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[Cknarf]

Lol. Elias Kelham.

 

"Ain't tellin' you sh*t"

 

*RT*

[sH0tgUn jUliA]

"Start talking before I cut your balls off and sell them to a Krogan!"

 

"Talid! Joram Talid!"

[sH0tgUn jUliA]

Speaking of Johnny.... is he still alive? Or did he find Frank's Fornax collection?

[Cknarf]

Yeah, he's around. But we went from some conversation, to **** going down in multiple places, and I've kiiiiinda been playing some Xbox and neglecting the RPs lately so...

 

He is wherever you want him to be.  I'm ready to play some Johnny D, let me tell ya. Also moar Kurik.  Let's make it hppeeeeennnn yeeeaaaaaah.

[Kel Riever]

Been a tough morning.  I will get stuff up after a meeting I have to go to.

[Cknarf]

Hey, Kel. I've always wondered what happens in meetings. Like, those business-y type ones. Are they really just a huge time wasting circle-jerk like in the movies, or do things actually get accomplished there? 

 

My experience with 'meetings' doesn't go much farther than "Don't fight on the track or in the pit area." and "Please refrain from eating ice cream out of the bucket while on the clock."

 

Ice cream is great, unless you gotta serve it to people.  You know, the sugar-free Butter Pecan looks a lot like regular... God, I hope I didn't kill anyone.

[sH0tgUn jUliA]

It depends upon where you are. Sometimes things get done. A lot of the time they're for your boss to get progress reports from all the different people who lead the groups. For example when I was running one of  the groups it was like  this....

 

Boss: Julia let's hear your report

 

Me: There's nothing much to report. I'm still waiting for Barkley in PD&C to get me the information on (fill in the blank).

 

Boss: Have you contacted him?

 

Me: He says he can't get me that until he gets permission from his boss.

 

Boss: Did you talk to his boss? We need this project completed.

 

Me: You told me that I should make those requests through you. I'd that two weeks ago.

 

Boss: ....

 

******

 

Then the meeting goes on and on and they discuss the same topic for the next three hours. I actually fell asleep once.

 

Boss: Did we disturb you?

 

Me (making the biggest faux pas): No I was asleep anyway.

 

Boss: Do you know what we're talking about?

 

Me: Yes, you've been discussing who we should hire for the position of systems general manager. You got our opinion about two hours ago. You already made your decision before you called the meeting and have been spending the past three hours passively aggressively trying to get us to change our minds. Why did you even bother calling the meeting? Our input doesn't matter. Hire who you want. I have work to do.

 

.... Dead silence in the conference room ....

 

Well, it needed to be said. So yes, most of the time they're big time wasting three hours you'll never get back where the  pointy-haired guy at the head of the table makes himself feel important and gives you projects to do that by the time you get all of  the resources together to do them they're obsolete. I learned that sometimes it was best to just put stupid sounding projects on the back burner and shift the responsibility for getting all the components together onto other people in other departments, because the project was stupid and by the time we got everything together, the project would be cancelled due to lack of interest from the higher ups and investors. This is why America is rapidly on its way to becoming a third world country.

[Kel Riever]

Meetings....

These days some meetings are actually okay.  That has more to do with that I am mostly independent and work with good people.  I used to sit through totally pointless meetings that we had because we were required.  My manager didn't want to have them either, but if he had to have them, he had them to remind people he lorded over everyone.  And lord he did.  You talked if you wanted to leave the firm.  I watched it happen at least 3 times and shook my head.  Seriously, if you wanted to leave that firm it was always better to take my boss by surprise.  That was the best way of getting him back because he got so mad.  He always wanted to do the firing.  Well, weirdly, I still have a good relationship with him these days even though we work different places.  Mostly because though he was a ******, he was a very useful ally when me him and the whole lot of us got screwed over by REALLY HUGE a-holes above us.

SO, some meetings are useful now.  But not today's.  Today's meeting, paraphrased, was like this:

Hi, I'm (blah blah) from firm (who competes with you in other businesses but pretends to be your friend here, so we can get all the money).  What we do at our firm is not biased because (what you do is, somehow.  Which is why you should not be actually helping people, but being paid even if you don't help them, like me!) So let me tell you about our stuff!

At which point, because I am now my own business person, I excused myself with a polite pretend that I had something I had to do.  It wasn't a lie.  I did have something else to do.  Pretty much anything.

But I wasn't a jerk to his face.  Because he bought lunch for the office, and some of my co-workers like that thing where they have no intention to do business with a guy but want him to keep buying them lunch.  I'm not like that, but I do like who I work with so good on them, free lunch!  Come back guy!  Even though we'll never do business with your firm because it's really just trying to steal our money anyway...

Kind of silly.

[Redbelle]

It's the guy who brings cupcakes who we all wanted to see more of at work.

 

But now I'm at Uni...... Everyone's cheap.

[sH0tgUn jUliA]

The Dilbert Comic Strip is true of most office environments.

[Cknarf]

You know, I always kinda wanted to have a job where I had to wear a tie. I've thought about wearing some office duds to work before, but since I might go from talking to a customer, to crawling under an old Buick all in ten minutes, that's not really an option.

 

Not that I'm complaining about my 'whatever shirt I happen to grab' work attire, or anything, but it would be nice to look presentable every once in awhile.

