a job ain't nothing but work

[fishjim]

Apparently I told Turbo Tax I had a farm when completing the federal section. Now I'm onto California and hey, look at that! I've got one here, too. It's like FarmVille IRL.

[Nick Ink]

OMG, I just heard a bloke say "knackered" !!!

It's been years. Thanks for the memories, Nick.

Reminds me of the old Not The Nine O Clock News sketch:

Prince Charles said today that he regrets his use of the word 'knackered' when talking to reporters, and that next time he feels shagged out he'll keep his gob shut.

[clare]

or 'buggered' perhaps? (my word of choice for total physical exhaustion)

And hooray for davy's new job! (not that anyone thought for a moment that he wouldn't get it ;-)

[Aglaya]

Great news Davy!

[Greg Nog]

ARE YOU A BAD ENOUGH DUDE TO WORK IN AN OFFICE?

IT INVOLVES SITTING AT YOUR DESK ON A CONFERENCE CALL, SLOWLY CLIPPING AND THEN UNCLIPPING A BINDER CLIP ON YOUR EYEBROWS WHILE LISTENING TO CO-WORKERS READ ALOUD FROM AN EXCEL FILE

[coldforge]

Man, every time one of those butterfly clips makes its way to my work area, I invariably clip it onto various parts of my body until I accidentally break it.

[peacocks]

man, my office would be more fun if you two worked here. I have a whole basket of those things in various sizes that have only known paper.

ok I wasn't copying your speech style cf, that is just how I talk. It was so weird to see two opening sentences starting "man" after pressing post.

[Aglaya]

I have to sit in on the weekly conference calls every so often, and I mostly spend the time writing random phrases so my boss thinks I'm taking notes and trying not to space out so much that I can't snap back in if I need to (I needed to once).  But that's ok, because after the last one the guy who was leading it called the next day and said that what was discussed was for basically everyone but me because my cafe doesn't need to make any major changes, just keep doing what we're doing and keep getting better at it, but he couldn't really say that on the call.  He also has told me and other people (some of whom were pretty upset to hear it) that my cafe is the best in the region, and being the guy who's in charge of the region, he would know.  Suck it everyone else.
Every week, we get the numbers for our district, and every week I laugh at the other stores' numbers.

[Aglaya]

My inner-dude-brah really comes out when I'm being proud of my job and my staff and such.

[Thermofusion]

Re: Binder clips, our office is infested with them. They buy them by the buckets at Staples and use them for everything, which means you can look under any desk in the office and find a dozen of them laying around like dead cockroaches. They are fun to play with though. I do a pretty gross thing where I'll use them as tweezers and rip hairs out of my neck beard if I haven't shaved.

[jebreject]

I find them in my pockets all the time.

[Greg Nog]

They're great for holding shut bags of chips, chocolate chips, flour, etc.

[Aglaya]

We've got a bunch of them that my room mate brought home from work, and we use them for what Greg said.

[mixed cats]

I've used them in my hair in place of barrettes, and to hold makeshift purses closed, and to hold together lots and lots of layers I was sewing. At my old job we made robots out of them and made them fight!

[peacocks]

At my old job we made robots out of them and made them fight!

I have to do this! Also about the barrettes: OUCH!

[mixed cats]

Nah. Regular paper clips and rubber bands are ouch. Wee binder clips are fine.

[peacocks]

hmmm.... we'll see about that.

ok. It didn't hurt but I don't know if it's a good look? Gets the job done anyhow! My hair is kinda thick so I had to use a bigger one:


(trying to look like I'm not taking pictures of myself with a binder clip in my hair)

[mixed cats]

ca. 2007


It works in a pinch.

[peacocks]

HA! You pull it off smoothly!

[fishjim]

You two rock! I am showing these photos to Iris in hopes of turning her nascent "princess phase" into a "binder-clip phase."

Incidentally, we sometimes use binder clips to hang her drawings on walls, from ceilings, etc. Much kinder to the artwork than scotch tape or push pins.

[RavingLunatic]

Umpired my first games of the year last night, a JV college doubleheader. First game it was about 42 degrees, but then in the second game it got down to about 32, which sucked, mainly because I couldn't keep my tendinitis-prone Achilles warm. When I had to sprint to make a call on some play, it hurt pretty good.

[fishjim]

RL, you are my first umpire friend!

[peacocks]

!!!!!I am a genius!!!!!!

I was having a really great day. I cleaned my house, I listened to prince, I payed rent, got lunch and came by my office to print a couple GIS maps for a meeting down in Palm Beach on Monday. Our office is split and the plotter is on the other side from my desk. The door to the part of the office where my desk is locks automatically from the inside and when I came over to this side to check on the maps, well. I locked myself out. My half eaten moes burrito, my salsa, my chips, my now-watery sprite. All abandoned. No worries though! My boss' son is coming to rescue me in a few minutes. He will tease me for the rest of my life. I DID get my maps printed (I hope I did them right, they look OK. Maybe I will exacto knife the extra off the edges.) so that's great. And now there's another quirky peacocks story for everyone to toss around. Weeeeeeee.

Actually I'm in a pretty good mood today so I'm still having a great day. This is hilarous.

[Greg Nog]

Most boring meeting ever, but they gave me raw fish to eat.  NEUTRAL.

[mixed cats]

next week is my company's annual meeting, time to set up my marketing buzzwords bingo card