Things that infuriated me today (original) (raw)
April 21 2008, 23:46
Listens: fuck you fuck you fuck you
Item the first: You know when's a good time to tell your employees about a mandatory training at 9:30am on a Tuesday? Here's a hint: IT'S FUCKING NOT AT 8:00PM ON MONDAY.
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This is stuff that's scheduled well in advance, and my boss can't manage to put it on our monthly schedules? And then her response when confronted with the tremendous oversight, is "Oh, oops, ha!"
So. Fucking. Unprofessional. There is a history of this shit.
I probably wouldn't be so furious if I hadn't been mentally relying upon the thought of a luxuriously work-free Tuesday morning to get me through Monday. The good news is that apparently there's actually a second training at 1:00p, which is supposed to be for another group but which I can go to if I want to--which I almost certainly will. Fuck 9:30am. Fuck it in its stupid ear.
Item the second, which I read in the paper this morning:
A Russian space capsule touched down in Kazakhstan after hurtling through Earth’s atmosphere in a steeper-than-normal descent, subjecting the three-nation-crew to severe G-forces and landing hundreds of kilometers off target.
Note: The crew of the Soyuz included Yi So-yeon, the first Korean and only the second woman from an Asian country ever in space. (Interesting note to the note: The launch crew of the space craft included Sheikh Muszaphar, the first Malaysian in space. Read more about the mission Soyuz TMA-11 here.)
[Russian Federal Space Agency chief Anatoly] Perminov was asked about the presence of two women on the Soyuz and a naval superstition that having women aboard a ship was bad luck.
"You know in Russia, there are certain bad omens about this sort of thing, but thank God that everything worked out successfully," he said. "Of course in the future, we will work somehow to ensure that the number of women will not surpass" the number of men.
Challenged by a reporter, Perminov responded:"'This isn’t discrimination. I’m just saying that when a majority [of the crew] is female, sometimes certain kinds of unsanctioned behavior or something else occurs, that’s what I’m talking about."
WHAT. WHAT.
I'm just- Wow. I'm so glad you specified that this isn't discrimination, because to me it sure looked like you view women as inherently deficient and/or deleterious! But maybe that's just my crazy female bad-juju hormones talking. Glad to have that cleared up, dickface.
I read this over lunch and nearly stabbed someone with my fork. How dare you. How dare you.