http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49esza4eiK4

Is it wrong that I really like that song?

Venice wins

Really cool

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+1. Most of them are terri-bad....

FTW http://link.brightcove.com/services/...id=29775081001

? what are we supposed to be gleaning from this?

Interesting Radiohead cover by James Houston

awesome

For as interesting as that was, I think they coulda picked a better story...but i'm a life nit now

Pheisar, that is correct.

agreed

He's gonna win so FU all.

I was telling a friend that I’ve progressed through the following stages in my employment with my current company

Enjoyment: Some challenging work being the only one here with COWORKER, learned a ton about excel and how business works (Duration: 2 months)

Contentment: Meh, I don’t LOVE any part of my job, but there aren’t any things that piss me off. Overall I’m just meh about my job (Duration: 5 months)

Clock Watcher: This place is super boring, my job is just a huge cycle each month and I lose motivation to do special projects with no one telling me to (Current phase)

Get me outtahere: Not only is my job boring, but I physically and mentally dislike it. I complain a lot about my job and dislike the fact that I work there (Probably in a month or two this one will start)


What stage are you in!?

I liked the "Bohemian Rhapsody" in the related links...

You're too young to be going through any of those stages other than enjoyment. If you're bored, start hanging around people discussing other areas of the business. Volunteer for any assignment that has a hint of teaching you anything. Identify any area you see a problem, come up with a solution, then go to your boss to offer to solve it.

If you're bored in your 20's, it is your own fault. You certainly don't know everything about the business. In poker terms, you're like the guy who's read HOC once and now assumes that he doesn't need to read our forum, because he's already read about cbetting, 3betting, floating, bluffing and starting hands.

OK, maybe this is a little harsh, but I'm sure that 90% of the limits you have are self-imposed.

anyone have ftp for stars? I needs like...240

Venice, you're right, it is my fault.

I have 0 interest in doing anything positive for the company outside of what is directly requested of me. I love my life outside of work and even enjoy the people I work with.

Never said I knew everything about the business, I know next to nothing about it.

I'm planning to be out of here in February, and need to think about what I want to do for a job. I ascribe to the "Loving your job isn't necessarily a good thing" philosophy. I am not hateful of my job, simply discontented with it.

I suck at installing doors. I learned this because I homeless guy kicked through the office door to the laundromat at 4 pm. WTF! This wasn't even a homeless guy I have yelled at a lot previously so we can't chalk this one up to spite.

I told the CSI woman who was taking finger prints that she has to solve the case in 1 hour minus commercials without any help. She failed... to find that amusing. And she failed... to solve the case in 1 hour. I think it's because she didn't have any sunglasses to take on and off 3 times per sentence.

I don't trust anything anymore. If I can't trust TV shows to teach me how crime fighting works or trust homeless people, what is left???

Edit: Springsteen. To answer your question, I'm in the "I'm going to be as efficient as possible at my job but not tell my boss phase." It is the phase where you can get what is perceived to be 2 days of work done in a few hours and "pocket the difference." It's great. I'd prefer to not be trapped here so many hours a week though. Pure foolishness.

Insurance to cover damage to your business: $700

Rent: $1000/month inclusive

Explaining to your son why you aren't giving money to the guy who's told you his car broke down and needs a bus ticket back home 40 miles away because he's so messed up in the head that he's forgotten he's asked you 6 times in the last 2 weeks with the same story: Priceless.

Haha, I didn't realize you had a storefront. Is it mainly an office or do you do walk in retail?

Yeah, these people are so messed up. There is 1 who has only been on the streets a year or so. He can carry on a relatively normal conversation and seems like a nice guy. I don't think it's too late for him. I may try to help him - away from the business. I told him he can't come anywhere near the place. Fight club style human sacrifice in the alley behind the laundromat?

Most of the others seem too far gone.

This was really funny. She probably would have laughed if she hadn't heard 82,000 worse versions of your joke before you.

My CSI experiences:

When I was teaching at the university, I had a CSI tech who took several classes from me. She was fun to have around. She had stories that were as good as mine to share at relevant times, and she is the only student who ever said to me, "I'm sorry I had to miss that test, I was processing a murder scene." That's a grade A excuse, imo.

A few years ago both of our cars were vandalized in front of our house; one of the local wannabe thugs keyed the word 'crips," all over both of them. The CSI tech showed up to photograph and fingerprint the car (easy job, there were several clearly visible hand prints in the dust on the car, lolol). As she was going about her work, the neighborhood kids started to show up. She wound up giving an impromptu class on CSI to the kids accompanied by a "crime doesn't pay," lecture to them: "see these hand prints? this guy is going DOWN." She was pretty awesome; the first local cop I ever met who wasn't worse than the criminals. She did a good job with the evidence (they caught the kid in 3 days or so) and a great job with the neighborhood kids. What a cop should be like.

M, are you still looking at places in LV? How's that situation working out?

So CSIs are a real part of the US justice system?

I'd assumed that they were something that was made up for purposes of a dramatic TV show.

So are they cops? Do they have the same powers as police? Do they investigate a crime from start to finish like in the TV show.

I'd never heard of them before the TV show. But I've read a bunch of crime books. In these there were usually forensics people who would do forensic analysis of a scene, but then they would pass their results on to the police who were the ones who did the actual investigation.

CSI Effect

CSI is full of ****, i guess. I suspect Dexter (obv not when he's killing people :P) draws a way better portrait of a forensics scientist.

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