Me and my big mouth August 5, 2009
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I sort of got myself into a little trouble yesterday in a meeting. In a rare moment of complete idiocy, I told the chief (not my boss, but her boss) to move on with a topic. Yeah, certainly not the smartest thing I’ve ever done. It was more borne out of utter frustration than anything: the dude goes over how we’re all behind in our work in nine different ways, all the time clogging up my schedule so I can’t go get my work done. I apologized for the disruption afterward, and I got a scolding, but I think things are okay now. They let me come into work and log into the computer system, so I don’t guess I’m being escorted out.
Onto more of a happy place, where my ChiSox defeated the Halos last night with a walk-off single by Scotty Po-po. Can we please get rid of Contreras? Pretty please? Erratic is a nice way to describe the guy, really. Fortunately for him and the Sox, Carrasco was in decent form, and the bats were able to come out for run support. Sheesh. Tonight Gavin Floyd starts the show…here’s hoping for another win at the Cell.
I wonder how difficult it is for a baseball player – or any athlete, for that matter – to sit out the vast majority of a game only to be called on once (to pinch hit) to perform? I know that most would say that they’re always ready, always prepared, but I know that time away from actual play can make a guy rusty. So what’s a (mega-hot) guy to do when all he’s used for is a pinch-hitter? Yeah, the truth apparently is that he usually sucks it up royally, grounding out in the 7th every freaking time, and then popping out when he actually gets to be a position player for one random game. Damn it, Matt.
Gotta wrap this up. After my outburst yesterday, I’m trying to appear as studious as possible. Hot Guy Pic? Yes!
This cutie has been helping the Durham Bulls in taking the Tribe to task. If he didn't look so good, I'd be annoyed. (AP photo via MLB.com)
Get on with it! June 17, 2009
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Yeah, even God is tired of all this bullshit.
So, Sammy Sosa tested positive for PEDs in 2003. Someone leaked this new name to the press. Now, perhaps if you aren’t a cynical person such as I, you are surprised. You may be appalled and heartbroken. If you’re a Cubs’ fan, you’re used to this kind of disappointment, but that may not make it any easier.
Personally, it would be impossible to care less. See, I am at the point where I will not be surprised if the 2003 list says that my 87-year-old grandfather tested positive for PEDs. That’s why his garden freaking rocks every year, dammit, and my measly tomato plant is suffering a slow death.
What I would like to see is the list published. Just get it over with. This way, everyone can be bummed/outraged/whatever all at once and then we can move on. There will be one giant-ass media blitz about it, and then they can all STFU and go back to worrying about Lindsay Lohan and her Twittered boobs.
Let’s just get on with it, shall we?
When did it become acceptable February 27, 2009
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to be openly stupid? Seriously. I want to know. The reason I ask is many-fold, but I have to tell you that it came to a head with a sign posted in the restroom at work today. A group here is trying to raise money for a local charity drive. No, that’s not the stupid part. The stupid part that there are three – yes, three – typos in this sign. If you want me to donate money, don’t be stupid. That would just promote the stupidity.
Also, I’ve been waging a war with the facilties’ group here at work. You may remember (or go look back to see) that I’ve been trying to have the Cube’o'Doom rearranged since I moved over here. I even went about it the right way – submit a work order – instead of bringing in my cordless drill to do it myself. Others around here got in trouble for doing it themselves – don’t want to be taking the jobs away from the facilties’ group. I wasn’t getting in trouble. A full month later, nothing has happened for me, and everyone else has their cubes the way they like them. I’ve been working my complaint up the hierarchy here, and today, I went up to my boss’ boss’ boss. The BMOTF (big man on the floor). He hadn’t heard of my issue, so I let him in on the news and told him my next step was to go to HR. He assures me that it will be taken care of…and I actually believe him. We’ll just see how quickly it happens. Another week down, and I will take it to HR. >:)
I’m looking forward to a decent weekend – not a lot of sleep to be had, but some good fun. I’m sure I’ll have some good stories come Monday, so until then – something decidedly NOT stupid:
Random Hot Guy Pic:
Chris Paul - so cute! (Photo: espn)
A quick post before February 25, 2009
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my meeting, and it is only to add another bad driver to the list:
I See the Big Blinking Arrow, but I Will NOT Move Over!
