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Paris secondment - should I accept?

Started by Martinus, March 14, 2016, 12:30:49 PM

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Martinus

I was offered a 6 month secondment in Paris.

It would start in 3 weeks or so - but tomorrow I am leaving for 1 week holiday.

I would need a passport for my cat.

Should I accept?

My mother says I should go as long as I don't get killed by a Muslim terrorist.

I still have to discuss it with my boyfriend(s).  :ph34r:

Eddie Teach

Quote from: Martinus on March 14, 2016, 12:30:49 PM
I still have to discuss it with my boyfriend(s).  :ph34r:

keep one in Paris and one in Warsaw.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Martinus

They would both stay in Warsaw I presume.

Valmy

Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

derspiess

I don't know, Lloyd.  The French are assholes.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

garbon

Quote from: Martinus on March 14, 2016, 12:30:49 PM
I was offered a 6 month secondment in Paris.

It would start in 3 weeks or so - but tomorrow I am leaving for 1 week holiday.

I would need a passport for my cat.

Should I accept?

My mother says I should go as long as I don't get killed by a Muslim terrorist.

I still have to discuss it with my boyfriend(s).  :ph34r:

Sounds like a perfect occasion to drop one of them. Should be obvious which one I mean.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Zanza

Of course. I would love to do one of those half-year stints somewhere right now. Go for it.

Eddie Teach

Quote from: garbon on March 14, 2016, 12:38:16 PM
Quote from: Martinus on March 14, 2016, 12:30:49 PM
I was offered a 6 month secondment in Paris.

It would start in 3 weeks or so - but tomorrow I am leaving for 1 week holiday.

I would need a passport for my cat.

Should I accept?

My mother says I should go as long as I don't get killed by a Muslim terrorist.

I still have to discuss it with my boyfriend(s).  :ph34r:

Sounds like a perfect occasion to drop one of them. Should be obvious which one I mean.

Is he seeing Wiktor again?
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Martinus

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on March 14, 2016, 12:40:59 PM
Quote from: garbon on March 14, 2016, 12:38:16 PM
Quote from: Martinus on March 14, 2016, 12:30:49 PM
I was offered a 6 month secondment in Paris.

It would start in 3 weeks or so - but tomorrow I am leaving for 1 week holiday.

I would need a passport for my cat.

Should I accept?

My mother says I should go as long as I don't get killed by a Muslim terrorist.

I still have to discuss it with my boyfriend(s).  :ph34r:

Sounds like a perfect occasion to drop one of them. Should be obvious which one I mean.

Is he seeing Wiktor again?

Oh hell no.

Barrister

Boyfriends, Marti? :yeahright:

This is really just a humblebrag.  If you're being offered the secondment then obviously your firm thinks it's a good idea for you to go.  So you should go.  Besides I remember how much you enjoyed your time in Brussels, so I'm sure you'd get along famously in gay Paris.
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

Martinus

Quote from: Barrister on March 14, 2016, 01:02:17 PM
Boyfriends, Marti? :yeahright:

I am beginning to think polyamory is consistent with my True Will (tm).

grumbler

Quote from: Barrister on March 14, 2016, 01:02:17 PM
This is really just a humblebrag.  If you're being offered the secondment then obviously your firm thinks it's a good idea for you to go.  So you should go.  Besides I remember how much you enjoyed your time in Brussels, so I'm sure you'd get along famously in gay Paris.
This.  We all know your faux uncertainty about whether to take the offer is just a cover so you can brag.  That's okay, so log as you don't think you are fooling anyone.  Of course you are going.

I used to think, like spicey, that the French were assholes, and my experiences years ago tended to confirm that.  My trip a coupla years back completely changed my mind on that, however.  The French were very graceful when I butchered their language and had none of the "play dumb" shtick from years ago.  I had a great time and love the French.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

LaCroix

marti just needs to settle down with a guy who will cater to his every whim and view marti as a golden god

re: offer, will this secondment better your career? if so, do it

garbon

Quote from: LaCroix on March 14, 2016, 01:48:16 PM
marti just needs to settle down with a guy who will cater to his every whim and view marti as a golden god

Not really.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

alfred russel

Quote from: LaCroix on March 14, 2016, 01:48:16 PM
marti just needs to settle down with a guy who will cater to his every whim and view marti as a golden god


Mono?
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

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I'm embarrassed. I've been making the mistake of associating with you. It won't happen again. :)
-garbon, February 23, 2014