She's now saying things like "now I see why you have it organized that way," which is quite reassuring. She doesn't have to follow my organization system, but she's catching on to what her job is, which always helps when doing a job.
- Lo
how many more training days do you have with her?
- Sarah
I dunno, if she learns fast then today, half days tomorrow & next week. If not, I may have to come in the following week. I'm leaning towards not, maybe I'll actually hit the road earlier than planned. I hate to leave here, but honestly I'm ready to just get this over & done with, you know?
- Lo
yeah, and he won't give anyone a straight answer about getting our paychecks. the logical choice for him would be to give them out today, since there's no work left this week and no reason for us to work tomorrow. i wouldn't mind working (it'll add a bit to my next paycheck), but what would i work on? i'll be pissed if he expects me to drive all the way here just to get my check tomorrow.
- Sarah
Damn he's like Scrooge crossed with a low-level weed dealer. Tell him to get with the 21st century & do direct deposit. Sheesh.
- Lo
he used to do direct deposits. and then he didn't have the money in the account a few times, i'm guessing they charged him a fee for that. he canceled it.
- Sarah
but for all that, the company doesn't do that badly. we think he has some shady deals and that's why there is never enough money in the payroll account.
- Sarah
LOL you're stuck in a worse situation than I am. If you really want to get down into the deeper reasons for that, it's a topic I've spend a lot of time investigating over the last year :D Over the next few months we can get into it, if you want.
- Lo
HA shady deals, this keeps getting better and better.
- Lo
the deeper reason is probably a lot shallower than you think. i own few but precious things and can't just pick up and be homeless or move back "home" with my parents and keep them. i owe some small debts and enjoy my self made ability to pay my bills and pay off my debts in a timely manner.
- Sarah
There's that, but I think there's more to it. Of course, first you have to accept my theory (which is somewhat backed by science) that you don't consciously understand all the factors in your own decision making process. And by "you" I mean "everyone." & I'm over-obsessed with self-understanding, so grain of salt - it's not really for everyone :P
- Lo
but with all that, how can you claim to be able to know or learn the deeper reasons?
- Sarah
Heh, sorry dude I'm at work you know :P Here's the thing, you can't "know" pretty much anything for sure, but like science you can create a model that works with the available evidence. I dunno, I should warn you in advance that I don't have a comprehensive vocabulary for these concepts yet so it's confusing. And I don't have any special insight into your life, but I do notice some parallels with my situation & I've put a lot of time into understanding it.
- Lo
hmmm... well i notice a lot of non parallels as well, but today is not the day for me to get into it. you may have many good points, but it might wreck me today to hear them. i believe i have good points of my own.
- Sarah
not so much good points today. today i hate most everyone i've talked to but you.
- Sarah
I'm not questioning that your points are good. The way I look at information sharing is I can only speak for my own experience (this makes me come across as even more self-centered as I am, which is a lot, but I don't claim to know how it is for anyone but me!), and parts of it will be useful to others, parts not. Fine with me. I'm not your freaking mentor, it's more that if things I...
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- Lo
right on. let's get high and sing awful songs. i'll probably just be drunk and wishing i still smoked weed.
- Sarah
Adventures in Training, Part 3: I'm warming up to the trainee, and she's catching on. Can't help but mention her outfit, though -- today she's wearing BRIGHT lime green VS pajama pants and a faux cheetah fur jacket. Merry Christmas China-style, aw yeah :P
If there's one day when Cathedral Grove will be quiet, it has to be tomorrow. *prays to the gods of silent redwood forests*
- Lo
Dear work, Thank you so much for being really annoying & potentially requiring unpaid overtime on Christmas Eve. I've been doubting my decision to move & this was just the reassurance I needed. For real, I'm so glad! Feeling much better now :D UPDATE: Crisis averted, looks like a half day. Whooo!
Labeling 2000 parts by hand turned out to be only 90 parts. But I'm still glad to be reminded how much it sucks to get angry before 7am, and am looking forward to that happening less in the future.
