Caps: Torchwood 406 "The Middle Men" (586), 1280x720, review & picspam

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I can't remember how much I've said about a girl in my department, H. She's super nice as a person (that's always indicative of shit to come, eh?). I mean it. She's so nice. She's petite and blonde and pretty and just all around NICE. When I found out my mom was moving out here and we needed to find a place to live she got me in touch with her neighbour's landlord because they were moving out, it wasn't TOO expensive and they accept animals. She brings treats over to the house all the time and I dog sit for her and check in on their cat when they're away. Her (soon to be?) step-son is always in our yard cause he's lost something over the fence or he's just hanging about.

She's nice and I like her.

However, she's useless as tits on a bull at work and I hate her as a co-worker.

This week my supervisor has been on vacation. She had some hesitation going on vacation this week and did not take two weeks in a row because of our student survival guide magazine we have to get ready to print for next week. This week we've been selling like mad. Our goal was to his $6000 in advertising, an increase of $1000 over last year. We've just passed $3000 and deadline was Thursday.

Yeah.

H has not sold a single ad into the magazine. Not a single one. She didn't have anyone to call back from last year because, honestly, neither myself, nor my supervisor, felt it... wise, I guess. I have brought in at least 4 new clients to the magazine, A (the other girl in the department) at least 3 and D (who's part of our team for telemarketing although not part of the department any longer) has brought in at least 2. So it's not for lack of trying that we haven't been able to secure ads and it's not that getting new people into the feature is beyond H's scope.

I had to leave a note on the list of ads sold for my supervisor for when she comes into the office at 7am on Monday (she's crazy) that says, "Believe me. I know. We'll talk about it when I get in" because I know she's going to freak about how shitty our numbers are and then probably that H doesn't have anything written up.

She's on her last leg. She's already been written up three times and, officially, should be fired then. My supervisor had given her another go because, although she's pretty bad, she's NICE. However, NICE doesn't work when it comes to bringing in the money. This person cost us more in write ups in three weeks than A and I in a year. Yeah. She's been in the department for TEN months and she still DOESN'T GET IT.

She hasn't been trained on data entering (although she thinks she can do it so when a couple sales reps asked for her assiatance she did it wrong, caused write offs and my supervisor had to email the whole sales staff to tell them not to ask her to do things for them), she hasn't been trained on pagination (we tried but she REALLY doesn't get it) and she still has problems sending her ads to complete properly to the point of her finshing an ad but forgetting to send it and when we tried to find it there was NOTHING to be found--no parts of the ad so we could send the finished product. No picture, no text, no eps file, no quark--nothing!

It's come to the point where A and I don't even respond to her when she speaks, especially since we're usually trying to do WORK while she emails her bf, does research for her son, looks for mattresses on kijiji (while AT the paper!) or fb/model sites/photography sites, etc.

The thing is that she's --ready for it?-- NICE! And that's her biggest selling point. She's okay with the public, she's friendly, she's well put together, when she does do her ads and they get sent properly they're nice. But holy shit, she's been here 10 months and she still makes CONTINUOUS errors like that.

H's contribution to the magazine wouldn't have gotten us to make budget. But an extra $500 or so would have helped a lot. It would have looked so much better than barely scraping $3000 together. The sheer lack of even trying is such a slap in the face because this was MY feature. This is MY baby. This is something that I resurrected and did all the ground work on last year to get back into our selling and I busted my ass this week trying to get in touch with old advertisers along with new ones.

There are a lot of features that we drop by the wayside and have to haul ass on in the end, ones that we don't try as hard as and just limp along with because we've arsed off, especially when my supervisor is away. But this one is not one of them for me but it won't even look like it, especially since she didn't even try.

That's what I'm going to say to my supervisor on Monday. I don't want this to affect my relationship with H outside of work because I DO like her. I like her as a neighbour and a friend. She's a great person. But I don't want her in my office any longer.

What complicates things even MORE is that the person she replaced, A (who went to an outside sales position before her mat leave) is supposed to be H's best friend (H is in A's wedding party that won't be an actual wedding anymore because she's going to Vegas next week instead, and the plans changed just after H BOUGHT her bridesmaid dress--YEAH) but she's totally stabbing her in the back.

My supervisor and I are pretty sure that A and H had concocted this plan that H is going to stay in the department until March or so, when A's mat leave is up, and then she could quit, leaving the space open for A to return to my department. The paper HAS to give her a job when she returns but it doesn't have to be what she was doing previously. A really wants to come back to the department because she had it so easy. The money comes to us and she was able to slack off a lot. Plus she'd been doing it for so long that she could just skate by.

