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Aug. 15th, 2008 12:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bobcatmoranWhat a week. In no particular order, the highlights:
1. A new, completely inappropriate use of the the phrase "Gettysburg Address."
2. Discovering that I shouldn't be allowed to operate backpack sprayers, coworker J shouldn't be allowed to operate ATVs, and coworker E shouldn't be allowed to operate the copy machine.
3. The first of the going-away parties, as people are starting to leave for the season. Round two is tonight. The cookies I bake for these are ridiculously popular.
4. Getting a job in New York.
5. Not getting the other job in New York because of the following string of correspondence:
DHS: Congratulations! Here's a preliminary job offer for a position in New York State Other Than New York City.
Me: Ooooh, look, it's a permanent position with benefits, and it's at a high grade level so I get paid way more than my other job offers. Hey, DHS, since I've already gone through all the background security checks for the exact same position at a different location, do I have to re-do all the fifty bazillion forms for that? And where in New York state is this job, anyway?
DHS: If you would like to change your duty location, you will have to reapply for the job. You have to fill out all the pre-screening paperwork, and then we'll determine what paperwork you actually needed to fill out.
Me: (wtf?) No, I'd be happy to work in New York somewhere, I just need to know where. Like, a city or a town.
DHS: Sorry, we can't tell you where the job is until you've filled out all the paperwork and sent it in. Security reasons, y'know.
Me: o_O Screw this. Hey, people that offered me a job at an actual specific location in New York state...
6. Me [driving home from the office just after sunset]: Doodeedoodeedoo. Hey, what's that idiot doing stopped in the middle of the road with his lights shining right in my eye—HOLY CRAP AN ELK!!
*screech*
Elk: [Stands stupidly in front of my car before nonchalantly walking off, unscathed]
1. A new, completely inappropriate use of the the phrase "Gettysburg Address."
2. Discovering that I shouldn't be allowed to operate backpack sprayers, coworker J shouldn't be allowed to operate ATVs, and coworker E shouldn't be allowed to operate the copy machine.
3. The first of the going-away parties, as people are starting to leave for the season. Round two is tonight. The cookies I bake for these are ridiculously popular.
4. Getting a job in New York.
5. Not getting the other job in New York because of the following string of correspondence:
DHS: Congratulations! Here's a preliminary job offer for a position in New York State Other Than New York City.
Me: Ooooh, look, it's a permanent position with benefits, and it's at a high grade level so I get paid way more than my other job offers. Hey, DHS, since I've already gone through all the background security checks for the exact same position at a different location, do I have to re-do all the fifty bazillion forms for that? And where in New York state is this job, anyway?
DHS: If you would like to change your duty location, you will have to reapply for the job. You have to fill out all the pre-screening paperwork, and then we'll determine what paperwork you actually needed to fill out.
Me: (wtf?) No, I'd be happy to work in New York somewhere, I just need to know where. Like, a city or a town.
DHS: Sorry, we can't tell you where the job is until you've filled out all the paperwork and sent it in. Security reasons, y'know.
Me: o_O Screw this. Hey, people that offered me a job at an actual specific location in New York state...
6. Me [driving home from the office just after sunset]: Doodeedoodeedoo. Hey, what's that idiot doing stopped in the middle of the road with his lights shining right in my eye—HOLY CRAP AN ELK!!
*screech*
Elk: [Stands stupidly in front of my car before nonchalantly walking off, unscathed]
