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     greenetree Supporter Username: Greenetree Post Number: 3038 Registered: 5-2001  |
OK - so my ego monster from my renovation thread needs to be fed. Sometimes I have the most inane thoughts that don't seem to belong anywhere, but I feel compelled to "voice" them. I'm jumping on the Blog Bandwagon! | ||
| greenetree Supporter Username: Greenetree Post Number: 3039 Registered: 5-2001 |
I work in pharmaceutical research (as my friends from public health like to put it, I've become a "Pharmaceutical Whore"; gone over to the dark side). Anyway, I am currenlty working in a therapeutic area that is the height of personal irony: Men's Health. I spend my days using lots of words and phrases that, being a lesbian, I never thought would enter my vocabulary, much less occupying my complete attention. And I get paid for it. Hmmm. So does that really make me... never mind.  Just when I thought things couldn't get any weirder, I'm trying to come up with a title for a document. Something that will convey the purpose while retaining a 6th grade reading level but without being leading. I can't share some of the candidate titles, but, suffice it to say, I really can't believe I get paid to do this! | ||
| peteglider Citizen Username: Peteglider Post Number: 758 Registered: 8-2002 |
hmm... clinical research or market research? I am a market researcher, specializing in pharma. (my ex wife was for years with a CRO) and yes, somedays, given how this industry sells, markets, and promotes, it seems like a bit of a sell out. pays the bills nicely, though. /p | ||
| greenetree Supporter Username: Greenetree Post Number: 3041 Registered: 5-2001 |
Very nicely. Clinical. Outcomes, actually. I used to joke with my Market Research colleagues that what they consider quantitative research, we called a pilot study.  It was actually the brand managers at my old company that got me. I remember sitting in a strategy meeting once & a brand manager said "the qualitative studies show that patients want a drug that does X, Y and Z. So, we need to put that in our positioning". Never mind that the drug did A,B and C. It's not that the brand manager was trying to "pull a fast one" on consumers. In fact, many people outside of industry don't realize that DDMAC (the federal body responsible for approving every single piece of material that anyone will see on a drug, ads, product labels, detail aids, etc.) would never approve something like that. What got me was that brand managers at that compnay were constantly trying to paste descriptions on things & sending it to their regulatory bodies to see if it would fly. What a waste of time & resources. | ||
| Dave Citizen Username: Dave Post Number: 113 Registered: 4-1998  |
The title for the document should be: "Forget Everything You've Learned About _____" | ||
| Rob Citizen Username: Rob07040 Post Number: 10 Registered: 7-2003 |
This is why I work in opinion/satisfaction research (NOT polling!) instead of marketing. We just sit here and think what could ever have happened that was so bad to make you so dissatisfied?? | ||
| greenetree Supporter Username: Greenetree Post Number: 3051 Registered: 5-2001 |
I am soooo tired of the word "erection". Sorry. Just had to get that out. I was hysterical last night; two people on this team who are embarrassed by vernacular terms of sex decided to take a crack at writing a script for a patient education video. They sent it to me for review. Picture a man and woman sitting at their kitchen table, over a cup of coffee, discussing their sex life. They are discussing things in great detail. Every word is clinical. I was rolling. From my public health surveillance days, I can tell you that, if you want good information, you have to use language that the patients use. In other words, ya gotta make a sailor blush. Rob - it's a good thing that you've never had to ask me! Remind me to tell you about the time the intake nurse & the radiology technician stood in the next room arguing about my tests. Boy, did they get a shock when I barged in, holding the gown together in back, and gave them a piece of my mind! | ||
| greenetree Supporter Username: Greenetree Post Number: 3052 Registered: 5-2001 |
And another thing- Do you really think that driving 65 in the left lane on 78 is going to slow traffic down? Are your ideas of self-importance so inflated that you think you can single-handedly bring us all to the speed limit? It's the passing lane! The people who are zipping around you on the right are a clue. You are actually increasing the likelihood of an accident. And another thing- if you are afraid to pass a semi on a clear, dry day (like today), stay the hell off the highway. Or at least stay in the right-hand lane. Thank you very much. | ||
| greenetree Supporter Username: Greenetree Post Number: 3062 Registered: 5-2001 |
I have now been at my job for 3 months. OK- in 5 days it will be 3 months. My second week here I told my boss that I needed more work (which means I may be responsible for bring the erection situation on myself). Now, I am biting my words. I am not a slob and am, in fact, very organized. But I haven't been able to clean my desk in 2 months. All those organized little projects are one big mess. Remember Oscar's desk in the Odd Couple? I •••• you not; that's what this looks like. I do have somewhat of a system to the piles: Pile 1 is all the papers which are drying from having coffee spilled on them. Pile 2 is current stuff, but is spread across 3 feet. Pile 3? Isn't exactly a pile; it's a credenza covered in stuff waiting for me to look at it. I have no idea what's in there, because if it ain't "men's health", it don't get no attention. There is one very clean spot on my desk. About once a week, I knock over a full cup of coffee & have to clean it up. It tends to be in the same place. So that spot is nice and shiny. Today was a new low. I was eating an apple & set it down on my desk without looking. It took me several minutes to find it. I also just realized that I had 3 mostly-empty foam coffee cups scattered on my desk. Thankfully, I drink it black, so there's no milk to spoil... I can't live or work like this. But, it's 7pm on a Friday night and I have another hour of work to do. I'm not hanging around to clean my desk! | ||
| bets Citizen Username: Bets Post Number: 835 Registered: 6-2001  |
