tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3786818.post1414800159778336212..comments2024-03-18T17:08:18.111-05:00Comments on Fatale Abstraction: ...wherein your narrator daintily navigates a thorn-strewn path...phlegmfatalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08636803080525003892noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3786818.post-23442198948964797402009-06-06T21:27:37.674-05:002009-06-06T21:27:37.674-05:00Once upon a time, I had a particularly enjoyable m...Once upon a time, I had a particularly enjoyable month-long workshop at NASA in grad school. My paranoid, insecure boss had demanded "written progress reports, twice a day" during the 4-week proceedings. Same idiot had breakfast with me afterwards to discuss the outcome. When asked what I thought, I said that we did good and I learned a lot. He proceeded to try to ruin the experience by raging about, "I don't want to hear about what you learned, I want to hear what they learned from you!" And so on. I was about to lose it and do jail time for assault when I saw that a bird had thoughtfully pooped on his head. I just focused on that, calmed down and survived the meeting. Perhaps a bird will do you a similar favor.g brohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14143583786472206609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3786818.post-12134479023609715702009-06-06T21:22:02.785-05:002009-06-06T21:22:02.785-05:00Well, as they say, shite runs downhill. Still, mus...Well, as they say, shite runs downhill. Still, must have been fun.g brohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14143583786472206609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3786818.post-83428313957077588712009-06-05T04:04:03.725-05:002009-06-05T04:04:03.725-05:00You did much better at I would, I wouldn't jus...You did much better at I would, I wouldn't just be giggling, I'd be openly gaffawing.TOTWTYTRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17221321904364051792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3786818.post-20030762521028886492009-06-03T13:19:26.236-05:002009-06-03T13:19:26.236-05:00Phlegmie, I'da had a party that evening (alone...Phlegmie, I'da had a party that evening (alone or with someone, wouldn't matter) and rolled around in the disclosed stupidities of that "higher up". <br />Pomposity deflated. Way to go, girl.Catmoveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13192091477404637971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3786818.post-3277970721868781452009-06-03T00:47:31.338-05:002009-06-03T00:47:31.338-05:00AH yes, Karma, it's a REAL bitch when it bites...AH yes, Karma, it's a REAL bitch when it bites one square in the butt...Old NFOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16404197287935017147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3786818.post-16063611936580960732009-06-02T10:19:31.354-05:002009-06-02T10:19:31.354-05:00Beautiful: rage burst forth great cottony tufts.I ...Beautiful: <I>rage burst forth great cottony tufts.</I>I once had a boss like that working for the Big Shiny University, constantly "improving" people with her PhDoctoral wisdom. <br />Putting up with that shit is not worth the heartbeats. <br />I was so glad-glad happy-happy when her vast intellect and talents became inescapably necessary to an outside "agency" that expressed a need AND desire for her - and to which she pompously with feigned grace and vast hubris gratefully stepped-up.<br />Only that ONE thing. Everybody knew that it was a third-rail, a step off a cliff, a snake-pit, and the *agency* was a brutal meatgrinder perfectly suitable for chewing up even a thick-skinned dumbass snot-head dragon like her. And it did. Yay!NotClauswitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14358707844087117280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3786818.post-14751120484944082132009-06-02T09:40:19.048-05:002009-06-02T09:40:19.048-05:00Define 'embuggerances".
Spell-check wants to chan...Define 'embuggerances".<br /><br />Spell-check wants to change it to "protuberances".Turk Turonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02648721047835980871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3786818.post-70887957284938329602009-06-02T05:00:25.784-05:002009-06-02T05:00:25.784-05:00I wasn't as good as you were in a staff meeting be...I wasn't as good as you were in a staff meeting before my supervisor retired which probably explains why I didn't her job when I was the only one qualified for it. That and pointing out to the executive director that he was a moron (much more politely than that) while he was talking to a repair man who was annoyed with the exec director because he was told by him that his repair job was working wonderfully when it wasn't working at all.<br /><br />Anyway, my supervisor in the meeting got on a tear about a written plan we have to write annually and she started telling us how terrible a job we did forgetting the fact that every single word in it was approved by her -- and there were lots of rewrites to satisfy her. She finally turned on me and I assume the whole point was to get at me. She said that particular section was the worst written piece of crap she'd ever seen and looked at me and asked/accused, "you wrote that didn't you?" I replied that she wrote it and pointed out her catch phrase in the document. She had the nerve to continue and went into a couple more sections not accusing directly but finally got to "I want to know who wrote that". Her in both those cases. And of course I was the one that had to tell her she did.<br /><br />While I was always polite about it, I didn't care if I got fired. I did know that they consider me indispensable (nobody is, just an issue of how hard it is to replace the person) so I could get away with that. They like what I do for them but they don't appreciate it and don't understand they don't appreciate it. After all they gave me a 20 year plaque which was the extent of their appreciation". I've always felt that appreciation is shown by occasionally telling the person so privately and publicly. Certainly doing a general "I have the best staff" and calling them out by name but leaving me out - 3 different times - isn't showing it.<br /><br />Consider yourself lucky to be gone. I will be retiring in 2 months and everyone is sweating it but not enough to learn to start doing their own jobs, much less mine since they don't intend to replace me. They don't understand 2 1/2 years of "I'm not available for free or for a fee. I'll talk fishing when I'm gone if you want to call but not work."Tomnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3786818.post-47037945256286115422009-06-02T00:16:14.598-05:002009-06-02T00:16:14.598-05:00Oh, to have been a fly on the wall...!Oh, to have been a fly on the wall...!Christina RN LMThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03260505524676910667noreply@blogger.com