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shootingstar

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  1. shootingstar's post in In honor of the bears waking up in MT early, I’m eating spring rolls was marked as the answer   
    That amount I see can be filling but in a healthy way. 
  2. shootingstar's post in So two teleconferences today are making me want to slam my wallet down and say… I’m out! was marked as the answer   
    Ok...... are you going to sit out, bad boy?
    No, make sure your wallet gets filled up first.
  3. shootingstar's post in So I am reading some technical documentation that uses intimates as a verb was marked as the answer   
    "Intimates"...for techie documentation?  Nearly laughable.
  4. shootingstar's post in What potential problem do you see here? was marked as the answer   
    That is unfortunate branding..close to Colgate toothpaste. Is that yours?
  5. shootingstar's post in I hope Shooting Star does not see this was marked as the answer   
    Hummmph! Radical ignoramuses. 
  6. shootingstar's post in be on corporate video- volunteer was marked as the answer   
    For our generic IT first response support for MS Office applications and web, plus multiple ways of hooking into office applications is from an outsourced IT support company...based in Montreal with employees across Canada so we get basic support after 6:00 pm, 24/7.  There are some municipal services that run 24/7 : 911, 311, police, fire,  council meetings that run to midnight, etc.  This contract support has been in place for 15 yrs. or so. I believe at least 8,000 (out of 12, 000) employees are on network. Other employees' jobs don't require much network access at all.
    Some of our services can't have contract staff.....too critical in their operations/services to the public, and intensive staff training to know our internal stuff, is not cost-effective. Temporary jobs except for summer students, the hire period is 12-18 months min.  Since I've had train and manage staff myself and also switching employers...even highly experienced new hires, it takes 3 months min. to do the work our dept. does to become efficient and competent for client-facing work in an organization that has 42 depts.  New hires from the private sector get a wake-up call for the breadth of municipal services and operations they never knew/took for granted.
    Then they triage to our internal IT for specialized business software applications.  
    Snow removal on our entire parks pathway system and certain roads of downtown, at commuter train stations across city are contract companies that do this. Their contract for certain areas, stipulates snow removal within a few hrs. of snowfall. About 5 neighbourhoods get garbage removal from a contractor. Probably other services I'm not aware of ...'cause we're a complex, large organization. So some municipalities aren't so airheaded, they don't have contract services. I've worked with contract software developer for 2 years. Unfortunately review of his custom software workflows was more time-consuming since his technical documentation was sketchy. 
  7. shootingstar's post in so need to see this movie was marked as the answer   
    Yup and only certain "facts" evidence are selected.
    I actually don't exist in the minds of some folks or that was the pic they were trying to craft. 
    At work, my boss and her boss, are avoiding talking to 1 of our internal lawyers, on a matter that I handled  with one lawyer who passed the decision to a new incoming lawyer. LIke they seem afraid to talk to him. He's not god, for Pete's sake.  You see, we can't put other people on pedestals. Big freakin' mistake. 
    I'm intrigued on the job, how some people have a hard time just describing a situation as it is, instead of this jungle of obsfuscation, tiptoeing through the tulips avoidance.
    I live in a different universe or I was born in a different family universe. Sheesh.
  8. shootingstar's post in Kim's Convenience was marked as the answer   
    We didn't spend time when we were in Seoul to see if there were 711 stores...
    The Canadian show "Kim's Convenience", is probably known by some English-fluent Koreans in big cities... 
    We found a tiny mom-daughter dinner place.  I'm about to eat octopus from that big huge savoury  crepe dish. In front of me, in steel bowl...is actually restaurant's version of bimbap. No, it wasn't on sizzling hot stone.  
    And it was all an authentic, healthy meal. Actually I only had a bit of kimchi...I was getting tired of seeing kimchi (I know there are different versions/mixes) with many of their dishes.

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