Red Mosquito

dad wrote:I'm sure I've said this before, but I work for the DoD, and provide application support to DoD customers, aka "the warfighter."

anyway, one of my coworkers showed me and a few other folks a trouble ticket he recently was sent and assigned, and it's amazing. It has absolutely nothing to do with needing support. I don't even know how it was opened in the first place or made its way through the channels.

It's basically the outline of a Dungeons & Dragons campaign, and it is very detailed and hilarious.

Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

dad wrote:I'm sure I've said this before, but I work for the DoD, and provide application support to DoD customers, aka "the warfighter."

anyway, one of my coworkers showed me and a few other folks a trouble ticket he recently was sent and assigned, and it's amazing. It has absolutely nothing to do with needing support. I don't even know how it was opened in the first place or made its way through the channels.

It's basically the outline of a Dungeons & Dragons campaign, and it is very detailed and hilarious.

lol...Did it help your game?

bodysnatcher wrote:wease’s employees always make me feel better about myself

wease wrote:Starting the new year off with some changes. Had to terminate one this morning first thing. In all honesty, my predecessor should’ve gotten rid of her years ago but he just kept ignoring it and then she became my problem when I took over the center. Never an easy thing to do but it had to be done.

wease wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:wease’s employees always make me feel better about myself

Come work for me

bodysnatcher wrote:

wease wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:wease’s employees always make me feel better about myself

Come work for me

I get closer and closer every damn day

wease wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:

wease wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:wease’s employees always make me feel better about myself

Come work for me

I get closer and closer every damn day

Would you show up and be there on time?

bodysnatcher wrote:

wease wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:

wease wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:wease’s employees always make me feel better about myself

Come work for me

I get closer and closer every damn day

Would you show up and be there on time?

Seems like a prerequisite but maybe I’m just old fashioned

Chris_H_2 wrote:

wease wrote:Starting the new year off with some changes. Had to terminate one this morning first thing. In all honesty, my predecessor should’ve gotten rid of her years ago but he just kept ignoring it and then she became my problem when I took over the center. Never an easy thing to do but it had to be done.

maybe your predecessor did, but she just re-showed up for work after about two weeks and everyone acted like she still worked there

bart wrote:Has your company ever considered that it might want to change the way it approaches hiring/retaining people?

wease wrote:

bart wrote:Has your company ever considered that it might want to change the way it approaches hiring/retaining people?

Unless having someone other than me do it is what you’re getting at, I’m not sure what you’re saying.