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Congratulations!! Way to go!! Woo hoo!!ArkieDukie wrote:The grant is done!![]()
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Your boss is an asshole!ArkieDukie wrote:The grant is done!![]()
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Congratulations!!ArkieDukie wrote:The grant is done!![]()
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The boss put in about twice as many hours on the grant as I did, so I'm willing to cut him some slack. A co-worker and I were there all day on Saturday and Sunday, and the boss bought lunch for us. He also paid for me to park in the parking garage on Sunday.CameronBornAndBred wrote:Your boss is an asshole!ArkieDukie wrote:The grant is done!![]()
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Alabama was a fun disaster, but it would have been a more fun disaster with you there.
Actually, the boss did tell me I should take a day or two. Might bank it until next weekend - I'm headed home for my dad's 70th birthday.DevilAlumna wrote:Congratulations!!ArkieDukie wrote:The grant is done!![]()
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Go celebrate, and take a mental health day for all your extra OT hours!
I'd like to. Going to have to figure out my schedule. The weekend before that is my dad's 70th birthday.OZZIE4DUKE wrote:Will you be able to come eastlawgrad91 wrote:When the grant is done, will you get to work more normal hours for a while?ArkieDukie wrote:Bad news: 10 hr work day today, 10 hr work day yesterday. Good news: I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. For better or worse, the grant is out the door on Tuesday.![]()
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on the 15th and 16th for Countdown to Crazieness and Brunchgate/Miami?
What a winner.ArkieDukie wrote:He also paid for me to park in the parking garage on Sunday.
Wave to CLD from the stands. That's a "bus trip" so all the cheerleaders go. I am on call that weekend so no road trip for me to hokietown or the coast.CameronBornAndBred wrote:Yay! I bought tickets to the VT game October 23rd.I've only seen the stadium, never been in it. TNTdevil and Stephanie are joining me. My mom lives 30 minutes away, so we have a place to stay, makes the trip easy, plus there's that awesome beer store. The bummer part is I will miss DukePA's oyster roast.
I decided to take today off. I'm just too tired to get excited about going to work today. Not sure what I'm going to do yet, but I'll be outdoors with my camera at some point. Zoo? MoBot? Cash in Groupon for river cruise/tour? Visit cemetery where Dred Scott, Tennessee Williams, and Gen. William T. Sherman are buried?DevilAlumna wrote:Congratulations!!ArkieDukie wrote:The grant is done!![]()
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Go celebrate, and take a mental health day for all your extra OT hours!
Congrats on the grant. Bask in the accomplishment for a day or two. Heck, stretch it out to include the whole weekendArkieDukie wrote:I decided to take today off. I'm just too tired to get excited about going to work today. Not sure what I'm going to do yet, but I'll be outdoors with my camera at some point. Zoo? MoBot? Cash in Groupon for river cruise/tour? Visit cemetery where Dred Scott, Tennessee Williams, and Gen. William T. Sherman are buried?DevilAlumna wrote:Congratulations!!ArkieDukie wrote:The grant is done!![]()
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Go celebrate, and take a mental health day for all your extra OT hours!
Happy birthday, Dad! Cherish every one of them.ArkieDukie wrote:Actually, the boss did tell me I should take a day or two. Might bank it until next weekend - I'm headed home for my dad's 70th birthday.DevilAlumna wrote: quote="ArkieDukie" The grant is done!![]()
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Go celebrate, and take a mental health day for all your extra OT hours!
Lane Stadium is a LOT of fun. My wife took me there when we were dating, back when Michael Vick was playing for them. It's HUGE, and the fans get pretty loud when things are going well. Have fun. Walk around campus while you're there. It's probably my second favorite behind Duke.CameronBornAndBred wrote:Yay! I bought tickets to the VT game October 23rd.I've only seen the stadium, never been in it. TNTdevil and Stephanie are joining me. My mom lives 30 minutes away, so we have a place to stay, makes the trip easy, plus there's that awesome beer store. The bummer part is I will miss DukePA's oyster roast.
More shin kicks! I hate it when people do that. Our police officers are forever getting advice from us that they don't want to hear (like, we won't charge until you talk to the victim, or the defendant, or until the DNA comes back, etc.) so they go to the boss.ArkieDukie wrote:Just got an e-mail that really annoyed me. We have this lab that submits samples that are not the type we normally analyze, and I'm the person that runs them. The instrument that I use for analyzing their samples has been in use, getting data for the big grant. And I have to take some things apart in order to run their samples. The person that dropped off the sample (with attitude - wouldn't fill out the requisite paperwork, gave us a 2-day deadline for running the sample) e-mailed earlier this week, asking when I'd be able to run his sample. I told him it would be sometime in the next few days. Today another person in the lab sent an e-mail to my boss, asking that he check on the status of their sample. Nothing ticks me off more than people going above my head when they don't like the answer they got. Basically, they were trying to get me in trouble. What was I supposed to do, stop writing to run their samples? They don't seem to get the fact that their samples are an inconvenience, and dropping them off and saying that they need the results within a couple of days is not exactly the way to win friends and influence people. Especially when we're in the middle of getting data for and writing a multimillion dollar grant.![]()
The other kicker? They're requesting that I run their sample in a way for which we're not set up. We've told them this, numerous times. What the heck do we have to do, take out a frakkin' billboard?![]()
Sending shin kicks to the police officers for you!lawgrad91 wrote:More shin kicks! I hate it when people do that. Our police officers are forever getting advice from us that they don't want to hear (like, we won't charge until you talk to the victim, or the defendant, or until the DNA comes back, etc.) so they go to the boss.ArkieDukie wrote:Just got an e-mail that really annoyed me. We have this lab that submits samples that are not the type we normally analyze, and I'm the person that runs them. The instrument that I use for analyzing their samples has been in use, getting data for the big grant. And I have to take some things apart in order to run their samples. The person that dropped off the sample (with attitude - wouldn't fill out the requisite paperwork, gave us a 2-day deadline for running the sample) e-mailed earlier this week, asking when I'd be able to run his sample. I told him it would be sometime in the next few days. Today another person in the lab sent an e-mail to my boss, asking that he check on the status of their sample. Nothing ticks me off more than people going above my head when they don't like the answer they got. Basically, they were trying to get me in trouble. What was I supposed to do, stop writing to run their samples? They don't seem to get the fact that their samples are an inconvenience, and dropping them off and saying that they need the results within a couple of days is not exactly the way to win friends and influence people. Especially when we're in the middle of getting data for and writing a multimillion dollar grant.![]()
The other kicker? They're requesting that I run their sample in a way for which we're not set up. We've told them this, numerous times. What the heck do we have to do, take out a frakkin' billboard?![]()