Thanks a lot dickwad for crumpling my hood without even leaving a note


Sigh

9/12/2014 2:21:36 PM

this day is dragging by soooooooooo slowly

9/12/2014 2:26:02 PM

This dude's name is Myk.

Really? Myk?

9/12/2014 2:39:10 PM

I know of a guy named Mykola, who goes by Myk.

I think if your name actually contains the string "Myk," it's okay.

9/12/2014 4:32:52 PM

It's only okay if he's Greek. If not...then that's weird.

9/12/2014 4:47:40 PM

He was super American-white.

9/12/2014 5:03:42 PM

I haven't been inside someone in way too long

9/13/2014 1:52:49 PM

Rufio, Rufio, Ru-Fi-OOOOOOOOOO

9/13/2014 5:34:49 PM

I'm listening to Miley Cyrus' cover of "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You'

I'm finding it to be pretty fucking solid and enjoyable, to be honest.

9/13/2014 11:49:13 PM

Probably should have handled that differently

9/15/2014 9:59:21 AM

Is this baby coming or what?

9/15/2014 2:28:33 PM

Can I please get this job? At least an interview? I'm perfect for this job and I'm certain I will rock the interview.

It's really depressing applying to this many jobs and never hearing back

[Edited on September 15, 2014 at 3:45 PM. Reason : please]

9/15/2014 3:40:28 PM

^Think positive, yo. My wife went through the same thing this summer. She finally got a good call back last week and has gone through two interviews and things are looking up. If you're qualified, then I think it's definitely a numbers game...something will eventually pan out.

9/15/2014 4:17:33 PM

I thought your wife already had a teaching job.

9/15/2014 4:18:06 PM

~14%: The realistic chance that jbrick and I will one day get drunk and grind it out on the dance floor.

[Edited on September 15, 2014 at 4:31 PM. Reason : x]

9/15/2014 4:30:56 PM

Quote :

"I thought your wife already had a teaching job. "

She's been trying to get out for the last couple years.

^don't know where that came from...and although I'm a dancing machine, I don't go out hard anymore...so the only place you'll probably catch me dancing at is a wedding. And since I doubt we have mutual friends...I would put that percentage a little lower...probably at the eleusis tipping level...around 5%.

[Edited on September 15, 2014 at 4:34 PM. Reason : .]

9/15/2014 4:32:08 PM

I was banking on a TWW reunion party.

[Edited on September 15, 2014 at 4:40 PM. Reason : why dont you go out hard anymore? Age?]

9/15/2014 4:38:46 PM

age and marriage

9/15/2014 4:45:56 PM

lol @ your roommate kicking you out

You deserve it

9/15/2014 6:07:16 PM

Thanks jbrick. It's a little shitty since the jobs I apply to prefer men in general and if a competent make applies he will typically get the job

But I'm sure I'm just over thinking this. It doesn't help that at my last research scientist position I had, they told me if they had realized that the budget change was only going to allow for one new hire, then they would have hired a guy.

And the last position I interviewed for went really well, they said I was overqualified, which I'm not sure I agree with but whatever, and that my interview skills were great. The job went to a guy who graduated from my program a year after me and was at the same job I had for less time

-_-

[Edited on September 15, 2014 at 6:54 PM. Reason : .]

[Edited on September 15, 2014 at 7:20 PM. Reason : ..]

9/15/2014 6:52:45 PM

Being in pain for 6 months has made me seriously reconsider our plans to have another baby. Fuck post partum thyroiditis. Fuck it all to hell.

9/15/2014 6:59:55 PM

Quote :

"But I'm sure I'm just over thinking this. It doesn't help that at my last research scientist position I had, they told me if they had realized that the budget change was only going to show for one new hire them they would have hired a guy."

holy crap. I was just going to remark how surprised I was at this "prefer men in general bit"; but that I was in academia, so that might have skewed my perceptions.

that's REALLY surprising (to me) that you're encountering flagrant discrimination in seeking a research job.

honestly, I'm a mathematician, and based on my own observations, women are encouraged to excel in the sciences and eagerly sought for all sciencey positions. but maybe it's a strictly academic thing. Or maybe I'm totally wrong.

9/15/2014 7:07:34 PM

^ perhaps that was just an isolated incident. But i just always get that vibe in the private sector jobs I've held, it is what it is, but it leaves me overcompensating and volunteering for every "manly" task so that I can get noticed

9/15/2014 7:23:38 PM

that sucks

that would strike me as odd, actually, if a woman was frequently volunteering to carry heavy boxes, gut deer, etc. I'd say just be a good worker in general.

however, obviously you're laboring under a difficulty that I've really got no way of appreciating.

gl.

9/15/2014 7:30:34 PM

^never had to gut a deer at work yet, lol

But yea, I move the heavy shit (within reason), volunteer to do the outside work or the greenhouse chores or anything extra so that I don't have to hear about how they wish the research tech or research assistant spot went to a guy. Which I heard from my boss and female coworkers, so it's not like it's the men I've worked with to blame. In fact I usually gain the male coworker respect first because I don't pass off all the grunt jobs, and I usually get a good word in from my male coworkers. The women don't even try to hide their annoyance that the company didn't hire them an extra whipping boy. Part of why I've had some issues in the past with female coworkers.

