GM's thread about nothing (20 Viewers)

[krista4]

I think the job offer kharma is rubbing off on me. I'm having lunch today with a girl that went to law school with me. She took a job at a firm that passes for "big" in my neck of the woods. Supposedly the lunch was to catch up since we work a few blocks from each other and haven't talked much since she had two kids. Anyhow, I just got a last minute email from her that her boss may be joining us. Now this being a small town, her boss is a guy that went to the same HS as me and was a senior when I was a freshman. I "dated" his sister for a short time in HS as a matter of fact. I've run into him here and there over the years, and he usually does the "oh yea, you're so-and-so," routine, like he barely remembers me. Except the last two times, once at a conference and once at a seminar, he's come up to me and asked about my work, seemed impressed that I litigate, and made one odd comment about how maybe I didn't know if I would like a big firm better since I hadn't been there. I thought maybe there was something to it but he never followed up on it, so I figured it was nothing. Maybe it's something?

Would you be interested?

 

[Disco Stu]

Question for the single guys, or any guy who is successful with the wimmens..... so basically I'm just reaching out to Stu in this crowd.Ever ask anyone out via Facebook? Last week I "friended" a girl who is originally from my hometown (now lives about 45-50 minutes away) She is 4 years younger than me and was very good friends with one of my buddy's younger sisters. I don't think I've ever spoken to this girl before, but I might have when I was in high school and just don't remember. I sent her a private message thru FB and she kinda gave a lukewarm response. I'm about to send her another message asking her to go out for a drink sometime, but for some reason it feels really creepy doing it thru Facebook. I have no problem with online dating sites, obviously that's what those are for, but I don't think Zuckerberg intended to create FB so that I could get laid. Am I dumb? Is facebook a normal route to pursue the ladies? Any success stories with this? I guess my fear is that this girl is gonna tell my buddy's sister that this Gadzooks creep went thru her FB profile and then asked her out. Oh and if I have success with this, I will be sending a friend request to Mrs SLB within 2 minutes.

I think the shuke rule applies here. You probably shouldn't ask a chick out via FB if you haven't met her IRL.

Yeah, that's kinda my thinking. I guess it can work... just seems really tough to not come off as creepy. I think the only myspace/facebook dating I did involved girls who were the initiators.That said... it's worth a shot?

This whole FaceBook thing is completely screwing up any chances for me to get the secks. First off, I did send this girl (lets call her "BostonGirl") a message yesterday asking her out hoping that I was more charming than creepy. But lets backtrack a bit so you can appreciate/understand how FaceBook (and my own stupidity) is ruining my chances for romance. (Also keep in mind, I'm still friends with that 23 year old that I secretly dating last year and for some reason I'm still having hard time getting over. Every once in a while we hang out and fool around a little bit, but nothing more than that. She's actively looking for a new job and should moving out of town soon, which should make my life easier. Pretty sure I'm looking for other romantic encounters just to distract myself from the 23 year old.)Just after Christmas I posted a story in this thread about a girl that I hooked up and I said something about her tasting like a dolphin and me being a monkey (or something to that effect) Lets call this girl "DolphinGirl". She lives in California and was back home for the holidays when we hooked up. That night we hooked up, she had taken a cute picture of us at a bar and posted it on a mutual friend's wall but did not "tag" me in the picture so not a lot of people saw it. Which is fine. Then randomly last Friday she "tagged" me in the picture and suddenly a bunch people started commenting on it and how good we looked together. I started getting texts from friends asking me what was going on. There was even a comment from CatShirt Bob which was by far the funniest and best comment. Another FaceBook "friend" I've been talking to is a girl that I used to date/fool around with a few years ago, she was actually the first girl I hooked up with after divorce, she has a great body, lives in my neighborhood with her daughter. The "physical" part of our relationship was great, however, she was probably only slightly smarter than MOP. (she does not like to read, hi Bogart) Lets call this girl "Boobs". So Boobs has been engaged to some loser for the last year or so and as of a couple weeks ago she broke off the engagement and usually has about 4 to 5 FB posts about "being strong" or "letting go" or "moving on". So last week she and I started chatting and mentioned maybe grabbing a drink or dinner sometime. I would very much enjoy having physical relations with her again. Now last night I had plans to go out for drinks with a couple of co-workers. As I'm getting ready, Boobs sends me a message on FB so her and I start chatting back and forth. I then told her that I was going out with some co-workers and that she should stop by the bar and I'd buy her a drink. She said something about really wanting to go to see me but she just took out her contacts and put on sweats and was getting ready for bed. Then a couple minutes later she posts on FaceBook about how "Gadzooks invited me out for a drink, but I'm already ready for bed, I'm getting old, lol". By mentioning my name it went on my FB "wall" for everyone to see. Also, the way she worded it made it seem like I asked her out for a drink with me, just the 2 of us. I'm pretty sure she did this so that her ex-fiancee would see that she has options and is moving on. Her family members started commenting on it about how she should go out. Since then, I've been getting calls and texts asking why I asked her out.So I go out and I was telling my buddy about how I asked out the BostonGirl via a FaceBook message and that I thought it seemed creepy but hopefully it will work because for some reason I'm really interested in this girl. While I'm telling him this, he is looking at FB on his phone and starts laughing and calls me an idiot. He says: "you asked out BostonGirl a few hours ago, so if she's interested she's probably gonna look at your FB profile to get some info on you and she's gonna see that Boobs posted about how you just asked her out for a drink a couple hours after you asked out BostonGirl and she'll see the picture of you and DolphinGirl with a bunch of comments about you two getting married and making beautiful babies. BostonGirl is gonna think you're a complete player and a creep. Well done, jack-###."And to top it off, the 23 year old that I can't get over, posted something late last night about "the final nail in the coffen so I can move on with my life". So to recap: DolphinGirl is in California, so I won't be enjoying any sexy time with her. Boobs is apparently using me to make her ex jealous and from what I hear he is kinda crazy so I may need to lock my doors now. BostonGirl never responded to my message about going out and most likely won't ever do that. And the 23 Year Old has officially moved on. I love social media.F'ing Zuckerberg!

Change your privacy settings so that only certain people (or no one) can see when you are tagged. Boobs or whoever will be none the wiser.

