Spruce
I'll give her 15 minutes and then move Shadows along.
"Hey, I'm not just gonna eat it on this deal!"
"I'm not paying for your mistake, and you will eat it because I wanted cedar."
"You may have wanted cedar, but you didn't ask for cedar."
Overboard.
"Remember, once you're inside you're on your own."
"Oh, you mean I can't count on you?"
"No."
"Good!"
I want to say Escape from New York.
You're right.
I'm looking forward to seeing what the moist newcomer can do.
I hadn't planned on it but I think Skaar's going to pick up the mythic anti-air grappling trick at some point now.
It'll look something like this.
Ha!
Tanglefoot bag.
That doesn't really disable flying unless they fail the reflex save and the DC is on the low side. And it only works on winged fliers.
She is winged.
Bah I say!
If she fails her reflex save, that will take care of her elusiveness.
She made the second save.
She made the second save.
Indeed, but boxcars sent her packing.
Heading to bed. Assume Zia cautiously follows Skaar to accelerate things if necessary.
Heh. I just realized you can waterbend the aqueous orbs you conjure. That's a very cool combination that I might have to steal sometime.
Hopefully Nicatha shows up soon. =(
Gonna give Nicatha a little time.
I said it first!
I'm going to join the club and Pin some mood artwork.
Well, even though I slept till like 6 tonight, I'm still tired. Henry was up by around 3 this afternoon so, he's tired too. I have my appointment with the Dr person at 12:45pm, so I think we are gonna hit the ol' bed and get a nap in.
Good night.
Enjoy the rarity of sleeping when it's dark.
*Man 2 picks the shovel*
Man 1: "Wait. Hold it, that's a shovel. Here's the pick over here."
Man 2: "Well, I picked the shovel. The shovel is my pick."
Man 1: "No, this is a pick. This is a shovel."
Man 2: "That is what I picked, is the shovel."
Man 1: "How can the shovel be the pick?"
Man 2: "Look, if I had wanted a pick, I would've picked the pick. But instead, I picked the shovel, because the shovel is my pick."
Man 1: "In other words, you don't want to pick the pick, because the pick is a pick...and a shovel isn't the pick of your pick, the pick...the pick, the shovel isn't the pick."
Man 2: "Now you've got it."
Man 1: "Now I got it. I don't even know what I'm talking about."
Man 2: "You still don't understand, do you?"
Man 1: "No."
Man 2: "Here, look. Now you take your pick."
*Man 1 picks the pick*
Man 2: "There you are. Now the pick is your pick!"
Man 1: "Let's try it again now. Now, come on, you take your pick."
*Man 2 picks the shovel*
Man 1: "You took the shovel! Here's the pick, over here!"
LOL....well, I'm awake again after a few hours of very strange dreams.
And...here we go again with the skull splitting headache.
So while at the doctor's office, I get a call from work. The retarded human resources a#@&%+~ decided to take our tv and said we can't have any electronic devices. I suppose they want me to get paid for sleeping now. While it isn't in my character, I am severely considering being belligerent and spiteful. Needless to say, this will put a monkey wrench in the game's pace for the time being.
Wait, does that include a phone?
They just want you to stand around in the dark for 8 hours?
Pretty much.
Bummer.
I was tempted to quit.
Any idea what all the changes are about?
Did something get vandalized recently?
Nope. Someone walked past the front desk and heard a DVD saying motherf#@$er and thelimp dick dumbasses threw a fit. They're just looking for an excuse, really. My pay hasn't changed in 3 years with the additional crap they pile on us.
My pay hasn't changed in about 2 years. I've been training kids with no experience who are starting at a higher wage than I have.
Geez. I make $8.25 an hour and I have a damn Bachelors in economics.
=/
You could make more than that as a fast food manager out here in Cali, though the cost of living would be significantly higher.
I assume you have the security guard certification (I don't remember what it's called).
Yep, I do. It expires in Nov. though.
That sucks, I have the luck of working for a company that gives regular merit based increases along with annual review raises. In the last 4 years my salary has pretty much doubled. Don't get me wrong HR has it's issues and their absence/lateness policy is practically draconian in a massive metropolitan city but I can't really complain.
I'm supposed to get an annual review/raise. In 3 years I've only had 1. Though to be fair they did offer me AGM spot but I know how this place runs and I rather like having my soul.