Moving offices was my big motivator! Nothing like a good flood (or 4) to force you to deal with the clutter. This was a real inconvenience in August, but today I had to do it all over again, since apparently my office is the magnet for any and all rainfall that gets past the new flood reclamation equipment installed over the summer (it was Jeanne, not Ivan). The fun part is I won't be here for the move, as I'm presenting a paper at a conference in Baltimore. I'll be back next Friday to view the carnage. Luckily, I'd been living out of boxes from the last move and just randomly threw in the stuff that made it back onto my desk. Got out of there tonight just before yet another scheduled power shut down. Most unsettling: This one is a "long-term temporary" move. Whatever that means. | ||
| Debby Real Name Username: Debby Post Number: 1171 Registered: 5-2001 |
greenetree - always remember what the sexual revolution taught us, " you are responsible for your own erections" | ||
| greenetree Supporter Username: Greenetree Post Number: 3101 Registered: 5-2001 |
Who else would like to aggravate me today? Anyone? Seems to be the day for it. I don't blow up very often, so today is a good day, since I'm gonna slap someone anyway. Somehow, I thought that a prestigious, Fortune 100 company wouldn't have so many whiney, stupid employees. Just goes to show you... | ||
| bets Citizen Username: Bets Post Number: 842 Registered: 6-2001 |
Here, Greenetree, hit this!  There, doesn't that feel better? | ||
| mem Citizen Username: Mem Post Number: 3952 Registered: 5-2001  |
Greene - I PM'd you a while back because I lost all your contact info - check it and let me know what you think if you would like. Thanks! | ||
| greenetree Supporter Username: Greenetree Post Number: 3194 Registered: 5-2001 |
Sometimes, I am struck by things. For example, I was at a meeting in Phoenix yesterday & people were spending as much time outside as possible. Walking back to my room, I passed a trashcan in an outdoor walkway. Balanced on the edge was an ashtray from one of the rooms. It was full of unopened packets of ketchup. It occurs to me - what could possibly have been the sequence of events to lead someone to put ketchup packets in an ashtray and leave it on the edge of a trashcan? I took the redeye home last night & couldn't sleep a wink. Haven't been able to sleep on planes lately, even in 1st class. I had some really great epiphanies about 4am. Multiple epiphanies, as a matter of fact (must be that woman over 40 peak thing). But, I came home & took a nap & can't remember a single one of them... TS and I ate dinner in front of the TV tonight. I am struck not so much by that (it was a long, lazy day), but by the fact that we were watching a Yoga for Dummies DVD while we ate steak. Then, I stood in the kitchen, polishing off the leftover sauteed string beans straight from the pan. I was watching the weekly weigh-in from "The Biggest Loser" (more train-wreck TV). Was that wrong? | ||
| Tom Reingold Citizen Username: Noglider Post Number: 4243 Registered: 1-2003  |
None of that was wrong, because it gave me a heck of a lot of laughs. I hope it gave you a few, too. Gotta get rid of those ketchup packets somehow! Every time I bring Chinese food home, I tell myself that I wish I could remember to tell them not to give me those soy sauce and mustard packets. | ||
| Earlster Citizen Username: Earlster Post Number: 635 Registered: 8-2003  |
I get those ketchup packages everytime I get an egg and cheese sandwich for breakfast. I have a drawer full at work. But I just can't get myself to throw out perfectly good food. | ||
| greenetree Supporter Username: Greenetree Post Number: 3229 Registered: 5-2001 |
Mem- I did PL you back. We just saw "Huckabees". We thought it was hysterical. There were a bunch of folks in the theatre that were somewhat north of 60. They barely laughed. We decided that you probably needed to have read a lot of Sartre or taken a couple of philospohy classes in college after the early 70s to appreciate it. Then, we went to the Mongolian BBQ, where we experienced a couple of incidents highlighting the fact that all is lost and nothing matters. First, the there was a couple sitting at a table 4 feet away from us. Another couple came by & stopped to chat. Hugs & kisses all around "How are you! Long time no see"! The other couple stood there for 10 minutes. The guy was just tall enough that his baggy, saggy ••• was right in TS's face. Then, another couple came by.. "Hi, how are you"! So we now have 4 of them standing there and I have some guy's baggy saggy ••• in my face. Both of us are staring dead into strange tushies, inches from our faces. They were there for a good 5 minutes. I finally say, very loudly, "Excuse me, would you like us to move so that you can pull our table over and sit down together"? Baggy Butt #1 stammered, "uh, no" & they went back to their own table. Baggy Butt # 2 says "no, thanks, we're fine" and continues to stand there. I went and told the manager that we would be moving to another table. Meanwhile, Baggy #2 & his date, Emily Post, finally sit down. So, I return to the table and TS goes to get some sushi. On her return, she asks me if I want to hear something gross. Since she is still prepared to eat the food, I assume it is not going to make me wish I hadn't, so I tell her to go ahead. Just as she was finished getting her sushi, using the serving tongs provided, a woman cam over, picked up a piece of sushi with her hands, bit into it, decided she didn't like it and put the rest back on the counter. Where the hell do these people come from? | ||
| shh Citizen Username: Shh Post Number: 1690 Registered: 5-2001 |
Oh my god! SHE PUT THE SUSHI BACK ON THE COUNTER?! Back where the rest of the sushi was or loose on the counter? Ok, I am sorry. My husband totally dislikes buffets for the main reason that many of the people who eat there just want to eat, eat, eat. Get your $15 worth! There was one decent buffet we went to a few times, but everytime we went he said he felt like he was at Great Adventure, all the big, fat people just keep getting back on line. I just lost my appetite. Maybe she didn't want her waiter to think she was "wasting food." The owner over there (I assume you mean JP Lee's) is very nice. | ||
| shh Citizen Username: Shh Post Number: 1692 Registered: 5-2001 |
And what's with the butt in the face? I have a cute butt and I avoid doing that. |
