English Lessons — Page 5

Holy Christ, are you for real?? I did NOT bring up your psychotic situation (and I mean that literally), in fact, someone else did and I JUST said that "nor is this the time or place to hash it out," which you JUST quoted me on. Seriously, I cannot believe you. I did NOT attack you on this thread but you are a hypocrite at the same time by trying to make negative posts to get attention, AND have proven my point. So thank you.

And weren't you about to go to bed? Or did you accidentally pop another upper?

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BSo, don't bother making excuses. You don't need to. The point is I was disagreeing with Raggy said while not even addressing her, much less posting gratuitous negativity towards her (in fact, I just said that I didn't think this was the place to hash it out), and she got defensive and disproved her own points by jumping to conclusions and making premature judgments to validate her own pissy existence.

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It's funny because she jumped on me for hashing this out BECAUSE I made a post saying that this wasn't the time to hash this out and had left it at that!

Wow, the idiocity of some people. (See, she shouldn't have jumped the shark while I was still NOT ADDRESSING HER!! Talk about being a counterexample to your own argument.)

I'm actually shaking my head in disbelief.

Good night Bso

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Tiff: As far as I can say to you, what you do with a BA in English is go to graduate school and get an equally worthless MFA! Then, you move to NYC, work as an actor for a bit, find the well has dried up, temp a LOT and start looking for a career change. :)
Or you could, you know, do something else.
Chicago: I don't know what to tell you...maybe you should consider being a democrat. It's way more fun here. We don't hold the moral high ground in America but the rest of the world certainly agrees with us. :)

Bwaysinger: Are you implying that I'm toast?? Temp material toast?? (By the way, I was looking to get a US work visa in the near future, but what's the general job situation for entry level positions for BAs in NYC?)

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Yet you just replied.

Smarty.

Why don't you just stick your fingers in your ears and sing, "I can't heeeaaar you!", you rational, mature person, you.

But I suppose those uppers are fading and you're just getting too lazy to explain your post - either that, or you realize you're wrong.

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You have must be joking me! Little miss holier than thou is back on her high horse and spewing crap again. It would seem that as you continue to nit pick the regulars here and play the protagonist you continue you claim you are a victim. Listen young lady, go to a psychiatrist get some help. You obviously need it. It's amazing that for the most part everyone here gets along except you. As I have said before if you are the one screaming about everyone else being the problem, yet we all get along; of course save minor disagreements here and there. You need to look closer to home Raggy. You seem to be the sole individual with a problem here. You have an inferiority complex or something, as you seem to think that everyone is always ganging up on you.

You own stupidity brings it on. When we attempt to hold a civilized conversation, although we may have opposing view points you cry wolf. You start slinging mud and calling names. You aren't well liked here and that is your own fault, no one else is to blame. You can call us mean and heartless all you want, but at the end of the day the truth will be staring you in the face. At least those of us here have been adult enough to have the decency to address our issues with you directly and not via pm's to other board members.

We as a whole tend to ignore those posters that annoy us, yet even when we do you make personal attacks. Tiff was attempting to have an adult dicussion on this thread and is happened to disagree with you. This does not give you justification to attack her directly or indirectly, nor imply hostility towards the other posters you have "issues" with especially when they aren't even here.

Stop preaching long enough to realize you dont know it all. You need to take a good long look at yourself and realize you are not perfect either.

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Tiff, mindless robot skills are always a plus! Given what I'm doing now, they'd cut down their profit loss if they just hired a monkey.
However, most temp agencies will look for different skills based on what you want to show them. I typically apply as an admin asst. type person and offer to test on basic computer skills. I end up taking a typing test (like the one where I did 98 wpm with no errors, a personal high!), Word, Excel, PowerPoint...and then any other programs which you feel you might want to test (like Unix or Corel or whatnot).
The real problem is that, like so many regular jobs, they often want you to have already had prior experience.
I am an exceptional typist. I do very fast formatting work on Word when necessary or, at worst, could be shown what to do once and do it from then on. However, since I do not have 2+ years of previous experience, I cannot for the life of me get a job as a word processor in a legal firm. That's typical.
However, I can assist a vice president in an insurance company. Whatever, the pay's good. :)

HEHE!
I've had a lot of success applying to temp agencies by doing searches on hotjobs and monster for jobs listed by temp agencies.
Try that!

raggy- these "other people" you want to show our posts to:
can other people see them too? or are they the "special" people in your head?

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Wow, Tiff. You're like me fast forwarded 2 years. And Canadian.

Aaaand once again there's some kind of pre-existing feud showing up here and I really don't get what's going on. You may call me Princess Oblivious. :)

Wow, what a night I missed...

Tiff, ever thing about going on the (verbal) Contender?

BST - hahahaha, a saw little images of little people bouncing around in a big, empty, dark space screaming, "Idiots, idiots, they are idiots," as they fall into one another...