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

Change your privacy settings so that only certain people (or no one) can see when you are tagged. Boobs or whoever will be none the wiser.

this is a no-brainer but might be more difficult for Zooks to figure out than it was for GM to learn how to netflix

 

[Thorn]

I think the job offer kharma is rubbing off on me. I'm having lunch today with a girl that went to law school with me. She took a job at a firm that passes for "big" in my neck of the woods. Supposedly the lunch was to catch up since we work a few blocks from each other and haven't talked much since she had two kids. Anyhow, I just got a last minute email from her that her boss may be joining us. Now this being a small town, her boss is a guy that went to the same HS as me and was a senior when I was a freshman. I "dated" his sister for a short time in HS as a matter of fact. I've run into him here and there over the years, and he usually does the "oh yea, you're so-and-so," routine, like he barely remembers me. Except the last two times, once at a conference and once at a seminar, he's come up to me and asked about my work, seemed impressed that I litigate, and made one odd comment about how maybe I didn't know if I would like a big firm better since I hadn't been there. I thought maybe there was something to it but he never followed up on it, so I figured it was nothing. Maybe it's something?

Would you be interested?

I guess my instinct is probably not. I'm sure it would be a sizeable raise, but the beauty of a small firm is that I'm almost an independent contractor. So long as I bring in X revenue, no one really supervises me. This is good for when I want to take off to Austin for a few days, for example. I'm not sure big firm (in this case 75-100 lawyers) is really where its at for me. Though OTOH the job security and ability to specialize in what I do would be nice.

 

[krista4]

Stu, serious but generally unhelpful answers to your questions:1. The what-to-wear answer would depend heavily on whether it actually is on the beach, but it sounds like you weren't sure.2. I haven't rented in Cancun but have in many third-world dangerous-y countries without any issues. The problem is that it ends up being much more expensive than it initially appears because in those locales you generally DO want to take the insurance, which jacks everything way up.

 

[cosjobs]

Krista,

I can't advise you strongly enough to get out of that job. It has been making you miserable - just go back and look at your pre-Coshole meltdown posting to remind you how miserable, just in case you've started telling yourself that maybe it isn't that bad.

Then think about the fact that they are lying to you about how things are going to change. They might not mean to lie; maybe they actually believe themselves when they tell you things will be different. Things won't be different. And after they've bent over to change things for you, they're not going to listen to any future complaints you have. Instead, you're just going to be the continual malcontent who threatened to quit once, gained all these concessions (allegedly), and still continues to complain.

Finally, you are clearly extremely marketable. Pretend you didn't currently hold this job and were evaluating it - knowing all that you know about how awful it is - in comparison to other jobs now on the table. Would you take it?

Life is too short and too hard as it is, without forcing yourself to keep a job that affirmatively makes you miserable.

You definitely shouldn't stay at a place of work that makes you miserable, just because it offers more money and is in Memphis. part of the problem is that you have gotten into the habit of using consumer therapy and buying things to make yourself feel better about your horrible work situation. You will be fine and make a bunch o cash anyway.If you are silly enough to stay, you should probably buy a bunch of my art to hand around your house. I have this 6'x8' painting of a bunch of penismen trying to stretch themselves out to meet the entry requirement for access to Ron Jeremy's bar that look great behind your sofa.

Laugh if you want. I've been in RFW's garage and perused his piles of canvasses. He could line the walls of the astrodome with paintings of marching penises.

 

[cosjobs]

What are guys supposed to wear to beach weddings? Packing for one in Cancun Saturday. (Not mine)I believe the wedding and reception are not technically on the beach. Not positive though.

Cargo shorts and a Hawaiian shirt should over you either way

 

[bostonfred]

Do you hire penis models or just go from memory? I suppose you could just imagine your dream penis and try to paint that.

 

[Tecumseh]

If you are silly enough to stay, you should probably buy a bunch of my art to hand around your house. I have this 6'x8' painting of a bunch of penismen trying to stretch themselves out to meet the entry requirement for access to Ron Jeremy's bar that look great behind your sofa.

It was one of the few paintings of mine that was recovered after Katrina. Some Bible-belt friends of my students at the Baptist College where I taught found it a mile from the campus in some trees. They came up to me with big grins on their faces and said,"We found a giant painting with cartoon looking penises, a big hedgehog, and vacuum pumps and giant syringes. That's got to be yours right? There is no one else who could make that who lives here."

It is a cultural artifact! BUY! BUY! BUY! Speculate now before it's too late!

Send it as a hallmark card to K4/Fish: *opencard* Congrats on the new job. You always measure up! Har har har!!

 

[General Malaise]

Thanks all but Frosty, who I know doesn't mean it. Might seem silly but I just need those reminders...it's hard when the numbers are set out in front of you, especially given the incredibly low COL in Memphis as opposed to...anywhere.

People don't tend to lie on the proverbial death bed wishing they'd made more money.

I might wish I hadn't lost so much of it.

 

[Limp Ditka]

In other news, bostonfred has a penis that he dreams about.

 

[General Malaise]

my current employers tried to give me something to make me stay--essentially $50K a year more and a bunch of false promises

Don't do it.

Voice of wisdom, friend. Thanks.I do appreciate how people here can ground me back into what's important.By the way, I've thought a bit recently, perhaps coshole-related, about how long the GMTAN notion lasts. I mean, I can't imagine breaking away, but we can't possibly be here posting when we're in our 80s, right? How would that work? Of course I then think of Tanner and realize it might be possible.

I figured out last night that when my daughter reaches my age (40) I'll be 80 years old if I'm still alive. And it saddened and depressed me so much, I punished my liver and upgraded my chances of Type II Diabetes. :(

 

[Tecumseh]

Good info so far. Next question... has anyone rented a car in Cancun before? I wasn't planning to, but it's ridiculously cheap ($9/day). Are they going to make me a drug mule or something? My sister and her family will be in Playa, and driving there myself sounds better than paying for a 40 minute (each way) cab ride.

Get the insurance. If you don't something will magically happen to the car that you will have to pay out the ### for.

 

[cosjobs]

I think the job offer kharma is rubbing off on me. I'm having lunch today with a girl that went to law school with me. She took a job at a firm that passes for "big" in my neck of the woods. Supposedly the lunch was to catch up since we work a few blocks from each other and haven't talked much since she had two kids. Anyhow, I just got a last minute email from her that her boss may be joining us. Now this being a small town, her boss is a guy that went to the same HS as me and was a senior when I was a freshman. I "dated" his sister for a short time in HS as a matter of fact. I've run into him here and there over the years, and he usually does the "oh yea, you're so-and-so," routine, like he barely remembers me. Except the last two times, once at a conference and once at a seminar, he's come up to me and asked about my work, seemed impressed that I litigate, and made one odd comment about how maybe I didn't know if I would like a big firm better since I hadn't been there. I thought maybe there was something to it but he never followed up on it, so I figured it was nothing. Maybe it's something?

