We don’t have fixed options, but it’s the answer I was given during testing when I saw things that didn’t seem kosher to me; I was a lab tech before being a consultant, so I have a good understanding of what the lab people need. In Spanish we say antes de monja fui puta “before joining the convent, I was a whore”, but in this case it would be more like “I used to be a nun before taking to the streets”, given the line of work. In any case, that’s the answer I’d get - the notion of “going to the client and making sure” simply was not in the list of options.
And it’s also the answer we have to give now, when the customers ask to see stuff that they can’t see, given the specs they approved. “It’s working as designed, if you need a change of design please send the new specs and indicate where to charge costs; thank you.”
I have a question: is Miller real beer? My knowledge of beers is quite limited; in real hot weather I can drink as much beer as I want without any ill effects, but not for temperatures below 30C or so… so I don’t drink a lot of beer.
Well, I just been interviewed by the HR’s intern, and on tape, too. They are trying to put together uniform job descriptions for the company. I’m not totally comfortable with being taped but it’s probably just my 60s era paranoia cropping up.
bobbio, cool beans! I never thought about where you folks would get the water from iffen there aren’t hydrants.
li-li, good vibes from here, too. Please let us know. FTR, I cried at Hallmark commercials when I was pregnant. :rolleyes:
bear, inappropriate appendages crossed.
We got some much needed rain last night and more is on the way. It is good.
**Nava ** and Special1 - I’m so glad I’m merely a user… (altho I do occasionally design a spreadsheet or a database, but still I’m glad)
I forgot to mention earlier - Wow, BBBob, that’s some story - I’m glad you came out of it unscathed
Nava here’s you a website all about Miller Beer. I live to educate.
BioRosie A battery operated noodly appendage waving FSM would be so jake! OOH… know what would be really jake? A FSM pool float! Floating around on noodly appendages… could it be any more fun.
Snakes maybe you could get the team to put little FSM patches on their jerseys.
Thanks for all the appendage crossin’ and well wishes.
Yay for temporary work, Swampy! And appropriate appendages crossed that it either leads to permanent employment you really enjoy (especially if you get a discount on beerverages!) or at least provides you with $$$ while you find the perfect job for you!
Nava, I read what you wrote about the grammar thing. To which all I can reply is: Huh? :dubious:
I just got a call from my sister. She’s visiting our cousin in California, so I got to yak with two for the price of one. Sounds like they’re having lots of fun. Even if my sister did get sunburned, which is not exactly surprising for someone from Seattle in SoCal.
Off to take Isaac to his get-out-of-jail appointment!
I give her six months before she’s on a plane back to the States. If the woman can barely function in the country she ‘grew up’ in, there’s no way she’ll survive a totally alien environment like Japan.
I’ve found in the past that telling the truth generally leads to short-term pain but long-term benefits for everyone involved.
I finally got to a place where I think I can afford some major home repairs. I was going to start calling contractors next week. So today I discover that what I thought was rainwater leaking in around my back door because my porch roof is gone, is actually water leaking from pipes in the wall from the bathroom. So, now instead of fixing those other problems I have to get the more urgent water leakage fixed somehow. I had just set up a rack to hold all my large storage containers that is against that wall with the pipes so I will have to find a place to move all that crap to so I can get the pipes worked on. I have no place to move this stuff to except back to my living room that I had been trying to get cleaned up so I could get my ceiling worked on, but that leak is minor now compared to the pipes.
Actually, I’m quite proud of myself. I’ve only cried about being sick once so far, after an entire day spent throwing up, and I haven’t gotten teary about things that don’t normally make me emotional. I just get a a little more emotional.
Someone want to vacuum for me? Or maybe motivate me?
Poor Wile E! That reminds me - I have a leak in my kitchen sink and my living room lights and bathroom lights are not working properly. I’ve paged the janitor constantly this week but for some reason he refuses to respond. :mad:
Class went pretty well today, I think. Thanks for the support, MamaTigs and Mindfield! I did end up teaching about the affective and intentional fallacies, and hopefully I’ll be able to refer back to the two concepts later on in the semester.
I was somewhat amused today because one of my students was telling me how adorable and cute That Guy was (he’s teaching an Ethics class here). I was tempted to respond with “Yeah, but did you know he’s a total jerk?” Damn work ethics preventing me from being unprofessional. Anyway, adorable and cute are probably not adjectives you want to hear from your students, especially at this stage (where we’re both newbies and have the smell of grad school still fresh upon us).
I have another class at 6, and have decided that it’s not worth going back home just to have to come back up here again in the evening. So I shall while away my hours at a coffee shop with a good book.
:: appears with horn-rimmed glasses and a ruler :: Young lady, your laziness would make a sloth blush. Look at all this filth. Are we humans or are we pigs? Will you clean this of your own accord or must you receive some . . . other incentive? :: slaps ruler suggestively on palm ::
I’m assuming a female student of high school age? Actually, it might be more fun if it was a male student - I’d tell him to “go for it” - it would serve That Guy right
{{{Wile}}} Stories like that make me reconsider whether I really want to own or not.
Haze, That Guy is teaching Ethics?! Well, isn’t *that * special. :dubious:
I had my interview this morning. I think it went well. I’ve gotten a lot better at interviewing since 7 years ago. The position I’m currently filling is no longer available, so I’m assuming they’ve filled it. I admit to being more, shall we say, honest than I would be in an interview for a position with another company. Now I wait and see.
Gah! Our phone system is all screwed up today. It was fine first thing this morning but then it just went all mental. I can’t log in, and those who are logged in can’t log out. I can see that I have a message on my voicemail, but I can’t access my mailbox. There’s no functional queue anymore, so the receptionist is having to manually transfer all calls, which means if I’m already on the phone , my phone will ring incessantly while I am tied up and unable to answer it, and because voicemail is down no one can leave messages.
What a sorry mess.
Of course, I could completely ignore any given incoming call without a single repercussion if I wanted to. But I wouldn’t do that. That would be evil.
:angel_smiley:
Swamp[del]Brew[/del]Bear - Ooh, workin’ at a brewery. Do ya get any free “samples?”
Hank - It must be kind of weird teaching a class not a whole lot younger than you, feeling like you were only recently one of them. You seem to be falling right into it though, in spite of having sort of been pushed into it without any sort of game plan. How do you maintain a sense of flow in the course material? Have you already laid out an approximate direction for where they’re going, or is it just sort of a play-by-ear situation still?
A battery operated noodly appendage waving FSM would be so jake! OOH… know what would be really jake? A FSM pool float! Floating around on noodly appendages… could it be any more fun.
Damn work ethics preventing me from being unprofessional. Anyway, adorable and cute are probably not adjectives you want to hear from your students, especially at this stage (where we’re both newbies and have the smell of grad school still fresh upon us).