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Posted on 08/05/2004 5:47:31 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
New verse:
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Upon the hearth the fire is red, |
Still round the corner there may wait |
Home is behind, the world ahead, |
G'night!
I'm thinking that I need a career change. Maybe I should try for a job as a wal-mart greeter... "Hello... welcome to Wal Mart!" Yah... I could do that.
Think of the benefits: no pager, no cell-phone ringing in the middle of the night... no "unresolved" issues from day to day... all in all its sounding better all the time.
I used to think the exact same thing before I "retired" from nursing. Sometimes I really wondered if the $30 an hour I made was worth it...I mean, think about it. I could accidently kill someone! One mistake could ruin my life and someone else's life and their family.
I just don't see that happening as a Walmart checker...
Don't you have to go to school a long time to earn Walmart Greeter's certification, though? :)
No Wal Mart in Gig Harbor, we drove 'em out of town, remember? How about bartender at the Grill?
And yet... that's the funny thing about this bidness.
In my interview for the job [admittedly several promotions ago], many many moons ago... my then-to-be-boss asked me something about "how I felt about working in a high-stress environment".
My answer, almost verbatim: "I'm coming from a job (the USCG) where if people don't do the right thing at the right moment, then people die. I'm not sure what you might think "high stress" might be in your office, but I'm reasonably sure that at the end of the day, nobody leaves in a body bag."
She just blinked. But it seemed to work. :-)
It's a parody of anime-fans, and anime in general. Only it's not downloading and I think the file's fake. Someone said it was real, but someone else said the anime's not available yet... I dunno.
Once the semester starts, apparently the setup gets shut down. It can be gotten away with over the summer because nobody's using the resources.
Bartenders at the Grill make heap big wampum... can't compete there...
That parody sounds like it would be funny if it was real--if it's not real it should be!
If the setup gets shut down after summer, it's good you started work a few weeks early :)
Service Pack 2 for Windows XP will replace the old Internet Connection Firewall with a new firewall that will be enabled automatically after installation and every time thereafter when you switch on your desktop PC.
The new firewall will block the Activesync and Connection Manager ports on the PC, unless you configure it properly ... meaning that all the Pocket PC devices you have won't be syncing right ...
<sigh>
Goodness gracious me ... you didn't look that wicked to me, Master Sea-man!
So here's where you FReepers hang out, huh? Just thought I'd pop into the Hobbit Hole and see what was being brewed up by the Hobbit Heads of State;)
On reflection... there's an interesting thing about work stress that is worth some exploration. Even though there is little about most day-to-day corporate bidness that is *truly* a life-or-death situation... there remains nontheless a sensation of fight-or-flight on the part of many users that escalates easily to boundaries that are far beyond the immediate needs of any problem at hand...
Interesting... that.
Hmmm... there's a book to be written here...
Say, Rose... There's a buck to be made here... waddya think? :-)
Hey there! Hobbit Heads of state never do ~anything~ official like. All titles are purely ceremonial. The biggest decisions often being what to have for lunch.
[sigh] Swell. Just swell. :-(
Was looking through your Wedding thread..very nice! And I learned that Ramius is your brother LOL I didn't know that. We need to chat more often :)
Beware the nurse with the white knuckle grip on the syringe. ;~D
I actually said something along those lines to the Walmart checkers now and then...'bout how lucky they were.
I guess I'll go back into nursing someday when the jedis get older...but I hate to be in that precarious position.
Steve is on call tonight to collect samples if it storms...I've been watching the radar for him. He's been asleep for a couple of hours already.
But I gotta go to bed, I'm beat.
You didn't learn that he was my brother when we introduced last Sunday? hmmm.... I guess our introducin' needs work! :~D
Exactly!
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