LMNO on June 30, 2016, 07:25:41 PM
Oh yeah, that wouldn't give Suu an embolism, at all.

:horror:


I actually had this vision of Cain, Roger, and I, as some sort of beat cops around the dormitories. Armed only with bad ideas, and paracord.

And a wheelbarrow full of bricks.
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"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.