Tuesday, January 18, 2011

When Fitting In No Longer Matters

Conversations in my new employment role never cease to strike me a bit odd. A sampling of yesterday:

Doctor Three: Ag, Where are you from?

AG: A little bit of everywhere but I guess the Manhattan area by way of Boston, why?

Doctor Three: I knew you were a liberal.

AG: Let's discuss a p-value on that, doctor?

Doctor Three: The power is greater than 80%. You are one of the few within this organization who speaks without a mountain accent, can be given a client number from three years ago and know not only who the physician was but can recount with precision each patient with disease status at the time of termination, but more importantly you stand firm behind care decisions and do not back down when challenged on a financial level even by the CEO.

AG: I am having trouble understanding how that makes me liberal in this scenario.

Doctor Three: Just take the compliment and remember, I have a never married, doctor son in Boston in case you are interested in having a father in law who lives several states away.

This employment thing is getting better and better by the day. And that’s before the 138% bonus this year.

20 comments:

  1. What is a "mountain accent?"

    Word verification: "undes." What I wouldn't give to see AG's!

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  2. nonny, this ain't a dating blog. Keep it in your pants.

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  3. nonny, this ain't a dating blog. Keep it in your pants.

    Leave AG alone!!

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  4. And that’s before the 138% bonus this year.

    AG works for Goldman.

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  5. Mountain accent= can pronounce the suffix "ing".
    Nice, if wierd, comment tho'

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  6. AG works for Goldmans?

    AG works for a Jew. One she may or may not be schtupping. Oh craps. Be quiet, AG!

    Anon, don't listen to him: adorablegirlfriend@gmail.com. Send all photos!

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  7. Really?

    You're gonna give an email address to the kinds of psychos that THIS blog attracts?

    I begin to have my doubts about your decision making capabilities. I mean, you're obviously not enough of an idiot to become an architect or anything, but still...

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  8. Meh, it probably just goes to a spam folder anyway. I know better than to hit on women bloggers over the internet and expect anything to come of it.

    12:02 Anon.

    P.S. Word verification is unroo. The hits, they keep on comin'.

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  9. Anon, I can tell you this -- AG has had more than her share of bloggers. Though blogging is not where I get the most play, I do alright here.

    Nothing ventured nothing gained...

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  10. I should mention that AG gives preference to the following in this order:

    Ivy League educated (Liberal implied in that)
    Deceased parents
    No crazy sisters
    American
    Does not schtup other women while dating/married to AG
    Doctor
    Attorney
    Jewish
    SAT score greater than 1500 or can match two of my three perfect scores on the GRE (Princeton grads need not apply!)
    Hot
    Big schmecky (Size matters, others lie -- AG does not! Watch the movie Kinsey -- it validates my point.)
    Will say, "I need SC (Note that BFF 1.0 and 4.0 both have those initials. I just realized that. So he should have an eye for detail, because AG does NOT.)for the other 20% of you I still cannot handle."
    Can hold his own with my Italian, Jewish, Political family. (Read: Gets whomever yells the loudest wins, can deal with being told to go to hell by my Ima and recognize that next day she'll make you pancakes like nothing ever happened, deal with being a physician still disappoints them and Harvard does not impress the Momma, and understands the insult, "God damn your god damned old hellfired god damned soul to hell god damn you and god damn your god damned family’s god damned hellfired god damned soul to hell and good damnation god damn them and god damn your god damned friends to hell."
    Must love kitty babies
    Understands the connection between diamonds and sapphires

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  11. Nevermind. Site meter revealed who ANON is. Unless I am incorrect (which I could be), there is no point in pursuing this conversation further. If ANON is not know to AG in non blogger real world, as you were, love chop.

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  12. If we ban him, we need to ban two others who feel the need to read this blog after we ended it. I cannot say it loud enough, "When the phone is not ringing, that is AG not calling!"

    Men are so fickle.

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  13. Wow. I come back, and I'm accused of being a crazy stalker. Well, whoever this person is, I'm sure he deserved it.

    No need for the banhammer - I'll go quietly. Being mistaken for Teh Crazy suggests that I should just retire from the field.

    And my boyfriend wouldn't like it if I got together with AG.

    Nonny

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  14. Hang around and you'll get accused of worst. We attract very judgemental people.

    Also, zombies.

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  15. Of course, you'll have to have a nym. No service without a nym.

    EotS is ALL about rules. That's Rule #3.

    Rule Number 1? ZARDOZ.

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  16. Worse, also.

    Cue Jennifer mocking and laughing in 3...2...1....

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  17. We attract very judgemental people.

    I resemble that remark.....

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  18. Well how do you know he won't like, Nonny. He's never met AG. ;)

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