Oil spills suck - Page 2

Robboo · 05-08-2010, 07:14

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Originally Posted by Beorn

Love xkcd. Hate the whole spill story and the media muzzling. I get the part where people would panic if they knew, but shouldn't panicking be part of their liberties?

Anyways, I'm really not looking forward to the point when currents drag this out of the peninsula, nor to the day a hurricane gets along. Best wishes to anyone down there. Move to Canada.

Funny you should say this to move to Canada....

This job came up for my wife down here. A research group in Canada was trying to get her up there. Timing is the only reason I am here and not there. Its too late in her career to start over. She is next in line to run the whole research lab.

read xkcd almost daily even through this. I hit 3 or 4 webcomics to keep me sane and provide a mental break.

grahamiam · 05-08-2010, 22:04

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Originally Posted by Robboo

read xkcd almost daily even through this. I hit 3 or 4 webcomics to keep me sane and provide a mental break.

dinosaur comics are also good, but websense don't like

Shabbaman · 06-08-2010, 10:07

Is this still the same job you had some years ago? I remember you had some serious worries about job security after the start of the financial crisis.

Robboo · 08-08-2010, 02:06

yeah same agency. A vacancy and promotion helped. So far no one has loss their jobs, but we loss raises/travel money/ any purchases short of office supplies and they stopped replacing vacant positions.

This was one of the few. We reorganized and now 2 of us do the job 5 did before, as they have moved to fill other "more critical" jobs. I think we are due for one of those positions to come back.

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Robboo King Join Date: May 2006 Location: Cajun Country. Posts: 2,002	yeah same agency. A vacancy and promotion helped. So far no one has loss their jobs, but we loss raises/travel money/ any purchases short of office supplies and they stopped replacing vacant positions. This was one of the few. We reorganized and now 2 of us do the job 5 did before, as they have moved to fill other "more critical" jobs. I think we are due for one of those positions to come back.