Hi ho, hi ho, office ho

Feb 27, 2007 17:14

I'm back at work after two weeks on convalescent leave.  And since my dead-man physical profile doesn't let me do anything that might rupture my poor tender mono-stricken spleen until March 31st, my unit has decided to send me to Office Bitch School to learn how to handle the unit's paperwork.

I really have mixed feelings about this.  It is a ( Read more... )

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sensoo February 28 2007, 01:39:04 UTC
I take it the class is for officer bitch school? (Is that like OCS?)

Wow...your plan is foolproof. Unless you end up the better fool. Or something.

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duncan_o March 1 2007, 13:04:30 UTC
It's not really like OCS, but I will be working in our company headquarters. And I'll actually be in charge of something, with specific duties, rather than being just another pair of hands. It's not anything very impressive, but neither does it condemn me to further years in the army.

And a plan is never truly foolproof unless I've been given a chance to screw it up.

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zibacco February 28 2007, 18:57:06 UTC
I took a women's history course, too. For the most part I amused myself by pretending to be a hyper-feminist, neo-communist just to piss off the other guys in the class even more than the core curriculum already would. The professor ate it up.

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duncan_o March 1 2007, 13:11:31 UTC
That must have been really fun, but I must confess that I never actually took women's history. I just thought I should spruce up my page with some aesthetic misogyny, you know?

I did take an intercultural communication class, though. The curriculum was very interesting, but the professor took every chance she could to denounce the advantages privileged white males have. I mean, yeah, valid point and all that, but being shrill really doesn't help your message any.

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