 

Although... my 'Things to do today: Your mom' shirt is pretty popular with most people I deal with.

[Terca]

It's the guy who brings cupcakes who we all wanted to see more of at work.

 

But now I'm at Uni...... Everyone's cheap.

 

Even those at uni should spend some time on feeding classmates food. We all need it. I actually just handed out some cream puffs to my classmates.

 

Also there were 10 cream puffs and I would die if I ate that many at once so I needed to thin the bounty. Tactful socialism.

[Cknarf]

I've got some serious catching up to do.  Like, don't get me wrong, I know what's going on and sh*t, but I've kiiiiiiinda been just skimmin' through. It's not because I don't like readin' all the postin's, (lol this is literally the only reading I do) but because I've been blah. Totally going back and giving them the proper read that they deserve, so... don't be surprised if you get a like notification on a post more than a few pages back lol.

[sH0tgUn jUliA]

I'm going to move ahead to "the meeting".

[Kel Riever]

I won't be around much until later today, so I will catch up with everything then.

[Cainhurst Crow]

Any of you guys a fan of rwby?

[Cknarf]

Terca forced me to watch it once.

 

I watched the first five or so. Not really my style, but it wasn't bad.  I thought the wife would dig it, but she couldn't really get into it.

 

Didn't wanna watch anything with her anyways.

[Cainhurst Crow]

Third season is starting now, I am hyped.

[Cknarf]

Yeah, I was hyped for a new season of a show once...

 

And then my wife happened.

 

Spoilin' ass, let me tell ya.

 

"They killed off so and so. He was like, your favorite, right?"

 

Like she doesn't know that I use my work's Comcast account to watch it online the day after it airs, because f*ck paying for cable. I'm beginning to think she did it on purpose...

[Redbelle]

I binged on it lately as I'm doing Maya Autodesk 3d modelling. It's pretty good. At first I thought it was going to swerve into the darkest realms of empowered ladies.... And it does to a degree which isn't baaaaad...... It's just I watched both Tomb Raiders and saw empowerment and glossy visuals used to cover up the lack of personality in it's characters...... (Cardboard cutouts would have done just as good a job).

 

Thankfully RWBY isn't the same. Sure it's silly and goofy but instead of pushing a sense of entitled coolness the characters do actually have to earn their achievements.

 

Lemme put it this way. The male comedy sidekick/leader of a group broke his mold during the prom episodes, was the better man and guided his friends towards their first loves. Willingly lost a bet that had him attend the prom in a dress and still utterly rocked the dance floor with his entire team while earning the heart of gold award with the audience.... Well me.... But I'm audience so Naaaaah!

 

Anyway, enjoy the first two seasons if you haven't seen them. The creator died recently. The man who not only wrote the story but directed all the fight scenes so they are a step up above most animation fights. He had a good team behind him to. Though I figure this series started off as a work in progress owing to black cutout extra's at the start of the season. I'm treating it as an example of who to cut corners in some aspects of animation to cover the important parts till the dev's can devote the time needed to shore up the cut corners.

[Redbelle]

Incidently. ScrewAttacks Death Battle series.... Yang vs Tifa.

[Kel Riever]

Let me tell you I must totally be out of it.  First off, I didn't know what you were talking about until I looked it up on Google.  Then I was like, "Well, I probably have heard of it even if I haven't seen it.  Must be a set of initials for something I sort of maybe know of."  No.  Not. Even. A. Clue.

I want to watch this now.  Of course, what will probably happen is I will want to watch it until forever.  I'll do my best but I tend to always doing something interactive like rpg's or video games, or writing.

If only wanting led me to doing things I wanted.  I want a lot!  Longing...

[Cknarf]

Yooooooo I was gonna post, but I miiiighta got into the booooze. Hah. It's been awhile, kinda sorta.

 

Anyways, I gotta bullshit my peeps to Thessia here in a little bit. Not like, I wasn't expectin' it or nothin'.  And stuff. Yes. Prolly gonna write anyways and then see what the hell I posted in the morning. But not posted, just wrote to post later in the morning eventually. You know.

[sH0tgUn jUliA]

Maj, I hope you don't mind, but I'm going to bring Arian back on board and move the ship to Thessia. Also Kel, I'll put Morgan and Dahlia on board as well. It'll simply be a skip to the entry into the system. I don't see a point in going through all the routine stuff we know will happen. Just the landing at the shipyard and then let everyone go do their thing.

 

Armali is a big city like Naleena described it. The pace is Asari slow. You'll want to ask for filtered water unless you're biotic due to the eezo content. Avoid raw sea food unless you're biotic, again due to the eezo content. So you'll need to order from the "tourist" side of the menus. Most of the place is like a normal city. And sorry, there aren't strip bars on every corner. You'll probably run into types of Asari you've never seen before - you've seen the office workers on the Citadel, the strippers on Omega, the Commandos and the military on the ship. Here, you'll see cops, firemen, construction workers, EMTs, groundskeepers, teachers, you know people who do  regular jobs just like everyone else. You might be in bar having a few drinks and some workers from shipyard come in wearing loose coveralls and knock down a few brews after work. Blue collar Asari. They may not pay you any attention. You're tourists. Think of the place like any big city but without the crime and without the poverty. And sh*t isn't cheap there.

[Kel Riever]

Just too busy right now, I will check things out later!