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[theinevitable]

Congrats! Come live here with me. Do you want to know how disgustingly low my rent is? DISGUSTINGLY low.

A paid position has opened up at the place where I do my internship, but if you do the math I would be making 4.50 an hour. Isn't that illegal? I guess it isn't since it is through the government.

I do not know if I can live on that amount of money. Or, if I want to.

[lprkn]

Congratulations GKA

[Doc]

...graduate from college.

Oh Yeah!

[Nabubrush]

Why the fuck did I never think of using that on dude until this very moment? The hell boys, I am slipping.

We're all way behind Doc. But we knew that.

[jay-ell]

Doc is responsible for the funniest thing I have ever read on chat. It was morning for me, late night for him, and when he signed off, he said, "Enjoy your day. We just had it here, it was a good one."

[Doc]

Well shucks, JL, I'm going to put that on my CV.

Today I got to help open up a man's knee, carve it into a shape that would fit a prosthesis, glue a chunk of metal on it and then close it back up again. By the end my mask and scrubs were splattered with blood and bone fragments. That noise you hear when you wrench a drumstick out of its socket on a roast chicken, turns out people joints make the same noise.

[greenkoolayd]

Today I got to help open up a man's knee, carve it into a shape that would fit a prosthesis, glue a chunk of metal on it and then close it back up again. By the end my mask and scrubs were splattered with blood and bone fragments. That noise you hear when you wrench a drumstick out of its socket on a roast chicken, turns out people joints make the same noise.

sick!
rad!

[Carlos del Vaca]

That's an excuse to go out for lunch, ain't?

[littlefallsmets]

You're the doc, Doc.

[Doc]

OK Doc, that is awesome but let me give you a heads up...

You're going to get really fine, precise even, with the cutting gear. You need to decide if you want to let that skill out of the bag because if you do later on you are going to wind up having to be the guy, at every family/friend gathering, who carves up the bird or the roast.

Just a warning.

I thought you were going to go for carving up bodies.

Tolerance is kind of an icky word, y'know? I don't know whether I want to promote the idea that the best I can do for people other than myself is to tolerate them. Sounds negative.

[theinevitable]

today I met another important alderman. I am mad because before I realized who he was, I was completely charmed by him. He is notorious for being a smooth operator who talks out of both sides of his mouth. I am a white guy in glasses who works at a nonprofit, so I got a spiel about how wonderful and historic the neighborhood is and WHY do people keep tearing buildings down? these beautiful, historic buildings that are our heritage as a community?
Pro-tip: you are granting permits for those people to tear those buildings down, dude.

[theinevitable]

I am doing this application for this paid position, and there is a question about how I have Served My Community in the past. What? I am trying to think of a less sarcastic spin on "I am currently working for you 3 days a week for free."

For some reason I am having a really cynical response to this question. Like, seriously? I guess I am getting defensive because I have never done any sort of "community service" that wasn't mandated by school.

I deeply hate that they can just make this a mandatory question on the online form, and force me to make up some bullshit. I would rather just leave it blank and take their judgement that maybe I'm a little bit selgiraffe and hypocritical.

I would like to think that even if I had done that stuff, I would not want to put that on a job application. Hire me based on whether you think I will be good at doing administrative tasks at your nonprofit's office.

[theinevitable]

In unrelated news, today I learned that the fact that stretching my shoulders makes me moan like an old man is related to my horrible posture. In the past months I have gotten into stretching, and the lady has complimented my sudden improved posture. YEAH.

[jay-ell]

I am doing this application for this paid position, and there is a question about how I have Served My Community in the past. What? I am trying to think of a less sarcastic spin on "I am currently working for you 3 days a week for free."

For some reason I am having a really cynical response to this question. Like, seriously? I guess I am getting defensive because I have never done any sort of "community service" that wasn't mandated by school.

I deeply hate that they can just make this a mandatory question on the online form, and force me to make up some bullshit. I would rather just leave it blank and take their judgement that maybe I'm a little bit selgiraffe and hypocritical.

I would like to think that even if I had done that stuff, I would not want to put that on a job application. Hire me based on whether you think I will be good at doing administrative tasks at your nonprofit's office.

Just put the stuff you did that was mandated by school. This is EXACTLY the reason service projects are required by so many school districts now. Use it. They don't have to know the school forced you into it.

Play the game, jump through the hoops. If they're pleased with your intern work already, it's just a formality anyway.

[wombat]

With all the "community service" that students seem to have to do these days, I don't know where they'd find the time to do any actually voluntary community service.

But yeah, did you think that stuff was about teaching you to do good? It's for putting on your damn resume. So do it.