OPEN BAR: NO CISNORMATIVE ELVEN PATRIARCHS ALLOWED

[The Wizard Joseph]

Hope to get home this weekend, see my pop, beat my bros at a few games, and... I got me a certified Valentines Day date!


What is the "thousand cuts thing" really because, not that I minded mind you, the first image in my head was a bunch of stuffed shirts getting the most authentic Asian executive experience of their lives.

Spot on.  Except some of them do it to themselves.

Like a boss! 

[The Wizard Joseph]

Things are very hard right now. I got laid off a couple of weeks ago. I've spent the last week and a half not reacting. Kind of just hid. Filled out my unemployment. Fed myself the obligatory platitudes. Spent hours sitting in my room obsessing over important matters like my right leg being less flexible than my left....

...then I started sorting pictures. All at once it came. Fuck.

Hang on. Best I can really say. Think you're maybe depressed? Maybe you could look at the free time as a chance to just do something fun! Unless it's not just the job.

[Chelagoras The Boulder]

Yea, when i'm depressed, i find one of the best things to do is to gtfo of whatever room i'm in, and either find something fun to do on my own, or meet up with some people who will help you feel less shit.

[Chelagoras The Boulder]

also i landed an internship today! This means i can finally hand in my resignation at the YMCA and start picking up odd jobs i've already scoped out around LB, such as tutoring and gardening at the local community garden

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

also i landed an internship today! This means i can finally hand in my resignation at the YMCA and start picking up odd jobs i've already scoped out around LB, such as tutoring and gardening at the local community garden

Woo, congratulations!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

That is a fairly accurate description of corporate middle management.

LMNO
-Team Lead/Warden

This is why I am not fucking around with a Masters degree. I will happily either be a lab monkey or that grant-writing bitch who makes up bizarre ways to use an fMRI to test people on arcane minutia of human decision-making, but I want to minimize the span of time in which I am the person who is the go-between for the grant-writing bitch and the lab monkeys.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Things are very hard right now. I got laid off a couple of weeks ago. I've spent the last week and a half not reacting. Kind of just hid. Filled out my unemployment. Fed myself the obligatory platitudes. Spent hours sitting in my room obsessing over important matters like my right leg being less flexible than my left....

...then I started sorting pictures. All at once it came. Fuck.

Oh dude, fuck. I'm sorry.

[Cain]

I love the assumptions of nurses that everyone else is a complete moron who cannot be trusted to handle even basic medication, and the only people with such advanced and sophisticated skills like "giving ibuprofen to a student in pain" are nurses themselves.

I've just been checking my work emails, and it seems I did a Bad Thing.  Never mind it was 4am, the girl was having severe menstrual cramps, and I had either the choice of giving her some paracetamol (which wouldn't help) or ibuprofen (which wouldn't help much, but might reduce her discomfort a bit).  House Parents are only qualified to give paracetamol, apparently.  Maybe no-one should tell the nurses you can actually kill people with paracetamol, or they might take that away from us too.

Then again, the whole rule structure of this place is insane anyway.  Students can keep their own medication, but we don't trust them to be on the internet past midnight.

Oh FFS. That has to be the stupidest random bureaucratic bullshit hurdle since America.

It gets better.

One of my co-workers has been suspended, possibly to be sacked in the future (if he doesn't quit first, which he probably will).  While I think he has shown poor judgement a couple of times, it is nothing more than poor judgement (ie; letting a friend of a student stay here overnight, going to a museum with an adult student) and, in the case of the final "offence", having a student slip past him while he was on the front desk.

Plus, there are like only 5 people here who actually know what they're doing and he's one of them.  Now the paperwork is never going to get sorted, because I'm not spending my spare time going into the archives.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I love the assumptions of nurses that everyone else is a complete moron who cannot be trusted to handle even basic medication, and the only people with such advanced and sophisticated skills like "giving ibuprofen to a student in pain" are nurses themselves.

I've just been checking my work emails, and it seems I did a Bad Thing.  Never mind it was 4am, the girl was having severe menstrual cramps, and I had either the choice of giving her some paracetamol (which wouldn't help) or ibuprofen (which wouldn't help much, but might reduce her discomfort a bit).  House Parents are only qualified to give paracetamol, apparently.  Maybe no-one should tell the nurses you can actually kill people with paracetamol, or they might take that away from us too.

Then again, the whole rule structure of this place is insane anyway.  Students can keep their own medication, but we don't trust them to be on the internet past midnight.

Oh FFS. That has to be the stupidest random bureaucratic bullshit hurdle since America.

It gets better.

One of my co-workers has been suspended, possibly to be sacked in the future (if he doesn't quit first, which he probably will).  While I think he has shown poor judgement a couple of times, it is nothing more than poor judgement (ie; letting a friend of a student stay here overnight, going to a museum with an adult student) and, in the case of the final "offence", having a student slip past him while he was on the front desk.

Plus, there are like only 5 people here who actually know what they're doing and he's one of them.  Now the paperwork is never going to get sorted, because I'm not spending my spare time going into the archives.

Going to the museum with an adult student is an offense???

That's ridiculous. It's certainly a terrible reason to fire an otherwise competent employee.

[The Wizard Joseph]

Cold as hell and they've got my loading dock occupied again. I'm not getting out of the truck. . Ok I hate waiting on fools too much. Getting out of the truck.

Comic from FB:

The wind hurts my face.
Why do I live where the wind hurts my face?

[Doktor Howl]

Cold as hell and they've got my loading dock occupied again. I'm not getting out of the truck. . Ok I hate waiting on fools too much. Getting out of the truck.

Comic from FB:

The wind hurts my face.
Why do I live where the wind hurts my face?

Come up here.  The wind-blown sand hurts your face instead.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Cold as hell and they've got my loading dock occupied again. I'm not getting out of the truck. . Ok I hate waiting on fools too much. Getting out of the truck.

Comic from FB:

The wind hurts my face.
Why do I live where the wind hurts my face?

Come up here.  The wind-blown sand hurts your face instead.

Or you can come here, where the obnoxious odor from the spring flowers is too strong and hurts your face.

Nigel,
Portlander

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Speaking of which, not only is the air peculiarly not wet, but there's some kind of big round bright thing in the sky, which has turned a funny color that I don't recognize. I think it might be the Apocalypse.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

OH GOD WHAT'S HAPPENING? ARE WE ALL GOING TO DIE?

[Doktor Howl]

Speaking of which, not only is the air peculiarly not wet, but there's some kind of big round bright thing in the sky, which has turned a funny color that I don't recognize. I think it might be the Apocalypse.

Check to see if you are on fire.

If no, it's just Portland's twice a year day off.

If yes, Welcome.