[Neets]

Let's Roll!!

[Neets]

Good morning ATRW'ers

[lysie]

Good morning , Neets and ALL you wonderful people.

Great opening, Neets. Thanks.

I'm not sure what your problem is, Mr. M., but one thing I have learned from Atkins' is when I'm at a plateau...do not weigh myself. I remain on the low carbs and when my clothes feel loose...that's when I weigh in. I believe it's like watching a pot of water boil..it won't happen until you walk away. :-)

Sorry I've been away for the last few days. No major crisis...just being tugged in all directions lately.

Good to be back...even for a moment.

[b4its2late]

Essential NEW WORDS FOR 2003 editions for the work place vocabulary.

 

BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.

 

SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.

 

ASSMOSIS: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.

 

SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.

 

CUBE FARM: An office filled with cubicles.

 

PRAIRIE DOGGING: When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on.

 

MOUSE POTATO: The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.

 

SITCOMs: Single Income, Two Children,Oppressive Mortgage. What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids.

 

STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiney.

 

XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.

 

PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.

 

ADMINISPHERE: The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.

 

404: Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested document could not be located.

 

OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake.

 

WOOFYS: Well Off Older Folks.

 

CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously farting while passing thru a cube farm, then enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust; leads to PRAIRIE DOGGING

[Guenevere]

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY DEAR,SWEET KAYAK & WONDERFUL HUBBY :))))

[OldFriend]

Take a look........latest Gallup Poll. Jan. 23-25.....Bush approval 60% .. disapprove 36%

Can't you see her heinous reacting to this!!!

[Lorena]

Sorry your morning didn't start out its best today but you sure did a great job getting this thread going, Neets. I really like the graphics.

Mr. Mulliner, it's good to hear you got a good night's rest and that your back is feeling better today. I know you're right about your employment situation. Things are going to start moving for you very soon.

Iowa Granny, sorry you've had computer hassles but at least they're sending you a new one. I don't envy you the task of shipping the defective one back. It was nice you had a chance to stop by while you're on the road.

b4, love those words for the workplace.

[Billie]

Good morning, ATRW'ers. Anxious to hear our President tonight - know he will say all the right things and reassure our country that we have the right Leader in the big White House.

Kay, last week I asked to use your house with your flag as a pledge graphic, and wanted you to have it - I haven't used it yet on the Finest, but plan to very soon.

[kayak]

Be back later to read the thread.

I love your opening graphic, Neets!

[TxGrandMom]

Thank you all for your posted & freepmailed support & prayers. It is appreciated.

In reference to #213 of the past weekend edition of ATRW, here is a review & update of our Family Member's situation as of yesterday.

As mentioned before, our Family Member is a junior officer, State Dept, stationed in Rome, was in Davos for the World Economic Forum, liasoning with Colin Powell's staff. While there, she had a small confrontation with X42.

Upon seeing a crowd coming down the hall, surrounding X42, our FM stepped out of the hall into a main room. Everyone entered the room & she continued stepping back. People were excitedly wanting their pictures made with him & shaking his hand. FM backed into a large, L-shaped, walk-in closet (I had previously said "alcove", because I couldn't really believe he would follow her to a closet!). When a woman (secy) pointed to her to come shake his hand, FM shook her head. Instead of ignoring the situation, as a normal person would do, X42 went over & stuck his head into the closet.

FM said "I'm sorry."

He said (don't quote me on this, as I don't know the words exactly) "I'm sorry for you! I spent 8 years dealing with this kind of hatred!"

She, feeling panicky, frightened, & cornered, responded "Well sir, it's still out there." She did not give her opinion of him; she merely made a factual statement.

This is when she stepped out onto a balcony & called me, upset & slightly crying.

She still had a job to do. Mortified, fighting tears, she rushed out to continue her duties.

Just after that, she called me again, really crying. A Secret Service agent had stunned her by confronting her with the accusation that Chelsea, who had just come thru the area, had said our FM had pushed her.

When FM denied it, the female agent said something like "What! Do you think Chelsea would lie?"

So, the SS has made an incident report. Our FM made some kind of statement (while she was upset & probably not thinking clearly).

She spoke to a US embassy officer in Bern, who told her that these were 3rd-string SS agents. The "1st-string" first-class SS agents would not have made a big deal of this.

She has said that it is possible that rushing down the hall, emotionally roiled with tunnel vision, she could have bumped into someone; but she doesn't remember doing so.

The most she could possibly be accused of is rudeness. You don't sic the Secret Service on someone for being rude.

She said she could understand X42 being ugly to her: that is expected of him. But what really bothered her was seeing Chelsea at the top of the stairs looking down at her, watching her being upset by the SS agent.

We all had been willing to give Chelsea some leeway. It had always bothered me when others said ugly things about her, because I thought she should be given a chance: she's young, & many kids rebel against their parents' philosophies, lifestyles, vices. Our FM had even (previously) admired the way Chelsea had worked hard to keep her family to appear as a unit. Well, no more.

When you really look at it: NOTHING HAPPENED. She tried to avoid confrontation. He pursued & cornered her. She apologized. He made a statement of emotion. She made a statement of fact.

She is back in Rome now. There is to be an inquiry. She has been told & she has agreed to not tell anybody about it for now--fellow employees nor friends.

The very LEAST that will happen is something in her file & no promotion the next time. The possibilities worsen thru career loss, damage of reputation, & worse. . .

She says she may end up coming home & getting her PhD & being a college professor--something she had not really been interested in doing.

I told her she could probably mold more minds by teaching than by being President or Secy of State.