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05-15-2006, 07:59 AM
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#9951
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Um, lower, oh yeah, uh, uh ... YES THERE!
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So Friday was our last day of classroom training. And I'm on the last day of a 3 day weekend before I start the new 10-7 schedule and start taking real customer calls. And a few random thoughts are bouncing around in my head.
Friday I got called out of class to be interviewed by a human resource investigator. The first thing she did was reassure me that I wasn't under investigation myself and that I should have no fear of reprisals no matter what I shared with her, as the company has a policy against that. Well, immediately the hackles on the back of my neck were up and the paranoia radar was on full alert!
Anyway, she asked me some questions about any unprofessional behavior I may have witnessed in the classroom. I knew immediately who was being investigated, and as I told my story the investigator was able to fill in some blanks that made it obvious that other people had already talked to her about this person. So it makes me wonder what will happen next when this person comes back to work.
And I recently committed to buying a birthday card over the weekend for this person and getting everyone in class to sign it on Tuesday. I'm still going to buy the card ... I just wonder if this person is still going to be around to get it.
I'm also wondering how many of my co-workers are going to be around for the long haul. They are all very bright, very capable people. The 10 people in my class were chosen from 1200 resumes, so there's no doubt that they are the cream of the crop. It's just that some of them are so full of themselves.
This is a great job that really rewards an employee well for performing. But it is a very demanding job. Some of these people act like lawyers, parsing every statement and policy on and on ... "You said we'd get our break at 10:00 am!", "What if I can't find someone to watch my kids during these hours you want me to work?" and my favorite "I don't think customers want us to say 'I'm sorry you're having trouble with your phone', they just want us to fix the problem!"
Yeah, you're working for a fortune 500 company that is rated by financial analysts as the best investment in the busines and was recently rated by JD Power as providing the most satisfactory customer service in the industry, but you know better than they do how to treat the customers!
Bah! There is such a thing as an intelligent idiot. I truly do wonder how many of them will be around in a year.
I just saw actor Terry O. Quinn (Locke) from the TV show "Lost" on Live with Regis and Kelly. He was asked if he cozied up with the producers to try to make sure his character wouldn't get killed off. He said he went the opposite way ... "Keep your head down and you might not get eaten. Know your lines, show up on time and hit your marks ... and you just might make it to another day."
Yep, that's about right. So tomorrow I'm gonna know my lines, show up on time and hit my marks. That's all I have to worry about.
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Lead me not into temptation ... follow me, I know a shortcut!
As the poets have mournfully sung,
death takes the innocent young,
the rolling in money,
the screamingly funny,
and those who are very well hung.
Your days are numbered - 26,280 per person on average - 2,000,000,000 heartbeats ... tick, tick, tick
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05-15-2006, 08:05 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: south, south of London
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Keep positive!
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Nay then, I have an eye of you. - If you love me, hold not off.
Hamlet
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05-15-2006, 08:12 AM
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#9953
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Um, lower, oh yeah, uh, uh ... YES THERE!
Posts: 6,738
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Oh yeah, Spooky ... I am that. I am postive if I just focus on doing my job well, I will flourish at this company. No worries there.
I'm just making sure I'm not allowing myself to be distracted from that focus by the drama of my co-workers. Thank you for the good thoughts!
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Lead me not into temptation ... follow me, I know a shortcut!
As the poets have mournfully sung,
death takes the innocent young,
the rolling in money,
the screamingly funny,
and those who are very well hung.
Your days are numbered - 26,280 per person on average - 2,000,000,000 heartbeats ... tick, tick, tick
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05-15-2006, 08:28 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: I own Pitseleh!!
Posts: 3,747
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Originally Posted by tenet_2012
On a last minute decision, I decided not to go to Texas.
On an up note, I am still alive.
Thanks (you know who you are). You truely deserve it.
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<3 you, Baby!
Glad you're still around, luv. Still dissapointed that you've decided to ditch me, though.
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05-15-2006, 08:55 AM
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#9955
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: On the planet Skyron in the Galaxy of Andromeda
Posts: 633
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Irish is a really hard language to teach oneself out of a book.
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Summum ius summa iniuria
Iucunda macula est ex inimici sanguine
Quod sum eris
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05-15-2006, 09:01 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: I own Pitseleh!!
Posts: 3,747
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So is German.
Wait, no it's not.
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05-15-2006, 09:26 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: south, south of London
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Russian is a bit. And Dutch.
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Nay then, I have an eye of you. - If you love me, hold not off.
Hamlet
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05-15-2006, 09:54 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Wonderland/BarbieWorld
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Arabic is SO hard! I've been living here for 7 years, and I still can't talk properly(the formal arabic, of course). At least I'm not failing it this year 
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Everytime you masturbate, God kills a kitten!
So, DON'T DO IT!!!!
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05-15-2006, 12:26 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Um, lower, oh yeah, uh, uh ... YES THERE!
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"I believe in pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. I believe it is possible -- I saw this guy do it once in Cirque du Soleil. It was magical."
- Stephen Colbert
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Lead me not into temptation ... follow me, I know a shortcut!
As the poets have mournfully sung,
death takes the innocent young,
the rolling in money,
the screamingly funny,
and those who are very well hung.
