Can I just say, and I'm just being honest...

[Little lunch]

CIJS, The point of you wearing headphones is to keep the music in your head.
So stop humming and whistling, you attention-seeking fuckhead.

[The Valkyrie]

CIJS, The point of you wearing headphones is to keep the music in your head.
So stop humming and whistling, you attention-seeking fuckhead.

I have a really bad habit of singing along - badly! - to songs that come on that I really like, even when I have my headphones on.

On the bright side, most of those around me when I do are subordinate to me so they have to live with it.

[Jackalope]

CIJS -

If what you (our HR representative) just told me is true, wow, way to implement a stealth pay cut of potentially up to $7000 minus a couple of pennies.

You people suck.

So, you're saying you want your HR rep whacked?


Seriously though, that sucks.

CIJS our HR is completely incompetent and has no actual idea what our company policy is.

[KevinM1]

CIJS

I'm in a really good place mentally right now. I'm weary of my depression taking this from me like it has before, but it feels different this time. It's not a hyper/manic kind of euphoria, but a more steady/content kind of feeling. Barring something out of my control happening, I can take the long view to the end of the year and feel confident that things will work out in my favor. Instead of just being bored and apathetic, I feel cautiously optimistic.

Now to you - I'm more excited than you can possibly know (and likely far more excited than I should be) that you're coming over next Wednesday. It's been too long, and even though we chat all the time, I miss actually seeing you. I'm happy, and more than a little amazed, that even though it's been years, and our relationship isn't romantic, I can still get that mischievous smile out of you. The one where your eyes shimmer and I forget to breathe for a moment...

If you ever want me to push your boyfriend down a flight of stairs and take his place, just ask....

[J a c k]

CIJS?
You don't work for that agency. Your desk is in their office, but you're just a liaison between your agency and the other one. Every time your family and friends brag about your job, I want to laugh a little. You love to be admired and you want to be envied so badly, but you forget that you can't fool the people you work with. Don't forget your real job, man. People are starting to lose their patience. Get off your high horse and maybe... just maybe, people will stop asking if your position there is even necessary.

[Joods]

CIJS

Three years is a long fucking time.
And I'm tired of being in a helpless position where I cannot do a thing.

[SteelCurtain]

CIJS?
You don't work for that agency. Your desk is in their office, but you're just a liaison between your agency and the other one. Every time your family and friends brag about your job, I want to laugh a little. You love to be admired and you want to be envied so badly, but you forget that you can't fool the people you work with. Don't forget your real job, man. People are starting to lose their patience. Get off your high horse and maybe... just maybe, people will stop asking if your position there is even necessary.

CIJS,

One of my favorite things is to try and decipher your posts in this thread.

I imagine you're talking about the asshat down the street. I hope his job isn't necessary. I hope he gets fired. I hope his new car gets repo'ed.

[J a c k]

CIJS?
You don't work for that agency. Your desk is in their office, but you're just a liaison between your agency and the other one. Every time your family and friends brag about your job, I want to laugh a little. You love to be admired and you want to be envied so badly, but you forget that you can't fool the people you work with. Don't forget your real job, man. People are starting to lose their patience. Get off your high horse and maybe... just maybe, people will stop asking if your position there is even necessary.

CIJS,

One of my favorite things is to try and decipher your posts in this thread.

I imagine you're talking about the asshat down the street. I hope his job isn't necessary. I hope he gets fired. I hope his new car gets repo'ed.

Ha! And here I thought this time I made it impossible to decipher. You speak fluent Ivy.

[KevinM1]

CIJS

I'm happy I figured out how to stop Facebook from pestering me about my upcoming 20th high school reunion. Facebook is dumb when it comes to events. You can't just disappear/remove yourself from the invitee list if someone invited you. Instead, you have to explicitly click on the "can't make it" button, the result of which is seen by everyone. And even after that you're still part of the group.

Maybe I'm weird, but as an apathetic introvert, nothing about a high school reunion appeals to me. But, for some reason, the people who are all gung-ho about it get offended if you tell them that (like I did 10 years ago). I didn't ask to be invited. It's nothing personal. I liked high school. Even the people who weren't my friends were nice enough. But I've moved on. I keep tabs on the 5 or so people that were in my class that I cared about on social media (out of just over 100), but I don't even remember the rest of you.

[Crossless2.0]

CIJS

I'm happy I figured out how to stop Facebook from pestering me about my upcoming 20th high school reunion.  Facebook is dumb when it comes to events.  You can't just disappear/remove yourself from the invitee list if someone invited you.  Instead, you have to explicitly click on the "can't make it" button, the result of which is seen by everyone.  And even after that you're still part of the group.

Maybe I'm weird, but as an apathetic introvert, nothing about a high school reunion appeals to me.  But, for some reason, the people who are all gung-ho about it get offended if you tell them that (like I did 10 years ago).  I didn't ask to be invited.  It's nothing personal.  I liked high school.  Even the people who weren't my friends were nice enough.  But I've moved on.  I keep tabs on the 5 or so people that were in my class that I cared about on social media (out of just over 100), but I don't even remember the rest of you.

It's been about two years since I've even bothered looking at my Facebook page. I started one, thinking that it would be a great way to stay in touch with family and 'catch up' with old friends/classmates. Turns out, I actually speak to the people who really matter to me, and those old classmates are just as boring to me now as they were 30 years ago.

I haven't attended a single class reunion and don't feel like I've missed anything worth the air fare.