Author Topic: DIE SUPER!!! - G'morning, 2009! (Read 238318 times)

OblivionKnight · « **Reply #850 on:** June 03, 2009, 01:15:19 AM »

Quote from: Jo'ou Ranbu on June 03, 2009, 01:01:29 AM

Quote from: OblivionKnight on June 03, 2009, 01:00:04 AM
Congrats, Ash.

On another random note, while perusing my research abstract, I realized I actually put the phrase, "for great justice" in it. And didn't even realize it.

The funniest part is that it's gone through a revision by 5 different people - none of whom picked up on it. >_>

They may have liked it too much to scratch it. I would have ripped it out if I caught that, though - you don't want to mess around with academic papers. >_>

Oh, I know that. I just am so surprised it came out and no one mentioned/noticed it. So damn odd.

Talk about meme dissemination >_>

Alternatively, re-reading it, it makes sense in context, so...I think people just might have figured it was a Jay-ism.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #851 on:** June 03, 2009, 01:22:32 AM »

Well, I can understand that - I think I had an analogy in an academia essay involving the discovery of sliced tomato and water at ambient temperature and nobody seemed to chide much. Didn't reflect negatively on my grade either, but I was a more irresponsible kid when I was 19 for a reason.

Luther Lansfeld · « **Reply #852 on:** June 03, 2009, 02:30:51 AM »

I sent an email to my boss with "^_^" in it once. I caught it after I pushed Send. Felt silly as hell. <_<

superaielman · « **Reply #853 on:** June 03, 2009, 02:42:28 AM »

Revisions done on that paper yet OK? And awesome, LD.

OblivionKnight · « **Reply #854 on:** June 03, 2009, 02:48:49 AM »

My residency director and co-director for next year have sent me emoticon-loaded emails already. Pretty interesting, to say the least.

And...the paper is going through another set of revisions this week. I hope this is the end! I've cleaned it up enough that it should be good, and the editor I talked to from Annals of Emergency Medicine said they would be very interested in it, so...I think higher journal impact factor is the way to go.

OblivionKnight · « **Reply #855 on:** June 03, 2009, 03:06:06 AM »

JESUS CHRIST IT'S 2200 AND I'M STILL AT THE OFFICE!?

Damnit, enough paper editing for tonight >_> Time to go home.

Luther Lansfeld · « **Reply #856 on:** June 03, 2009, 08:52:34 PM »

I feel like a freaking accountant with my job right now. Search through databases! Seaaaarcch throooough daaaaata.

On the plus side, tomorrow is the big boss's birthday, and all of us might be going to watch the new Star Trek movie since he's a Trekkie. Cross fingers.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #857 on:** June 03, 2009, 09:24:46 PM »

Speaking of loitering around during work: whee prolonged hellweek is finally over.

Lady Door · « **Reply #858 on:** June 04, 2009, 08:03:45 PM »

About 2 months shy of the 1 year after DLC3, I finally have a new phone. (For those of you who weren't there, the Pacific Ocean ate my old one after it failed to devour super.) It's an env2 and has all the neat text and data plans and whatnot, but I don't care. It has a working screen! HOORAY! I can see what I'm dialing and actually text people again!

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #859 on:** June 04, 2009, 08:34:56 PM »

*Checks newsite.* Huh, so David Carradine is dead?

AndrewRogue · « **Reply #860 on:** June 04, 2009, 08:46:03 PM »

I'm starting to think I might be being too productive at work.

superaielman · « **Reply #861 on:** June 04, 2009, 08:47:50 PM »

This is a bad thing?

Cmdr_King · « **Reply #862 on:** June 04, 2009, 08:49:13 PM »

Very bad. As work is a limited resource, doing too much leads quickly to having none left and becoming unemployed. *nodnod*

AndrewRogue · « **Reply #863 on:** June 04, 2009, 08:58:23 PM »

I'm getting ahead of what the person who reviews my work can do, so she asks me to slow down. Slow working makes me bored. >_>

Monkeyfinger · « **Reply #864 on:** June 04, 2009, 09:13:53 PM »

Beat Disgaea 3 recently. It's pretty much just a shorter, easier version of its predecessors (didn't game over once.) Nothing noteworthy enough to post in this topic really happened. Main character's back to being wannabe evil with a heart of gold and such, and Raspberyl's seriously retarded.