- Lo
Last week we told her that you have to round up weight in shipping (e.g. 3.1lbs = 4lbs). So she has been rounding up every number, everywhere, ever since. Prices, markups, etc!
- Lo
If I hear the words "'I don't get it" one hundred more times I cannot be held responsible for my actions. The odds look good that this will happen.
- Lo
Wow. I think I'd send her to Home Depot for a left-handed crescent wrench.
- ha3rvey (Ho)^3
i feel your pain. honestly. the only people i ever trained that weren't like this were either doing the same job as me or were ex-USMC. however, the one former Air Force guy i trained up was worst of the lot.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
I feel your pain, too. Hopefully your trainee isn't also one of those people who thinks she doesn't have to take notes because she "remembers everything".
- vicster is...
ok firstly you peeps need a new HR manager !!
- Peter Dawson
HR manager?? LOL! You seriously overestimate the company organization and # of employees
- Lo
"I think I will need to take notes, I cannot remember all this" <--- MUSIC TO MY EARS. Finally, after two days of us begging her to take notes.
- Lo
"I don't understand my computer. I can't click."
- Lo
"How to use this program?" Like I have a fucking one sentence answer that will magically explain our entire PO processsing system. *LAND OF 1000 ARGHS*
- Lo
Me passing information to this girl is like trying to fill a test tube with a fire hose. The only problem is, there's a swimming pool worth of stuff that needs to be transferred. Slowing down is so painful
- Lo
Unexpected bright side: My boss may finally realize that I've been right in telling him that he's assigned me an unreasonable level of work. If he were more willing to listen, he wouldn't have to learn the hard way. The hard way = everything falls apart when the new girl can't handle the workload.
- Lo
So part of the problem is my impatience. :/ Turns out I have to wait 5 - 10 seconds between every mouse click while she figures out the order of the alphabet, etc. I'm sure I'd do much worse working in another language.
- Lo
Ew, I didn't know we had that now. If only she knew how I felt about iPods :
- Lo
Video holiday card from one of the Chinese factories I work with: "Christmas is a time when everybody wants their past forgotten." We served our time & we just want to move on! :D - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
From what I've seen, they are super into anything Christmas related that's non-religious. It's truly just a holiday about capitalism over there, like people often claim about the US.
- Lo
from Bookmarklet
I wasn't even aware "Christmas is a time when everybody wants their past forgotten". Prosperous Xmas, Lo! :)
- Eivind
Merry X'mas to you too :) I bet you even have snow, don't you? I'm almost jealous.
- Lo
There's some snow here; not an impressive amount, but enough to have a white Christmas. Don't think there will be any skiing or snowboarding until next year, though.
- Eivind
I've never been downhill skiing... if I lose my mind & visit you in the winter we can go and you can mock my clumsiness :)
- Lo
Downhill is for snowboarding, but you are welcome to join! (I love to mock!) :)
- Eivind
Me: "You may want to make a list of where to find these important documents; it will be hard to remember so much." Trainee: "But if I don't remember I can just ask someone." *headdesk* Does she think I'm telling her all this stuff for fun?
Is she fresh out of school? In my first job I wasn't so good about taking notes either. Now in my 2nd position I'm absolutely anal about it
- LANjackal
FB? LOL. #oohburn (In a similar situation, I spent an entire day doing a brain dump of my job into a well-formatted document. It was difficult, but ultimately worth it - and management was pretty pleased with my effort.)
- Jennifer Dittrich
I've never had to train a replacement before, but I document as much as I can to make it easy for someone to pick up where I left off in case of my absence
- LANjackal
from IM
Yeah, I've made lots of helpful guides leading up to this. She wouldn't write down where they were located on the computer, is what prompted this.
- Lo
It's really windy out there o.0 The wind appears to be coming from the North Pole.
It really is a Festivus miracle. And two days left to get my aluminum pole... good strength to weight ratio!
- Lo
Holy fuck, after two full days of training in which she's looked bored & taken hardly any notes, we just realized the trainee does not even understand the concept of a request for quote. She doesn't seem to understand the difference between a customer and a supplier, despite them generally being on different continents. NOT GOOD.
