This is a Journal entry by Evangeline
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Evangeline Started conversation Jan 17, 2004
What a week that was. On Monday, I was informed that two plastic wire ties (the type under your desk connecting various bits of computer) were doing gecko impressions. Please, don't try to make any sense of that. You'll only lose sleep. The rest of my week was all down hill from there.
On the bright side, it's over. And, I got a raise this week. 
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rangerjustice (formerly warrior ranger) Posted Jan 17, 2004
Plastic ties impersonating geckos... sounds like fun! All mine ever do is sit there 
Raises are good! Congrats! 
Hopefully, this means things are on the upswing for ya! 
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jan 17, 2004
Hi, Evangeline.
If you've explained elsewhere why you're "hiding," could you let me know where the elsewhere is?
And, when I was in Maui I saw a lot of geckos. They're really pretty cute.
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Evangeline Posted Jan 17, 2004
Thanks.
I hope next week is a bit better.
Someone showed me a picture and said "Look the geckos". There was nothing in that picture remotely resembling the little critters. Then, the gecko story came out...
One day last year, one of our cashiers kept staring at the ceiling. After a while someone had to ask. The answer was "those two geckos are so cute. They've been up there all day.". After a few minutes of searching and squinting the other cashier says "Those aren't geckos, they're wire ties on the communication cables.". The other cashier says in reply "It's a shame, they made such cute geckos *sigh*".
Now I ask you...Is it me? Or should I just 
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rangerjustice (formerly warrior ranger) Posted Jan 17, 2004
I'd stick around. Your coworkers sound like they'll provide entertainment right up until the men in the white suits come to take them away...
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Evangeline Posted Jan 17, 2004
Hi Paul,
This past week is what I was hiding from. Right about Wednesday afternoon it seemed the Universe (and possibly everything) was out to get me. In the harmless yet really irritating sort of way that makes me want to hide under my desk and not come out till 4:00 Friday.
Our Thursday morning grocery delivery arrived Friday at Noon. With an hour to unpack, receive and make the next order...didn't happen. We would have been upset, but the drivers were worse off than us. Poor guys got stuck in Shreveport and couldn't get a replacement truck from their company. They ended up having to hire a rental eighteen wheeler, unload the first then load the second. Hope they make it on time Monday.
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Evangeline Posted Jan 17, 2004
WR, 
More than once it has been mentioned I should write a book(about that place). Somehow, I feel even a documentary would end up in fiction section. Or at least the "You can't be serious" section of the bookstore
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jan 17, 2004
I would like to hide, too. In a warm cave even.
We got a new boss this past Monday. All the things that I did to keep the last boss happy will probably not work with this one. And, I don't think my age (55) will be helpful if I look for another place to work.
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Evangeline Posted Jan 17, 2004
We're Hiring!
Our oldest employee is 74. Don't get discouraged.
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Evangeline Posted Jan 17, 2004
You're welcome. 
Maybe the new boss will settle down once they have been there for a while.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jan 17, 2004
I can only hope. 
She used the word "exciting" seven times in her introductory speech.
Settling down doesn't sound too likely, though we may be able to wear her down once she understands how little she will have to work with in terms of resources.
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Evangeline Posted Jan 17, 2004
Nothing grates my nerves more than listening to someone who sounds way too perky, using catch phrases and or buzz words, in a superfluous speech.
I did a year of selling tupperware as a favor to a friend. The meetings were on Monday nights. Sorry, after a full day at the store that was the last thing I wanted to do. Okay, maybe not *the* last thing...but, it was pretty darned close. A typical meeting was a lot of cheering for the sales made, for some bizarre reason the Macarena, and the regional manager reading us the weekly bulletin that would arrive in my mailbox on Tuesday. Firstly, the clapping and cheering was too loud. Secondly, the Macarena? Thirdly, I can read those *big* words easier and faster.
Oh, How exciting! An opportunity to break do...I mean break in a new boss. 
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jan 18, 2004
And this knowledge will come in handy how? 
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Evangeline Posted Jan 18, 2004
Paul,
It is all part of a diabolical plan to...ooops...
Hi Candi!
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