4/10 or 3/10, depending on how I feel when I update my list. Downgrading to Grandia level difficulty definitely hurts an SRPG.

Some fucking benefit the franchise got from being moved up a console generation.

Grefter · « **Reply #865 on:** June 04, 2009, 10:39:54 PM »

Quote from: superaielman on June 04, 2009, 08:47:50 PM

This is a bad thing?

Yes, especially when you are overqualified for the position it can lead to management having far higher expectations of other staff members than they should.

NotMiki · « **Reply #866 on:** June 04, 2009, 10:45:17 PM »

Quote from: Grefter on June 04, 2009, 10:39:54 PM

Quote from: superaielman on June 04, 2009, 08:47:50 PM
This is a bad thing?

Yes, especially when you are overqualified for the position it can lead to management having far higher expectations of other staff members than they should.

Yes, mediocrity is the key. You may not advance as you might otherwise, but at least your coworkers won't resent you!

Grefter · « **Reply #867 on:** June 04, 2009, 10:47:56 PM »

Who want's to advance? Management is pure evil. Never again if I can help it. Would rather work well with people than get them fired because I am happy to work for less than I am worth.

Edit - That said, I work with inputting data, there is a certain threshhold for speed you can work at without doing odd things with the systems and that isn't a fair expectation to place on data entry staff either.

NotMiki · « **Reply #868 on:** June 04, 2009, 11:20:15 PM »

I've worked a number of office jobs since I moved to the city, and it has seemed to me that the unhappiest people were always the ones who withheld the quality they were capable of because they didn't believe their company deserved their effort. It's been my experience that most people who work slowly fit in this category, as opposed to being unable to keep up. They want to keep their jobs, and they believe that keeping expectations low is the best way. It may work for them, but if you bring yourself to that level, you'll live an empty life. That said, usually when you first start on a job, your productivity is at a level you won't be able to sustain in the long run, so keep that in mind.

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Also,

Quote from: Grefter on June 04, 2009, 10:47:56 PM

want's

That some kinda crazy Aussie grammar i don't know about?

Cotigo · « **Reply #869 on:** June 05, 2009, 02:52:32 AM »

I have no furniture now, except a computer desk. Blah.

superaielman · « **Reply #870 on:** June 05, 2009, 03:03:55 AM »

Sold it for liquor money?

Cotigo · « **Reply #871 on:** June 05, 2009, 03:06:24 AM »

No. Roommate's roommate before I got here was in Nicaragua for a semester, left all his stuff here. Had been using it until just today. Now it is gone and I have to move the furniture I still have in storage/buy dishes. At least I still have a bed and computer desk.

Cmdr_King · « **Reply #872 on:** June 05, 2009, 03:29:14 AM »

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I've worked a number of office jobs since I moved to the city, and it has seemed to me that the unhappiest people were always the ones who withheld the quality they were capable of because they didn't believe their company deserved their effort. It's been my experience that most people who work slowly fit in this category, as opposed to being unable to keep up. They want to keep their jobs, and they believe that keeping expectations low is the best way. It may work for them, but if you bring yourself to that level, you'll live an empty life.

The question then becomes why someone who's obviously not invested in a job and thus simply working for their wages lets their performance within it affect their attitude or well being.
Personally I suspect it's the product of social brainwashing, enforcing 'work ethic' in clearly disasterous ways. Fuck you older generation! Fuck you and your self-destructive priorities!!

(The above may or may not be meaningless ranting meant to entertain. The comments made here due not necessarily reflect the views of CK Co or its subsidiaries.)

NotMiki · « **Reply #873 on:** June 05, 2009, 03:46:36 AM »

Quote from: Cmdr_King on June 05, 2009, 03:29:14 AM

The question then becomes why someone who's obviously not invested in a job and thus simply working for their wages lets their performance within it affect their attitude or well being.

Oh, but they are invested in it. They hate it, and resent that they need to work to get their pensions.

Cmdr_King · « **Reply #874 on:** June 05, 2009, 04:09:26 AM »

Eh, still just in it for the wage slaving there. That it's for the long haul is just a semantical difference.

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Author Topic: DIE SUPER!!! - G'morning, 2009! (Read 238318 times)