Post something positive that happened today

[Necrometer]

holy shit, big ups BJS!!!

[d.hellion]

I won a cruise - The Motorhead one

Sounds fun, I have never been on a big ass boat before.

[Cascade Whore]

Some asshole was texting me trying to run a scam on a Craig's list sale. Stringing him along then telling him to get fucked was the most satisfying thing that happened all week. I set the bar real low.

[Necrometer]

there's a job opening that's pretty perfect for me in terms of work/location/responsibility and it was pretty much a done deal from my perspective, although the standard/default salary was sort of low compared to other comparable jobs I could get (although they're all worse in terms of non-money stuff). so I mentioned this and the boss/money-person was like "ok, that's flexible"... I finally hear an update: I'm now being offered 160% of the "not enough" figure, along with benefits. I didn't think I cared about money so much, but when someone throws it at me, it feels pretty cool. I'm sure something terrible will happen soon, but this will be a happy weekend.

[Geeheeb]

all good things, friends.

good luck reverse engineering roswell DNA ross

[Black Jacques]

You capitalist swine.

My week
Baby news (healthy NT scan)
Kitty news
bought a new house today
salary rollbacks due to commodity prices
still have a job
colleague at work died. Massive heart attack while attending his mother's funeral. one of the most caring, polite, soft-spoken dudes ever. leaves behind a wife, 4yo and 1yo... and his wife hasn't worked since they moved from Nigeria a decade ago.

[Necrometer]

Massive heart attack while attending his mother's funeral.

what the FUCK

just terrible

[Black Jacques]

Yeah man. If you knew the guy it'd crush you to find out he died, then to learn that's how he went... good lord.

[godofdeadlydeath]

That's awful about your colleague, BJ. How old was he? 4 year old and a 1 year old, that's fucking terrible.

[godofdeadlydeath]

The company line for pay increases this upcoming fiscal year was 3% across the board. My new boss who took over our department looked at the pay across the board for myself and my direct reports and realized right away that I'm a huge risk to jump ship at any moment due to the fact that I'm the least-paid manager under him, so he had to fight his ass off to get me a raise to get me where I should be, compensation-wise, for my space in the job market and to be somewhere comparable to the other managers in his department.

Had my salary discussion meeting this morning with my boss. I was expecting around a 10% raise, otherwise I was going to start sending out resumes. I found out I'm getting a 16% raise starting with my next paycheck. With the wife and I currently trying to save to buy a bigger house now that our son is running around like a mad man in cramped quarters, this was very nice to hear.

[Black Jacques]

Just bought my first pumpkin pie of the fall. Can't say that it won't half be gone by the time I go to bed.

[Cascade Whore]

A friend of a friend have me forty cassette tapes the other day

[Foot Foot]

got our copies of upcoming split CD;

[hipster holocaust]

The clean cut guy from Magrudergrind complimented my PLF shirt at the bar.

[BUNGVOX]

taking a shit on the clock.

[ghost boner]

The clean cut guy from Magrudergrind complimented my PLF shirt at the bar.

drummer?

[BUNGVOX]

had a job interview today.

pretty kills.

[Geeheeb]

The clean cut guy from Magrudergrind complimented my PLF shirt at the bar.

Could be any of them these days

[hipster holocaust]

Guitarist. Apparently he's NYC's Victory beer rep too

[The Bill]

history of media

You better do the right thing and have video games included up in that piece.

and porn

[hipster holocaust]

history of media

You better do the right thing and have video games included up in that piece.

and porn

And whatever Chad would bring up in class...

[The Bill]

history of media

You better do the right thing and have video games included up in that piece.

and porn

I already have games in my media class at our alma mater. Last semester I made some kids play the Stanley Parable in front of everyone in class. Just yesterday we taljed about sound design in Silemt Hill 2.

I sort of hate to say it, but Call of Duty Modern Warfare 1 & 2 have a pretty good discussion piece each (the nuke and the airport attack, respectively)

[Black Jacques]

http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/here-are ... e=vicefbca

[Geeheeb]

Done with Maternity rotation. Wasn't into it.

[featherboa]

In a hospital or what? I never seen a hospital maternity situation.
I'd work in a birth center if they'd let me. there was one dude at the second one we used. he was like only in the office though. and i think he was related to the main midwife. he wore nurse clothes for some reason.