Probably a compound illness with I Am the Most Important Being on the Road, we have this bad driver. We have this thing around here called Road Construction. In fact, there’s a joke that says something along the lines of “You know you’re from Indiana if you know there are three seasons to the year: Basketball, Football, and Road Construction.” Anyway, the driver above knows about road construction – they can see the orange diamond-shaped signs, they can read (probably), and they can see that big blinky sign that tells you – in symbols, not words, in case they can’t read – to MOVE OVER. Not this driver. They’re going to try to get ahead of everyone, even if it means being run into the barrels to do it.
Fortunately, I quite enjoy the opportunity to run someone into the barrels, and I will tailgate the person ahead of me just to make it happen.
I am so mean. 
Wherein I learn that I am nothing if not February 24, 2009
Posted by gretchenarchangel in Hot Guy Pic, Stupid people.Tags: Chicago White Sox, Cubicle Life, Good Bad Ugly and Funny, Hot Guy Pic, Stupid people, Work
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a troublemaker. Most of the time, I do it out of the sheer desire for entertainment. It’s hardly ever out of spite or meanness, although I have been accused of being bitter and/or mean. I take that to mean that I need to hang around with people who have tougher skins.
Anyway, today we had a little training class to let us know just what the Administrative department does. Don’t get me wrong in advance – there are several in that department who kick serious ass and get stuff done. Let’s just say they aren’t in the majority.
The gist of this trainingclass is that their jobs of makingcopies, typing letters, and putting stuff in the mail is HARD. And we, as their “customers” have to help them out. Yeah, I get it – if we all do our jobs the right way, things will go much smoother. However, don’t then tell me that you don’t care to know which is the proper format for the different kinds of correspondence and you’re just going treat them all the same. If I need to learn stuff about their jobs, they should have to learn about mine.
You should know that I can’t leave it alone, so I pipe up with the question begging to be asked: “Why isn’t it important for you to learn the basic differences in our work products?” Guess what I got? I’ll wait…
…
If you guessed the open-mouthed empty stare, you’re half right. If you guessed the tight-lipped glare, you’re also half right, since I got a combination of the two. Guess I can’t ask stuff like that. I’m waiting to hear that I’m not very supportive of the other staff or some shit like that. All because I think in a reasonable and mostly rational way. Hmph.
Anyway, let’s do a Good, Bad, Ugly, and Funny:
Good: The coming March Madness looks like it’s going to be a wild one. That’s a decent change from the last few years where all the fun is had at the 32 to 16-team level, and then it’s a snoozefest from there on to the winner.
Bad:Oh, Sir Charles. Mr. Barkley is getting the proverbial slap on the wrist after pleading guilty (not no contest, but guilty) to a DUI charge. In a move that’s sure to make groups like MADDmad, Sir Charles is getting a whopping 5 days in jail (which I’m sure he’ll spend in a solitary cell segregated from the rest of the ruffians), up to$2000 in fines, and he’ll have to install an ignition interlock to try and prevent him from DUI-ing again. Great role modeling…check out the article on FoxSports here.
Ugly: Lies, lies, and more lies from the head of the MLBPA. One more article from a big, fat liar. The steroids “problem” isn’t fixed, sorry ’bout that.
Funny: Emailing back and forth with the DH today, I made the following statement:
No, and you would have been mad at the geese for pushing the sucks around for some of the snacks.
The word “sucks” should be “ducks” in this sentence. The DH immediately responded with a hope for a Freudian slip…it may well have been, but I’m not telling him that I was ogling the guys in the MLB’s Spring Training pictures at the time of typing that. 
Hot Guy Pic:
That's right - we've got a hottie pitcher: Lance Broadway (Getty photo via Chicago White Sox).
Um, he's the one on the left. (AP photo)
Today’s absurdities February 19, 2009
Posted by gretchenarchangel in Ranting, Stupid people, Uncategorized.Tags: Cubicle Life, Matt Kata, Random, Ranting, Stupid people, WTF?
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Today gets a great big stamp. That stamp is bright red, and looks a lot like this:
WTF?
Yeah, that’s right. A big fat, what the fuck kind of day. Read on for all the fun!
Rant Alert!!! January 13, 2009
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I wonder if WordPress has some clause about swearing in posts. I highly doubt it, so here it goes:
Shit! Fuck! Shit! Ass! This is a…fuck!
