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happyboy
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response 50 of 823:
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Mar 27 17:48 UTC 2002 |
re48: jim is lucky that kid didn't bust a cap in
his noggin...
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flem
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response 51 of 823:
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Mar 27 18:49 UTC 2002 |
My hockey team sucks. :(
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vidar
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response 52 of 823:
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Mar 27 19:30 UTC 2002 |
IBB of a programming issue . . . I don't think this is the right item
to describe the problem in.
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lynne
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response 53 of 823:
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Mar 28 00:10 UTC 2002 |
re 51: can i come play with you guys? My hockey team is *over*. :(
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flem
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response 54 of 823:
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Mar 28 00:18 UTC 2002 |
You don't want to. Really. Not only do we suck, but half the people are
bitter about it. Loudly. Repeatedly.
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richard
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response 55 of 823:
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Mar 28 01:11 UTC 2002 |
IBB two great performing artists died today. Milton Berle, who laid
claim to being the nation's first television star, died at age 93.
And Dudley Moore, famed british comedian and pianist, and star of
such films as "Arthur", died after a long illness at age 66.
RIP.
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tpryan
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response 56 of 823:
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Mar 28 02:22 UTC 2002 |
Thank you for all the fun Uncle Milty and Dudley.
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bruin
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response 57 of 823:
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Mar 28 03:10 UTC 2002 |
Two comic geniuses gone. And we need all the comic geniuses we can get.
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other
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response 58 of 823:
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Mar 28 03:12 UTC 2002 |
UM payroll is forcing BMC to sit on my invoices while payroll gets their
heads out of their asses.
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lynne
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response 59 of 823:
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Mar 28 12:34 UTC 2002 |
Yes, but after a season of being captain, I can actually lead practices and
help make people better and stuff. Plus, it's ice time. That's in awfully
short supply out here.
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scott
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response 60 of 823:
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Mar 28 14:04 UTC 2002 |
Martial arts school annual banquet (big big deal) is 8 days away, and the
guitarist I finally found for the band (all people who train at this school)
isn't even returning phone calls to schedule our first rehearsal. I really
shouldn't have let people talk me into giving the guy a second (third?)
chance.
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orinoco
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response 61 of 823:
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Mar 28 14:41 UTC 2002 |
Kat (the Great Undatable One) and I are most likely in the process of breaking
up. We've known for a while that it's just not gonna work out without a bunch
more work from both of us. The hard part is saying, "You know what? I'm not
willing to work that hard." More honest than promising to and then not doing
it, which is what we've done so far, but still hard.
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jazz
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response 62 of 823:
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Mar 28 15:55 UTC 2002 |
How can you break up with someone that's "undatable"?
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other
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response 63 of 823:
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Mar 28 16:38 UTC 2002 |
You seem to have missed the rest of the story, John.
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jazz
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response 64 of 823:
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Mar 28 16:53 UTC 2002 |
I'm sure I did. Curiosity got the better of me. Is it in a previous
agora?
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other
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response 65 of 823:
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Mar 28 17:02 UTC 2002 |
I think it is generally scattered through the happy and bummed items of
the last couple of agoras.
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orinoco
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response 66 of 823:
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Mar 28 21:01 UTC 2002 |
That it is. For the first few months of our relationship, we were "just ...
friends. Really." After that, The Great Undatable One seemed like too good
of a title to pass up.
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vidar
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response 67 of 823:
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Mar 28 22:12 UTC 2002 |
IBB although I figured out my programming dilema (a formula) that
success has created another barrier as I must figure out 2 more
formulas based of the first.
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bru
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response 68 of 823:
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Mar 29 04:35 UTC 2002 |
I am bummed because my pregnant daughter has preclampsia, which means she has
to have labor induced on Monday, which means my first grandchild wil have a
very good chance of being born on April Fools Day.
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flem
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response 69 of 823:
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Mar 29 05:30 UTC 2002 |
Total bullshit performance review. Two months of 60+ hour weeks to meet some
arbitrary deadline, continually working late to cover other people's asses
at the last minute, singlehandedly maintaining three times as much code as
anyone else, all kinds of urgent sysadmin tasks that seemingly no one else
can do, and consistently writing the larges volume, highest quality code in
the company -- all reduced to a grudging "you've shown *some* technical
skills, but..." Now I'm "failing to meet expectations". I hate this job.
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other
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response 70 of 823:
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Mar 29 06:51 UTC 2002 |
Can you appeal? Otherwise, cut back to your normal responsibilities, and
if anyone complains, tell them that by overextending yourself, you were
creating a situation which made it impossible to meet "expectations."
See what they do then... meantime, see what the job market looks like.
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michaela
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response 71 of 823:
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Mar 29 10:03 UTC 2002 |
I'll echo other's advice. I'm sorry to hear it went poorly, Greg. I know
how hard you've worked at that job.
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slynne
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response 72 of 823:
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Mar 29 13:55 UTC 2002 |
Yeah. I think other's advice in #70 really is good. I dont know what
kind of supervisor you have but I know that when I found myself in a
similar situation, it helped to point out to him all of the extra
things I was doing. I didnt get a promotion because my technical skills
were lacking so I pointed out that he was A) Comparing me to people
whose skills were in excess of what the job required so that while I
didnt have the same skills they had, I had the skills to do the job and
B) It was hard for me to aquire new skills because I was busy doing X,
Y and Z (which were all things that he didnt really realize I was
doing). Then I reminded him of some very successful projects I had
headed earlier in the year that he had forgotten about. blah blah blah.
It must have had some effect, I got the promotion 3 months later.
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eskarina
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response 73 of 823:
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Mar 29 14:13 UTC 2002 |
ibb one of my good friend's father just died suddenly in an accident. Closed
head injury, they say he died instantly.
All this was very sudden, and my friend hadn't been getting along with his
father for a few months previous. So this is rough.
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jazz
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response 74 of 823:
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Mar 29 14:35 UTC 2002 |
I'm sorry to hear that, for you, and for your friends.
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