Would you be interested?

I guess my instinct is probably not. I'm sure it would be a sizeable raise, but the beauty of a small firm is that I'm almost an independent contractor. So long as I bring in X revenue, no one really supervises me. This is good for when I want to take off to Austin for a few days, for example. I'm not sure big firm (this case 75-100 lawyers) is really where its at for me. Though OTOH the job security and ability to specialize in what I do would be nice.

This would be like Travis McGee going to work for the Pinkertons

 

[General Malaise]

There are definitely other factors involved, but I have found that the amount of money I make is inversely proportional to my happiness

I sincerely recommend that you do not share this revelation with Mrs. Proninja

I talked to Mrs. P about quitting my medical device sales job to go work for a bike shop before we got married. Told her one of the repercussions would be that we'd have to rent rooms out in our house after we were married. She said "You know, it's not ideal, but life rarely is. What's important is that you are doing something every day that makes you happy, and I think you should go work at a bike shop." I'm not really sure how I could have not married her after that.

my bad. I thought you married a female.

 

[YSR]

Question for the single guys, or any guy who is successful with the wimmens..... so basically I'm just reaching out to Stu in this crowd.Ever ask anyone out via Facebook? Last week I "friended" a girl who is originally from my hometown (now lives about 45-50 minutes away) She is 4 years younger than me and was very good friends with one of my buddy's younger sisters. I don't think I've ever spoken to this girl before, but I might have when I was in high school and just don't remember. I sent her a private message thru FB and she kinda gave a lukewarm response. I'm about to send her another message asking her to go out for a drink sometime, but for some reason it feels really creepy doing it thru Facebook. I have no problem with online dating sites, obviously that's what those are for, but I don't think Zuckerberg intended to create FB so that I could get laid. Am I dumb? Is facebook a normal route to pursue the ladies? Any success stories with this? I guess my fear is that this girl is gonna tell my buddy's sister that this Gadzooks creep went thru her FB profile and then asked her out. Oh and if I have success with this, I will be sending a friend request to Mrs SLB within 2 minutes.

I think the shuke rule applies here. You probably shouldn't ask a chick out via FB if you haven't met her IRL.

Yeah, that's kinda my thinking. I guess it can work... just seems really tough to not come off as creepy. I think the only myspace/facebook dating I did involved girls who were the initiators.That said... it's worth a shot?

This whole FaceBook thing is completely screwing up any chances for me to get the secks. First off, I did send this girl (lets call her "BostonGirl") a message yesterday asking her out hoping that I was more charming than creepy. But lets backtrack a bit so you can appreciate/understand how FaceBook (and my own stupidity) is ruining my chances for romance. (Also keep in mind, I'm still friends with that 23 year old that I secretly dating last year and for some reason I'm still having hard time getting over. Every once in a while we hang out and fool around a little bit, but nothing more than that. She's actively looking for a new job and should moving out of town soon, which should make my life easier. Pretty sure I'm looking for other romantic encounters just to distract myself from the 23 year old.)Just after Christmas I posted a story in this thread about a girl that I hooked up and I said something about her tasting like a dolphin and me being a monkey (or something to that effect) Lets call this girl "DolphinGirl". She lives in California and was back home for the holidays when we hooked up. That night we hooked up, she had taken a cute picture of us at a bar and posted it on a mutual friend's wall but did not "tag" me in the picture so not a lot of people saw it. Which is fine. Then randomly last Friday she "tagged" me in the picture and suddenly a bunch people started commenting on it and how good we looked together. I started getting texts from friends asking me what was going on. There was even a comment from CatShirt Bob which was by far the funniest and best comment. Another FaceBook "friend" I've been talking to is a girl that I used to date/fool around with a few years ago, she was actually the first girl I hooked up with after divorce, she has a great body, lives in my neighborhood with her daughter. The "physical" part of our relationship was great, however, she was probably only slightly smarter than MOP. (she does not like to read, hi Bogart) Lets call this girl "Boobs". So Boobs has been engaged to some loser for the last year or so and as of a couple weeks ago she broke off the engagement and usually has about 4 to 5 FB posts about "being strong" or "letting go" or "moving on". So last week she and I started chatting and mentioned maybe grabbing a drink or dinner sometime. I would very much enjoy having physical relations with her again. Now last night I had plans to go out for drinks with a couple of co-workers. As I'm getting ready, Boobs sends me a message on FB so her and I start chatting back and forth. I then told her that I was going out with some co-workers and that she should stop by the bar and I'd buy her a drink. She said something about really wanting to go to see me but she just took out her contacts and put on sweats and was getting ready for bed. Then a couple minutes later she posts on FaceBook about how "Gadzooks invited me out for a drink, but I'm already ready for bed, I'm getting old, lol". By mentioning my name it went on my FB "wall" for everyone to see. Also, the way she worded it made it seem like I asked her out for a drink with me, just the 2 of us. I'm pretty sure she did this so that her ex-fiancee would see that she has options and is moving on. Her family members started commenting on it about how she should go out. Since then, I've been getting calls and texts asking why I asked her out.So I go out and I was telling my buddy about how I asked out the BostonGirl via a FaceBook message and that I thought it seemed creepy but hopefully it will work because for some reason I'm really interested in this girl. While I'm telling him this, he is looking at FB on his phone and starts laughing and calls me an idiot. He says: "you asked out BostonGirl a few hours ago, so if she's interested she's probably gonna look at your FB profile to get some info on you and she's gonna see that Boobs posted about how you just asked her out for a drink a couple hours after you asked out BostonGirl and she'll see the picture of you and DolphinGirl with a bunch of comments about you two getting married and making beautiful babies. BostonGirl is gonna think you're a complete player and a creep. Well done, jack-###."And to top it off, the 23 year old that I can't get over, posted something late last night about "the final nail in the coffen so I can move on with my life". So to recap: DolphinGirl is in California, so I won't be enjoying any sexy time with her. Boobs is apparently using me to make her ex jealous and from what I hear he is kinda crazy so I may need to lock my doors now. BostonGirl never responded to my message about going out and most likely won't ever do that. And the 23 Year Old has officially moved on. I love social media.F'ing Zuckerberg!

