Good Morning, 2010! The Princess' Diary Intarwebs Edition

[superaielman]

Metlife sucks like that.  My family's been through the wringer with them before, and it really sucks.

[Sierra]

The cubicles at my office all have these little American flags at the corner. I took a close look at one this afternoon and it said Made in China. This made my day.

[DjinnAndTonic]

We can't even be bothered to make our own tiny American flags... >.>;;

[Ultradude]

The cubicles at my office all have these little American flags at the corner. I took a close look at one this afternoon and it said Made in China. This made my day.

I would find this more humorous if it was anything new.

*Siiigh*

[Nitori]

I like how snow making school closed went from awesome to completely screwing you over

Ko can I borrow your brain for Friday

[OblivionKnight]

YEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA INTERVIEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Lady Door]

My HR person screwed up again. I was entered as a "late enrollee" to the dental insurance, which is apparently what was causing the weirdness and waiting periods. It was HR who screwed up by not enrolling me in the first place back in October. So now, maybe, my stay plate thingy will be covered. Hope rising -- so probably not.

[superaielman]

YEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA INTERVIEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Which job?

LD: Maybe you'lll get good news, yeah. I wouldn't hold lmy breath though.

[Idun]

YEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA INTERVIEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congrats! (:

No class tomorrow 'til 11. I am hyped for my extra 1.5 hours of sleep!

[Grefter]

Have been having PC problems lately, think I have narrowed it down to a bit of faulty RAM (Hopefully since it is cheapest and easiest to replace), in the process of testing how many sticks it is and if I am on the ball.

Running a system back up in Windows 7 with only 2 gigs of ram is painful though.  200gig backup as well is kind of shit, but such is life, I know I have it if things go tits up at least.

So this is like the last fucking thing of substance I say.  What happens the next fucking day?  Our internet cuts out for the better part of a week.  Fuck you internet.

[Lady Door]

So my office is downsizing to one of the two suites we've been occupying for the past couple years. This does, naturally, mean that we're going to lose a bit of workspace, but hey, all in the name of keeping the company afloat, right? We're moving all our junk and phones and computers over tomorrow after they finish setting up the new cubicles, so today they gave us the floor plan so we knew how to mark our boxes to get them to the right places.

THEY'RE MOVING US INTO 4'x4' BOXES!

The four of us are moved into a cubicle "room" (that is, three full walls and one with a 5' opening), and each of our workspaces is 4'x6' or, as is the case for the senior designer and my manager, 4'x4'. A "workspace" includes the space between divider/support walls and the exterior walls. For my manager, her space also includes the fact that her chair will naturally sit halfway in the opening space where people would be walking in.

What. the. hell.

I knew I was going to miss having my own office, but DAMN. >_<

[DjinnAndTonic]

Does this new inconvenience finally match up to your salary, then?

[Lady Door]

Just about. I think they'd need to downgrade my computer a notch. Of course, they've been giving me more responsibilities, so there's a LOT of other crap I'll shortly have to put up with in order to balance that out.

Company meeting is in 2.5 weeks. It's the first one we'll have had since the last round of layoffs. Given the extreme advanced notice compared to the others (where we found out the day or week before), I'm guessing it's more of a "here's where we are" thing, but who knows?

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Bad news: I'm very, very unlikely to make it to DLcon 5 this year.

Good news: The reason is because I GOT FUCKING SUMMONSED TO ONE OF THE GOVERNMENT POSITIONS I APPLIED FOR LAST YEAR. HOLYSHITHOLYSHITHOLYSHITHOLYSHIT

[Cotigo]

Congratulations.  As for missing DLCon, real life trumps vijiagames and the internet always. 

[Lady Door]

Bad news: I'm very, very unlikely to make it to DLcon 5 this year.

Good news: The reason is because I GOT FUCKING SUMMONSED TO ONE OF THE GOVERNMENT POSITIONS I APPLIED FOR LAST YEAR. HOLYSHITHOLYSHITHOLYSHITHOLYSHIT

Congratulations! That's awesome. And we're going to have to work with you on that "very, very unlikely" business.

[Shale]

I vote for an extraction team. Who's with me?

[OblivionKnight]

I might have a job that pays real money by then, so I can help finance

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Believe me, the problem won't be financial. The issue is that there's no way I'll be able to make the leave days I'd need for the trip - unless I somehow made up for it with mad amounts of overtime (if that was even allowed), but that would get me killed real fast.

[Shale]

So if, instead of asking for vacation time, you just happened to be abducted by foreign commandos, there'd be no problem!

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

I'm pretty sure I'd get in trouble anyway. >_>

[DjinnAndTonic]

There's only so many opportunities for someone to take a trip to the US where a bunch of your friends are willing to put up with you for a week. I mean, put you up with some decent lodgings for a week. Your bosses may be more understanding than you think. You can at least ask.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Bosses are one thing. The government itself and the Constitutional laws that state you cannot really take a vacation-level leave in public service without at least a year into the job are another. I also wouldn't put my chips on public institution bosses being amazingly understanding and kind.

[Shale]

Kidnapping it is, then!

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

You seem rather enamored with the idea of travelling to South America for the sake of a nerdnapping. >_>