Sorry for the f-bomb, but DAMN. The only small consolation is that when she takes over completely, I will be observing the resulting disaster from a comfortable distance.
- Lo
I'm having a really hard time not showing irritation when I explain stuff to her. My co-worker has mostly done the training for me, but she's on vacation next week. I only have to be nice enough that she doesn't quit immediately...
- Lo
LOL Jeremy. The sad reality is this job is way too complicated for the pay grade, only underachievers like me can handle it. Our annual turnover is something like 150%
- Lo
How old is she? When I was 18, I was dumb as a stick too. Maybe she'll grow into the position. :P
- Ken Morley
No clue, I'm a terrible judge of age. She's older than 18, though. Mid-20s I'd guess. She probably will do fine in the long term, if she makes it. January will be interesting, though. (it doesn't help that we've had a LOT of problems lately, more than usual even for working with China). Also, I doubt you were ever dumb as a stick Ken! :)
- Lo
Yup, to be honest I've already considered what will happen if & when she quits/is fired after a few weeks. If the company pays I'll fly back for round 2, I guess.
- Lo
I did some amazingly stupid things. I still have the scars. :o)
- Ken Morley
Forget about trainees, hire cheap-to-free + talented + always learning + smart interns instead! :) #hr
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Sounds like it could be my sister-in-law
- Rodfather
I talked w/my co-worker, who filled me on stuff she said when I wasn't around or in Mandarin. We think it's less of a dumb problem and more of a don't-care-enough-to-try problem. Which is still not great.
- Lo
Who the hell is in charge of hiring there?
- Spidra Webster
this sounds like about half of the people my boss gave me to train up as an assistant back in my publishing days. why i was never involved in the hiring process is beyond me. i ended up with 5 people making messes for me to clean up (when they weren't just sitting on their asses and gold bricking, which i eventually preferred) and generally pissing off the people i was trying to help.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
Spidra, the same boss (CEO) responsible for every messed-up work story I tell. The office manager was theoretically involved as well, but she's become a yes-man to the CEO (for her own safety). I used to be involved, esp when it so clearly involves me, but boss apparently doesn't trust me anymore... today he justified my continued employment by saying "I'll go with the devil I know." Not everybody went to management school, I guess... :)
- Lo
Joe, that sounds very lame! The bright spot (a big one) here is that I really won't have to deal too closely with the mess, if there is one. The downside is, I can leave as soon as she knows what she's doing... so I may have to keep working after New Year's. I suppose I could use the money. I'm just tired of this holding-pattern-between-lives crap.
- Lo
Maybe you could back track a bit... some sort of remedial session on things like "What is money? What does money do? Is money good to have? Do we want more money? Where do we get money? How do we get money? Do customers give us money? Do suppliers give us money? Does money grow on trees?"
- Mark "DerBingle" J
LOL Mark! But thank you, that's actually sort of good advice. I should probably back it up to the basics. My real plan is next week she just has to do my job, period. She's allowed to ask any questions she wants, but I'm not going to direct her. She's going to sit at my desk and deal with whatever comes. This should force her to accept and admit that she's clueless.
- Lo
FF was my main concern, do you like it aside from that?
- Lo
I'm new to the whole shiny phones that do stuff world :P
- Lo
friends don't let friends buy Motorola.
- Alex Scoble
Oh no :( My phone has been non-operational for days now but I can't figure out what to get. This sort of decision always baffles me.
- Lo
If you need a phone today, get a Motorola Droid not the Cliq (don't listen to Alex, LOL). If you can wait for a couple of weeks get the Google Nexus One. It's supposed to come out on Jan 5 and be pretty cheap.
- Adrian
If you plan to do a lot of typing and don't like on-screen keyboards, I recommend the G1 over the Droid, actually. The Droid went with a space-minimizing design, and my coworkers have called the keyboard "useless" because of the proportion of the keys. The G1 may be an older phone, but it's still serving me well. And the Nexus One is slick as hell, but it has no physical keyboard.