[Edited on September 15, 2014 at 7:42 PM. Reason : ..]

9/15/2014 7:38:28 PM

I didn't realize there was frequent physical labor involved in your job...I can see how that could complicate things. Although that sucks that physical labor in job + being a women could actually yield complication or tension or ill will. That's fucking weird, although I can envision how it happens.

But if most of the other chicks are slacking off, then I can kinda understand why the company might be reluctant to hire females. That's really too bad; it sounds like maybe you're fighting against a very immediate stereotype.

Maybe you should be like "I like moving heavy shit" in your next interview.


[Edited on September 15, 2014 at 7:59 PM. Reason : 3g]

9/15/2014 7:58:42 PM

^and all of those reasons you listed are true, and valid, so I try not to get bent out of shape over it. Most agricultural research involves a significant amount of physical labor, especially at the tech level. I also have gotten the feeling at more than one job that I was hired in the wake of people who were not up to the task and didn't really know what kind of job they accepted, and in the end didn't pull their weight. And that's why I'm pretty sure that getting myself employed in this field is going to take longer because of my gender.

[Edited on September 15, 2014 at 8:36 PM. Reason : .]

9/15/2014 8:35:17 PM

Being willing to do "man stuff" in the workplace doesn't exactly get you the leg up as if you had a penis. Sometimes it kind of works against you, honestly.

9/15/2014 8:39:53 PM

O SNAP!

9/15/2014 8:43:22 PM

Ok

9/15/2014 9:02:56 PM

But I'm not trying to act like I have a penis, only that I'm an intelligent and capable scientist that will pull their own weight physically and mentally.

And that I can write awesome proposals that will get you research grants and funds for years to come, so please hire me.

[Edited on September 15, 2014 at 9:26 PM. Reason : .]

9/15/2014 9:25:29 PM

Right. And I didn't volunteer to lift "heavy" boxes or other things that typically women would wait on men to do for them because I was trying to be a man. I just did them because I didn't see any reason not to. And sometimes the reaction was not exactly positive.

9/15/2014 10:29:22 PM

How so?

9/15/2014 10:38:25 PM

I was pretty young in my field and worked with a lot of Rotarian, old money, good ol' boy types who had set ways they expected women to act. They weren't like, "why are you picking that box up when you should be in the kitchen" or anything, but I could tell there was a subtle type of skepticism or disapproval going on at times.

9/15/2014 10:46:42 PM

Huh, well that seems likely, and probably something I never picked up on, thanks.

9/15/2014 11:04:38 PM

I don't find mumbling Matthew McConaughey to be a compelling spokesman.

9/16/2014 12:14:49 AM

^LOL

9/16/2014 7:28:39 AM

My cat has been missing for 28 hours now. I am sad.

9/16/2014 4:04:45 PM

I'm so bored at work ALL the time.

Boredom is the mindkiller.

9/16/2014 4:41:40 PM

The downfall of man will be the 9-5 mental prison that we are all trapped in.

I'm Krallum and I approved this message.

[Edited on September 16, 2014 at 4:46 PM. Reason : just watch ]

9/16/2014 4:46:32 PM

9/16/2014 6:25:22 PM

I work 'after hours' and some random dude just walked in here and started spray painting one of the walls. Looks cool. He then asked if we could put on jams. Why do I not spraypaint shit for a living.

I'm Krallum and I approved this message.

9/16/2014 7:01:58 PM

Just deleted someone else on facebook

She constantly posts about how much she misses her "daddy"

She's 30

He died like 2 years ago

I wish we could resurrect him so she could watch his ass die again.

9/16/2014 8:07:29 PM

This should become the new "YOU MAKE KITTY SCARED" image macro: http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/Pets/photos/baby-animals-3351912/image-25081268

9/17/2014 3:00:18 AM

^^ I hope everyone and everything you ever loved dies terrible deaths all at once

and do not let me catch you saying a fucking word about it on social media

9/17/2014 7:01:18 AM

All morning I worked mostly uninterrupted. But the second I try to watch a one hour webinar everyone needs me to do something, or answer a question, or whatever. OMG... I just want to listen to this.

9/17/2014 2:45:53 PM

Quote :

"and do not let me catch you saying a fucking word about it on social media"

When I do it over and over and over and over for months...AND YEARS on end. Sure, call me out for being a hypocrite.

Not that it matters. Pretty sure I don't cry about deaths on social media.

I cry about everything else, though *rimshot*

[Edited on September 17, 2014 at 4:50 PM. Reason : ]

9/17/2014 4:47:48 PM

lol: http://i.imgur.com/i1RlBD7.jpg

9/17/2014 10:09:50 PM

I always have trouble spelling terrific and sheriff. Double consonants trip me up for some reason.

9/19/2014 8:53:47 AM

I say 'share-reef' to help me sapell it

9/19/2014 9:02:44 AM