The Work Thread
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"Do you carry <brand>?"
"We do! Was there something from them you were looking for?'
"No, I bought something from <brand> and need to return it. I can do that here, right?"...no. Fuck's wrong with you?
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Learn this technology.
Okay!
Learn this technology.
Okay!
Work on these two long term projects.
Okay!
Identify the problems in this process.
Okay!
We have to have a talk about the KPIs I never told you about. Why aren't you doing anything?
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Contingent on a background check I have no reason to fear, I have the job! The recruiter called with an offer about an hour after the interview. Goodbye, goddess. It's been real.
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Dear work
No, I will not engage in your "apprenticeship". I understand you get extra money if I do but it is 300 hours a year, for two years, and unless you take some of my work off me I'm not adding it to my already packed workload. I also will not be using my scholarly time to do this because that is mine and I use it to maintain clinical competencies. Get stuffed.
Best wishes
Me
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Boss:
I don't know what to tell you, here.
I'm trying to keep things up while you're traipsing around the district, but A is a lazy flake, B struggles with basic tasks, and C is less useful than a bag of assholes in that I'm not allowed to grind him up for sausage filling.
ETA: Also, no, I don't have any strong opinions on whether we should implement 1 in the form of 1a or 1b. I have, to you, compared the wisdom of implementing 1 to using icy hot as a sexual lubricant. Unfavorably. 1a and 1b seem equally terrible.
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I got the soap put back in the boy's bathroom!!
(The boys kept emptying it out into the trash can/floor so had to use hand sanitizer for a while. Hopefully they don't start again...)
I also spent $200 on things I WANT for my classroom. (Aka, they're above and beyond the basics that the school DOES supply.)
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@silverfox said in The Work Thread:
they're above and beyond the basics that the school DOES supply
You mean you now have TWO markers?
He/Him
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X.x
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Received as part of an e-mail message today:
I have to resort to Urban Dictionary to decipher your emails. By the way, Boom Diggity: “when something is so fly you just have to say boom diggity.”
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"But why do we have to?"
"Because I'm telling you to, because my boss' boss said we had to, because her boss' boss said she had to tell us to. What the fuck do you think I get told?"
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No, boss, I did not put literally what you said in a motion to be passive aggressive and send it to you with nothing else. I did it because you told me that's what you wanted in the motion and I've never done it before.
Also why are you calling me at 8:30 PM on a Friday to tell me you are disappointed in my work quality?
Also why am I even accepting your calls
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@Rinel said in The Work Thread:
No, boss, I did not put literally what you said in a motion to be passive aggressive and send it to you with nothing else. I did it because you told me that's what you wanted in the motion and I've never done it before.
This is why people exasperate me. Jesus Christ say what you mean you compulsive liars
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@Rinel said in The Work Thread:
No, boss, I did not put literally what you said in a motion to be passive aggressive and send it to you with nothing else. I did it because you told me that's what you wanted in the motion and I've never done it before.
Also why are you calling me at 8:30 PM on a Friday to tell me you are disappointed in my work quality?
Also why am I even accepting your calls
Older attorneys were raised in a very different environment. Where billable hours are the only thing that matters, where you try and make legal writing sound as arcane as goddamn possible because it's special, and where everyone under them is their 24/7 on-call slave.
God I'm glad law students are pushing back against that shit.
Racism isn't Tinkerbell. It doesn't need you to believe in it for it to exist.
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@Derp said in The Work Thread:
make legal writing sound as arcane as goddamn possible because it's special
See, I always thought it was so that you could cover every possible loophole with dense and exceptionally jargonistic language.
He/Him
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My county has gone to state of emergency. I work in a county office, though I am a contractor to the federal level. I have NO IDEA what is going to happen tomorrow.
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@Tinuviel said in The Work Thread:
See, I always thought it was so that you could cover every possible loophole with dense and exceptionally jargonistic language.
The opposite, actually: the language is used in order to make it seem as if you are covering loopholes when you are actually creating more of them to wiggle through.
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I'd actually be more okay with this situation except my boss is my friend from law school who has practiced for precisely one year longer than I have.
Things are awkward right now.
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Today church is canceled and so my husband and I didn't get to teach our 4/5 year olds at primary. We called them to make sure they know we love and miss them. Now I'm crying because I DO love and miss them.
This doesn't bode well for my week when I'm going to be missing my 26 babies at school.
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@Rinel said in The Work Thread:
I'd actually be more okay with this situation except my boss is my friend from law school who has practiced for precisely one year longer than I have.
Things are awkward right now.
Instead of 'This, too, shall pass,' instead remember:
You, too, passed the Bar.
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@Tinuviel said in The Work Thread:
dense and exceptionally jargonistic language.
Lawyers call this "Terms of Art."
Racism isn't Tinkerbell. It doesn't need you to believe in it for it to exist.
