Do you worry that you might be a thread killer?

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Hehehe, poor kitty, lol! There's a moral in there somewhere.....

Last edited by Starr on 05 Nov 2007, 1:21 pm, edited 2 times in total.

I work at a university - I'm a head technician in a department. It's OK, it keeps a roof over my head, and I can just about deal with the academic world (worked in the private sector once & it nearly gave me a breakdown). At least here I can melt into the background of nutty professors and academic angst LOL.

There's cricket on the local radio. Now it may bet bored to death - lol

(but I like cricket on the radio - its a very relaxing noise)

PS - I'm an accountant. I used to tutor at uni. I liked that. If it paid more I would have liked to have done a PhD and stayed as a tutor and then lecture (at any uni here you need a PhD to be considered for a lecturing position).

Darn - I thought I really had killed the thread this time - it was 2 days and counting

I'd like to do a PhD as well, but I procrastinate too much and, whilst I could do it part-time here pro gratis, I just don't have the time around my normal work (and skiving off to log onto WP of course LOL).

I thought you'd killed it too. I was wondering how long it would stay dead...but it's obviously indestructible.

I think I've polished off the Dino Office Cooler though. 'The place to unwind after work....' not bad considering I haven't even got a job Apart from being a full-time threadkiller that is.

That song has been stuck in my head for the last few days

I love the way the cat's 9 ghosts start haunting him, lol.

I'll not be around much a few days, visitors, so kill a few threads for me.

i'm not ignoring you,
just have a lot of things right now.

i feel that academic people are the ones that are best in understanding things,
less narrowminded, and better in communication. mostly i won't have to explain them
that i need explicit information cause they are often quite explicit and clear already.
but whenever they dislike you(or me i mean) they are worse than anyone.

From my experience, I think that their attitude very much depends on their academic discipline. We still have departments here that live in the 19th century and are very heirarchical, treating their support-staff like servants. Others, like mine, are very welcoming and inclusive.

Overall though, as an organisation they take a sensible approach to personal medical or psychological problems, and have workshops on specific things to teach staff how to deal with them. We've even had a training session on AS - I demonstrated an inordinate amount of knowledge about it (they were probably all thinking I was being too clever LOL).

Phew - managed to bump the thread - almost lost it there for a minute

Cernunnos do you still have the big pile of rubbish papers on you're desk?

same here i guess,
i studied literature in such a weird old-fashioned athmosphere, even the way of walking was kind of victorianlike, all was 'sir' and 'madam'. now studying something more computer related and the profs are wearing t-shirts and behave more casual.
initially i meant people in real life, not as a collegue or student, but just as people you know. and meant it only at the level of information exchange, nothing more. just anyone can be a bug of course.




yeah, it doesn't even come to their minds.

The cat came back, we thought he was a goner
But the cat came back; it just couldn't stay away.

I tidied up in my traditional way of shoving all the unused, unseen, and probably unwanted, junk into filing cabinets. I then shredded all the previous job holder's files - very satisfying

Sorry, but I hate to see this thread sinking, lol. To kill this thread would just be the ultimate in thread killing, wouldn't it?

Yes, there is something extremely satisfying about shredding. There was a monster shredder where I used to work, (monster sized, not that we shredded monsters, lol) but I've got a small one at home too, after watching a TV programme about identity theft, people going through your rubbish and getting your details from bank statements etc.
Every time I use it, I remember the old news story about Oliver North, lol.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/ ... un.05.html

(Probably should have used a cross-cutting shredder.)

Yeah shredding is fun
I wish I could get a job just shredding papers all day.

i'm still here.


watching ....