Do you want me to post something on your wall, thanking you for being such a well-endowed and tremendously selfless lover?

 

[Britney Spears]

Krista,

I can't advise you strongly enough to get out of that job. It has been making you miserable - just go back and look at your pre-Coshole meltdown posting to remind you how miserable, just in case you've started telling yourself that maybe it isn't that bad.

Then think about the fact that they are lying to you about how things are going to change. They might not mean to lie; maybe they actually believe themselves when they tell you things will be different. Things won't be different. And after they've bent over to change things for you, they're not going to listen to any future complaints you have. Instead, you're just going to be the continual malcontent who threatened to quit once, gained all these concessions (allegedly), and still continues to complain.

Finally, you are clearly extremely marketable. Pretend you didn't currently hold this job and were evaluating it - knowing all that you know about how awful it is - in comparison to other jobs now on the table. Would you take it?

Life is too short and too hard as it is, without forcing yourself to keep a job that affirmatively makes you miserable.

You definitely shouldn't stay at a place of work that makes you miserable, just because it offers more money and is in Memphis. part of the problem is that you have gotten into the habit of using consumer therapy and buying things to make yourself feel better about your horrible work situation. You will be fine and make a bunch o cash anyway.If you are silly enough to stay, you should probably buy a bunch of my art to hand around your house. I have this 6'x8' painting of a bunch of penismen trying to stretch themselves out to meet the entry requirement for access to Ron Jeremy's bar that look great behind your sofa.

We're going to need a link.

 

[General Malaise]

Krista,

I can't advise you strongly enough to get out of that job. It has been making you miserable - just go back and look at your pre-Coshole meltdown posting to remind you how miserable, just in case you've started telling yourself that maybe it isn't that bad.

Then think about the fact that they are lying to you about how things are going to change. They might not mean to lie; maybe they actually believe themselves when they tell you things will be different. Things won't be different. And after they've bent over to change things for you, they're not going to listen to any future complaints you have. Instead, you're just going to be the continual malcontent who threatened to quit once, gained all these concessions (allegedly), and still continues to complain.

Finally, you are clearly extremely marketable. Pretend you didn't currently hold this job and were evaluating it - knowing all that you know about how awful it is - in comparison to other jobs now on the table. Would you take it?

Life is too short and too hard as it is, without forcing yourself to keep a job that affirmatively makes you miserable.

Nice to see you posting more in here, GB.For those not familiar, The_Man is part of the Unholy Trinity of Ravens fans along with myself and Chief Anarchist roadkill1292. There are others, but we probably have 75% of the Ravens-fans posts in the SP. T_M makes the most sense, I'm the dumbest, and roady is the pessimist-est ( ).

You know Bill...they were our Ravens at Coshole. The omission stings.

 

[bostonfred]

In other news, bostonfred has a penis that he dreams about.

Lol at "a" penis

 

[Limp Ditka]

In other news, bostonfred has a penis that he dreams about.

Lol at "a" penis

 

[UOFI_316]

So the west got Winter Storm Gandalf, the east got Winter Storm Nemo, and in the midwest we get Winter Storm Q. Really, just a letter, no one could come up with a better name than that? Stay safe StL Bob and anyone else who will get hit with this.

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

So the west got Winter Storm Gandalf, the east got Winter Storm Nemo, and in the midwest we get Winter Storm Q. Really, just a letter, no one could come up with a better name than that? Stay safe StL Bob and anyone else who will get hit with this.

Is it going to be bad?Forecast I saw last night projected .3" of snow to hit St Louis and just about 3" in Chicago.

 

[Ignoramus]

Good info so far. Next question... has anyone rented a car in Cancun before? I wasn't planning to, but it's ridiculously cheap ($9/day). Are they going to make me a drug mule or something? My sister and her family will be in Playa, and driving there myself sounds better than paying for a 40 minute (each way) cab ride.

We went with a group of friends and one of them ended up doing most of the planning for our trip. Evidently she had the idea that since there were people all over the airport offering car rentals, it would be easy for us to get one once we go there.Do not do this.The seven of us, and our associated luggage for a one-week vacation, eventually (after about three hours of dicking around with shady rent-a-car guys) ended up crammed into an old Astrovan that did not have a working A/C.It wasn't my rodeo (and we were the only guerros) so I just went along with the group, but if I were doing it again I would go through a big chain before I just showed up. Get the insurance and make sure you've got everything ironed out ahead of time and you should be fine.

 

[General Malaise]

Change your privacy settings so that only certain people (or no one) can see when you are tagged. Boobs or whoever will be none the wiser.

this is a no-brainer but might be more difficult for Zooks to figure out than it was for GM to learn how to netflix

Still efforting.

 

[General Malaise]

I think the job offer kharma is rubbing off on me. I'm having lunch today with a girl that went to law school with me. She took a job at a firm that passes for "big" in my neck of the woods. Supposedly the lunch was to catch up since we work a few blocks from each other and haven't talked much since she had two kids. Anyhow, I just got a last minute email from her that her boss may be joining us. Now this being a small town, her boss is a guy that went to the same HS as me and was a senior when I was a freshman. I "dated" his sister for a short time in HS as a matter of fact. I've run into him here and there over the years, and he usually does the "oh yea, you're so-and-so," routine, like he barely remembers me. Except the last two times, once at a conference and once at a seminar, he's come up to me and asked about my work, seemed impressed that I litigate, and made one odd comment about how maybe I didn't know if I would like a big firm better since I hadn't been there. I thought maybe there was something to it but he never followed up on it, so I figured it was nothing. Maybe it's something?

Would you be interested?

I guess my instinct is probably not. I'm sure it would be a sizeable raise, but the beauty of a small firm is that I'm almost an independent contractor. So long as I bring in X revenue, no one really supervises me. This is good for when I want to take off to Austin for a few days, for example. I'm not sure big firm (this case 75-100 lawyers) is really where its at for me. Though OTOH the job security and ability to specialize in what I do would be nice.

This would be like Travis McGee going to work for the Pinkertons

A John McDonald fan? I like.

 

[heckmanm]

Do you hire penis models or just go from memory? I suppose you could just imagine your dream penis and try to paint that.