The PDAC has risen to the level of SFB (Stupid Fucking Bitch) with the recent antics at work. Maybe it’s because I’m getting older, or maybe I’m just less tolerant of people taking advantage of others, but this SFB is going to drive me nuts. If I could fire her, I would. Here’s the scoop:
- In addition to always being late, she doesn’t call in to tell our boss, she calls in to tell another coworker – one who she’s stringing along, probably under the guise of sometime-they-may-have-sex. He’s stupid enough to do it, so whatever, but always being late is totally unacceptable.
- She creates a poor work product. As her senior, I have to review her work. I almost always tear it to pieces in my review because it’s crap. The boss thinks she’s under a huge workload and thinks she just still needs to learn. The boss also has a soft spot for her because they do stuff together outside of work – and the SFB plays the “I’m a helpless single mom” card all the damned time.
- She’s such a poor worker that no other department wants her. We just went through a reorg, and our department was sacrificed of three really good workers because everyone refused to take the SFB on.
- She’s got ties to the big bosses, and threatens to use them. We’re actually relocating within the office as a department, and she threatened to go above our boss’ boss to get her way if she doesn’t get a window cube. I rank higher and have more seniority – just let her try that on me.
I am so pissed off right now, it’s hard to think of anything else, so it’s a damned good thing that it’s time to go home. I can turn up the loud music and scream it out. 
Finding the humor January 8, 2009
Posted by gretchenarchangel in Ranting, Stupid people, Uncategorized.Tags: Bad Drivers, Good Bad Ugly and Funny, Ranting, Stupid people
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It’s not always easy to live on this planet with other people. For me, it seems like I’ve been surrounded on at least three and a half sides by blatant stupidity and aggravation. The other half a side is the bright spot – the people I can actually stand. It’s not that I’m elitist – I just don’t like stupid people, and I certainly don’t like people who are stupid on purpose.
This morning, the drive in brought out some new bad drivers (if you want to see the old ones, go here):
I Am The Most Important Being On The Road: This person does not know the word “merge”. If they have heard of that word before, they know not what it means. The consequence of this is that they expect that you will move over just to let them into the lane that they want. If you don’t move (because that person has to merge WITH YOU), they are coming over anyway, your car be damned. Like most other bad drivers, they give you the dirty look.
I Am In A Hurry, Therefore I Will Drive Like An Asshole: This person was out in full force this morning. Somewhat related to “At Least Pull My Hair If You’re Going To Ride My Ass Like That”, this person will whip across lanes (sans signal, of course), cut people off, ride your ass, and even resort to driving on the shoulder just to get somewhere a few seconds faster. I always wish for the cop to be around when this person makes an appearance.
I Am Having An Important Conversation On My Cell And Cannot Be Bothered By Little Things Such As Driving: I guess it should say “…Such As The Basics Of Driving” because this driver ignores most rules of the road and everyone else around them because they are so engrossed in that device they’ve got stuck to the side of their face. Why people are having in-depth conversations before 7am is beyond me, but the surge driving, wandering out of their lane, failure to signal, and absolute last second maneuvers are just ridiculous. These drivers are possibly related to “I Loive Here Yet Have No Idea Where I’m Going”. On a positive note, this person does not know that you are anywhere around, so you won’t get a dirty look from them.
I Am Totally Incapable Of Making My Own Decision/Sheeple: These are the people who, when there are three lanes available to get into the garage, must all pile into one lane and block the rest off because that’s what everyone else is doing. These people will look shocked and appalled should you jump into the empty lane that’s been that way for five minutes instead of waiting behind the 17 other Sheeple. And since the three entrance lanes all merge down to one again, you get the inevitable return of Mr./Ms. I Am The Most Important Being On The Road.
Once again, there are more. There are so many more stereotypically bad drivers that I will probably never be able to identify them all…living in a small city doesn’t help either – the farmers of the rural areas (where I grew up) and the craziness of the bigger cities have their very own special breeds of morons. I’ll probably run across them all at some point. Until that time, I just have to find humor in their idiocy, and I hope you will too. Road rage is ugly and you can go to jail for that!!
For today:
Good: Today is my last day this week, and I am not doing too badly on my deadlines. The DH is having his friends at the house this weekend.
