The Off Topic Topic

[Capetan Mihali]

Speaking of which, I can't believe it's really been 10 years.    I remember 50,000 dead was the first estimate I heard from people coming back from Manhattan that day.

I can't believe how ugly the tower looks. I hate seeing it at night.

They aren't done with it already, are they?

[The Brain]

Well, I'm employed.

Minwage back of the house staff at some Greek family's restaurant, obtained upon the recommendation of a pal.  And this after I recited a brief history of their hometown to them.  Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned the parts where Thebes kicked their asses with superior tactics and weaponized faggotry.

Congrats...?

Eh, it'll get me out of the house.

Does that mean there's a possibility of collecting tips?

I don't even know why they want me back of the house.  I told them my only kitchen experience was supervising/liaising with kitchen staff as a front of the house manager, and that most of my experience is as a server.  But it's what they started my buddy the server as, so perhaps it's just their Eurozone-destroying way.

That said, it ain't rocket science.  Which is to say, something you might have to apply an ADVANCED DEGREE to.

Can't you get work overseas? Oh right, your degree is internationally useless.

[Barrister]

I'm not a conservative.

[Josquius]

I don't even know why they want me back of the house.  I told them my only kitchen experience was supervising/liaising with kitchen staff as a front of the house manager, and that most of my experience is as a server.  But it's what they started my buddy the server as, so perhaps it's just their Eurozone-destroying way.

That said, it ain't rocket science.  Which is to say, something you might have to apply an ADVANCED DEGREE to.

Indeed big congratulations are in order for managing to secure such a job inspite of the big obstacle of said advanced degree.

[Caliga]

Many of your attitudes, especially towards protesters suggest otherwise. 

Just because I yearn for massacres in the streets doesn't mean I'm a conservative.

Seriously, by American standards at least there's no way I'm a conservative.  I'm far too socially liberal for that.

[Caliga]

Minwage back of the house staff at some Greek family's restaurant

Greek food.

[jimmy olsen]

The 1st known use of Britannic was in 1641? Interesting,it's one of those words you hear and think it's just ancient. 

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/britannic

[Brazen]

The 1st known use of Britannic was in 1641? Interesting, I assumed it was a much older word. 

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/britannic

It's an Imperial term (as in Her Britannic Majesty) and as such didn't come into use until we had a well-established Empire 

[sbr]

Well, I'm employed.

Minwage back of the house staff at some Greek family's restaurant, obtained upon the recommendation of a pal.  And this after I recited a brief history of their hometown to them.  Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned the parts where Thebes kicked their asses with superior tactics and weaponized faggotry.

Grats. 

Now get a haircut.

[Ideologue]

Oh, and to actually answer Hab's question which I didn't do, "I don't think so, at least not yet."

[Syt]

Well, I'm employed.

Minwage back of the house staff at some Greek family's restaurant, obtained upon the recommendation of a pal.  And this after I recited a brief history of their hometown to them.  Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned the parts where Thebes kicked their asses with superior tactics and weaponized faggotry.

Wait what? You now work as a waiter? And only because you curried in a favor? What the fuck, man?

[Tamas]

Well, I'm employed.

Minwage back of the house staff at some Greek family's restaurant, obtained upon the recommendation of a pal.  And this after I recited a brief history of their hometown to them.  Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned the parts where Thebes kicked their asses with superior tactics and weaponized faggotry.

Wait what? You now work as a waiter? And only because you curried in a favor? What the fuck, man?

no shit. I am worried for Ide.

But regardless, having a job at all, is a step in the right direction for him.

[MadImmortalMan]

'Tis the season for vendor gifts. There are a couple funny BOFH episodes about it. My tally this year so far:



A coffee themed gift basket with coffee, coffee chocolates, coffee toffee and coffee cookies

A $50 gift card

A wine and cheese basket with various charcuterie and cheese and four bottles of wine

A $100 gift card for Amazon

A box with a bottle of The Macallan 12yr and two glasses

A pack with toothbrushes, pill containers, lotion, lip balm and other crap like that (from Blue Cross lol )

Add to the list:

A bottle of Courvoisier VSOP

A Whitman's sampler box 2ft by 1ft in size. There must be five pounds of chocolates in this thing.

[Admiral Yi]

So who will you end up throwing the contract to? 

[Habbaku]

Wait what? You now work as a waiter? And only because you curried in a favor? What the fuck, man?

Work's work, and I applaud Ide for getting a job in the first place.

That being said, he should, of course, still be trying to get a job with his degree or consider getting a degree in something else that isn't psychology or sociology.