Band name?

 

[General Malaise]

So the west got Winter Storm Gandalf, the east got Winter Storm Nemo, and in the midwest we get Winter Storm Q. Really, just a letter, no one could come up with a better name than that? Stay safe StL Bob and anyone else who will get hit with this.

What's all this now?

 

[heckmanm]

my current employers tried to give me something to make me stay--essentially $50K a year more and a bunch of false promises

Don't do it.

Voice of wisdom, friend. Thanks.I do appreciate how people here can ground me back into what's important.By the way, I've thought a bit recently, perhaps coshole-related, about how long the GMTAN notion lasts. I mean, I can't imagine breaking away, but we can't possibly be here posting when we're in our 80s, right? How would that work? Of course I then think of Tanner and realize it might be possible.

I figured out last night that when my daughter reaches my age (40) I'll be 80 years old if I'm still alive. And it saddened and depressed me so much, I punished my liver and upgraded my chances of Type II Diabetes. :(

Buck up, GB. I'm sure you'll be dead by then.

 

[Josie Maran]

Question for the single guys, or any guy who is successful with the wimmens..... so basically I'm just reaching out to Stu in this crowd.Ever ask anyone out via Facebook? Last week I "friended" a girl who is originally from my hometown (now lives about 45-50 minutes away) She is 4 years younger than me and was very good friends with one of my buddy's younger sisters. I don't think I've ever spoken to this girl before, but I might have when I was in high school and just don't remember. I sent her a private message thru FB and she kinda gave a lukewarm response. I'm about to send her another message asking her to go out for a drink sometime, but for some reason it feels really creepy doing it thru Facebook. I have no problem with online dating sites, obviously that's what those are for, but I don't think Zuckerberg intended to create FB so that I could get laid. Am I dumb? Is facebook a normal route to pursue the ladies? Any success stories with this? I guess my fear is that this girl is gonna tell my buddy's sister that this Gadzooks creep went thru her FB profile and then asked her out. Oh and if I have success with this, I will be sending a friend request to Mrs SLB within 2 minutes.

I think the shuke rule applies here. You probably shouldn't ask a chick out via FB if you haven't met her IRL.

Yeah, that's kinda my thinking. I guess it can work... just seems really tough to not come off as creepy. I think the only myspace/facebook dating I did involved girls who were the initiators.That said... it's worth a shot?

This whole FaceBook thing is completely screwing up any chances for me to get the secks. First off, I did send this girl (lets call her "BostonGirl") a message yesterday asking her out hoping that I was more charming than creepy. But lets backtrack a bit so you can appreciate/understand how FaceBook (and my own stupidity) is ruining my chances for romance. (Also keep in mind, I'm still friends with that 23 year old that I secretly dating last year and for some reason I'm still having hard time getting over. Every once in a while we hang out and fool around a little bit, but nothing more than that. She's actively looking for a new job and should moving out of town soon, which should make my life easier. Pretty sure I'm looking for other romantic encounters just to distract myself from the 23 year old.)Just after Christmas I posted a story in this thread about a girl that I hooked up and I said something about her tasting like a dolphin and me being a monkey (or something to that effect) Lets call this girl "DolphinGirl". She lives in California and was back home for the holidays when we hooked up. That night we hooked up, she had taken a cute picture of us at a bar and posted it on a mutual friend's wall but did not "tag" me in the picture so not a lot of people saw it. Which is fine. Then randomly last Friday she "tagged" me in the picture and suddenly a bunch people started commenting on it and how good we looked together. I started getting texts from friends asking me what was going on. There was even a comment from CatShirt Bob which was by far the funniest and best comment. Another FaceBook "friend" I've been talking to is a girl that I used to date/fool around with a few years ago, she was actually the first girl I hooked up with after divorce, she has a great body, lives in my neighborhood with her daughter. The "physical" part of our relationship was great, however, she was probably only slightly smarter than MOP. (she does not like to read, hi Bogart) Lets call this girl "Boobs". So Boobs has been engaged to some loser for the last year or so and as of a couple weeks ago she broke off the engagement and usually has about 4 to 5 FB posts about "being strong" or "letting go" or "moving on". So last week she and I started chatting and mentioned maybe grabbing a drink or dinner sometime. I would very much enjoy having physical relations with her again. Now last night I had plans to go out for drinks with a couple of co-workers. As I'm getting ready, Boobs sends me a message on FB so her and I start chatting back and forth. I then told her that I was going out with some co-workers and that she should stop by the bar and I'd buy her a drink. She said something about really wanting to go to see me but she just took out her contacts and put on sweats and was getting ready for bed. Then a couple minutes later she posts on FaceBook about how "Gadzooks invited me out for a drink, but I'm already ready for bed, I'm getting old, lol". By mentioning my name it went on my FB "wall" for everyone to see. Also, the way she worded it made it seem like I asked her out for a drink with me, just the 2 of us. I'm pretty sure she did this so that her ex-fiancee would see that she has options and is moving on. Her family members started commenting on it about how she should go out. Since then, I've been getting calls and texts asking why I asked her out.So I go out and I was telling my buddy about how I asked out the BostonGirl via a FaceBook message and that I thought it seemed creepy but hopefully it will work because for some reason I'm really interested in this girl. While I'm telling him this, he is looking at FB on his phone and starts laughing and calls me an idiot. He says: "you asked out BostonGirl a few hours ago, so if she's interested she's probably gonna look at your FB profile to get some info on you and she's gonna see that Boobs posted about how you just asked her out for a drink a couple hours after you asked out BostonGirl and she'll see the picture of you and DolphinGirl with a bunch of comments about you two getting married and making beautiful babies. BostonGirl is gonna think you're a complete player and a creep. Well done, jack-###."And to top it off, the 23 year old that I can't get over, posted something late last night about "the final nail in the coffen so I can move on with my life". So to recap: DolphinGirl is in California, so I won't be enjoying any sexy time with her. Boobs is apparently using me to make her ex jealous and from what I hear he is kinda crazy so I may need to lock my doors now. BostonGirl never responded to my message about going out and most likely won't ever do that. And the 23 Year Old has officially moved on. I love social media.F'ing Zuckerberg!

Change your privacy settings so that only certain people (or no one) can see when you are tagged. Boobs or whoever will be none the wiser.

