Put On Your Big-Boy Rants

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6 hours ago, N-o-l-a said:

I was all excited to sign up for the beginner curling class, but it is full.  My dreams are shattered. 

 

 

 

The only Olympic sport where you can be fat and outta shape with a beer gut, and still win a gold....

[Cyberfx1024 7,978]

7 hours ago, N-o-l-a said:

I was all excited to sign up for the beginner curling class, but it is full.  My dreams are shattered. 

 

We had a Canadian that worked alongside us when I was working for Caltech in California. He was really big into curling and explained it for us. I don't know why he kept getting mad when we were questioning why it was a Olympic sport. 

[Cyberfx1024 7,978]

54 minutes ago, SAT said:

The only Olympic sport where you can be fat and outta shape with a beer gut, and still win a gold....

Yeah but watching the Japanese and Korean curling teams is GREAT and I was watching them for a couple hours during the Olympics. That was until I got fed up by all the commercials on NBC.

[NikLR 13,220]

I hope hubs sees a pay check on the 14th... 

2 hours ago, Cyberfx1024 said:

Yeah but watching the Japanese and Korean curling teams is GREAT and I was watching them for a couple hours during the Olympics. That was until I got fed up by all the commercials on NBC.

Curling is much harder than it looks

[trudi 1,317]

Redneck bought me a boxer puppy for my birthday, I have been telling him for months that a puppy is a bad idea right now as we are really not home enough *sigh*

She's very cute & redneck is obsessed with her 😂

Oscar is incredibly tolerant of her climbing over him, chewing him and generally being a puppy 😁

I'm trying to find a puppy socialisation/training class, it's harder than I expected!

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All right, I'm at work. And, I'm not doing ####...

TNF, she's really awesome. 

 

[N-o-l-a 7,167]

Adoption didn't go through today. Judge was kind of a jerk. Apparently there is an issue because the final hearing couldn't be scheduled within 90 days - and that is because he took 60 days to sign the order requesting the background check. So, of course the background check isn't done yet.  He might make us refile the whole thing.  🙄

[trudi 1,317]

1 hour ago, N-o-l-a said:

Adoption didn't go through today. Judge was kind of a jerk. Apparently there is an issue because the final hearing couldn't be scheduled within 90 days - and that is because he took 60 days to sign the order requesting the background check. So, of course the background check isn't done yet.  He might make us refile the whole thing.  🙄

Oh no

Everything crossed it doesn't come to that and it gets completed soon!

[Russ&Caro 1,548]

Speaking of background checks... a colleague at work sort of disappeared right before Christmas. He told our boss that it was a family emergency. Three weeks later the big boss told us he was cut loose. He kept everyone in the dark during his absence. Since that time I've heard that the real issue was that he was arrested for something serious. A casual internet search not only found he'd been arrested and booked into jail around Thanksgiving (subsequently released and returned to work for a few weeks), but also that he'd been arrested back in 2014 for "assault on a household member". Couldn't find the resolution of that charge... dropped? convicted? etc.

 

Anyway, just wondering how often this stuff falls through the cracks on employment background checks. The thing is, even after he was hired at my place of employment many years ago, he transferred a couple of times and presumably checks were done after each transfer. And then a final thought is that once you've been hired into an organization, do any HR departments do regular checks to catch if someone might have had a DUI or domestic violence charge without anyone at work hearing about it?

 

A co-worker and I were talking about it over beers, and concluded that we never truly know anyone.

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Best of luck Trophie...

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2 hours ago, Russ&Caro said:

Speaking of background checks... a colleague at work sort of disappeared right before Christmas. He told our boss that it was a family emergency. Three weeks later the big boss told us he was cut loose. He kept everyone in the dark during his absence. Since that time I've heard that the real issue was that he was arrested for something serious. A casual internet search not only found he'd been arrested and booked into jail around Thanksgiving (subsequently released and returned to work for a few weeks), but also that he'd been arrested back in 2014 for "assault on a household member". Couldn't find the resolution of that charge... dropped? convicted? etc.

 

Anyway, just wondering how often this stuff falls through the cracks on employment background checks. The thing is, even after he was hired at my place of employment many years ago, he transferred a couple of times and presumably checks were done after each transfer. And then a final thought is that once you've been hired into an organization, do any HR departments do regular checks to catch if someone might have had a DUI or domestic violence charge without anyone at work hearing about it?

 

A co-worker and I were talking about it over beers, and concluded that we never truly know anyone.

 

There are niche businesses that service this area. Vetting applicants...

These companies offer a lot more. 

It depends if an employer is willing to pay for this...

 

I know the owners of the biggest one of these companies...

[Prawninator 138]

7 hours ago, Russ&Caro said:

Speaking of background checks... a colleague at work sort of disappeared right before Christmas. He told our boss that it was a family emergency. Three weeks later the big boss told us he was cut loose. He kept everyone in the dark during his absence. Since that time I've heard that the real issue was that he was arrested for something serious. A casual internet search not only found he'd been arrested and booked into jail around Thanksgiving (subsequently released and returned to work for a few weeks), but also that he'd been arrested back in 2014 for "assault on a household member". Couldn't find the resolution of that charge... dropped? convicted? etc.

 

Anyway, just wondering how often this stuff falls through the cracks on employment background checks. The thing is, even after he was hired at my place of employment many years ago, he transferred a couple of times and presumably checks were done after each transfer. And then a final thought is that once you've been hired into an organization, do any HR departments do regular checks to catch if someone might have had a DUI or domestic violence charge without anyone at work hearing about it?

 

A co-worker and I were talking about it over beers, and concluded that we never truly know anyone.

I actually looked Mr Lobster up on the repository before I started dating him. He had a looooong list of violations, all traffic-related. 😂

[TBoneTX 43,525]

14 minutes ago, Prawninator said:

all traffic-related

We like him already without having met him, si P ma'am.

"So many pedestrians, so little time," si man...

17 hours ago, NikLR said:

Curling is much harder than it looks

Then shell out extra to get your hair done at the salon, si ma'am.

[N-o-l-a 7,167]

8 hours ago, trudi said:

Oh no

Everything crossed it doesn't come to that and it gets completed soon!

 

I hope so, it is hard on everyone.

 

12 minutes ago, Prawninator said:

I actually looked Mr Lobster up on the repository before I started dating him. He had a looooong list of violations, all traffic-related. 😂

 

The Dane and I are both squeaky clean, minus that speeding ticket from my teen years that got erased from my record.  Squeaky, so squeaky.

[TBoneTX 43,525]

16 hours ago, trudi said:

my birthday

Happy Many'th birthday, si T ma'am!

16 hours ago, trudi said:

I have been telling him for months that a puppy is a bad idea right now as we are really not home enough

Oh, geez, sigh T ma'am...