Bad: I volunteer to leave when the DH has the guys over, but since I have obligations on Saturday, I couldn’t take off to Chicago for the weekend.
Ugly: This morning, someone’s radio was playing U2’s Vertigo. A guy walked by the Cube’O'Doom and said “I don’t like that song because it don’t start in English. We shouldn’t allow that crap on the radio in America.” I just looked in disbelief…hello, MORON! He probably loves the song La Bamba tho…
Funny: I can’t be the only person who finds it abso-freakin’-lutely hilarious that the porn industry is looking for a bailout. There’s all sorts of articles using the opportunity for bad puns to abound. Congress hasn’t responded…they probably have a headache.
A short fuse? December 31, 2008
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Tick, tick
I like to refer to the same things over and over. If it works as a descriptor once, it’s probably going to work again. I’m sure I’ve talked about being a ticking timebomb before, but today, that is more true than most. Perhaps the next time, I’ll refer to my attitude problem as a loaded shotgun…that’s different, but gets the idea across.
So, what’s my problem, you ask? Stupid Idiot Guy and I are going to rumble. I tried to be nice to him and offer a suggestion about something he screwed up, and he was downright shitty with me about it. I forced a smile and walked away before I busted his face. A bit later, I tried to be friendly, and he made a snide comment. That about did it for my attitude right there.
I could totally jack him up. I’m about the same height, have more muscle, and probably just more weight in general. It’s never a good idea to wallop the people you work with – an even worse one to do it while at work – so I’ll just have to rant and rave and decompress some other way. Yeah, like writing about it here.
Let’s talk about something else, shall we?
Good: The party is tonight! I don’t have to do any of the cleaning, but a lot of the cooking, which I don’t mind at all.
Bad: My desire to punch a hole through this dude’s face. The fact that Korn lyrics (look up Right Now) are an excellent release.
Ugly: Remember the story about Donald Driver’s dad getting (allegedly) beat up by the cops? Well, the follow-up isn’t much better. What’s that crap about cannot prove or disprove? I call bullshit.
Funny: Check out some funny, inane, archaic, and just plain dumb laws here.
Random Hot Guy Pic:
Mama said check him out...
There’s a reason December 19, 2008
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that I don’t have superpowers. It’s the same reason that it was found good and prudent to equip me with some sort of restraint…otherwise, I’d go fucking ballistic on the people around here.
Look, I don’t think it’s too much to ask for people to not yell across the room to each other to have a drawn out conversation. For the love of a divine being, we work in a cube farm. Get off your fucking ass and walk over to the other cube to talk. It’s a maximum of thirty steps away, FFS.
We don’t have dividers to separate the functional areas, so how a different group operates directly affects the rest of us. So, when they all get together to have a racous Secret Santa exchange, we all have to hear it. Since it’s a holiday thing, I let that go yesterday. Yes, I could hear the entire thing OVER my headphones, they were so loud, but it’s the holidays. A few deep breaths and a walk took care of that anger.
Not so much today. I like to come in relatively early – it used to be quiet before 9am – and get some stuff done. Now, in the Post-Cubicle Relocation Era, that brilliant silence is gone. Between 7:45 and 9am, I am often forced into my headphones, just because I don’t want to listen to the stupid conversations of Stupid Idiot Guy (yes, him) and Super Loud and Opinionated Girl (SLOG).
Calling this girl SLOG just made me laugh out loud. I’m going to have remember that one.
This morning it was reaching the boiling point for me. I had already woken up late, been a few minutes late to work because of it (not that my boss minds or even knows), and am in a generally bad mood. They start in as soon as they get here – talking loudly about their colds and throwing medicine over the cube walls at each other. “Try this – it really dries you up!” Then it was some computer application that didn’t work. “I can’t get into SLOG-App A, can you? No? Can you, Stupid Idiot Guy??” At this point I’m seriously considering standing on my own desk and pelting them with office supplies, screaming “SHUT THE FUCK UP!!”
That’s where the restraint comes in. If I could strike people with lightning or slice through them cleanly with adamantium claws that appear above my knuckles, that restraint would come in even more handy.
Although, the ability to teleport myself to a tropical island would really come in handy. I’d probably try to bring the hottie below with me at least once.
Random Hot Guy Pic:
Humna humna humna