Srsly Zooks, WTF is wrong with you? Jeez!

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

So the west got Winter Storm Gandalf, the east got Winter Storm Nemo, and in the midwest we get Winter Storm Q. Really, just a letter, no one could come up with a better name than that? Stay safe StL Bob and anyone else who will get hit with this.

Is the storm going to hand out really cool secret agent gadgets?

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

I think the job offer kharma is rubbing off on me. I'm having lunch today with a girl that went to law school with me. She took a job at a firm that passes for "big" in my neck of the woods. Supposedly the lunch was to catch up since we work a few blocks from each other and haven't talked much since she had two kids. Anyhow, I just got a last minute email from her that her boss may be joining us. Now this being a small town, her boss is a guy that went to the same HS as me and was a senior when I was a freshman. I "dated" his sister for a short time in HS as a matter of fact. I've run into him here and there over the years, and he usually does the "oh yea, you're so-and-so," routine, like he barely remembers me. Except the last two times, once at a conference and once at a seminar, he's come up to me and asked about my work, seemed impressed that I litigate, and made one odd comment about how maybe I didn't know if I would like a big firm better since I hadn't been there. I thought maybe there was something to it but he never followed up on it, so I figured it was nothing. Maybe it's something?

Would you be interested?

I guess my instinct is probably not. I'm sure it would be a sizeable raise, but the beauty of a small firm is that I'm almost an independent contractor. So long as I bring in X revenue, no one really supervises me. This is good for when I want to take off to Austin for a few days, for example. I'm not sure big firm (this case 75-100 lawyers) is really where its at for me. Though OTOH the job security and ability to specialize in what I do would be nice.

This would be like Travis McGee going to work for the Pinkertons

You're showing your age, Pops.

 

[General Malaise]

So the west got Winter Storm Gandalf, the east got Winter Storm Nemo, and in the midwest we get Winter Storm Q. Really, just a letter, no one could come up with a better name than that? Stay safe StL Bob and anyone else who will get hit with this.

Is the storm going to hand out really cool secret agent gadgets?

I have a friend that goes by "Q" and nothing but "Q" and I assure you, he's quite stormy.

 

[General Malaise]

I think the job offer kharma is rubbing off on me. I'm having lunch today with a girl that went to law school with me. She took a job at a firm that passes for "big" in my neck of the woods. Supposedly the lunch was to catch up since we work a few blocks from each other and haven't talked much since she had two kids. Anyhow, I just got a last minute email from her that her boss may be joining us. Now this being a small town, her boss is a guy that went to the same HS as me and was a senior when I was a freshman. I "dated" his sister for a short time in HS as a matter of fact. I've run into him here and there over the years, and he usually does the "oh yea, you're so-and-so," routine, like he barely remembers me. Except the last two times, once at a conference and once at a seminar, he's come up to me and asked about my work, seemed impressed that I litigate, and made one odd comment about how maybe I didn't know if I would like a big firm better since I hadn't been there. I thought maybe there was something to it but he never followed up on it, so I figured it was nothing. Maybe it's something?

Would you be interested?

I guess my instinct is probably not. I'm sure it would be a sizeable raise, but the beauty of a small firm is that I'm almost an independent contractor. So long as I bring in X revenue, no one really supervises me. This is good for when I want to take off to Austin for a few days, for example. I'm not sure big firm (this case 75-100 lawyers) is really where its at for me. Though OTOH the job security and ability to specialize in what I do would be nice.

This would be like Travis McGee going to work for the Pinkertons

You're showing your age, Pops.

When I drove from Dallas to Portland I went to Half Price Books and bought a bunch of books on tape. They were selling McDonald's books for like a buck a piece. So I scooped up a few and plugged them in once I ran out of radio and realized straight away that the two-bit failed actor they hired for the reading was going to impersonate every character in the book, including the females. Kinda made the sex scenes a little disturbing.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

So the west got Winter Storm Gandalf, the east got Winter Storm Nemo, and in the midwest we get Winter Storm Q. Really, just a letter, no one could come up with a better name than that? Stay safe StL Bob and anyone else who will get hit with this.

Is the storm going to hand out really cool secret agent gadgets?

I have a friend that goes by "Q" and nothing but "Q" and I assure you, he's quite stormy.

Is it short for Quartermaster?

 

[heckmanm]

So the west got Winter Storm Gandalf, the east got Winter Storm Nemo, and in the midwest we get Winter Storm Q. Really, just a letter, no one could come up with a better name than that? Stay safe StL Bob and anyone else who will get hit with this.

Is the storm going to hand out really cool secret agent gadgets?

I have a friend that goes by "Q" and nothing but "Q" and I assure you, he's quite stormy.

Is this him?

 

[Bogart]

My company shut down our current ERP system tonight as we prepare to move to SAP on Monday.

I'm not an IT guy, but isn't this the sort of thing that's done over the weekend, and not on a Wednesday?

It's a four day transition. There is a group of us working 6am to 10pm, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just to be able to be up and running Monday morning.

4 days for SAP??

Tap the brakes. It's been a year long process that has been pushed back at least three times now. The four days is just the actual data crossover from our old system to SAP. And it's taking that long mostly due to the crap that is our old system.Noone is saying we are up and running with SAP in 4 days.

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Krista,

I can't advise you strongly enough to get out of that job. It has been making you miserable - just go back and look at your pre-Coshole meltdown posting to remind you how miserable, just in case you've started telling yourself that maybe it isn't that bad.

Then think about the fact that they are lying to you about how things are going to change. They might not mean to lie; maybe they actually believe themselves when they tell you things will be different. Things won't be different. And after they've bent over to change things for you, they're not going to listen to any future complaints you have. Instead, you're just going to be the continual malcontent who threatened to quit once, gained all these concessions (allegedly), and still continues to complain.

Finally, you are clearly extremely marketable. Pretend you didn't currently hold this job and were evaluating it - knowing all that you know about how awful it is - in comparison to other jobs now on the table. Would you take it?

Life is too short and too hard as it is, without forcing yourself to keep a job that affirmatively makes you miserable.

Nice to see you posting more in here, GB.For those not familiar, The_Man is part of the Unholy Trinity of Ravens fans along with myself and Chief Anarchist roadkill1292. There are others, but we probably have 75% of the Ravens-fans posts in the SP. T_M makes the most sense, I'm the dumbest, and roady is the pessimist-est ( ).

