You guys are assuming that I can still tell when I'm being sarcastic.

Hmmm, be careful with that. We all know what happens to witches who lose the ability to tell the difference.

Man that's depressing

Yeah for a while. And then you remember there are more things in life than work. Or more accurately there are more important things than bureaucracy at work.

Reading David Hayward's latest on PAS for example, or Emma Hart's :).
Or looking through old boxes at home…

Hence, if you see a crap manager hold onto his/her job for any length of time, the bet is their boss is even more crap.

Not sure if you'd win that bet 100% of the time.
Sometimes its the organisation that is crap
Sometimes its the boss
Sometimes its both…

Hence, if you see a crap manager hold onto his/her job for any length of time, the bet is their boss is even more crap.

Man that's depressing.

Related to 'What I learned from this was to hone my sarcasm to such a razor-sharp edge it was barely noticeable.'

By any chance?"

I was going with a solid 'Yip' on that one Andrew. Still it's nice to be replied to...

Aw, thanks, that's sweet

Related to

What I learned from this was to hone my sarcasm to such a razor-sharp edge it was barely noticeable.

By any chance?

Not that I am presuming that Emma looks repellent naked

Aw, thanks, that's sweet.

(Yes, it's probably inappropriate for meto speculate on the state of their sex life, but hey, stories like that bring out the bitch in me.)

You can rest assured that her former employees have said much,…

Count me out John. Based on my limited (and utterly clothed) contact…

The Peter Principle explains ending up one level higher than is warranted. The example I mentioned sits several layers too high, and is so distasteful that charm can't be the answer.

So would some variation on the Post Turtle be more applicable ?

I think there was a point at which she spent more time thinking about my sex life than I did.

Those who can, do. Those who can't write shitty inappropriate letters to their employees.

(Yes, it's probably…

If someone calls you bisexal it just means that your breath smells of fish.

One can't help feeling this would interfere somewhat with the acquisition of multiple spouses.

I remember you and Pauline being unable to work out what I saw in Mike the Bartender, and me waiting until he was walking away from us and saying 'there it is'. But that may turn out to not have been you at all.

I think I do remember that.

I note that Paul's career seems vastly more exciting than mine so far.

Ditto, I'm starting to feel a bit whiny now.

(this…

It boggles me how these people hold jobs

Keep telling the management what they want to hear to get brownie points
On the basis ofbrownie points spread influence within the organisation like a tumour
When the time eventually comes that management finds out the extent of the problem, and decides…

My ex-boss has yet to have his come-upannce for his daily screaming (literally) fits at one or all of the staff.

It boggles me how these people hold jobs. I mean, my ex-boss was running her own business, but she also had a real-life middle-management job where she had to…

shining nugget of corn in the turd

roflnui

My ex-boss has yet to have his come-upannce for his daily screaming (literally) fits at one or all of the staff.
"one day Roger Fitz, one day!"

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Often the shitty times were either the logical end to something that had been wonderful or the catalyst to something better

You know, on consideration I think you're entirely right about this. Every time I seriously think about the whole Pam debacle I'm reminded of how wonderful one of my…

Call me, we'll put together a deal.

As far as I can throw you, darling.

I think there was a point at which she spent more time thinking about my sex life than I did.

Given she wrote a 1500 word slew, that implies spending far too much time.

Perhaps thats one benefit of keeping this kind of stuff, you haul it out later and…

Geek jewellery, what's the world coming to.

*cough*

Can we watch?

Hey, when I'm standing on the table yelling "World Domination!" someone has to clap politely.

It's enough to know that should I ever decide to use my powers for evil, I would fucking rock at it.

Can we watch?

I know I'm meant to be curious (note – that's not bi-curious) about what provoked an employer to focus on your sexuality like that, right?

Far be it from me to 'should' your curiosity. It was a long drawn-out tawdry tiresome series of disputes, as it usually is. To be…

I find it really hard to tease the good and bad apart in memories. Often the shitty times were either the logical end to something that had been wonderful or the catalyst to something better or the times I discovered my own strength (mind…

she did explicitly give me permission to have 5 husbands and 10 wives and have sex with them all out in your front yard at noon everyday

I wonder if the HR Institute run an awards ceremony for Best Contractual Non-Cash Benefit Scheme? Certainly makes my 2.7% discount on health…

Neal Stephenson would be deeply disappointed in me.

And I'm kind of disappointed that Stephenson has decided to become utterly incomprehensible, and take his time about it. It all evens out, eventually.

The odds of them working out that drunk people were trying to calculate the speed of light in Moro bars per micro-fortnight is pretty much nil.

Though at least if they manage to deduce the "moro bars" and "micro-fortnight" parts, then the "drunk" bit would follow rather naturally.

Which seems terribly exhausting.