trinityofone | Help me not get fired, part II

Things have been insane at work. We're closing the issue, so I've been putting in 12-hour-plus days editing the "boards," which last night got sent out to be returned to us as proofs, and then the craziness will resume. In the tiny, two-day lull, I'm supposed to start working on something for the next issue, and I could really use your help. We do an annual "Most" list, and I need to come up with suggestions. Here are some of the ones I've already come up with, to give you an idea:

MOST OMGWTFPOLARBEAR ENGAGEMENT: Dominic Monaghan & Evangeline Lilly
MOST LIKELY TO BE THE NEXT TO CLAIM WE’RE INTEROGATING THE TEXT FROM THE WRONG PERSPECTIVE: M. Night Shyamalan
MOST LIKELY TO BREAK THE GEORGIA RULE: Lindsay Lohan
MOST AWESOME TITLE IN THE HISTORY OF EVERYTHING, EVER: Snakes on a Plane
MOST LIKELY TO CONFUSE A BELT AND A BRA: Keira Knightley
MOST IN NEED OF SUPER-SIZING: Kate Bosworth
MOST INVISIBLE BABY: Suri Cruise

Now, most of these are, I fear, too obscure and too geeky. I also haven't thought of enough of them. I'm just...out of the loop, not the pop culture junkie I used to be (or not of enough mainstream culture, anyway). So, it would be doing me an enormous favor if you wanted to suggest some things for our "Most" list. And, in theory, I think it would be kind of fun, if you're not worried about getting fired over it.

(I am worried. I've worked here six weeks, and my boss has never once told me "good job," or even smiled at me. I don't know if this is just the kind of guy he is (he seems looser and nicer around other people, although that may just be me being paranoid) or if he really doesn't like me. It's incredibly demoralizing.)

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. And in case you're (quite rightly) wondering: no, you won't get credit for this—except forever in my heart! *g*—but neither will I; the piece is collaborative and runs without a byline. But I will send you a copy of the issue if you want it.

Thank you!

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This is for the November/December issue, so not for a while. I wish I could predict the future! Although that would be an amusingly useless superpower: the ability to know celebrity scandals before they occur! Wow!

with the added feature of being doctor who employs the Socratic method - every time I meet with him I get a stern series of rapid-fire, impossible questions, and I leave feeling like I lose at life.

Yeah, BossMan does that, too--although without the excuse of being a doctor. He'll call me into his office and ask me to reel off a bunch of information, and if I say "Can I go get the notes I took on that?" he'll say something like, "No, you can tell me." WTF?

So, in short, bosses suck. We ought to be independently wealthy.

I know I'm late to this, but I'm horrid about keeping up on my flist.. I have no clue if you still need this stuff, but I'm bored. I really don't know who any of these points could be, but this is the kind of stuff I tend to see when I get exposure to pop-culture stuff.

Most likely to get a Lemon for Christmas? (ok, way too fan-girly...)
Most likely to spend the New year in Jail/hospital?
Most likely to be disinherited?
Most likely to elope?
Most likely to crash their own fashion line next year?
...Crash a car. (crash several cars...)
..Be caught nude on tape,
Assault a reporter/papriazi(sp?).
Get skin cancer. (there was this horrible *horrible* case of fake-and-bake tanning on this one chick I saw on a magazine at the grocery store, but unfortunately have no clue who she was.)
Get abducted by aliens.
Get hit by blue ice/some other crazy freak accident.
Admit to wearing a toupee.
Admit to having facelift/cosmetic surgery (when it's been so obvious for so long).
Deny face-lift/cosmetic surgery.
Most likely to be left at the alter.
Most likely to have the next big 'wardrobe malfunction'.
Chain themselves to a tree (do something extreme for a "cause" of some sort or another.)
disappear from the public eye.
start their own reality show.
be found strangled with a microphone cord. (That one judge on the talent reality show who is a total ass & seems to be unimpressed w/ everyone. David Hassellhoff on "so you think you can dance?" (?))
most likely to go feral.

Something about Britney - she's been in the news again... Most likely to have criminal children? Children turn criminal? Turn to a life of crime.
Ooo. Most likely to turn to a life of crime.

Uh. that's all generic pop culture-type stuff. I have a feeling that it'd all work a lot better w/ the names filled in.

So how's this project been going, anyway? If it's done, then how well was it received? (how many total points were needed?) Good luck w/ the bossman. I've had a couple of difficult ones myself.

You're absolutely not too late! We're going to be picking away at this for the next month at least. But even with the initial push, there's been no reaction from BossMan. He's like a wall!

Thanks for your suggestions. I liked the tree one especially. It made me remember that Daryl Hannah had some thing where she was up a tree this year...

::bows:: glad to possibly be of service. ^_~

Help me not get fired, part II

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