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So, just when I was thinking it might be safe to, like, breathe, one of my team announces that she will be retiring, not at the end of August, but at the BEGINNING OF JUNE.

Have I mentioned that Umich decided to hold all spring and summer courses online? Because they did. And who is the only online teaching support unit in all of LSA? That would be mine, yes.

And now I have exactly two months to force a new position posting through the current hiring freeze (because vital) at senior rank (because independent responsibility a must) do interviews (wholly online) and onboard the new ~~sucker~~ team member, possibly also online depending on when the lockdown lifts.

Two months.

While also running full speed with all the spring/summer faculty on our shoulders.

*bright, crazed smile*

I'm fine. This is fine. We're all fine, here.

Though the next person to ask me whether there's a timed option in Canvas Quizzes, when it says so right there in the settings, may not be.

GRANITE STATE MANAGEMENT BACK ROOM IS STAFFED BY GERBILS.

LOBOTOMIZED GERBILS.

THEY TOOK SO LONG PROCESSING MY PROOF-OF-INCOME FORMS THAT THE SIGNATURES ARE NOW OUT OF DATE AND THE FORMS HAVE TO BE RESUBMITTED.

This is just astonishing new levels of incompetence, and yet they reach them effortlessly. Oh my god.

OMG, LJ YOU UTTER FUCKERS!

Not ONLY do they fuck up the latest release so it allows random people access to random other people's journals and HAVEN'T ROLLED THE RELEASE BACK, but NOW LJ-SEC CAN'T LOG IN. Because those remote log-in pathways that just changed?

AFFECT THE ONLY APPLICATION THAT CAN DO BULK DELETION OF LJ ENTRIES.

RAGE.

*breathing heavily* I can only hope that the lj-sec developer is a kind soul and releases an update soon. Because this is absolutely it, I'm not leaving my content on that service for another second than I have to. Nothing but public links to other sites!

ETA: It has been suggested by a party who wishes to remain unnamed, but who has some cause to know, that the reason a release like this will not be rolled back despite security failure is most usually that this release fixes some /other/ security bug that was being actively exploited. Additional recommendation: try logging out of LJ and not logging back in until it's fixed. This would kill one possible cause of the mad account access swapping. If it's another cause, apparently we're fucked until LJ's worker bees can scramble a fix. *sighs*

*howling with absolute disbelief*

AMANO, WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK, YOU GOATSUCKING HACK?!

*breathing hard*

I had already realized, well before this thank you, that Amano is dedicated to making her women useless frills, to handicapping even the few who are allowed to fight, to portraying the ones who are actually reasonably strong as absolute psychopaths, to making sure that they lose to the men every goddamn time. And I had realized, well before this also, that she has rolled back character development to nearly Issue 60 levels. And it was clear that Chrome was going to be the especial victim of both these trends, for the present arc.

BUT THIS! SHE HAS ACTUALLY CONTRADICTED HER OWN ESTABLISHED FACTS. HER OWN DAMN FACTS FROM THE LAST DAMN ARC WHERE THEY WERE REALLY DAMN CRITICAL TO THE PLOT! SHE CHANGED THE FACTS TO A DEGREE THAT IS FLATLY IMPOSSIBLE TO RECONCILE WITH PREVIOUS ACTION!

I don't believe this. Even though it's Amano I'm-a-flaming-misogynist Continuity-what's-that Akira, I still can't quite believe she actually just did that!

The only bright side I can wrest out of this pathetic clusterfuck is that the present arc is now clearly and canonically AU to the rest of the manga, and I therefore have a bulletproof reason to completely ignore it.

Right. There needs to be fic. Something where Chrome meets the first Mist, one way or another, and kicks his goddamn ass.

ETA: Spoilers for most recent issue in the comments.

See this post for details on Bush's last stand against reproductive rights, trying to slip it under the table the weasel.

Planned Parenthood has an email drive going to protest this 'rule' while it's possible, and I encourage everyone who doesn't want to be told that their doctors won't prescribe birth control because they personally define that as abortion to go customize the form-email and send it right freaking now.

FUCKING BASTARDS, YOU AND YOUR FUCKING DEAD DRIVES, JUST GIVE ME MY FUCKING MONEY BACK SO I CAN SPEND IT WITH SOMEONE ELSE!

*panting* Iomega. Never, ever buy a drive from them. Ever. The first one died in a month and the replacement? Was dead on arrival. And they won't refund because we bought it from Amazon, and Amazon won't refund after 30 days.

So I have to get the drive replaced again, and let me tell you if this one is live I'm going to SELL the fucking thing!

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Granite State Management: Fucking Up Since Always

ARGH ARGH ARGH!

OH MY GOD, AMANO, YOU PATHETIC FUCK

PSA / Action Call

AAAAAAAAAAAAA!

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