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meanmistermustard said
I’d be here all night and day typing and you’d all be left with scratching heads wishing you could read Ulysses for something a little less confusing.I’m tired, irritated and annoyed.
I’ve read Ulysses four times. I even ploughed through Gravity’s Rainbow as a student. I can take it.
Work. I’ll spare the details but a situation with a recalcitrant underling is coming to a head. I’ve between locked in management and HR meetings all day, and next week have to kick arse (as we Brits say, although this phone seems to think I want to kick Aries). I’m a lousy people manager tbh; I find conflict a bit stressful. I just want team members who are compliant and can read my mind. Surely that’s not too much to ask?
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Offline Sorry to hear that @Joe, here’s to it working out. You’re damn good at working with us mods and you do a damn good job being tough when you have to.
Strangely with “can read my mind” my head always goes to John’s ‘I Know, I Know” demo:
And I know just how you feel
And I know now what I have done
And I know that I’m guilty
But I never could read your mind.
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I had to kick arse one time, too, @Joe. By that, I mean had to fire the person. The person was already in their job position when I became the supervisor of the department.
I don’t know if you are to the firing stage with this person, or if this is an “improvement plan needed” kicking you have to give which may or may not lead to the point where you have to let the person go. I found the multiple headaches and attempts of trying to get a person to improve are a lot harder than actually letting them go. By then, you just want some relief. Good luck with whichever stage you are in.
Now I have a staffer who can read my mind. Believe me, it does happen. What changed? I learned how to conduct interviews to find the best candidate. People who aren’t right for the position find the interview to be grueling. The right person lights up and has as much fun during the interview as I do. If you want to swap interview stories and techniques, email me.
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Now I have a staffer who can read my mind. Believe me, it does happen. What changed? I learned how to conduct interviews to find the best candidate. People who aren’t right for the position find the interview to be grueling. The right person lights up and has as much fun during the interview as I do.
That’s because when he applied for the job he knew what you had in mind!
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^ Horoscopes also depend on location of the planets and such which can affect the personality reading.
When I was born Mercury was retrograde, which meant something special (my horoscope was done 40 years ago so I’m not sure what it meant lol).
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Sat-Sun – Beatles festival – lots of good Beatles cover bands, wonderful vibes, ELO less Jeff Lynne which was (excepting light show but it was outside) every bit as good as ELO would have been in the 70s.
Mon-Wed afternoon – Memphis – tremendous blues, graceland, 3 Kings (Elvis, MLKjr, B.B.)
Wed night – Sat (30.5) – Nashville – there’s a reason they call it music city!
As a music lover I crossed about a dozen things off my bucket list and my head is totally fried from data that’s been put in from Beatles misc. discussion, numerous musical tourist destinations from Sun Studios to Graceland to the Country Music HOF and more, and more (really good!) live music than I’ve heard in a long time. I won’t bore you with all the details, I’d like to blog it and then maybe I’d post a pointer…but I’ll just say that, just as a music lover’s UK vacation wouldn’t be complete without (at minimum) a visit to Abbey Road , the equivalent US vacationer should consider a trip to Nashville at a minimum. It isn’t called “Music City” for nothing. The quality and versatility of the bands is amazing. Even no-cover charge, half-filled bars have bands that would pack bars up north where I live. The little band at the hotel restaurant I’m at tonight, Brassfield Aly, were tremendous and while of course they played a variety of country, they also played Lionel Ritchie, Smokey (You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me), and they cover Bruno Mars and Katy Perry.
Bringing it all back home, Paul and Ringo have both recorded there (I believe most if not all of Beaucoups of Blues was produced there), and George flew over some Nashville session musicians for ATMP – the influence really shows. And of course we know our Fab were heavily influenced by the Memphis/Nashville sound of the 50s, when country and blues spawned rockabilly and r&r (to simplify it greatly!).
After the spring I had, it’s been nice to finish it off with a truly tremendous vacation 🙂
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Some are happy and some are sadness, In my life I love them all
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I had to kick arse one time, too, @Joe. By that, I mean had to fire the person. The person was already in their job position when I became the supervisor of the department.
Every time I’ve recruited someone it’s worked out well; it’s always inherited staff that can be problematic (though many have been great too). People get recruited for the wrong reasons by hopeless managers, get given permanent contract (I’ve known someone be given a staff position because of an HR screw-up, when they were only supposed to be taken on temporarily) and under UK employment law it’s really difficult to terminate a contract without valid reason. So they get passed around departments until they decide to leave or can get pushed legitimately, but that can literally take years.
I’m talking in general terms, rather than about any specific person I’ve ever worked with, of course.
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Offline I’ve had to fire my share of people, and like AG, I always found the anticipation and trepidation to be worse than the actual axing–it seems like the person usually expected it, and in one case the axee said “oh, I was just about to quit anyway, so that’s fine.” Nevertheless, I don’t think I would like George Clooney’s job in Up in the Air, although he did get to meet Vera Farmiga, which led to a memorable scene. *sigh*
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Offline Ick, what a situation to be in, Joe. Now, let’s think about where you can shuffle that person off to. 
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meanmistermustard said
I’d be here all night and day typing and you’d all be left with scratching heads wishing you could read Ulysses for something a little less confusing.I’m tired, irritated and annoyed.
I’ve read Ulysses four times. I even ploughed through Gravity’s Rainbow as a student. I can take it.
But have you read ‘Finnegans Wake’?
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I’d be here all night and day typing and you’d all be left with scratching heads wishing you could read Ulysses for something a little less confusing.I’m tired, irritated and annoyed.
Are you gonna write a novel?
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meanmistermustard said
I’d be here all night and day typing and you’d all be left with scratching heads wishing you could read Ulysses for something a little less confusing.I’m tired, irritated and annoyed.
Are you gonna write a novel?
I can imagine it now:
A Tribute to Irn-Bru and Curly Wurly’s: A Scottish Man’s Tale
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I’m a little teapot short and stout.
Here is my handle.
Here is my spout.
When I get all steamed up,
Hear me shout!
Just tip me over
And pour me out
I’m a clever teapot, yes it’s true.
Here’s an example of what I can do.
I can turn my handle to a spout.
Just tip me over and pour me out
I guess I am now a teapot…. Ya
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Offline ^ We used to sing a different version:
I’m a little tea pot
Shout and stout
Here is my handle
Here is my spout
When the tea is ready, hear me shout
Tip me over and pour me out
There was no 2nd verse from what I can remember.
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Offline AppleScruffJunior said
Joe said
meanmistermustard said
I’d be here all night and day typing and you’d all be left with scratching heads wishing you could read Ulysses for something a little less confusing.I’m tired, irritated and annoyed.
I’ve read Ulysses four times. I even ploughed through Gravity’s Rainbow as a student. I can take it.
But have you read ‘Finnegans Wake’?
I have, but I probably skimmed through the last 100 pages. I studied Joyce at school and university, and my degree was quite heavy on modernist and postmodern Irish and American fiction. I’m a glutton for punishment.
Anyway, let’s 
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Annadog40 said
meanmistermustard said
I’d be here all night and day typing and you’d all be left with scratching heads wishing you could read Ulysses for something a little less confusing.I’m tired, irritated and annoyed.
Are you gonna write a novel?
I can imagine it now:
A Tribute to Irn-Bru and Curly Wurly’s: A Scottish Man’s Tale
That’s very stereotypical.
My novel would resemble the workings of monkeys drunk on whiskey jumping about on typewriters with the added distinction of the manuscript having been thrown in the air before randomly, hurriedly and haphazardly shoved back together again minutes before submission.
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