Nataly

So much I don't even know where to begin!!! "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss

At my last company, everyone was forced to go on an email training course.. At first I thought it sounded stupid, but I wish every business forced their employees to go on that course! My personal pet peeves include: 1-REPLY-ALL ARRGH! I stopped having anything to do with the message 30 emails ago - *someone* please stop the madness!! 2-I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU'RE EMAILING ME I especially hate LOOOONG emails that seem to have no point.. It's simple.. Just tell me (briefly) what the problem is and what you want me to do about it! 3-SPAM Just can't stand it. Especially when I've told people to stop sending junk, and they just keep thinking I will find "this joke" really funny. It's not funny. It's wasting my time. 4-INAPPROPRIATE USE OF EMAIL Have people forgotten how to walk across the hall or pick up the phone? If it's tricky or delicate or complicated, it needs to be *discussed*. A 5 minute conversation could prevent me playing email tennis for the next 3 days trying to *reach* an agreement. If you want written evidence, try a conversation, followed by an email that summarises what was agreed. Job done. Sometimes I think it must be properly horrifying to work in something like PR, where I can imagine this is a massive problem.. I don't think I would be able to cope with thousands of emails coming at me every day!! EEek! What about everyone else? Are emails manageable at work or do they just drive you mad?? "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss

Great way to give a flatmate a heart-attack!! ETA - maybe this link belongs in the "how to deal with an annoying flatmate thread"!!! "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss

Some of us are trained to put the seat back down.

I don't want to be tripping over or walking around that damn roll around for the next three days. 3 days?? Heck, I trip over my back-pack for as long as three months!! I don't travel *that* much.. I always only take one bag.. And I tend to pull out stuff when I need it & change when I'm off again.. But some of the travel basics pretty much live in that bag!! "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss

It's only obsessive when you clean for the 10th time.. Right?? "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss

Ohh.. Fighting words, Shroppy!! "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss

High: I start a new job tomorrow Low: I have to go back to work tomorrow "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss

Ah ha ha!! They say that if something isn't unpacked within the first month of a house-move, it will forever remain in the box.. If that's true, I wonder why we are so reluctant to just throw the box out??! "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss

Now *that's* the way to do it!! "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss

Just wondering what everyone else does.. Before I go away, I like the place to be spotless - it's just nice to come back to a clean home

Yeah.. They should invent something like that to cope with long-distance relationships!! "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss

Wow.. That is a great gift - she must have cared a lot about you or had shitloads of money!! My Cypres expired last year. It hurt my wallet to get a new one, but I felt better about having that extra little bit of safety if everything else fails... "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss

Yeah, well my battery-consumption isn't going to go down, 'cause I start the job tomorrow.. I left my last job without any back-up because I wanted to find a 6-9 month assignment until my citizenship went through.. For temp jobs there is little point in looking too far in advance because they tend to come up at the last minute and they usually want you to start ASAP.. I felt relatively confident that I'd be ok doing that in London - it's a job market I understand (mostly!) & feel pretty comfortable with.. My initial idea was to take a 6 month role here in London whilst I looked for an opportunity abroad. When my citizenship happened much faster than expected, it was tempting to leave ASAP, but ultimately, I guess I'm too chicken-shit to relocate to somewhere new without more of a plan job-wise.. Just felt like too much too soon.. "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss

a porn video cant lick the tender bits... being a spectator is rarely as much fun as being on the field of play You can still play - it's just a solo sport! "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss

Whatever. Ouch, such cutting repartee Squeak: I don't believe in putting other people down. I'm not going to insult you or attack you or say mean things to you. That leaves me with two choices: either I can tell you to quit insulting *me*, or I can say nothing. I've tried asking you to stop attacking me & that didn't work. So yeah.. My response now is "whatever". "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss

Assuming I were single, I would say zero. Not sure how many I *could* have sex with, but that is the number I *would* sleep with. God invented porn for exactly this purpose - it's disease-free, convenient, and there's something for everyone! Best of all, it won't leave your toilet seat up! "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss

That is EXACTLY what it reads like My other favorite target is not posting much tripe lately

Well, it's not like it was a big secret.. By not answering the question, he was effectively saying he was gay all these years anyhow. I think it's sad that the press kept bugging him about it all these years.. I can't understand why anyone would care about someone else's sexual preference. "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss

Thanks for the heads up...I better do laundry in the morning! Gotta remember to take the trash out & do the dishes too... Any other helpful hints...I'm new at this! You're in a lose-lose.. Don't do the laundry, and she'll smell your naughtiness.. Do the laundry and that's such an unusual behaviour for a man that she'll know you're trying to hide something!! "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss

That is EXACTLY what it reads like My other favorite target is not posting much tripe lately

Why get citizenship if you are so opposed to living there? It doesn't make sense. If Amsterdam is so appealing and this is not the love of your life, then move there and get your own place. I can not fathom why someone would move in with someone they didn't think they would end up together for the long run. 1 - UK citizenship allows me to work in any EU country. Something I cannot do on my Canadian passport. It's pretty amazing. And ultimately, I've been here for 5 years, so I do feel like whatever happens I will keep coming back here. I has become "home". 2 - I am not opposed to the entire UK - I'm just not a big fan of London. I might easily feel the same way about any huge city.. But of course, cities are where all the jobs tend to be. And I don't HATE London, but I'm up for a change. 3 - The fact that it's convenient and would be nice to move in with the boyfriend doesn't mean it's a bad idea.. I don't think you have to want to spend the rest of your life with someone to share an apartment with them for 6 months.. 4 - Squeak - give the thinly veiled insults a rest, will ya? You're the one dramatising my life - not me. I'm just sharing the daily, boring shit that is happening and you're treating it like I'm acting out a role in my own soap opera! Seriously.. Grow the fuck up and go pick on someone else. Again - no one is forcing you to read my threads. "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss

Yeah.. I'm not convinced this is the "love of my life".. What appeals to me most about Amsterdam is that it's not London. The fact that my boyfriend is already in Amsterdam simply makes it a logical place to go to start off with. Plus living together sounded like a nice way for us to get to know each-other better. I've wanted to move away from London for a *long* time now and my citizenship went through SO much quicker than I expected, so it's really tempting to just leave ASAP.. The real downer is that I don't like living in London, but in terms of jobs it's pretty unbeatable.. This assignment *is* and amazing opportunity, though, and it's for 6-9 months - that's not a very long time. In the grand scheme of things, I think it's worth delaying my move.. "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss

Man, I wish *that* were true.. Money comes and goes as well, unfortunately!! "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss

+ 1 Is this the guy who is expecting a baby? Well, his ex is expecting a baby, yes I've just re-read my post and thought: "I wasn't excited until I got the job offer"... (Which in a way makes sense because moving is pretty scary anyhow!!) Plus I got an email from my dad.. I totally expected him to say "go for the job" but he cunningly used reverse psychology and said "whatever you do, follow your heart".. I don't have to decide until Monday.. But for now I'm thinking I'm going to be racking up those frequent flyer miles!! "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss