h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I will be extremely busy with work through about next Wednesday at least. I will therefore have extremely limited online time. Please don't anyone feel ignored if I take longer than usual to respond to messages and your postings.

*stamps tiny little foot & pouts*

W**k?W**k? How dare you put w**k before hootoo! I am reporting you to the ham(p)sters right this very minute.

tsk, tsk.

zdt

It's not so much that I'm putting work first, as the person I'm supposed to be replacing has stayed on an additional two weeks and won't move out of my desk. So I'm sitting at a desk one of the temps uses, which unfortunately has more limited access.

Plus this delay has set me back quite a bit in paying a few bills which need to be taken care of, so I've been dedicating most of the days to those.

Rest assured, things should be back to normal as soon as Wednesday and I'll have my entire lunch hour for hootoo at the very least.

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I have this wonderful mental picture of a really obstinate sitting with arms folded sulking horribly in the paperclip drawer;

"Nope. Won't go. You can't make me. So there. And if you keep invading my personal space i shall get on the phone to my shrink."

zdt

So you have an problem? I'm sure if you phone Santa he can straighten it all out for you.

I wouldn't trust that Santa guy if I were you. I sold my soul to him a few months back, and ended up with a real raw deal.

I wish it were just an ! That would be pretty cool, and easy to straighten out.

It's actually one of those uppity prima donna types who believes she's better than everyone (or at least more important), and that any time your needs/wishes/workload/etc run contrary to hers, it's a deliberate attempt to derail/undermine her. And she's so nasty and snotty if you actually have to speak to her. My boss asked me if I wanted to have him get her out of there, and I told him no, I'm happy to work at the temp's desk for a few more days, and I've saved all my files to a shared drive anyway. No worries. I prefer to deal with difficult people the easiest way- as little as possible.

I do like the elf scenario as Terri described it. I could just stuff the little guy in the paper clip jar and get on with it.

What really irritates me is my desk is situated next to a corner window and she's hogging my view.

Snailrind, did the contract have some kind of "for cause" clause.

Or any other kind of Santa clause?

Da dum dum.

Decapitation always seems to work in these sort of situations.

zdt

That's the easiest way to get ahead.

They are neck and neck at the last post...

zdt

And my "well, I could just work from home in the meantime" suggestion only got a "hey, nice try!".

You guys crack me up- thanks for the chuckles.

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How very bizarre. She obviously has a brother living in France. It's just pitched up, hot to trot from the latest shrink appointment.

"You haven't sent me my daily text message for 3 days now?"

That's correct, my litle cherub. I have F all to say to you.

"You have moved the Tv"

Correct, well, actually, two strangers in the street moved it for me.

"does it still work?"

No idea, try turning it on, 'cos you haven't a hope in hell of doing likewise for me.

"You give me coffee?"

You know where the kettle is.

*helps itself to a toothpick*

"You have moved my toothbrush"

Correct. Go figure.

"i am going to Dordogne for the weekend but i will come & eat with you Sunday night if you want. Do you have beer?"

Wow. my universe is complete. No, i don't, it doesn't arrive unless you go & buy it. Odd that.

"I am going now." *stuffs one of my chewing gums in his gob*

KICK applied to shin (with good leg)

"Waaaaaaaaaahhh, why you kick me, you are so violent, look, you damage my trousers! Why you no give me chewing gum?"

I wasn't asked was i? And:

Because, my little precious, you have arrived while i am quite clearly still wrestling with the minor problem of how to do even the most basic of shopping & you have a car & claim to be my friend. And all you can contribute is:

"Waaah, when i am in the clinic for 3 weeks, i only get allowed out for 2 hours a day"

Er, yes, but all food & drink is served to you, free. Plus heating, laundry etc. Not to mention the daily jacuzzi to relax your troubled soul; meanwhile i haven't been able to take a shower for 9 days & unlikely to be able to for another week minimum without help.

As i said previously, decapitation is the only answer. Lobotomy is too good for them.They probably wouldn't notice anyway.

zdt*this may post twice, ham(p)ster at it yet again; doesn't add to my "joie de vivre"

What a complete and utter pain in the @$$ he can be.

It's difficult, when you care about a person, and their behavior toward you becomes progressively nastier and more self-centered, to the point where the thought of not having them around anymore becomes a relief; where concern turns to indifference; and you wind up kicking a person in the shins for taking you for granted.

The sad thing is that if and when you finally decide you haven't got the time or energy left to deal with Vikings who can't or won't give anything beneficial to you in return, you'll probably just be written off as another nasty person who never really cared in the first place. He refuses to see the forest for the trees: in his mind, he has an idea of what a "best friend" or "true love" is TO HIM, but no concept of what it means to be the same to someone else. And no incilnation to learn, it seems.

I wonder if he'll ever figure out that a series of failed relationships, lost loves and friends, and a legacy of loneliness, is largely (if not almost entirely) his own bloody doing.

Bless you for trying so hard for so long. He's lucky to have had the chance- too bad he can't seem to grasp that.

I'd better get back to my work now, I have a bunch of documents to prepare and two phone bills to audit today.

The operation was worth it to balance on the bad knee whilst kicking him with the good leg

Hey Pc Glad work is going so well for you...was it this time last year you were pulling your hair out at your respective job?

http://www.despair.com/dysfunction.html

Eeeek! Does that mean it's my fault?

Well, at least if it is, i feel bad about it, whereas if it's his fault, he certainly doesn't.

I don't think it's necessarily anybody's "fault"; just that his particular problems are too much for me to cope with right now, and he can't cope with mine, so one of us has to say "enough!" and it seems it has to be me.

It doesn't mean i don't care about him, simply that i cannot do any more to help him & in fact am possibly making things worse; maybe the situation will change after 3 weeks in the clinic; who knows?

Yup, the knee did well, i do a pretty fine "angry flamingo" impression! (it honestly was a token gesture, but i shouldn't be resorting to even token violence really should I?) Not fair, & he has never ever done likewise towards me. for that viking.But don't assume you can nick my gum or mess me about.

zdt

No, no no no, not what I meant at all!

It's just a sort of cynical joke anyway, that poster.
What PC said made me think of it: >>I wonder if he'll ever figure out that a series of failed relationships, lost loves and friends, and a legacy of loneliness, is largely (if not almost entirely) his own bloody doing.<<

That's all. Nothing at all about any of this being your fault, Terri! We all know how much you've done for him, getting nothing back.