Workplace whining.

I am sick to death of this place.

I'm sick of Teske throwing childish temper tantrums every other month, yelling and storming out of the office -- and never getting canned for it.

I'm sick of seniors doing things I'd get written up for -- such as filing a determination with NO evidence of how they found the property -- and getting away with it. Look, just because someone is generally good doesn't mean they don't fuck up.

I'm sick of Douglas pulling determinations out from under me because a piece of additional information comes in while I'm out -- and never bothers to inform me, so I'm left wondering why it's been dropped from my pending queue.

I'm sick of being told I can't commiserate with my coworkers over the idiocies in the new flood system because "We spent a lot of money on this, you need to not be negative."

I'm sick of being treated like a child or an idiot, while people who quite obviously know less than I do about their own jobs get treated like they have brains. The moment Charles, our IT guy, suggested that a program had dropped off my PC because I'd changed my desktop's background image (He seriously suggested this, folks), I lost all respect for him -- and I didn't have much to begin with.

I'm sick of inappropriate relationships and inappropriate humor being ignored when someone higher in the company does it, but lower-echelons get fired on a moment's notice for similar humor. So much for that zero-tolerance policy, eh?

I'm sick of getting told a raise will be mine in 30 days if I up my production, only to find that no, it won't, really.

I'm sick to frelling death of Andy and his constant shit. This guy goes out of his way to irritate me, and I have no recourse other than maybe getting myself fired. I already tried to get myself moved; even HE asked if he could be moved (because of another coworker's stinky cigarette smell), neither was ok with the Bitch Queen.

Most of all, I'm sick of waking up every day dreading coming in here, but knowing I have to for a little while longer. The only thing that gets me through the days is knowing that at the absolute latest, I'll be done with this place in August.

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Go read the words of thunderlord, whom I am privileged to call my oldest friend, as he waxes political about Bush's speech -- specifically, about ShrubCo's threat to support a constitutional amendment barring gay marriage.

Statistics Update

Fortunately, I still have Excel on my PC -- it's Access I got rid of.

Doug Ose, the Seven Words, and Censorship

This is an interesting article on censorship's subtleties.

Question: Hair color

Setting aside what your SO's hair is, what color/style of hair do you prefer?

Myself, I prefer in women long dark hair, preferably brown or black with highlights. Brown is actually the top preference, these days. I do like red hair, but I've never seen a dyed red that could compete with natural red. And I prefer darker colors, anyway.

Men, I prefer it short, and also dark. Red hair on men does not appeal to me so much.

Minor annoyance

Barnes&Noble.com can't seem to tell the difference between "Steven Gould" and "Stephen Jay Gould".