This sucks, really sucks. The one friend I have at work just told me she is leaving. Not close to anybody else there and she makes the day better just by being there. I have a hard time making friends and this is one of the few people I can be really actually comfortable with and was hoping to progress to outside of work friends soon.
Now, I just don’t see it happening. I am losing a really important part of my work life and I am numb and saddened.
Thanks, purplehorseshoe. I find it helps when people point out the things that I do, because I often don’t realize it myself.
Maybe I’m being a stereotypical apologetic Canadian? 
I admit to not having heard the term “the ask” before. I tried googling it to see what it meant, but didn’t get very far. Maybe it’s mostly used in the business field?
I know exactly how this feels, and I sympathize utterly. I was relatively lucky to work in a fairly large office where it seemed there were always choices of someone to talk to, but the pickings got pretty slim in the last few years to the point where I was down to one so-so person. But when you find out someone you really like is leaving, it takes a while to get over it. Good luck to you, I hope you can find a new person to interact with.
No, the reason they’re not very good now is that the namby-pamby-sissy-hippie vegans got all butthurt when they found out what the fries were being fried in and McDonalds being all pussy cow-towed to the four people throwing a bitch fit and changed it to some crap-ass non-tasty oil.
That’s why I make my own fries now at home. I fry them in steaks and they are fucking delicious.
Thanks. Spoke with her a bit and she is going to a good job, and I am very happy for her. We also talked about how I was thinking about shadowing her role, and really I could take her role. There would be a learning curve but I would have a little better working situation and better career prospects.
And she does want to stay in touch after she leaves and she demonstrated what a good person she is.
She is younger and more experienced in our career field. Very few people I respect to the degree I do this coworker. I am happy that I told her that.
Not quite right. It wasn’t a vegetarian thing. It was a saturated fat thing, screamed about by the “healthy” crowd. Not the veggie crowd. McD’s fries are NOT vegetarian even today, as “beef flavor” is added.
And for a real treat, add a little bacon fat to your fries!
It occurs to me to wonder if Turkey’s refusal to accept the term is driven at least in part by a fear that demands for reparations would follow any such admission.
Should it be “What’s the aks?”
How do you kill half a person?
You do a half-assed job.
Spent 4 days in Chicago. Never been there before, had a great time. Came home with a cold and a strained Achille’s tendon.
Yes. Like most of the recent painful updates* to our language, yes.
*Or, as I once saw in a business document, “updations.”
I think I was in my thirties. They must get really cheap bulk rates.
My mail-related complaint may have been posted before. But probably not this month (mind like a steel sieve). It includes dead relatives.
If you submit to the post office a change of address card for your dead relative, so that you can deal with their estate, the post office will notify magazines and billers and fundraisers and anyone else who asks that the address has been changed to X. I am still getting hunting magazines in the name of someone who died in 2005. I have to assume that they make their money off of their ads, rather than subscriptions.
A bigger deal was the insurance company that cancelled the insurance on Mom’s house because they do not cover unoccupied houses. Apparently that’s a specialized and expensive sort of insurance. And we know it was because of the USPS notifying them that the bill was going to an out of state address. The local agent got chewed out because it was a small enough town that he should have known. (And if he did know, and left it lying, bless him.)
Grammar changes because: reasons. You know who else used verbs as nouns? Shakespear. (The other guy may have, too. I haven’t read any of his stuff.) It really can’t be frozen.
That said, I haven’t heard “the ask” and would have to ask for clarification, to be sure I was interpreting it right. [After googling, I’m still not sure. Although there seem to be shades of “let’s cut to the chase” and “forget reasoning, what does the boss want?”.]
In my googling, I also ran across “punch a puppy” and “pain point” as horrible jargon in 2013. I’m not sure I want to know.
My daughter just got her first invitation to join AARP. She is eleven.
Now I just noticed I said five ears when I meant five years. :smack:
First world problems ahead: The last time we ordered Chinese delivery, I got cashew chicken. Very tasty, but I really wanted snow peas with it, and no mushrooms or celery. So this time I ordered chicken with snow peas, add cashews. They charged me $1 extra for about 12 nuts, and was in white sauce instead of brown sauce (my mistake). Boo hoo. 
Next time I’m just getting shredded pork in spicy garlic sauce.
Saw that one once, from an outsourced worker in India. At least he/she had the excuse of probably not having English as a first language.
If you ever wander through Grand Junction, CO, give me a shout and I will take you to Chinese Food Heaven where the owner/chef will make you anything you want the way you want it. Even if it’s not on the menu. (Within reason of course. Your custom Cashew Chicken would be entirely within reason. And have the wonton soup. Seriously.)
How has the person who wrote this not been strangled by an irate co-worker? That’s just as bad as “conversate.” There’s already a perfectly good word that’s shorter!! Why?!!
Nm! Ninja’d!
Maybe, but its not the same government that committed the crimes; it was the Ottoman Empire. You have a stronger argument for the United States paying reparations to black people for slavery.