Somewhere A Californian is Distressed
I was searching online for mention of some live shows that I have seen
since arriving in California. I do not mind bad opinions and such; I
was looking for the dates of the events.
I have a rant now and I don't want to "choose an identity" for
this.
I need help from someone who has an identity...
Please leave a comment for the
oh so likeable Tiffanni that I said it must suck to be her.
I don't know if this was one of the blogs that seemed to keep adding the words
I was searching for to its meta word list, but the saga of the great woes
of living her life tugged greatly at my heart, at the same while I was not
enjoying the way google seemed to be making blogs as I used it.
Maybe she is like me and needs to not be in California any longer -- a place
where little things seem really really big.
And, because I am sympathetic to the way different browsers draw different
pages and more than a little experienced with how Google(tm) managed pages
can change or come up missing, I have also enclosed a screenshot
of how much trouble this poor girl has with this life of hers.
No matter where you are in your walk through life,
(and something here about toils and strife),
I am certain that everyone can agree
that it definately must suck to be tiffanni.
Sorry for the wrong message
I am sorry for this statement:
If the most successful thing that you did was stand around with your thumb up
your ass, perhaps you should not be running the business.
It would be directed at the superiors who put you there if that is how you
are making your income...
Personally, I have never been fired for incompetence. I only guess what the
real reasons were. The last time that I had my responsibilities removed, it
was after I had been very successful at the task they gave to me and the few
people they left to work with me.
A job well done, or at least competently handled under extreme duress should
probably be rewarded with enabling or more security (financial or the equivalent) to stay there and continue
to do this. Or some explanation of what the real (unpublished) task was and
reasonable explanation for it being different than what had been told from the
onset.
The country that I grew up in, the United States of America, they always said
that this was how it should work. It was a proud, brave and adventuresome
people who were not afraid of really really stupid things. This country that
I live in now... what did they put into their koolaid?
Here is a discussion from the irc today:
17:25 (carol) ok. i saw the movie that had the soldiers who had nothing to do.
my comments were directed at the people who sent them there for
no reason whatsoever.
17:26 (carol) in my life, there have been many people fired but not for
incompetence. i do not believe that i was ever fired for
incompetence.
17:27 (carol) when i worked for the fed, answering their phones. i took two
classes.
17:28 (carol) one was about how to answer phones. it was 95% for bill collection.
a little bit about politeness. the one little piece of wisdom that
i got from them was to never lie for your boss.
17:29 (carol) by boss, i mean not 'the wife' or 'women' like paul erdish used the
word, but your superior in the economic hierarchy.
17:29 (carol) (imagine i spelled his last name correctly)
17:30 (carol) ((don't lie [about my mispelling today] if anyone asks you))
17:30 (carol) the other course was the eight hour defensive driving course. good
stuff. the roads would be much less interesting if that one gets
around.
17:31 (carol) i have not lied that i know of for any of my superior -- except for
one time when the wrong phone rang at that lab. it was not even a
superior, just a hunk with an alias.
17:31 (Ankh) carol, re. soldiers, was that the John Lennon film by any hance, O
what a lovely war
17:32 (carol) i have fluffed and stuffed the truths as i knew them, or gotten
confused about some details. like the river was a country block and
a half away and not in the back. that was an oops.
17:33 (carol) Ankh: i started to watch that. beatles have occasionally annoyed the
hell out of me since arriving in california. perhaps i would be
less annoyed if i were where i really wanted to be instead.
17:33 (Ankh) pippin - the play loaded and then wouldn't play
17:33 (carol) Ankh: nope. the movie i saw was a recent one about this war
17:33 (carol) Jarhead
17:33 (Ankh) ah ok
17:33 (pippin) Ankh: evil
17:33 (Ankh) i do reload and it still doesn't play
17:34 (Ankh) white bar slowly grows
17:34 (Ankh) mysterious green recycle icon is lit up
17:34 (pippin) Ankh: don't know which of them you're trying to watch, but they're
supposed to have a downloadable quicktime version there as well
17:35 (Ankh) i tried medium because i am feeling spiritual
17:35 (Ankh) low also seems to flash credits and then stop
17:35 (Ankh) flash movies seem unreliable, although I haven't ad problems with
youtube ones
17:36 * Ankh goes back to scanning some 18th century bookplates
17:36 (pippin) Ankh: which # is it?
17:36 (pippin) imt1071/#/foo
17:37 (carol) i am very very very irritated often lately from being removed from
jobs/responsibilities in which i did a pretty good job at for what
looked like foolishness
17:37 (Tommer) i.e. coked up media twats who were too busy discussing the latest
additions to their trainer collections to appreciate the
intelligent,humourous lyrics...their loss,keep up the good work
mr pip.
Sorry for not being clearer about things.
Sorry for editing this irc log also. Some urls, some joins and
leaves were removed and also I edited
what I said (the edits appear within brackets[]).
Sorry!
I am still sorting through the images I have and the images that I need for
this years LGM -- and it is (as was discussed there) International Sorrygiving
Day.
Sorry I haven't mentioned that yet.
More on that later....
California is a dry waste of land which used to be
one of our countries great lands of agriculture. I am sure that the real
news reporters will catch up to this fact someday -- perhaps when they
are finished discussing Britney's panties.
Michigan. The people are not so easily annoyed. The limited growing time there
seems to encourage growth. Weather to be endured promotes tolerance and friendliness,
maybe. Or maybe there is some big problem because instead of selling groceries
(or whatever the actual task was) --
people in Michigan and now people in California need to prove to themselves the Heisenberg uncertainty
principle. Allow me to make this simple enough for upper management (upper
management is anyone who I ever had to answer to, btw). If you
watch something, the very fact that you are watching it changes the outcome.
If the most successful thing that you did was stand around with your thumb up
your ass, perhaps you should not be running the business. Sorry.
My flugg and stugg will eventually go here.
Working with the ethics of criminals was better than working with the ethics of
those who are 'legal' though. Legal is not always correct or ethical. I think that
California experiments can easily show this.
