Good Morning, 2010! The Princess' Diary Intarwebs Edition

[Lady Door]

Thank you,  guys.

I agree, for what it's worth. But seeing as I'm the lowest man on the totem pole, I can't very well go telling people this, at least not if I want to keep a job. I am thinking it very loudly and petulantly, though. <_< There is a distinct lack of "manager" in my title. In fact, there's a very prominent "Assistant." As in, assisting.

I will admit that I could have confirmed before I threw things out. I will also point out that my boss is extremely busy and always very flustered and frequently can't or won't answer my questions when I ask them anyway, and my boss's boss (the one who is most upset about this and the one to whom my boss would then direct my question or me) is gone every Thursday and Friday and in meetings or at appointments 75% of the rest of the week.

Anyway. This is How Things Are(TM) and I need to deal. So says my boss. So says my sense of self-preservation. Whether this was my fault/responsibility or not, it's what I have to deal with.

Believe me, though, I am actively working on setting up a situation that better appeals to me, i.e., finding a new source of income.

[Bardiche]

Clearly, the answer is obvious.

So, Lady Door Ltd or Lady Door & Co?

[Grefter]

Thank you,  guys.
I will admit that I could have confirmed before I threw things out. I will also point out that my boss is extremely busy and always very flustered and frequently can't or won't answer my questions when I ask them anyway, and my boss's boss (the one who is most upset about this and the one to whom my boss would then direct my question or me) is gone every Thursday and Friday and in meetings or at appointments 75% of the rest of the week.

You could ask your boss how to wipe your arse as well before doing it. 

An important part of managing is to you know, manage, tell them what they need to know to do the job and then let them do the damned job not telling someone anything and then expecting them to come running to you asking if they should throw each random piece of paper out is a clear strong case of poor management plain and simple.  That isn't even delegating any responsibility.  That is paying someone to pick up pieces of paper for you which unless you are going for amazing gratuitous excess is a waste of everyone's time.

Edit - You know this, but bad management makes me so angry.   That is not how you manipulate people properly dammit.  Do it properly.

[DjinnAndTonic]

Fun stuff!

Today was the greatest class ever. My 6th graders are graduating to Middle School soon, so today was the last English class with them. So I decided to do something special. I grabbed my laptop and pulled up a bunch of Youtube videos of events from American Middle School life to try to give the kids an idea of what it's like. I showed them things like Pep Rallies and School Dances and the infamous Graduation Hat Toss. I also included things from the Middle School I personally went to, which of course meant they spent most of those videos asking me if I did all those dances and such, too (I did).

This all culminated in my teaching them a Pep Rally chant and part of the Thriller dance. The kids were really getting into it and moving around. It was great. Exactly the kind of classes I always wanted to teach. I kept prodding them during the videos and explanations to look for things that they hadn't expected or that were very different from Japanese school life. The biggest response was "Everything's so high-tension/high-energy." I tried to explain that this was the main point of things like Pep Rallies and School Dances.

Still, it made me a little proud that our culture still has surprises for them despite how much of it has already permeated into theirs.

[Dhyerwolf]

For all that I doubt G3's plot would have been saved at all in the end, it was so obvious they just got to some point with it and said "fuck it" and just completely ignored it. I mean...they appeared to have what was likely supposed to be a major plot villain come out of nowhere into scenes, have no introduction, NO name, etc...Forget some of these people having no motivation, but Mysterious Mustache Man was obviously the symbol that they just didn't care.

Also, Middle school pep rallies? Man, those were horribly irrelevant in high school, and high school is the one where school spirit is actually supposed to matter.

[DjinnAndTonic]

I always kind of liked Pep Rallies. They got you out of boring classes for a while to screw around with your friends while the band played and you got to ogle cheerleaders. And seriously, they were always far more entertaining than any other assemblies we had in public school.

[Taishyr]

See, we weren't allowed to talk or stand up or move at pep rallies.

Horribly counter-productive, I know. They were afraid we'd start fighting each other.

[Shale]

Our pep rallies were always at the end of the day, so they presented a golden opportunity to leave school an hour early.

[Dark Holy Elf]

I thought pep rallies were related to school sports. Regardless, I find it funny they've apparently done a better job of reaching Japan than they have Canada.

[superaielman]

Pep rallies sucked here; I always hated going to them and they did delightful things like threatening to write you up if you didn't stand at the right times. One of the few times I actively cut class was to avoid those as I got older.

[Hunter Sopko]

Pep rallies were always an excuse to bring in the drug sniffing dog at my high school. I didn't really care much about them until I had to MC for the track team's segment my senior year due to being the only captain not too chickenshit to do it. I ended up just making fun of the other captains.

[Magetastic]

I don't actually know what happens at pep rallies. I've never gone to one, though it looks like they're quite high energy at my school as well, because to me, they're an easy way to escape the noise and clutter of my 'fellow classmates.' It's so nice to actually have some peace and quiet, even if it's only once a year~

[Luther Lansfeld]

Pep rallies are fun! Enjoy life~  We had tons of pep rallies the two years that our basketball team went to the state tournament. I always thought they were a lot of fun and had all kinds of silly events and competitions with teachers doing ridiculous things.

[BaconForTheSoul]

Still bitter about pep rallies.  We had a class competition each pep rally and kept track all year.  The seniors typically won every year, but my freshman year our senior class was a bunch of dumbshits.  With 2 pep rallies left we had one more star than they did so the final two "competitions" only had seniors in them.  Congrats dumbshits, you had to cheat to beat freshman at silly games involving athleticism and teamwork.  Hope that felt good.  (It did get better, the next 3 years we won because those senior classes weren't douchebags and my class had way too much pep apparently.)

