Buzzkill of the Day

I work for an outsourcing company that picks up any conract they can. They almost went under but then snagged the Xbox contract. The turn over rate here is amazing and even the managers fully admitt that this place is a joke. The power trips in this place are great.

Is there anything at all in your employee handbook about cell phones?
Can they legally guarantee, in writing, that there will never be an emergency of any kind - be it fire, work place shooting, dude in next cubibcle having a heart attack, etc - in which you would have a need to communicate with the outside world?

If not, I know you need your job, but you should get that phone back.

And in regards to Middle School (and High School), when the St. Clair County School System can guarantee there will never be a Columbine type situation or any sort of situation in which one of my children may need to reach out for my help or help from someone outside the school, then I'll think about not letting my kids have their phones. I'll think about it, and I'll most likely not change my mind. If my kids are away from me, they're going to have a means to get in touch with me. Period.

That last part's irrelevent now because they allow phones at school.

I got the phone back. Luckily my direct manager is a nice guy and owes me a few favors. So I have it back but blah blah blah. Its in the handbook but its one of those rules like No shorts. Everyone does it.
I told me manager that If they want to keep my phone on them We could all go to HR for the other manager invading my privacy by unlocking the phone and seeing that it was on. There was nothing to see but its the point that he unlocked it.

I need a drink.
But I am so tired of booze.

What?!?!? OMG, that's ridiculous.

I wish you had a better job and a happier life, man.

MY job is the biggest black spot in my life. Everyone askes why I dont get a new job and its because this one pays me enough to keep my head out of the shit but just.

I really want to go to an art auction tonight, my godmother has a piece she's donated. But, I have this little person who needs feeding and bathing and putting to sleep at that time.

Bring the kid with. Call it modern art. or Performance art.

installation art? I'll consider it.

Never in my wildest imagination did I ever think that I would be the one to call it off with another person, especially after only 2 days. We had nothing to talk about. She seemed like she was trying too hard. She hardly had any opinions of her own, and the ones she didn't have she just mimicked. She's great. I feel really bad, but I figured it was better to kind of stop it now when all we did was kiss, before it went any further.

You suddenly see how important it is to be able to talk to someone when you're out at a bar and you find that someone has nothing to contribute to a conversation.

OH man. Shit deal good sir. Back to the game though. IF we lived anyplace close to eachother I would wingman for you like crazy.
But better to end it before it got complicated and bitter.

That's what I was thinking. And thanks, I'd love to have you as a wingman.

maybe i'm just socially awkward but having a wingman just makes me even more nervous.

it's a lot like tee ball because the ball is right there, in front of your face, and it's a lot more embarrassing if you swing and miss.

I've never had a wingman, so I have no idea what it would be like. Though, I can see that. It kind of puts pressure on you.

What is a wing man?

like a buddy to default makeout with if no chicks go for you that night?

a wingman is a friend that builds you up as he/she talks to a hot girl.

he/she also eliminates / divides and conquers the armada of girls that usually form around the hot girl while in clubs. this is because ladies often go to clubs in packs and it's hard to approach and separate just one without getting cockblocked (usually).

edits!

I havnt been a wingman that often, but when I have I just kind of talk my friend up. Or keep the conversation going. Invite girls over to the table and then back off when things start warming up. Xia and I have wingmanned together for our friend before.
You act like support and help not make the guy look like he is alone and all that fun stuff.

I wrote this big thing about me not understanding the concept of a wingman. I decided against posting it.

You just need a wingman to boost your confidence.

Oooh, is that what wingmen are supposed to do?

hahaha, I laughed so hard at this!

Wings directly AND indirectly increase your value. I went to the club with female friends. They were great wings without even realizing it because they show to onlookers that I'm just a normal guy, not a creep who can't be around other girls.

And Noah, if only you lived on the east coast. You seem like you'd be fun to go to a bar/club with.

I do love going to bars. Even though I cant dance I still like going out to clubs from time to time. But give me a dive bar and I will befriend the bartender and anyone else who dares talk to me.

I understand the concept of wingman, I've just never understood the need for one.

And tonight I'm spilling some o' my fotie fo Fano's libido.

My buddy Marc is more awkward than you can understand. I had to go outside the bar, we bother were skunked, and show him how to walk up to a girl and flirt. And how to do, well, a lot of stuff that he should have just known. It ended up working out for him.

I still don't completely understand all of this. But then I am not a guy.

I also have been accused more times than I likely have ever gotten laid even that I am the biggest natural flirt alive. I usually ignore it when people say that, but then now and then I catch myself in the act and I'm all... opps, well, oopps.

I am a natural flirt and get myself introuble all the time. I dont even realize I am flirting. See when I am trying to flist I am just awkward and odd.
As for wingmanning. You're backup.

This.

I should be a professional flirt sometimes.

I've connected a lot more with my brother's and friends' girlfriends than any of my own. It's quite a problem.

"connected"

I don't get in trouble for flirting, he just makes fun of me, as half the time he is right next to me when it happens.

I only get in trouble if I pay attention to a member of the opposite sex in a way that has nothing to do with flirtatiousness, like actually wanting to hang with someone because I think they are awesome. It really bothers me, actually. I loath jealousy. Probably the thing that makes me feel the most unloved.

I'd've put the quotes, but I included my brother in there.

Well, I guess, technically, those friends would be my eskimo brothers.

Probably more of an embarrassing admission, but a buzzkill too, James has been jealously annoyed with every single guy here, or formerly here, (all of you) at one point or another. Literally. Even Justin. ('cause "gay" is often just a fake front)

I am a super jealous person too. Its somethign that has cause loads of issues in my relationship and something I have had to spend a lot of time working through. But to be fair guys are pigs.

Especially Justin.

Where's Thomas Paine when you really need him to folksily misunderstand 21th century slang.

yep you too.

apparently you and I had an "extremely emotional" conversation about my drinking once.

I laughed.

No wonder you spurn my cyber advances, even if they're just for hugs. Plus, your son's my facebook friend!

That reminds me of when I was 17, and I dropped by my friend's house. He hadn't gotten home yet, and it was just his mom who was waiting for her boyfriend. She's all, "Well, I guess you can wait in the living room." I was there just watching TV, and she calls me over to the kitchen. She explains to me that I'm no longer that little kid that she used to know, and right when I thought she was gonna go all Mrs. Stifler on me, she says that I can't hang around there when my friend's not home anymore, cuz her boyfriend gets really jealous.

I proceeded to try to seduce older women from then on, cuz now I felt like an option.

God damnet I really need to take the time and learn all of your actual names and figure out who is who on facebook. Most of you I knwo but sometimes I just get confused.

Pointing out it is just the balding gene passed on maternally? I know your advances are after more than hugs you lecherous bastard!

That could have been amazing

Pointing out here that this is a myth.

I think swinging and missing at tee-ball is hilarious. Just sayin'.

Are you flirting with me?

You are flirting with me.

Obiesely.

Had the most annoying morning today. Got to my stop on the tube and then realised I'd left my work laptop at home. Had to go back and pay for my journey twice because I don't buy a travelcard.

Feel like I'm coming down with something too. I can't be ill when I'm on annual leave next week !

Bah grr! (which together = bugger!)

Whoops, double post.

I probably have more buzzkills but I don't want to be a Moaning Myrtle.

WAH!

Debit card was declined today. Money is in the bank. Kind of hung over. I have to stop drinking.