- Brad Greer
Good to know, Red. I wanted the droid but I'm on T-Mobile. I was going to get a G1 but J is heavily pressuring me to go with the Cliq as superior. You know how important typing is to me!
- Lo
There's always one football player who's bigger and faster than everyone else. In preps, it's infuriating. In college, it's awe-inspiring. But in Pop Warner football... - http://deadspin.com/5412246...
Today's extravagant donut: "Cookie Monster." Wish I could take a picture of the one I'm actually eating, it has about five oreos on it and extra frosting. I can only eat one bite per 10 minutes (to avoid some sort of diabetic coma, that is).
No fun! Diabetic comas can be so entertaining! The bouncing, the jittering, the drooling of chocolate... EDIT: Never having had a real diabetic coma, my comments are in no way to be construed as mocking the actual event, merely the idea of overdoing sugar use, which I tend to do regularly anyway.
- Bette Cooper
Yes, a similar disclaimer for my post, I just couldn't think of any descriptive term besides "diabetic coma." :)
- Lo
My dear friend send me this labeled "Porn." Indeed, it is!
- Lo
from Bookmarklet
Theory: if you were using FriendFeed as a tool, only trying to get something out of it, it's now lame. But if you were just having a good time, it's better than ever. True/false?
Corollary: If you're just leveraging your social whatsits rather than communing with others, you bore the shit out of me and that's why it's better without you.
- Lo
Sorry if that was too mean, I plead lady hormones!
- Lo
for me true its my lifeline to the world.........
- VAL D. Zone
I mostly use it for pleasure, but also for information at times. It can be quicker and easier to get an answer in here to some questions than posting in a forum.
- Ian May
It is still the best tool for me personally. I use Lazyfeed, Meehive and Thoora etc. etc. I still find lots of useful and interesting content both current and archived on FF.
- Eric Logan
I still use FF as a tool. It's a great tool to follow and converse with a wide variety of people and to make friendships.
- Beau Liening
from iPhone
I came here to escape the narcissism of twitter. BTW FF squashes twitter like a grape. I enjoy the camaraderie. this place rocks.
- Mike Nencetti
I use Twitter too. Always found them to be apples and oranges. I like both.
- Ian May
Beau, good point, tool was poor word choice on my part. I'm just remembering my early FF days, where people would have one thing auto-posted across 8 services that was all about using more services... it's like a tech Tim Taylor disorder, having lots of tools is good but unless you make stuff what's the point?
- Lo
Dang, Lo, if that's what lady hormones do to you, I say bring it on!
- Michael R. Bernstein
LOL: "leveraging your social whatsits" :)
- ha3rvey (Ho)^3
True. But isn't having fun one way to leverage your social whatsits?
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
I think FF is a tool - one that ensures I get like zero work done if I don't turn it off frequently.
- Jeremy (quasimodo)
anything will be lame, if you don't ever have a little fun ;)
- Mike Chelen
I use it have a converstation. I can't have one of those on Twitter because of the lack of comment threads. It doesn't support a good commenting system like this. FriendFeed is great for that. I use it for many reasons.
- Patrick
from twhirl
OH WOW I just realized tomorrow is Friday! The one good thing from childhood that's still awesome :)
- Lo
APARTMENT TO SHARE - I WILL LIVE IN THE LIVING ROOM AREA, AND YOU WILL USE THE BEDROOM... AFTER SOME MONTHS, YOU WILL HAVE SAVED SOME EXTRA MONEY THAT YOU DID NOT WASTE IN RENT EXPENSES. This is the funniest Craigslist ad for a roommate ever. Highlights from "what I demand from you" below. - http://tallahassee.craigslist.org/roo...
NO PROBLEMS OF ANY SORT. (probably my favorite part)
- Lo
NO FRIENDS COMING TO BOTHER, MAKE NOISE, AND/OR DISTURB.
- Lo
NO BOYFRIEND/GIRLFRIEND STAYING OVERNIGHT OR MOMENTARILY. (I love the "or momentarily.")