I don't have a problem doing a job, as long as I am fairly compensated and the people I work for don't make unreasonable requests. Asking me to stay awake for 8 hours at night when my job is extremely boring without even a television is beyond stupid. Asking me to put my health and safety on the line to check doors that are unlikely to even be touched during my shift is unreasonable. NO ONE WANTS TO F@%@ING STEAL PEANUT BUTTER!!! $8.25 to be a certified security guard, to have some first aid training, to be trained in emergency procedures and to be trained on a stupid piece of crap tablet is NOT fair compensation. I make a dollar more than a snot-nosed teenager at McDonald's and the same teenager will probably make more than I do less than a year from their hire date. So, yeah, being able to hop on the internet or play some games on my computer shouldn't be a big deal, but it is. I have taken care to not have it interfere with my job, I have been considerate of my surroundings and I have done my job above and beyond what is asked of me. Now, I am more than willing to forcefully insert things in peoples' rectums now and to tell people how insignificant their complaints with the vending machines are in the most angry and insensitive way possible.
Remind me to never make you angry.
None of us here would blame you either. Just make sure that before all that goes down you have another job first. We are taking care of part of the issue hopefully tonight when we go out with our friends. Gonna ask the good doctor if there is anyway he can poke around and find something better for Henry. Or at least something temporary that will earn him some money until after we get back from our big trip. Hopefully that still happens, cuz I really really need for it to or I will just lose my freakin mind.
In other news...saw the dr today at the fertility clinic and she seems hopeful that I can still get pregnant. Just gotta wait for my cycle next month and they get to do all sorts of time sensitive tests on me. Not worried about most of it except for the one where they have to inject dye into my fallopian tubes and take pictures of them. That one sounds like it might be a bit uncomfortable. But...if it brings us closer to having children...I'll go through whatever I have to....within reason. She said if it's an ovulation issue, that it would be a pretty easy fix. :o)
It takes a bit to make me angry :)
Everyone else I work with who has the same position as I do starts .29 cents more than I do. If my job was harder I'd be a little more pissed but most of the time I sit and wait for the phone to ring.
Thing is if you call us you get a robot that gives options. #2 is reservations but that's actually a call center you have to wait for #4 to get Front Desk. So I only have to deal with in-house guests mostly and Check-in's.
I have to let everybody who doesn't have a badge into the plant, contact people for their visitors, get paperwork for new temporary employees, check the voicemail every 30 minutes, document call-ins in our logbook and on the board, transfer calls, make exterior checks, check the defibrillators to ensure that they are intact nightly (as well as monthly checks and yearly checks), deal with trucks and their shipments if the guard in receiving is off for the weekend and holidays (which there have been times when they forget to pay us for those), run emergency drills when they decide to have them, I have to make copies of sign-in sheets, change those nightly, monitor security cameras, deal with the alarm company when the fire alarm goes off (usually a false alarm) or when they need the system set on test and pay refunds from the vending machine.
That is my job. That is worth more than $8.25/hr.
There are actually a few more duties than that, but I forget in my hazy rage.
It takes a bit to make me angry :)
Yeah I'm the same way for the most part, calm 95% of the time then go from zero to "let the bodies hit the floor" in a heartbeat when a trigger point get set off.
Our fire alarm sensors in the attic were melted so it used to go off all the time. Thats been fixed and the sytem overhauled haven't had a problem since. Though we do have people who burn things and air out their rooms into the hallways like idiots which can make the alarm go off.
We have vanding machines and laundry machines that I have to refund sometimes. Dirty linen exchange, Mail runs, cleaning and trash runs. Then the 50 or so pages of paperwork that get done nightly. Takes 30min to an hour depending on how cooperative the PC want's to be.
My wage here is $8.71/hr and $9/hr at my other hotel which has less duties and almost no paperwork unless your doing the overnight shift.
Sounds like we're in the same boat. Oh, I also have to let the poor workers into the nurse's station if they need medicine, band-aids, etc.
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I love the fact that we've dealt with PTSD, people with abandonment issues because of traumatic childhoods, the torment of escaping a psychotic family that won't let go, and we actually have a recovering functional alcoholic NPC.
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And we still have cards to play. ;)