[Luther Lansfeld]

So I am trying to get a credit card through a Canadian bank.

They say that since they don't want me to run off with their money, I need to deposit 1000 dollars in a savings account for a year that I can't remove the money from until that year. So I say okay, sure. Then a couple of days later they call me and say that I must get a letter of recommendation from my old bank in Oklahoma in addition to this. I call the bank in Oklahoma and they say they are mystified and have never heard of such a thing and have no idea what the contents of such a thing would be. I call the original bank guy back and he is all like whatever we write those every day, etc.

I am obliged to just give the bank the finger and tell them that if 1000 dollars collateral on a 1000 dollar limit credit card isn't enough they can go fuck themselves, but I would like to have something besides a debit card here.

[AAA]

Pep rallies were boring wastes of time, but hey it was either that or class and at least seniors got out early.

[Grefter]

The closest equivalent we ever had to them were normally just a chance for me to sit somewhere in the middle of the room wih my friends (Out of reach and hearing distance of teachers) and be snarky and bitter for an hour.  Honesty annoyed me less than Religious Education classes (which once a month were done in place of a regular class).  Those pissed me off because I would quite frankly rather be doing Maths.

The one that totally ruined anything positive I would have to say about them was the one last pep rally equivalent we had where it was a thinly veiled excuse to remind as that Jesus was totally Rad and they took us out of like our last or second last Physics class before senior final exams to do it.  (Remember this is a very young teenage Grefter who still has serious anger management issues who has just gone through 12 years of public school with enforced religious education who is a very strict Atheist who has also just started attending a couple of University units on Psychology and Sociology with open eyes just taking in all this glorious Communist stuff which merged with young idealist leftist mindset.)  People thought I was going to punch someone at lunch, it took me the full hour to calm down (which is a good thing I did, like I said, end of senior year, I really needed to have it together to study properly during classes).

So yeah, fuck Pep Rallies and religious education in public schools.

Edit - It does remind me of the time we had a big one for HEY KIDS DON'T SMOKE!  And they start talking about how it fucks up your lungs.  Good time to have an uncontrollable really wet flu cough.  Almost got in trouble for that one.  Good times.

[Cotigo]

Pep rallies are stupid wastes of time.  I recall skipping out on 'em if I could and reading a book during them if I couldn't.

We have 'em at my University, sometimes, which used to infuriate me to no end since I had to attend whilst in the marching band.  Now I'm around them at work sometimes which has turned them into an excuse to gank some food so that's an improvement.

[Idun]

Pep rallies were fun as hell in HS. We had a FB team that won. Basketball team/volleyball team (yay me) that won. Majority of students knew each other despite likes and dislikes. And we all liked to dance. Partay. At college? I've seen something equivalent to that called "Pounce," but the only thing GSU is pouncing on are students who prefer to go to UGA/Tech games.

[Cotigo]

Wake up at 7, ride my bike through a goddamn blizzard, get to work at 8, mop up the floors from ~700 people coming in from the snow, science fair awards start at 9, get breakfast, come back to the building and the fucking bathrooms have EXPLODED.

Building maintenance is either too lazy or too inept to fix the plumbing because we have this problem every once in a while, so it wasn't too surprising.  The only problem is that all 700 of those people tried to use the bathrooms at the same time.  Ugh.  What a shitty day.  I need to wash my shoes before I wear them in the house again.

And you know the REAL tragedy?  I WASN'T EVEN SUPPOSED TO BE HERE TODAY!!!!1!1!!

But seriously it wasn't that bad, just... smelly.  Anyway, get that cleaned up by 12:30 and then not much happens after that.  Didn't get to study for my midterm as I had hoped but oh well.

I'm more bewildered by the fact that I'm in an extremely good mood right now.  Every day except yesterday has been relatively slow/easy but I spent the majority of the last week really pissed off.  Now?  Not so much, in spite of kind of having a reason to be grumpy.  Maybe it's because I have Sunday off.  Who knows, whatever I'll take it.

[OblivionKnight]

And in Richmond for interviews 3 and 4 over the next 3 days.

Man, I hope I learn soon where I'm going next year >_>

[NotMiki]

I'm more bewildered by the fact that I'm in an extremely good mood right now.  Every day except yesterday has been relatively slow/easy but I spent the majority of the last week really pissed off.  Now?  Not so much, in spite of kind of having a reason to be grumpy.  Maybe it's because I have Sunday off.  Who knows, whatever I'll take it.

Yeah man, you got a good mood, you roll with it.

And in Richmond for interviews 3 and 4 over the next 3 days.

Man, I hope I learn soon where I'm going next year >_>

Good luck with that.  I'm dealing with a miniature version of the same thing for summer internships, and it ain't fun.  (got an interview with a Bronx criminal court judge and a small-time ambulance-chaser, so we'll see, we'll see.)

[DjinnAndTonic]

Bah. One of my friends on Facebook took one of those stupid 'Which XXX are you?' quizzes. I hate those things. And yet, in my boredom, I noticed 'Which Final Fantasy Main Character are you?' and decided to take it anyway.

...I got Zidane.

Bah.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

Well, since Final Fantasy characters tend to be intolerable, overexposed piles of shit, I'd say you got off easy with Zidane. Other than one scene of fail, he was pretty above average.

[NotMiki]

so whenever you're cuttin' shit with your bigass staff-with-knives-on-it you take too damn long to twist it around?  well, could be worse.