You know Bill...they were our Ravens at Coshole. The omission stings.

Milos is right - my apologies.

 

[St. Louis Bob]

There are definitely other factors involved, but I have found that the amount of money I make is inversely proportional to my happiness

I sincerely recommend that you do not share this revelation with Mrs. Proninja

I talked to Mrs. P about quitting my medical device sales job to go work for a bike shop before we got married. Told her one of the repercussions would be that we'd have to rent rooms out in our house after we were married. She said "You know, it's not ideal, but life rarely is. What's important is that you are doing something every day that makes you happy, and I think you should go work at a bike shop." I'm not really sure how I could have not married her after that.

my bad. I thought you married a female.

My company shut down our current ERP system tonight as we prepare to move to SAP on Monday.

I'm not an IT guy, but isn't this the sort of thing that's done over the weekend, and not on a Wednesday?

It's a four day transition. There is a group of us working 6am to 10pm, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just to be able to be up and running Monday morning.

4 days for SAP??

You definitely shouldn't stay at a place of work that makes you miserable, just because it offers more money and is in Memphis. part of the problem is that you have gotten into the habit of using consumer therapy and buying things to make yourself feel better about your horrible work situation. You will be fine and make a bunch o cash anyway.

If you are silly enough to stay, you should probably buy a bunch of my art to hand around your house. I have this 6'x8' painting of a bunch of penismen trying to stretch themselves out to meet the entry requirement for access to Ron Jeremy's bar that look great behind your sofa.

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

I guess I'm the only one that has no clue what SAP is

 

[Uruk-Hai]

I guess I'm the only one that has no clue what SAP is

unles it comes from a Maple tree

 

[cosjobs]

I think the job offer kharma is rubbing off on me. I'm having lunch today with a girl that went to law school with me. She took a job at a firm that passes for "big" in my neck of the woods. Supposedly the lunch was to catch up since we work a few blocks from each other and haven't talked much since she had two kids. Anyhow, I just got a last minute email from her that her boss may be joining us. Now this being a small town, her boss is a guy that went to the same HS as me and was a senior when I was a freshman. I "dated" his sister for a short time in HS as a matter of fact. I've run into him here and there over the years, and he usually does the "oh yea, you're so-and-so," routine, like he barely remembers me. Except the last two times, once at a conference and once at a seminar, he's come up to me and asked about my work, seemed impressed that I litigate, and made one odd comment about how maybe I didn't know if I would like a big firm better since I hadn't been there. I thought maybe there was something to it but he never followed up on it, so I figured it was nothing. Maybe it's something?

Would you be interested?

I guess my instinct is probably not. I'm sure it would be a sizeable raise, but the beauty of a small firm is that I'm almost an independent contractor. So long as I bring in X revenue, no one really supervises me. This is good for when I want to take off to Austin for a few days, for example. I'm not sure big firm (this case 75-100 lawyers) is really where its at for me. Though OTOH the job security and ability to specialize in what I do would be nice.

This would be like Travis McGee going to work for the Pinkertons

You're showing your age, Pops.

Great literature is timeless

 

[Mr.Pack]

my current employers tried to give me something to make me stay--essentially $50K a year more and a bunch of false promises

Don't do it.

Voice of wisdom, friend. Thanks.I do appreciate how people here can ground me back into what's important.

By the way, I've thought a bit recently, perhaps coshole-related, about how long the GMTAN notion lasts. I mean, I can't imagine breaking away, but we can't possibly be here posting when we're in our 80s, right? How would that work? Of course I then think of Tanner and realize it might be possible.

 

[General Malaise]

Krista,

I can't advise you strongly enough to get out of that job. It has been making you miserable - just go back and look at your pre-Coshole meltdown posting to remind you how miserable, just in case you've started telling yourself that maybe it isn't that bad.

Then think about the fact that they are lying to you about how things are going to change. They might not mean to lie; maybe they actually believe themselves when they tell you things will be different. Things won't be different. And after they've bent over to change things for you, they're not going to listen to any future complaints you have. Instead, you're just going to be the continual malcontent who threatened to quit once, gained all these concessions (allegedly), and still continues to complain.

Finally, you are clearly extremely marketable. Pretend you didn't currently hold this job and were evaluating it - knowing all that you know about how awful it is - in comparison to other jobs now on the table. Would you take it?

Life is too short and too hard as it is, without forcing yourself to keep a job that affirmatively makes you miserable.

Nice to see you posting more in here, GB.For those not familiar, The_Man is part of the Unholy Trinity of Ravens fans along with myself and Chief Anarchist roadkill1292. There are others, but we probably have 75% of the Ravens-fans posts in the SP. T_M makes the most sense, I'm the dumbest, and roady is the pessimist-est ( ).

You know Bill...they were our Ravens at Coshole. The omission stings.

Milos is right - my apologies.

I'm boycotting the Cowboys until they dump the 4th quarter turnover machine.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

I guess I'm the only one that has no clue what SAP is

Socially Awkward Penguin

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

my current employers tried to give me something to make me stay--essentially $50K a year more and a bunch of false promises

Don't do it.

Voice of wisdom, friend. Thanks.I do appreciate how people here can ground me back into what's important.

By the way, I've thought a bit recently, perhaps coshole-related, about how long the GMTAN notion lasts. I mean, I can't imagine breaking away, but we can't possibly be here posting when we're in our 80s, right? How would that work? Of course I then think of Tanner and realize it might be possible.

Please note that this was posted AND laughed at by two people older than me.

 

[Mr.Pack]

My company shut down our current ERP system tonight as we prepare to move to SAP on Monday.I really wanted to play the clip from Office Space of them destroying the printer at our stand up tomorrow, because that is exactly how everyone in the company feels about the old system, but I can't a clip with the song edited. I'm guessing Geto Boys at 9am with executives all around would not be the best idea.

My company is doing the same thing.

 

[T Bell]

So Boobs has been engaged to some loser for the last year or so and as of a couple weeks ago she broke off the engagement and usually has about 4 to 5 FB posts about "being strong" or "letting go" or "moving on". So last week she and I started chatting and mentioned maybe grabbing a drink or dinner sometime. I would very much enjoy having physical relations with her again.

This is prime hunting ground for the secks, as you likely already know. You have to screw this up big time not to tag it at least once.

