Okay, I know I'm a dork but I had to share...

My cache was cleared, so when I came back on LoT, I had to sign in again. The quote that came up was so perfect it almost seemed by design (to someone coming onto the page without being logged in)

Our salon is is like a co-op, where we all have our own stations and share in the phone answering duty. Sometimes we'll all be too busy to answer, in which case our voicemail picks up and regular clients know that we will call them back as soon as we are not busy. Every now and again, someone will call, hang up, call back, etc,- exactly as JW described. When we finally do answer, it's always a client who tries to laugh it off by saying they knew they'd wear us down if they called often enough. I want to reach through the phone line and rip out their tongues when they pull this. It's never an emergency, just someone being an asshole.

See, I see it from a different POV. I hate leaving messages, preferring to talk live to someone, so I'll call back at a different time because I consider live conversation a much better way to handle things. I *hate* leaving messages, so I don't if I can avoid it.

Calling back at a different time is cool- repeatedly calling over and over again in rapid succession is obnoxious.

Hurrah for Eye candy &
Hurrah for Vegemite !! :snap:

Wow, that took a while for Lashbear to respond to the male eye candy - how ya been?

The Ducks have won!!!! WOOHOO!!!

One more game and Lord Stanley's Cup is ours!

Really good... but a little busy - do you have any idea how long it takes to catalogue 21 videotapes full of footage ??? :rolleyes: :eek: (I'm up to Universal Studios now... tape 13)

I might be having me a whole lotta fun with Youtube eventually :evil:

So far, June is not impressing me.

Light fixtures catching fire. Family members going psycho. People killing cats.

And today I go into work late, after an appointment, and I get to my desk and.....stop. While I was gone, people from the department across the hall got my suite mates to clear off my table, moving my files all laid out and sorted for biennium close processing, and put their giant stick fan up on my table, thus ensuring I could not put anything else out on my desk - which was just as well, because they'd cranked the window out to 90 degrees open. And while it was warm this weekend, today it was breezy, cold, and raining.

This isn't even someone from our group. I understand that it gets stuffy across the hall, and I don't mind if they come over and open the window when I'm gone. But to come in my cube, rearrange my work, and leave it like that - even making it so that I can't actually do my own work - I walked out.

For once in my life I grew a spine, left, and told our HR person I wasn't coming back until I have a work space that is actually mine. I like being next to a window, but if it's going to be a continual tug-of-war between me and the other unit, which wants the space, then I give up. This is not the first time they've messed with my space. If I'm on vacation, I come back to a cube full of everyone else's garbage because oh, they were cleaning out their cube and since I wasn't there....oh, and they don't have room to take it back right now, so if I could just hold onto it for awhile...

If every time I'm not the first one in the office in the morning I'm going to come into squatters using my workspace, then I'm done. They can assign me a new work station. If Ms. Director of Marketing wants to throw her weight around and make it clear that her employees are just so much better and more deserving than me, then she and her employees can just **** off.

And that goes double for my suite mates who HELPED cannibalize my space. It might be just a cube, but hell's bells I work there!

Don't JINX US!