MoonlightOhio

Coming from a background where a trip to NYC would've been viewed as a huge, once in a lifetime opportunity, you better believe there would've been friction between me and whomever tried to stand in my way.

Well in that case, you might need to bring them down a notch. But make sure you have the balls to follow thru and your work is ON POINT! Oh, my work is flawless. And it's for that reason alone I'm able to make my own rules. The weasily jerk boss thing comes from a previous job. I loved working under that guy. They're so stupid and it doesn't take much to make them your puppet.

I'm really sweet and innocent, like Rob. That is how your gain the respect of your staff. Keep it real. The upside to working for weasily jerks is that they're SO easy to manipulate and eventually completely control. Not always. I just had to fire one. When I came to my current position, he was one of the people I couldn't cast away. So for the past four and a half years hes been a thorn in my side. He slipped up....and I dismissed his ass. So he was working for you, then. I was referring to the opposite.

I wouldn't really have murdered my parents. It's good that I was never put in the stituation, though. :lol:

Well, Superior Avenue does traverse one of Ohio's greatest bridges en route to passing right through Public Square. Haha. I'm not an expert on Cleveland, but are you talking about the white bridge that they light up (blue or purple, I think it is). I think it's near the Flats?

The upside to working for weasily jerks is that they're SO easy to manipulate and eventually completely control.

Bosses, especially obnoxious, overbearing, condescending, full-of-themselves, vindictive, arrogant, self-serving, malicious, loud, pompous, selfish, domineering bosses. I don't like them either! Luckily i've been blessed with some good bosses. Except for that whore in London. Tell us what you really think!!! Don't hold back! She was a slut. You don't sleep with employees below you and bait them with the promise of "career advancement". She was above me at the time, but she slept with one of the guys that reported to me. She tried that with me, unfortunately we don't play on the same team, (strike one for her) and I'm a calculating, manipulative, opportunist, so she set herself up for failure from jump. So I laid my trap and waited. I'm a very patient bitch. :evil: While I waited for her to fall into my trap, I studied her family, professional contacts and noted miscellaneous habits. I knew she would slip and let her guard down. Since I rebuked her, She then would try to critique my work with a fine tooth comb, however, her boss (our European division Head) gave me a spot bonus for an environmental/image campaign that the prime minister and BH palace praised. I decide to develop a greater relationship with him. (strike two for her). So then he would come directly to me on projects, ask me to speak at staff meetings or ask how we would do something in North America. This cause problems between her and him. Then it was announced we'd have a staff function and families would be invited. Opportunity knocked. :wink: and MTS answered. All during the outing, I picked her husbands brain. I then understood why she cheated, the man had the personality of a toothpick, the looks of, well lets just say he was he wasn't cute and he was about 15/16 years older than her. She was a straight up cougar. Skip to a few month later. It's review time. We have our meeting. I go into her office sit down and she comes to the side of the desk I'm sitting on and she has all my papers, etc. and says, "you came here on a VP fast track program, but quite frankly I don't think you VP material. What might have been acceptable in Cleveland is not ok in London. Good Ideas, but sloppy execution". She said this in a super condescending Kate Blanchett voice. She let me have it, but with no proof of poor performance. I asked, "do you have any proof of poor performance or are you blatantly going to ignore the positive comments of your boss, the PR team at large and other division heads about my work?" her response, "what they thinks doesn't matter" I say, "really now? Are we done here?" I knew she would say, 'Yes, would you like to say add anything?" I say "sure". I go to my office, get the emails between her and my employee (Yes...I check emails) and the pictures I'd aquired of them going into Lanesborough and Park Lane hotels arm and arm and showing affection, along with copies of hotel folios. I go back into her office, toss the folder on her desk, then I lean over her desk and got real close to her face and say, "I'm sure this is proof that I know how to execute!" (strike three, you're out) A few minutes later she was at my office and timed it perfectly that I would be departing for HR. She gagged. So I told my HR "source" what happened and unknown to me, another male employee complained about her advances. So with my information and this guy....she hung herself and I won!! I value my job. I'm not a bitch to tangle with. I play for keeps! So remember kids..... Oh... did I mention I sent copies of the pictures to her house. :wink: There is nothing like a friendly reminder, of bad decision, that arrives at dinner time. Ok...no more....this is all stuff that's going to be in my book. HOLY CRAP. :-o