Your days are numbered - 26,280 per person on average - 2,000,000,000 heartbeats ... tick, tick, tick
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05-15-2006, 12:29 PM
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So... booty shorts are my thing.
And SUMMER IS HERE!
And the Oilers are winning! WOOOOT! *dances*
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05-15-2006, 01:49 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: south, south of London
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Shorts of any description are so not me.
I have turkey thighs.
:sigh:
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Nay then, I have an eye of you. - If you love me, hold not off.
Hamlet
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05-15-2006, 02:31 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: On the planet Skyron in the Galaxy of Andromeda
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Shorts are in the question... if people wish to be blinded
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Summum ius summa iniuria
Iucunda macula est ex inimici sanguine
Quod sum eris
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05-15-2006, 02:37 PM
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Everyone wear shorts dammit!
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05-15-2006, 02:38 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Um, lower, oh yeah, uh, uh ... YES THERE!
Posts: 6,738
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But what about kilts?
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Lead me not into temptation ... follow me, I know a shortcut!
As the poets have mournfully sung,
death takes the innocent young,
the rolling in money,
the screamingly funny,
and those who are very well hung.
Your days are numbered - 26,280 per person on average - 2,000,000,000 heartbeats ... tick, tick, tick
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05-15-2006, 02:39 PM
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KILTS ARE A MUST!
*shops for one for Crom but definately isn't telling him*
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05-15-2006, 02:51 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Um, lower, oh yeah, uh, uh ... YES THERE!
Posts: 6,738
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And I think he'll look like a right stunning bloke in it!
Bwah-hah-hah-hah-hah-hah-hah!
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Lead me not into temptation ... follow me, I know a shortcut!
As the poets have mournfully sung,
death takes the innocent young,
the rolling in money,
the screamingly funny,
and those who are very well hung.
Your days are numbered - 26,280 per person on average - 2,000,000,000 heartbeats ... tick, tick, tick
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05-15-2006, 03:02 PM
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I bet he will...
*already has school girl stuff*
Opps, did I type that out loud?!
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05-15-2006, 03:33 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Behind you ... (well, if your back's to London)
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Yep, and made my night! *goes to bed happy looking forward to dreams*
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The meek shall inherit the earth. Just as soon as the rest of us have finished with it.
A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick ~ Toni Morrison
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05-15-2006, 04:12 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: In the darkest corner of the smallest, most boring town in the universe.
Posts: 296
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Originally Posted by darkangel29
Everyone wear shorts dammit!
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*Does not wear shorts . . . unless under a trenchcoat*
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Hell is where the heart is.
"Poetry is the deification of reality." -Edith Sitwell
"Whoso eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life . . . "
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05-15-2006, 04:33 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: couch-surfer
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And now to respond to <<rolls d6>> 3 of the previous posts!
mutsumiasakura: Shorts under a trenchcoat... I'm not sure how I feel about that. Easy to frighten people. "Hey, I'm not wearing any pants!"
Wise Child: I hope the dreams were good, and woke you up smiling.
darkangel29: Type those things aloud more often, methinks!
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The phrase "we (I) (you) simply must---" designates something that need not be done. "That goes without saying" is a red warning. "Of course" means you had best check it yourself. These small-change cliches and others like them, when read correctly, are reliable channel markers.
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05-15-2006, 05:15 PM
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#9971
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Australia. Finally back home.
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This week it's been 5 years since Mum started her treatment for cancer. The doctors said that the risk of it coming back again goes down from now.
This makes me happy
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"It's strange to see how much people have changed through the years. Just for fun, see if you can find the point where we all turned bitter."
-- Chris Isaak
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05-15-2006, 06:06 PM
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#9972
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: On the planet Skyron in the Galaxy of Andromeda
Posts: 633
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nifty, Magpie, best wishes to yer mum!
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Summum ius summa iniuria
Iucunda macula est ex inimici sanguine
Quod sum eris
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05-15-2006, 07:17 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Posts: 9,203
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Heh, do you remember Goth Blonde?
She tried to threaten me. Isn't that just cute?
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Originally Posted by Godslayer Jillian
Aaww, that's so cute! Are you trying to scare me?
I have done nothing other than tell you what every "n00b" has to do.
And, trust me, it was either me answering each and every post of yours, or a constant flaming by every elder member of the site.
It's like "I have to beat you up, so that they won't beat you harder."
So, just follow the rules.
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Originally Posted by Goth Blonde
Hell Hath No Fury Like A Woman's Scorn...
AS IN DON'T MESS WITH A WOMAN!!!
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if thats plain english, follow a womans rules or youll get hurt...PHYSICALLY!!!
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"No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world.
I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker."
-Mikhail Bakunin
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Originally Posted by George Carlin
People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.
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05-15-2006, 08:12 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Australia. Finally back home.
Posts: 957
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That makes me laugh.
I like how she overexplained everything to you, like you would to a two year old
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"It's strange to see how much people have changed through the years. Just for fun, see if you can find the point where we all turned bitter."
-- Chris Isaak
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05-15-2006, 09:45 PM
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#9975
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: On the planet Skyron in the Galaxy of Andromeda
Posts: 633
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wow... that Goth blonde chick is... very unintelligent and uninspired? I think a two-year old could think of better insults then that
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Iucunda macula est ex inimici sanguine
Quod sum eris
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