# Hello MMP....I'm Back! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [January 20, 2014, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-mmp-im-back/679267 "2014-01-20T11:16:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-mmp-im-back/679267/201 "2014-01-23T13:12:36Z")
Happy Birthday to **Mom** and **Wiki**. I hope I got the coding right. The Guy Who Is Laid Off After Tomorrow came in today and in only five minutes bitched about 10 things. Is it Friday yet? Please? ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-mmp-im-back/679267/202 "2014-01-23T13:26:27Z")
Happy Thorsday! Happy Birthday **FCM**!!! Happy Birthday **Wiki!!!** Feel better soon **Swampy** ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-mmp-im-back/679267/203 "2014-01-23T13:37:51Z")
**Happy Birthday [COLOR=“Indigo”]Mom and Wiki![/COLOR]** It is colder than all get-out today. I’m gonna stay in and start cutting up t-shirts. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-mmp-im-back/679267/204 "2014-01-23T13:49:12Z")
Happy Birthday Mooom 'n Wiki!! Whew, now I’ve forgotten what else I was gonna post… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-mmp-im-back/679267/205 "2014-01-23T14:10:04Z")
Happy Birthday **Mooommmmm!!!** Happy Birthday **wiki**!!! I’m up and caffeinated. Working tonight. ---
**Author:** ![2gigch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2gigch1/32/3313_2.png) [@2gigch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2gigch1)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-mmp-im-back/679267/206 "2014-01-23T14:16:30Z")
Happy Birthday\*\* Mom!\*\* Happy Birthday\*\* Wiki!\*\* ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-mmp-im-back/679267/207 "2014-01-23T14:40:42Z")
**WikiWikiWiki Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Happy BirthDay** ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-mmp-im-back/679267/208 "2014-01-23T14:49:13Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > You moved to Colorado from Pittsboigh? Flashbacks. Comes from hanging out with all the Chem-E and Pharm kids in college. “Lets get Mikey to try it ------ he’ll smoke anything!” > [@swampbear](#): > > I own two vacuums. Both of 'em are Orick’s (Orrick’s?). They work just fine. I see dirt. I vacuum. Then I don’t see dirt. Works for Her Ladyship complains when she catches me using the Shop Vac in the living room and hallways. She also says they look cleaner than when I use the regular Orick. Wimmin ------ never happy! \ Happy Birthday **Mooommmmm!!!** Happy Birthday **wiki**!!! OK – so all I did was copy and paste and edit a little ------------- its the thought that counts? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-mmp-im-back/679267/209 "2014-01-23T15:34:54Z")
**Happy Birthday, FCM!!!** **Happy Birthday, Wiki!!!** \*\*Buttercup, \*\*I happen to be a Fed employee. I can assure you that we are not ALL slackers. I work my ass off, and ran a six person office alone for over 14 months. We’re still not fully staffed and I’m still just killing myself here. As for the leave thing; it’s all about documentation. You have to document it, you have to formally counsel and have her sign, implement something similar to a PiP, and follow through there. It’s really not impossible to get rid of bad employees, you just need to have the documentation. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-mmp-im-back/679267/210 "2014-01-23T15:40:18Z")
> [@Sean\_Factotum](#): > > Happy Birthday to **Mom** and **Wiki**. > [@Sahirrnee](#): > > Happy Birthday **FCM**!!! > > Happy Birthday **Wiki!!!** > [@SpazCat](#): > > **Happy Birthday [COLOR=“Indigo”]Mom and Wiki![/COLOR]** > [@Filbert](#): > > Happy Birthday Mooom 'n > Wiki!! > [@dogbutler](#): > > Happy Birthday **Mooommmmm!!!** > Happy Birthday **wiki**!!! > [@2gigch1](#): > > Happy Birthday\*\* Mom!\*\* > > Happy Birthday\*\* Wiki!\*\* > [@April\_R](#): > > **WikiWikiWiki Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo > Happy BirthDay** > [@kopek](#): > > Happy Birthday **Mooommmmm!!!** > Happy Birthday **wiki**!!! > [@Taters](#): > > **Happy Birthday, FCM!!!** > **Happy Birthday, Wiki!!!** yeah. what they all said. 😉 😃 also blurf. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-mmp-im-back/679267/211 "2014-01-23T15:48:17Z")
That reminds me, a need new sunglasses. Happy Birthday to FairyChat and all. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-mmp-im-back/679267/212 "2014-01-23T15:55:40Z")
It’s sunny out today and I know it’s cold. but my phone app is stuck on yesterday so I have no idea how cold. The road out front is covered but must not be too slick because nobody seems to be having trouble getting up and down it. OH! we are unstuck, It’s 16 degrees with a high of 25 for the day. Next weeks temps look just as sucky. Boring day today. **Butters** there’s a reason my father used to say government employes are rejects from society who can’t make it in the real world and that government jobs are modified welfare. It’s not nice but unfortunately it is true with some government workers. They know it’s hard to fire them and they take advantage. When I worked for the state one of my co-workers grandmother died at least 6 times, and the doctor who signed his notes wasn’t listed in any directory. The supervisor who questioned his notes got in trouble for investigating if the doctor even existed. I could write a book about the shit that went on there, the waste of tax dollars and the insane work environment, but nobody would believe me anyway. It was one of the happiest days of my life when I got away from the insanity that was working for the state. ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-mmp-im-back/679267/213 "2014-01-23T16:02:24Z")
What is worse than a blurf, I gotz it. I just want to sit. Not do anything, but just sit. ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_Kirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@Capt\_Kirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_Kirk)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-mmp-im-back/679267/214 "2014-01-23T16:08:37Z")