I don't want A back. I have learned some things about her (aside from stabbing H in the back) that have made me look at her in a different light. Plus she has outright told my supervisor that she should fire H, be short handed (so just A and I) until January and she'd come back.

Nice friend, right?

She's trying to plot between H and my supervisor and get herself in nice and cosy back to the department. However, she doesn't know that the person who is NOW her manager has say over where she goes when (or if) she comes back and it won't be our department. I'm hoping she sticks to that but moreso that A decides not to come back and moves on. It's time. So part of me wants to get H out now so we can fill the position and just not have to worry about any of this anymore.

Jesus Christ, I thought I left high school drama 11 years ago. You think you do when you go on but if you stay in your hometown with all the other people who stay you're still stuck in the HS drama. If you move on to uni you get uni drama. FINALLY YOU THINK YOU'RE DONE WHEN YOU GET A JOB AND BECOME AN ADULT.

WRONG! People are just as petty and juvenile and stupid as they were 10 years ago. It's just that now instead of playing for a boyfriend or ratting you out to the teacher they're playing for your position and ratting you out to the boss.

Bullshit.

Um, if anyone actually sat through that whole thing I owe you an icon or something, for serious. I could go on forever about this crap.

In other news my mom has finished the job she hates because they finally hired for her position AND the front desk position (front desk quit right when mom's position was filled so that person did front desk because mom was trained and the boss refuses to let anyone but herself train for that position--the woman is crazy) so she's happier but now she needs to find a NEW job and that stresses me out. Like, I know mom didn't want to be in her old job and it stressed HER out but at least she was making money, you know? The world economy makes me a bit on edge when thinking about mom's job situation because I want her to a) find a job and b) not get laid off a few months later because everyone's poor and shit's gone south.

MY grand scheme to take my mind off it all? Take next Friday off to shop. Priorities, I has them. I have decided I'm going to drive us to Cross Iron Mills mall (in Balzac and yes, it is pronounced like you think it is) but I'm taking a roundabout way that won't take me through Calgary because I CANNOT. If I survive this maybe I'll next try to make it into Calgary so I can go to Old Navy.

I only want to go to Old Navy because FLARED JEANS ARE BACK. Words can't express. I hate that fashion trends change so much from season to season that you can't find something you LOVED and fit great just because some hoity toit in France decided skinny jeans are the rage next year.



Oh lord.

This episode was both heart pounding and ridiculously boring.

Things are moving SO SLOWLY now. COE might not have been long enough and was depressing but at least they had a clear storyline and shit happened at a pace quick enough to cut right to the chase. It feels like MD was supposed to have been written for fewer eps but was stretched into ten so they had to ad some roundabout filler.

I miss Vera.

Gwen is the hero of this show, even though she's not as awesome as she was in old TW. She just seems so ... OKay, know when the wise character shows up and they're all calm and give soft smiles and shit and they really just OBSERVE stuff? That's what Gwen feels like right now. Not so much WISE but all quiet and not as action-y as she used to be, which is ridic cause she blew up a whole building.

Speaking of that, did she blow up that whole camp with all the patients and doctors and soldiers inside? Did she really do that? Did she create her own makeshift module and decide to kill people who didn't deserve it just like the governments? I don't recall seeing or hearing what she was doing with the dynamite she found and where in the hell did she find that?

I could go on for pages about this episode, but not in good ways. I found it quite boring, aside from the Esther/Dude fight and him torturing Rex. That guy was so over-written. It's one thing to be a calm guy who starts to crack after he covers some stuff up but this guy was over the top from the get-go. He was so UGH. And so was the soldier. It was all so obvious and blatant and poorly written. Esther's fight was pretty badass, though, and the dude poking Rex with the pen was one of the best (and hardest to watch) moments of the ep. Too bad I have to watch someone shove a pen in another guy's chest to be impressed. And how much more are we going to see Rex's (literally) gaping wound be hit up as a plot point?

I"m rapidly growing dissatisfied with this show. I want to see some results, quick.

Oh, and while I'm complaining, the download I get for the eps has stopped including the preview for next week and GOOD LORD can the end credits for this show get any fucking longer? I miss the old credits. So quick you'd have to pause to see anything.

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Torchwood 406 set 1 (203 caps ~ 16.2) // Torchwood 406 set 2 (383 caps ~ 27.8) // gallery







This moment was one of the best of the episode. Why can't Jack be SPUNKY again?!