Jeremy Mcgillan |
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Just received This in the mail today. It looks so awesome all set up.
Crimson Jester |
It's funny I put what is obviously a hack job photo up, a re-post that I thought was funny. Simply because it was such an obvious troll of a picture. Major migraine today no chance to really post anything substantial on it.
Wow did that blow up in my face. Not only were there almost 20 posts, but it quickly spiraled into name calling and poor attitudes all around.
I could go on a rant here. I won't I think that has been done to death. needless to say I am disappointed and I did take it down.
Sorry if I offended anyone. I am still just shaking my head on it.
BluePigeon |
[Sigh]
I had to give up comics about a 1/2 dozen years ago. I just couldn't justify the expense anymore--$3 for something I was going to read in about ten minutes vs. $7 for a book that would at least take me a couple of days to finish.
I pick up trades occasionally, and read whatever I can get at the local library, but I'm afraid that short of winning the lottery, my days as a comics collector are over. :(
EDIT: Naked regret.
Bummer. Ralph at Alternate Reality Comics in LV, takes good care of his customers, especially his long time customers. I heard that some on-line comic stores are selling there books at cheap discounts. You may want to keep that in mind if the proverbial comic book bug bites you again. :-)
Celestial Healer |
taig wrote:I just found out 4 people I worked with at my job in Greensboro got laid off. I'm soooo glad I left that joyless suckhole.
Being laid off was one of the best things in the world for me. Since I was let go, 5 other people have left of their own free will -- rats leaving a sinking ship. No one there knows how to pull a report to save their lives so their latest decision is "we'll just operate without knowing what we're doing". There are so many other things there that are wrong. But they seem to be happy blaming everyone else for the bad decisions that they make.
I'm glad I'm not there now.
That's what happened at the bank I worked for until 07. They let a bunch of people go, and I jumped ship 2 months later. It only got worse as the year went on.
Emperor7 |
In other news, apartment hunting still sucks. There is always a catch: too small, too expensive, too dated, sketchy area, insufficient parking, too far from the things we like to do. It's hateful.
You're obviously a LA rookie. They measure everything not in terms of distance but in measures of time. ie. I live 30 minutes from work, our favorite restaurant is 45 minutes from work but only 10 from home, etc. hehe
Good luck. I don't know how the people in our West Hollywood office do it, but they manage.
BluePigeon |
BluePigeon wrote:It was pouring today in L.A. The Angelinos freak out when water falls from the sky.Freehold DM wrote:Sup?Same here. Raining in Las Vegas this evening. Driving to North Town for the nightly shift and the roads are slick. Wish me luck.
Why? Its not the apocalypse, is it? It was unusually cold this morning.
Emperor7 |
Celestial Healer wrote:Why? Its not the L.A.pocalypse, is it? It was unusually cold this morning.BluePigeon wrote:It was pouring today in L.A. The Angelinos freak out when water falls from the sky.Freehold DM wrote:Sup?Same here. Raining in Las Vegas this evening. Driving to North Town for the nightly shift and the roads are slick. Wish me luck.
FIFY
Callous Jack |
Celestial Healer wrote:Why? Its not the apocalypse, is it? It was unusually cold this morning.BluePigeon wrote:It was pouring today in L.A. The Angelinos freak out when water falls from the sky.Freehold DM wrote:Sup?Same here. Raining in Las Vegas this evening. Driving to North Town for the nightly shift and the roads are slick. Wish me luck.
It was a bit chilly, yes.
Celestial Healer |
Celestial Healer wrote:In other news, apartment hunting still sucks. There is always a catch: too small, too expensive, too dated, sketchy area, insufficient parking, too far from the things we like to do. It's hateful.You're obviously a LA rookie. They measure everything not in terms of distance but in measures of time. ie. I live 30 minutes from work, our favorite restaurant is 45 minutes from work but only 10 from home, etc. hehe
Good luck. I don't know how the people in our West Hollywood office do it, but they manage.
Ouch. West Hollywood is crazy expensive.
Studpuffin |
** spoiler omitted **
Emperor7 |
Work Rant -
Most of the work is routine, but last week we were asked to look out for some award packets from our parent company. We were to route them to the chairman so he could personally hand them out. Despite several email reminders they got added into the standard deliveries and were sent directly to the individuals, though they came in UPS and we knew that's how to expect them. The team basically shrugged their shoulders about the mistake. I didn't let them excuse themselves out of it, so hopefully we can work on ways to avoid a repeat.
I really get frustrated with the 'not my problem' mentality.
The person I had to let go was the one that was meticulous about staying on top of such things. Ugh.
(But who knows if they would have even been here on delivery day)