 

[Mr.Pack]

There are definitely other factors involved, but I have found that the amount of money I make is inversely proportional to my happiness

I sincerely recommend that you do not share this revelation with Mrs. Proninja

I talked to Mrs. P about quitting my medical device sales job to go work for a bike shop before we got married. Told her one of the repercussions would be that we'd have to rent rooms out in our house after we were married. She said "You know, it's not ideal, but life rarely is. What's important is that you are doing something every day that makes you happy, and I think you should go work at a bike shop." I'm not really sure how I could have not married her after that.

my bad. I thought you married a female.

 

[St. Louis Bob]

Question for the single guys, or any guy who is successful with the wimmens..... so basically I'm just reaching out to Stu in this crowd.Ever ask anyone out via Facebook? Last week I "friended" a girl who is originally from my hometown (now lives about 45-50 minutes away) She is 4 years younger than me and was very good friends with one of my buddy's younger sisters. I don't think I've ever spoken to this girl before, but I might have when I was in high school and just don't remember. I sent her a private message thru FB and she kinda gave a lukewarm response. I'm about to send her another message asking her to go out for a drink sometime, but for some reason it feels really creepy doing it thru Facebook. I have no problem with online dating sites, obviously that's what those are for, but I don't think Zuckerberg intended to create FB so that I could get laid. Am I dumb? Is facebook a normal route to pursue the ladies? Any success stories with this? I guess my fear is that this girl is gonna tell my buddy's sister that this Gadzooks creep went thru her FB profile and then asked her out. Oh and if I have success with this, I will be sending a friend request to Mrs SLB within 2 minutes.

I think the shuke rule applies here. You probably shouldn't ask a chick out via FB if you haven't met her IRL.

Yeah, that's kinda my thinking. I guess it can work... just seems really tough to not come off as creepy. I think the only myspace/facebook dating I did involved girls who were the initiators.That said... it's worth a shot?

This whole FaceBook thing is completely screwing up any chances for me to get the secks. First off, I did send this girl (lets call her "BostonGirl") a message yesterday asking her out hoping that I was more charming than creepy. But lets backtrack a bit so you can appreciate/understand how FaceBook (and my own stupidity) is ruining my chances for romance. (Also keep in mind, I'm still friends with that 23 year old that I secretly dating last year and for some reason I'm still having hard time getting over. Every once in a while we hang out and fool around a little bit, but nothing more than that. She's actively looking for a new job and should moving out of town soon, which should make my life easier. Pretty sure I'm looking for other romantic encounters just to distract myself from the 23 year old.)Just after Christmas I posted a story in this thread about a girl that I hooked up and I said something about her tasting like a dolphin and me being a monkey (or something to that effect) Lets call this girl "DolphinGirl". She lives in California and was back home for the holidays when we hooked up. That night we hooked up, she had taken a cute picture of us at a bar and posted it on a mutual friend's wall but did not "tag" me in the picture so not a lot of people saw it. Which is fine. Then randomly last Friday she "tagged" me in the picture and suddenly a bunch people started commenting on it and how good we looked together. I started getting texts from friends asking me what was going on. There was even a comment from CatShirt Bob which was by far the funniest and best comment. Another FaceBook "friend" I've been talking to is a girl that I used to date/fool around with a few years ago, she was actually the first girl I hooked up with after divorce, she has a great body, lives in my neighborhood with her daughter. The "physical" part of our relationship was great, however, she was probably only slightly smarter than MOP. (she does not like to read, hi Bogart) Lets call this girl "Boobs". So Boobs has been engaged to some loser for the last year or so and as of a couple weeks ago she broke off the engagement and usually has about 4 to 5 FB posts about "being strong" or "letting go" or "moving on". So last week she and I started chatting and mentioned maybe grabbing a drink or dinner sometime. I would very much enjoy having physical relations with her again. Now last night I had plans to go out for drinks with a couple of co-workers. As I'm getting ready, Boobs sends me a message on FB so her and I start chatting back and forth. I then told her that I was going out with some co-workers and that she should stop by the bar and I'd buy her a drink. She said something about really wanting to go to see me but she just took out her contacts and put on sweats and was getting ready for bed. Then a couple minutes later she posts on FaceBook about how "Gadzooks invited me out for a drink, but I'm already ready for bed, I'm getting old, lol". By mentioning my name it went on my FB "wall" for everyone to see. Also, the way she worded it made it seem like I asked her out for a drink with me, just the 2 of us. I'm pretty sure she did this so that her ex-fiancee would see that she has options and is moving on. Her family members started commenting on it about how she should go out. Since then, I've been getting calls and texts asking why I asked her out.So I go out and I was telling my buddy about how I asked out the BostonGirl via a FaceBook message and that I thought it seemed creepy but hopefully it will work because for some reason I'm really interested in this girl. While I'm telling him this, he is looking at FB on his phone and starts laughing and calls me an idiot. He says: "you asked out BostonGirl a few hours ago, so if she's interested she's probably gonna look at your FB profile to get some info on you and she's gonna see that Boobs posted about how you just asked her out for a drink a couple hours after you asked out BostonGirl and she'll see the picture of you and DolphinGirl with a bunch of comments about you two getting married and making beautiful babies. BostonGirl is gonna think you're a complete player and a creep. Well done, jack-###."And to top it off, the 23 year old that I can't get over, posted something late last night about "the final nail in the coffen so I can move on with my life". So to recap: DolphinGirl is in California, so I won't be enjoying any sexy time with her. Boobs is apparently using me to make her ex jealous and from what I hear he is kinda crazy so I may need to lock my doors now. BostonGirl never responded to my message about going out and most likely won't ever do that. And the 23 Year Old has officially moved on. I love social media.F'ing Zuckerberg!

Send her one more PM saying "after thinking about it, that PM probably came across as creepy. I've had some bad judgement ever since I won the lottery". Then never contact her again.

Change your privacy settings so that only certain people (or no one) can see when you are tagged. Boobs or whoever will be none the wiser.

I didn't even know this was an option. BRB

 

[General Malaise]

So the west got Winter Storm Gandalf, the east got Winter Storm Nemo, and in the midwest we get Winter Storm Q. Really, just a letter, no one could come up with a better name than that? Stay safe StL Bob and anyone else who will get hit with this.

Is the storm going to hand out really cool secret agent gadgets?

I have a friend that goes by "Q" and nothing but "Q" and I assure you, he's quite stormy.

Is this him?

My link