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Re: The Vent Thread

Postby ZephyrStar » Tue Aug 21, 2012 7:35 pm

Found out today that my company is merging with one of our competitors. Knew it was bound to happen eventually, but now it's all up in the air and I have to worry about still having a job in the coming months. Time to dust off the resume again... sigh.
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Re: The Vent Thread

Postby Mkid » Tue Aug 21, 2012 11:16 pm

ZephyrStar wrote:Found out today that my company is merging with one of our competitors. Knew it was bound to happen eventually, but now it's all up in the air and I have to worry about still having a job in the coming months. Time to dust off the resume again... sigh.

Or you could have hope that your employers would want to keep you... :bear: * positive thinking*
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Re: The Vent Thread

Postby JaddziaDax » Wed Aug 22, 2012 6:44 am

having hope but being prepared I think is the right course.
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Re: The Vent Thread

Postby ZephyrStar » Wed Aug 22, 2012 9:45 am

Yeah, I know my employers appreciate my work. I've been promoted twice over the past 2 years because of it, but the real issue now is who my employers will end up being. Technically the merger puts more stock with my company, but the CEO of the other company will end up taking over for the merged company. There's now telling how the pieces will fall into place. I would guess that when the merge is complete, all the people in the current positions will have to re-apply for their jobs, to determine who stays and who leaves. I think it's a good thing for the company itself, just a very shaky situation for the employees.
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Re: The Vent Thread

Postby Mkid » Wed Aug 22, 2012 11:58 pm

I was listening to a song by yellowcard. and it matches some pretty repressed memories/feelings (I wasn't raped or anything) but like once i was listening to it, it made all those emotions come back to the point where i felt like i was going to puke.
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Re: The Vent Thread

Postby 8bit_samurai » Fri Aug 24, 2012 11:38 am

Wet summer is wet. And cold.
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Re: The Vent Thread

Postby JaddziaDax » Fri Aug 24, 2012 11:53 am

is envious of wet and cold summer.
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Postby 8bit_samurai » Fri Aug 24, 2012 3:16 pm

Eh, not sure what to be envious about 46°F (feels like 36°F) with south winds up to 36 MPH. Been like that at least once a week (mostly on weekends :/) since July (with about a 5 -10°F difference give or take), and it sucks since we're on the coast and the ocean is directly south from us.
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Re: The Vent Thread

Postby JaddziaDax » Fri Aug 24, 2012 3:40 pm

I live in the high desert and have hot flashes.
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Re: The Vent Thread

Postby 8bit_samurai » Fri Aug 24, 2012 3:49 pm

Oh. I'd probably be envious too, then.
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Re: The Vent Thread

Postby BasharOfTheAges » Mon Aug 27, 2012 9:31 am

Woke up with what almost feels like bruised ribs. It's mostly in my back, but the pain hits the front when it gets bad. Luckily it only hurts when I breathe, and how often do you do that, right? I seriously think it's stemming from my shoulder issues, going to try to selectively apply pressure to see if it gets any better. Really wish I had ice packs at work.
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Re: The Vent Thread

Postby ZephyrStar » Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:19 am

SO. MUCH. THINGS. To do between now and my vacation in a week. Chances are I'll spend most of my long weekend wrapping everything up, which will feel really good, but I'll also lose my long weekend to chores and shopping and getting the oil changed in the car and preparing food and...
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Re: The Vent Thread

Postby Emong » Wed Aug 29, 2012 6:46 pm

Not really a vent but more of a disappointment...not that I were expecting much of the movie. What's the hype about Hunger Games? Perhaps it's too early to judge as it's only the first part of the trilogy, but..
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..the film had much potential, which was totally lost to the simplistic schema of true love between two people somehow challenging an authoritarian regime. Apparently the author of the book says that the story is an attempt to deal with issues "like severe poverty, starvation, oppression, and the effects of war among others." And how exactly did she intend to do this? There's no real revolt here - there was nothing subversive about the leading characters' actions - and on the top of that we get the same old fake admiration of the poor and oppressed and what I'm tempted to call the liberal upper class fantasy of the cruel and egotistic human nature playing a game of survival. Nothing revolutionary here. Just move along people.

I was expecting at least a stab at reality-tv or cruelty as entertainment but the author didn't get much out of these topics. If I were to add a detail to the story, a pessimistic one, I would have had one of the tributes martyring him or herself, getting killed voluntarily and totally refusing to play the game. But, in a tragi-comical twist, the hosts of the show and the audience would only embrace such an act, finding in it an act of poetic resistance and self-sacrifice or whatever. The actual trauma of such a scene would be lost to the media spectacle.
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Re: The Vent Thread

Postby JaddziaDax » Wed Aug 29, 2012 6:50 pm

Spoiler :
Revolution doesn't really start until the third book and then it focuses too much imho on the love triangle...


and yet I still somehow enjoyed it... maybe it's the Star Trek lamp?
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Re: The Vent Thread

Postby CodeZTM » Wed Aug 29, 2012 6:58 pm

Emong wrote:Not really a vent but more of a disappointment...not that I were expecting much of the movie. What's the hype about Hunger Games? Perhaps it's too early to judge as it's only the first part of the trilogy, but..
Spoiler :
..the film had much potential, which was totally lost to the simplistic schema of true love between two people somehow challenging an authoritarian regime. Apparently the author of the book says that the story is an attempt to deal with issues "like severe poverty, starvation, oppression, and the effects of war among others." And how exactly did she intend to do this? There's no real revolt here - there was nothing subversive about the leading characters' actions - and on the top of that we get the same old fake admiration of the poor and oppressed and what I'm tempted to call the liberal upper class fantasy of the cruel and egotistic human nature playing a game of survival. Nothing revolutionary here. Just move along people.

I was expecting at least a stab at reality-tv or cruelty as entertainment but the author didn't get much out of these topics. If I were to add a detail to the story, a pessimistic one, I would have had one of the tributes martyring him or herself, getting killed voluntarily and totally refusing to play the game. But, in a tragi-comical twist, the hosts of the show and the audience would only embrace such an act, finding in it an act of poetic resistance and self-sacrifice or whatever. The actual trauma of such a scene would be lost to the media spectacle.


The second book gets into more details about everything, and the third one brings it all together. The first one is mostly stage/world/character setting.

Although there is one thing you said about it that really nagged me about the books, and you hit it right on the head.

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I loved the books, but DAMN they didn't go as deep as they could. You can tell this is marketed at young adults, because I was honestly hoping/expecting for something MUCH darker. Book 2 tries REALLY hard to be scary at the beginning, but not as bad as it could have been.

oh, and you'll be happy to know that this is a martyr in the second book like you said. Actually, there's 3-4 of them, but the whole damn scene is a dissapointment, because you don't know what the hell really happened until the third book, and the actual martydom is like "oh well, she/he is gone", "boo hoo" "moving on".
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