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So, I have reached the level of "I guess she's not going to be fired by the end of the month" and "she looks like she could be morally corruptible" at my job where people occasionally try to bribe me for favors. Usually, this is just attempted with flattery, or wheedling. Today, however, I received my first physical bribe.
It was a ham.
…am I doing this right? Do bribes generally start at the "baked meat" level? Did I skip some kind of monetary level? Does the monetary level start out with "bag with dollar sign on it" and then progress to "unmarked briefcase", or is it the other way around? When do they start offering me hookers and blow?
In a way, it's comforting. I used to worry a lot about being stupid. (You tend to do this when your college roommate is the valedictorian, and goes on to attend an Ivy League grad school.) In fact, I still do! But now I feel better about it all, because after working for two and a half years, my undergraduate GPA and activities have mattered fuck-all in comparison to just having good timing and lucky connections. Somehow I've managed to land in a job I really like, with a boss I really like, with a good salary, and I am at the point where people are giving me hams to curry my favor. I must be doing something right.
( Anyway, beneath the cut is the five question meme )
Feel free to get questions. So, Superbowl, eh? I cheered for the Giants because Eli Manning looks like a kicked puppy, and it has been scientifically proved that I have a weird weakness for awkward brunets.
It is sort of grey and wet and temperate out right now-- pretty much exactly Lenten weather. But the sun's coming out a bit, so maybe it won't be so bad after all. I have somehow found myself being roped into attending a Baptist retreat in California (this happens way more often than you'd think), so now I have to make plans for that. Sometimes I think it would have been interesting if we'd settled in San Francisco with my dad's side of the family, but then I remember that if we had, I'd have an even weirder religious upbringing of simultaneous Baptist-Catholicism.
My Lenten resolution this year is to maintain job integrity and to not be bribed by various meats, no matter how delicious.
It was a ham.
…am I doing this right? Do bribes generally start at the "baked meat" level? Did I skip some kind of monetary level? Does the monetary level start out with "bag with dollar sign on it" and then progress to "unmarked briefcase", or is it the other way around? When do they start offering me hookers and blow?
In a way, it's comforting. I used to worry a lot about being stupid. (You tend to do this when your college roommate is the valedictorian, and goes on to attend an Ivy League grad school.) In fact, I still do! But now I feel better about it all, because after working for two and a half years, my undergraduate GPA and activities have mattered fuck-all in comparison to just having good timing and lucky connections. Somehow I've managed to land in a job I really like, with a boss I really like, with a good salary, and I am at the point where people are giving me hams to curry my favor. I must be doing something right.
( Anyway, beneath the cut is the five question meme )
Feel free to get questions. So, Superbowl, eh? I cheered for the Giants because Eli Manning looks like a kicked puppy, and it has been scientifically proved that I have a weird weakness for awkward brunets.
It is sort of grey and wet and temperate out right now-- pretty much exactly Lenten weather. But the sun's coming out a bit, so maybe it won't be so bad after all. I have somehow found myself being roped into attending a Baptist retreat in California (this happens way more often than you'd think), so now I have to make plans for that. Sometimes I think it would have been interesting if we'd settled in San Francisco with my dad's side of the family, but then I remember that if we had, I'd have an even weirder religious upbringing of simultaneous Baptist-Catholicism.
My Lenten resolution this year is to maintain job integrity and to not be bribed by various meats, no matter how delicious.
