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Feel-good meme, keifed from afrai
If you have 1-5 people on your friends list, say something about the 3rd person.
If you have 6-20 people on your friends list, say something about the 11th person.
If you have 21-75 people in your friends list, say something about the 21st person.
If you have 75+ people on your friends list, say something about the 50th person.
(and I assume they mean you should say something good about the person, not just anything at all, else it wouldn't necessarily be a feel-good meme.)

I have 49 friends, and not knowing how to sort them to find the 21st I used alphabetic by name (not LJ id), and came up with lekythen ("J.J.") as the 21st.

Lekythen is a solidly good writer of Real Ghostbusters slash (Peter/Egon) and an amazing artist (see here). Also, she's an INTJ, according to her Kiersey temperment sorting, and this is what's said about them: Do not expect INTJs to actually care about how you view them. They already know that they are arrogant bastards with a morbid sense of humor. Telling them the obvious accomplishes nothing. She's intelligent and observant, which makes her a very interesting person (for me) to converse with.




At the end of last week we had one of the morning shift Supervisors come help out on afternoons for two days. There'd been a bit of a hole left because HC resigned saying he didn't want to micromanage (or "babysit"). Two morning shift leads were promoted to Supervisor, and one was moved to afternoons, but then she went on vacation or away for training or something, so we ended up with CE for a couple of days.

The first day he was Supervisor. I had to comment at one point that he was spending a lot of time with his brow furrowed, and someone said CE was finding the afternoon shift to be an education. The whole tone of our group is just a bit different from mornings. When things were quiet he went around asking us questions from the Standard Operating Procedure book. We found this somewhat annoying and somewhat amusing. And personally, when he asked me a question I often found myself distracted looking at his teeth. He has long and prominent canines, which remind me of David Bowie and seem at odds with his militaristic style haircut. But then again, his quiet and polite demeanor also seem at odds with the militaristic look.

Toward the end of the night someone commented on him quizzing us, and he said, "I'd heard you like to play Trivial Pursuit when things get dull." I responded, "This sure is trivial!" After a moments thought I appologized - after all, he takes his job seriously, which I respect - and said that I just can't resist a dig when I see an opportunity. He accepted that quite graciously.

The second day he was acting Manager, which meant he didn't get paid more but he got to come in wearing a suit. At some point during the day (I did not observe this moment) he was covering the walk-through metal detector, and he got distracted and walked away from it. Even though afternoon shift is not as carefully by the book as mornings we work pretty well as a team, and the person who was doing hand-held-metal detector just stepped in and took his place quite smoothly, so no harm came of it. But later, when CE realized what he had done he had the Supervisor for the day write him up. Everyone objected that he didn't need to do that, since everything was fine, but he said that he would not be able to write someone else up for the same offense with a good conscience if he himself did not get written up - it had to be a level playing field and he had to be held to the same standards as anyone else. Of course we'd all been thinking about how we would complain loudly the next time we got written up if he didn't, so there really wasn't much we could honestly say to that. We didn't expect that. Which shows what we expect of managers.