- Lo
WE HAVE TO DEFEND THIS PLACE LIKE OUR OWN HOME AND OUR BELONGINGS LIKE THEY ARE THE LAST THING WE HAVE. ONE OF THE NEGATIVE SIDES OF SHARING SPACE IS THE POSSIBILITY OF BEING STOLEN
- Lo
REMEMBER, YOU AND I MAY BECOME FRIENDS EVENTUALLY, BUT THIS IS BUSINESS, YOU HAVE TO RESPECT MY SIDE AND I HAVE TO RESPECT YOURS.
- Lo
He wraps up by explaining that if you choose to take this amazing opportunity, he's willing to share his vast knowledge that will improve your life & teach you Spanish. And also offers to help you with any problems, which seems a bit odd given that all problems were forbidden in all caps earlier in the post. It's really cheap, but no.
- Lo
Oooh, Spanish! All over it! NOT!!! Actually I lived in a situation similar to that where my roommate had the living room and I had the bedroom in a 1 bedroom apartment. Only thing is the place was 1 block away from the beach in Santa Monica, and he was like super mellow hesher metal dude and we got along famously. He was a bit on the dirty side but it was all good. Met Anika in that place too. :D
- Adrian
Ooh, I love when a story has an unexpected happy ending!
- Lo
I have flagged for "best of craigslist"
- Brian Johns
But 5 minutes after you left, one tree breathed a sigh of relief and said "Thank God that creepy stalker girl left. Have you seen the way she looks at us? It makes me feel so... dirty."
- Brad Greer
HA! I do try to only hit on the trees that seem interested. It's a bit hard to tell.
- Lo
I love that you actually took time to roll around in leaves today.
- cecily
Gotta enjoy them while I can! The fall leaves here are remarkable, considering we don't really have seasons. (and it happens in December!)
- Lo
Oh man, Eivind, I just got that. First good hard laugh of the day, and an excellent stress relief - you did give me a tip after all :)
- Lo
Uh oh... it looks like one of the random young men in my office finally figured out the unholy levels of lust he inspires in me. Thank goodness it's not long before I leave! I swore my innocent-boy-defiling days were over :P
I really don't know what it is, I'm blaming pheromones. Rationally I'm not interested, but some wild-animal part of me is ready to do terrible, inappropriate things to him.
- Lo
Trust me, he's not as innocent as you might think...
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Suppose for a moment we're at lunch, and you remark that only salt-water crocodiles attack humans, not alligators. I turn to you and say "That's not true. Alligators will attack if they've been fed by people. That's how my godmother died 15 years ago. It was horrible." How would you respond to that? (see comment #2)
Right after it happened, all the girls in my PE class were making lots of jokes about the grandma that got eaten, and dissecting it for body parts, etc. Which was really upsetting to hear, but they had no idea I knew her. AND THEY WERE 13. My boss is 75. No excuse for this shit.
- Lo
Did he think you were being sarcastic or displaying a morbid sense of humor?
- joey
No (well I doubt it), he really is that ridiculous. Just wait till I've quit for good, oh the stories I have... I don't think he's capable of considering another person's point of view in conversation. Which is why I try to not let him talk directly to our customers.
- Lo
I would think you're messing with me. Conversation could escalate quickly, with me accusing you of telling false stories and you saying that I'm a horrible person. In the end, either it's a joke or somebody punches someone in the face.
- Jordi Soler
I'm afraid I would laugh before I realized you were serious. That's awful.
- s t e v e
I'd say "Wow, sorry. I had no idea. CHECK PLEASE!"
- Morgan Haley
I suppose we really need video to fully analyze what went on. And I wouldn't be offended if you laughed. In fact I wouldn't be offended if you did pretty much anything other than invite me to think about the specific details. She was such a nice lady, had a long bout with leukemia, and then that happened when she went for a walk behind her house one morning - so all the fun of a long, slow decline and a terrifying, violent death. No wonder I quit going to church.
- Lo
But in another month there will be thousands of delightful miles between me & boss, so I'm going to get over it and smile in 3...2...1...