I get the impression that was on purpose. The film definitely wanted to appeal to a mass audience and there are so many people who are still ignorant when it comes to apartheid. For me, the cinematography, SPF and overall story made up for it, but I get what you're saying. I'll take a shot at this. I thought District 9 was pretty good but I can name several movies that I thought were better. Watchmen, Star Trek, Inglorious Bastards, Public Enemies, and the Hangover all cut in front of District 9. I haven't seen Terminator, Funny people, Observe and Report, GI Joe, and a a lot of others so there would probably be some more in front of District 9. Good movie, just not the best I've seen this year. If you really must know, the Hangover has been my favorite movie so far this year. Star Trek is probably a close second. Star Trek and The Hangover were both fun. Watchmen, in my opinion, was a fantastic train wreck. It was a noble experiment, but utlimately it failed. Did Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist come out this year or was that last year? That was a near flawless movie.

I'll gladly take some thinking I don't know who Flip Wilson is if it means I get to make fun of MTS. :lol: Bosses, especially obnoxious, overbearing, condescending, full-of-themselves, vindictive, arrogant, self-serving, malicious, loud, pompous, selfish, domineering bosses. So...MTS?

Suck it, addict. :-D

Damn, this coffee I just made is delicious.

So now MayDay has taken to posting pics of MTS, too?

How many GBs of that crap do you have floating around, wasting space on the internet?

It doesn't get any better from that angle, my friend.

Haha. You guys up north who think it's superior crack my sh!t up.

Is that you? Wow, that's frightening.

I'll take what I can get.

Yeah, I'm not too into the whole prospering-from-the-broken-backs-of-others deal, but I can repsect a calculating individual with a sprinkle of well placed snark.

You love me.

Oh. So you were a cold, snarky b!tch. I can get behind that. :)

The difference between us is that I know full well I was (and still am) a drug addict. :lol:

I didn't treat the person like garbage, I calmly explained why I don't like cellphones in the office and "jogged" their memory as to why they are prohibited in the office. I made an example of that employee. Said, employee probably felt like garbage after the fact. That is not my issue. I dont like BB/PDA's, my boss would ask me why I didn't return his text message and I would tell him because I dont use that thing. If you want something call me. It took him about 6 months to realize I wasn't ever going to return his text messages. Hmm. That's a LOT different than your original post: "I made Miranda Priestly look like fairy princess in the manner I let this one staffer have it." Doesn't exactly invoke calmness does it? Sounds a lot more like you threw a hissy fit for someone who forgot to turn off their phone.

Oh, I know that. But that really didn't have anything to do with people tweeting updates on street violence. Twitter's much quicker as far as that's concerned. But yeah, the majority of the video that came out of Iran landed on Youtube. And Facebook is nothing like Twitter. Show me how I can put in a keyword and look at all the updates from around the world involving that word and see them live as they happen. Can't do it.

Tell that to the people who were tweeting their hearts out in Iran during the street riots. News agencies utilized those tweets to bring camera crews and document the situations as they arose. And twitter deserves credit for this? :lol: They just as easily could have used facebook (and they did). Youtube gets credit for Iran, not Twitter. Facebook isn't public. You either have to be friends with someone or be a part of their network to see their updates (assuming they haven't set their profile to private). Twitter is 100% public (again, unless you set your profile to private). Plus, with "trending topics" you can look at real time tweets from on a certain topic. Facebook can't do that. And I don't know what you're referring to about Youtube and Iran.

I quit smoking two years ago and, while I wouldn't say that everyday is a challenge, I do wish I could smoke them and think about it everyday. It's the first time I've ever tried to quit and it's pretty damn empowering to know that I just...quit. No patches or gum. I smoked a cigarette on my break one day, wondered how long I could go without one and if I'd feel any better if I stopped, and I put the cigarette out and never picked up another one. Thankfully drinking isn't a problem for me. I love beer. I mean LOVE beer. Not in the fratboy sense, but in the beer snob sense. And I'm not giving that up.