But really, I'm feeling much better!

[offbalance]

Greetings Sharon --

Here is your horoscope for Wednesday, August 14:

Morality influences you without consuming you. Pisces isn't escaping -- just moving on. Your rules may apply better in the next world than in the one that you're leaving behind.

Should I take that as a hint? The next world? But I don't even know anyone named Skip!


And in less amusing news, the facists at antheia's job have deleted all of her programs and formally reprimanded her. What-the-fuck-ever. I don't know why 'adults' in the business world get such a bee in their bonnet about the younger people multi-tasking. We're given the same amount of work that any well-trained ape could do in half an hour, every 2 to 3 hours, so when we finish it perfectly and early, and no one has anything else for us to ruddy do, then what, pray tell, is the horrid nuisance of someone checking their hotmail or reading lj until further tasks can be provided? I mean really! I've always believed that the younger generations' computer proficiency threatens the typwriter generations, and they think that by keeping us away from the computer as much as possible, thinking that we won't get any better at using it if our exposure is limited. However, this is only true for those who 'boot down' their computers, or have ever gone to a store and asked how much it was to buy 'an internet',think that it's the speed of their processor that's limiting their ability to navigate the web when they are still using a 3600 speed modem, or even gone to a writing center and when asked what program their paper is saved to the disk in, they've answered 'Compaq pentium...no...windows? I think it's windows!' (personal gripe).
In short, if you want us to actually do things, you must give us things to do!! grrr...

And in the domain of things that are shiny:
I love this song. Am *such* a sap.
if


quiz created by glitterevil

Which Cure single are you?

also: I took this quiz due to peer pressure, but had to laugh at the result; she was my IDOL from age 2-6 (or whatever year She-Ra premiered.):




I'm Diana, which ambiguous dyke are you? Quiz by Turi.

Comments

[teawithfrodo.livejournal.com]

blech, I've had similar problems. But almost the opposite, I would finish working and ask them for something else to do, and they would tell me to just go play solitaire.

feh, and they all want us to be so proficient with computers for these jobs.
*shrugs*
*kicks corporate america in the knees*

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[offbalance.livejournal.com]

used to happen at my internship all of the time. But they wanted us to do 'make-believe' projects to fill the downtime, and the three interns looked at this woman who suggested it like she'd grown an additional head. At least at my current job reading a fashion magazine to pass the time is considered a valuable use of my energies. ;)

it's not *all* of corporate America. Many people at companies (and from what I've noticed, largely female ones) get all in a tither if someone is sitting still, like every second of the day MUST be accounted for or else, yadda yadda. (This generally applies outside of the office as well, but I digress.) Pay attention: if these people are the sort that have to have every second of their weekend mapped out, then generally the sight of someone finishing their work quickly and taking a break will make them break into hives.

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[teawithfrodo.livejournal.com]

it;s kind of scary when efficiency has become a bad thing...

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[offbalance.livejournal.com]

I think *how* efficient the younger people are scares the older people. In ye olde days before the internet, my mom said if they didn't feel like working, they'd just do stuff slowly and that would be that. We're a threat to their whole way of life, because of the radically different (and possibly more efficient) way that we approach and solve problems.

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[teawithfrodo.livejournal.com]

It's weird to think that we might be burning ourselves out though. We do so much in less time. Must be the caffiene