- Lo
Ding! :D Thanks for letting me share, guys. <3 all around
- Lo
That is really bad. My group of friends can be really sarcastic and attempt to disarm people by making comments like that, but if you don't really do that and he has no reason to think that you were making a morbid joke, then it's really inappropriate. Sounds like a winner. I'm really sorry you had to go through that. <3
- joey
I didn't explain it very well, he turned to my co-workers and explained the details of how big reptiles kill you in an informative way (not that anyone asked). Everybody looked kind of uncomfortable except for him. But no worries, this is just going into the "reasons to be happy about moving" box!
- Lo
YAAAAAAAY! My boss agreed, despite "reservations," to let me stay on w/company and work from FL part-time. Still on the payroll, still have health insurance, more interesting work, fewer hours, no boss physically present. Sweet CA wages with sweet FL cost of living. It's all coming together you guys!!!
Thanks! It really is great, I figure even if it goes to hell (as it often does with external employees), I'll get a few months pay out of this, straight to savings, no boyfriend to support. Hello emergency fund, I missed you!
- Lo
Oh yeah, and guess what you guys: someone finally danced back to my Great Wall video, so now I have to dance on my boss' desk before I leave. I got served!
- Lo
Wow, congratulations. Even part time, you're probably better off financially living in FL than you were working full-time and living in CA. Cost of living is a killer.
- Jason Huebel
Congrats I had a similar situation with my employer.
- Bryan Lee
I'm not American, and forgive me if I'm wrong, but isn't Florida where Americans go to die?
- Eivind
Tallahassee is the Capital, lots of state government related economic impact. F.S.U. and F.A.M.U add lots of students and collegiate activities. Both my kids where born there. Florida is where Americans that planned well financially, go to retire. Eivind, Some communities are like Disney World for senior citizens ;)
- Eric Logan
Lo, let me know how it goes. I'm always collecting good telecommuting success stories. My prayers go with you.
- Melanie Reed
@Eivind - Yes, but rarely some people grow up there. We're... well, we're all nuts I guess. @Melanie - Thanks, I'm sure I'll be whining about the new projects in no time. But at least I'll have no worries about a roof over my head & food in my belly, and that's saying something these days!
- Lo
Did I get this right, Lo: Some people grow up in Florida, but they're all nuts?
- Eivind
Some people are A, but they're all B; that wasn't exactly what I meant, but it seems to be logically sound!
- Lo
Found a roommate in Tallahassee & a temporary place to stay. About to start training my replacement at work. After months of stagnation this is all moving so fast. I'm so happy! *breathes into paper bag*
I'm glad you're happy. A change of pace/place can be so energizing. Here's to the panic storms growing increasingly intermittent. :)
- Ayşe E.
Thanks <3 I figure part of what I really want/need to learn is how to weather the panic storms & still function, so having them is not really even a bad thing. Annoying, perhaps, but not bad :)
- Lo
(((((((((((((((((((((lLo)))))))))))) I am so happy for you........
- VAL D. Zone
She said she's moving "back" to FL, which means she has to be already familiar with the college football insanity that pervades that state (and most of the South). It is NOT the Bay Area ;)
- LANjackal
from IM
Well, I haven't actually ever lived up there. I grew up Orlando & further south. But I know I'm moving to hick country.
- Lo
Any college town will have just enough interest/alternative POVs to keep you going. Have fun! And if Tallahassee doesn't, come on up to Chapel Hill/Durham.
- Ayşe E.
While the native population may qualify as "hick", the huge student population won't. Most of the people will be from South FL, which should make the scene interesting
- LANjackal
from IM
Yes, I was counting on "college town" to trump "almost in Alabama." Thanks Junebug!
- Lo
You couldn't possibly despise Alabama more than I do. That said, I hope it's not too much of a culture shock for you. Calling deep southern culture the polar opposite of NorCal culture would be an understatement
- LANjackal
from IM
Well, I am semi-familiar even from being further south. When I was little we had a cross burned in our yard, does that count? I'm a little worried that, from what I've heard, the town is rather segregated. What do you think my odds are of being able to befriend folks from other sides of town? I did okay in Eatonville, but it was rough. Lots of folks assuming I was a cop, Nation of Islam dudes calling me white devil, etc :P
- Lo
I'm not totally familiar with the area, but I do know there's a kind of FSU vs. FAMU thing there. I'll let you read btwn the lines on that one. As for segregation, it's voluntary ... no one's gonna stop you from going where you want to, but really diverse crowds in one spot may be tough to find. Which is odd, because everyone likes the same music and eats the same food, etc. But that's...