Happy Thorsday Happy Birthday **Moooom and Wiki** , **Swampy** get well. I cannot, in good conscience, hurl CATSHARKS at a sick man, well an unhealthy one anyway. Up, caffinating and my goatee is still growing. I am very much looking forward to March and our upcoming MiniMumperfest Music Extravaganzas featuring Matt Schofield. Busy day today Cheers all **Jim** ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-mmp-im-back/679267/215 "2014-01-23T16:24:41Z")
> [@Capt\_Kirk](#): > > Happy Thorsday > > **Swampy** get well. I cannot, in good conscience, hurl CATSHARKS at a sick man, well an unhealthy one anyway. Have you considered the jellyfish larvae option? Not as spectacular in delivery, requiring only a small catapult, but good non-fatal results. Remember, Jelly Fish are best served hot, and revenge cold. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_Kirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@Capt\_Kirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_Kirk)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-mmp-im-back/679267/216 "2014-01-23T16:37:00Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Have you considered the jellyfish larvae option? > Not as spectacular in delivery, requiring only a small catapult, but good non-fatal results. > Remember, Jelly Fish are best served hot, and revenge cold. 🙂 I live close to the Gulf Coast, I could round up some of these [http://cdn1.arkive.org/media/58/58D05549-4A4B-45A2-BCFF-9D684AE34BD7/Presentation.Large/Mass-of-Portuguese-man-o-war-colonies-washed-up-on-shore.jpg](http://cdn1.arkive.org/media/58/58D05549-4A4B-45A2-BCFF-9D684AE34BD7/Presentation.Large/Mass-of-Portuguese-man-o-war-colonies-washed-up-on-shore.jpg) Those would definitely put a damper on fun in the Ceement Pond. **Jim** ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-mmp-im-back/679267/217 "2014-01-23T16:41:16Z")
I’m feeling terribly smug; I cycled to the bank and back, all by myself 🙂 Okay, so it’s all flat cycle path, and I was going dead slow and had to stop for a breather, and it’s really not impressive at all, but it was about 3 miles, and I’ve never really cycled before except as a wee kiddie in the garden\*. I know half my friends are Serious Cyclists, and do mad stuff like cycle to Hungary from England (not a made up example), but still, it’s a good start, right? \*Well, I did buy a total piece of junk called a bicycle and try cycle to work when I lived in the middle of nowhere age 18- about a mile and a half- but I fell in a ditch when trying to get off the road so a car could go past, then I bought a car a few weeks later, and gave the bike away. ---
**Author:** ![Buttercup\_Smith](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buttercup_smith/32/473_2.png) [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-mmp-im-back/679267/218 "2014-01-23T16:44:56Z")
Happy Birthday to **Mmoooommmm** and **Wiki**. **Taters** I know not all fed employees’s are slackers as I am one too. It is so frustrating to have employee’s be so un dependable. The reason I say I can’t do anything about it is she always has a doctor’s note and my boss will not back me up. When she is here she is an excellent employee The other one has aspirations of something higher up in the department like maybe POTUS. Just very entitled. As the Manager it all falls on me to keep the doors open no matter what and I have done it before and will do it again. Maybe I need to be a bitch. I surely am sorry to imply all federal employees are slackers. I am frustrated that I cannot truly count on anyone except myself. Sounds like you have been/are in the same boat. I hope all the sickies feel better soon. ---
**Author:** ![Jynxster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jynxster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jynxster)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-mmp-im-back/679267/219 "2014-01-23T16:56:00Z")
Happy (belated) Birfday to\*\* Spaz\*\*. Happy (actual) Birfday to **MoooooooooM**. Survied all 1 inch of snowpocalypse. Might not survive the cold though. 16 degrees. B-double-RR. Had to bring the neighbors elderly cat, whom I am don’t know if they are aware still exists (she spends all day in our yard and the outdoor cat houses we built) in our garage for the night. She wouldn’t go in her house and it was 24 degrees and getting dark. She spent the night in a box we fixed up for her. We cracked the garage door so she could get out this morning. She hasn’t left. We may have a new cat. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-mmp-im-back/679267/220 "2014-01-23T17:56:28Z")
Me neither **Butters** and **Taters** I know most of the people work but it’s the slackers who make it bad for everyone else. Private industry would never tolerate that crap. My boss used to come in everyday with a bag of pot strapped to one leg and a bag of coke strapped to the other and would lock me out of the office while he was making drug deals. He beat up his supervisor one day and his supervisor (who was an incompetent asshole) got transferred to a different department where he couldn’t cause any more damage and my supervisor got promoted to his job. One day he picked me up and slammed me down in a chair and told me if I moved he’d beat me up because I was working too fast and not dragging out the overtime. On any given day at least half the people at work were drunk and/or stoned. The director was my supervisors biggest customer and the assistant director sat at his desk drinking beer all day. Like I said, I could write a book, but most people would never believe the shit that went on there. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-mmp-im-back/679267.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-mmp-im-back/679267.md?page=12)