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- LANjackal
from IM
Amen! I've tried too hard for a while now to integrate my various friends, which is tricky because in particular my east cost friends hate the west coast group, and vice versa. I could be down with deliberately segmented social life again for a while, it's entertaining at least. But to be clear, this is absolutely meant to be temporary, a few years at most. I could NEVER live in the south again permanently. I will probably end up back in Cali or some other country in the long term... hello, Sweden! :)
- Lo
I don't even try. Which is why I have multiple circles of friends. Nothing more embarrassing than having inviting some people from Group B to come to Group A's party, only to have the B people tell you they're uncomfortable and leave. Kicker: people from Group A telling me they were surprised I even showed up. Are you kidding it's your graduation party and you did well why would I NOT show up? Sad world we live in
- LANjackal
I just hate when friends A tell me they don't trust friends B and are just looking out for my interest (and mean it), but B is saying the same thing about A. That happened when I left school... this is giving me flashbacks. Why can't we all just get along?! :)
- Lo
I remember five good years in Tallahassee - at FSU. Granted it was in the early 60's. I always thought it was the best area in FL having lived for a year in Miami, and visited my folks for varying periods in Sarasota and Port Charlotte.
- Lynne
Holy naughty Batman! My boyfriend just passed my workplace, and stopped to make out with me behind the building for a while. The probability that we'll end up back together down the line just increased to 96%.
Well, we're still living together so until I leave it seems silly to try to break up. We're doing a last hurrah/enjoy it while it lasts sort of thing. Having more fun than in the last year, year and a half.
- Lo
Dear Boss & Co-Workers, As annoying as this week has been, I'd like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for making me feel good about quitting & ensuring I won't miss you. This job was worth taking, but it's even more worth leaving! No regrets.
You should start a blog called Ex Boss. I will give you past 'quitting letters' as your first guest interview! I had one just like Michael Scott from 'The Office'.
- elizabeth
Yeah, I've never seen a donut for $1.50 either (Los Angeles). I think the most I've seen is $1.25 for a bear claw. Otherwise, they're all 25 - 79 cents.
- Admiral Anika
True, you can get cheaper donuts in CA, I didn't mean to imply otherwise :) Where I work is in one of those little rich/snobby pseudo-small-town bubbles, the only donut shop is this place: http://www.psycho-donuts.com It's so worth it though!
- Lo
But back to YOUR donut...are those biscuit things stuck on top when you buy it or do they sell them separately?
- Admiral Anika
Yes, some of the donuts have entire candy bars crumbled on top. The place is pretty bizarre. It gets protested almost every weekend, which seems unusual for a donut shop.
- Lo
They get protested because their name is supposedly offensive, not because their donuts are over-the-top delicious. In response they played up the theme even more, now they only employ attractive, hipster-type young ladies in punk nurses' uniforms. And hand out bubble wrap to pop while you decide.
- Lo
If anyone wants to experience visual insulin shock, you can see pictures of all their donuts here: http://www.psycho-donuts.com/pickupo... Sadly, the hamburger donuts was a disappointment.
- Lo
Those look like these cookies that you can buy in the states called Koala Yummies! So you can possibly recreate this without being in CA! I agree, they aren't the best cookie in the world. But I am always a fan of people putting HUGE toppings on donuts.
- elizabeth
HA there's yet another "crisis" unfolding at work, and I'm practically pasting an artificial look of concern on my face. Yes, I... care. Very... much.
Maybe I'd care more if my boss hadn't done something that every single one of us thought was a bad idea that would blow up in our faces down the line. Guess what happened. *http://instantrimshot.com/*
- Lo