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BLURF Tis going to be a lazy day today. Maybe even spent sleeping.
Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Closing shift tonight.
Wow - go idle for an hour and you get logged out. I feel so unloved!
We’ve breakfasted and **FCD **is about to head to the dealership. I’ve got a load of towels on the lines and a load of whites in the washer. I opened the basement windows to get some fresh air down there. And after I get the whites in the dryer, I’ll be heading over to the dealership with a chair for my sweetie. Apparently this open house is a big deal - he says HOG chapters from as far away as Baltimore or farther show up.
The sun is shining and much blue is visible among the remaining clouds. I think we’re in for a nice day, weather-wise.
I totally forgot to look when I was out yesterday, but can you get Nature’s Miracle at a regular grocery store or do you have to go to a pet store for it?
I don’t think I’ve ever seen it in a grocery store, not that I’ve looked. I think WalMart carries it, I know PetCo does.
anyone else having trouble staying logged in?
If I navigate away from the Dope on this tab, when I come back, I have to sign in again. Also if I don’t post for some amount of time - not sure what it is, but it’s definitely an hour, maybe less.
Swampy, hugs to you and your family. I’m very sorry for your loss.
I had issues logging in today too.
Yesterday was NOT A GOOD DAY. I did not get the job I interviewed for. The reason? I don’t have leadership experience. The guy who got it? The guy I trained. He had past leadership experience. It’s hard to get leadership experience if they won’t put you in a leadership position. I was number two on the list. I’ve applied for another job. I don’t know if I’ll make the list. The only issue with that job is that it’s in Seattle. I really don’t want to commute there, but I need to move on and UP.
I’ve been doing the fucking job I interviewed for; plus keeping up with my own duties. I train the junior analysts, I share my products and knowledge, I step in when situations need to be diffused, I do everything right. It’s the same story with this office over and over again.
However, I’m done. I will no longer share. I will take care of my customers and that’s IT. I am so angry right now. Angry at myself for letting these asshats take advantage of me, and angry at them for screwing me over once again. I ran that office myself for over a year. With my guidance and training this year, our five year performance plan received the highest grade in history. I will the the new team lead “lead” the other analysts. He can stay far the fuck away from me.
I will be professional, but that is it. They can go fuck themselves.
Taters, I hate to be asking this, but do you think you’re being passed over because you’re female? I know that happens…
It’s very possible. I just don’t know. I do know I am done. I was told they owed the success of our performance plan to me. I put in so much time training these folks, going over their input, and showing them how to do it properly. I corrected their work when they didn’t get it.
I go over all their queries, point out where they need to add additional parameters, and then help them translate those queries to easy to understand products for our customers.
Since I was not selected for the lead, I will go back to performing ONLY my job.
I know my boss will be pulling me into his office to ask that I continue doing what I’ve been doing. NOPE, NOPE, NOPE. Let the new lead do his job. Let him learn the way I did; by reading volumes of stuff, picking up the phone, emailing SMEs, etc. No one taught me anything. I’ve had to learn everything on my own. I’ve never had a mentor. I’ve clawed my way here by doing it on my own. They can start learning the hard way too.
That just sucks Taters
Good luck on finding something new and you can walk out leaving them high and dry.
I need to get motivated to get up and get busy.
It’s like all the things that have been worrying me have been resolved and now all I want to do is sleep.
**FCD **didn’t stay at the dealership, and it’s a good thing. It’s been raining since he decided to leave, on and off, but mostly on. He took a pain pill and went to bed over 2 hours ago. I watched a couple of episodes on Netflix about English castles, but I kept falling asleep, so I’ll rewatch them another time.
I left the towels on the lines - they’re getting a rainwater rinse. With luck, they’ll dry overnight. The load of unders have been dried and folded, and I’ll put them away when my sweetie wakes up. I just turned on the pellet stove - it’s getting chilly in here.
And I FINALLY heard back from OPM, telling me I need to mail everything in to them (again) to claim the money they owe me. So I intend to print out every email and the previous snail mail I sent, and include copies of my W2 from 2014 (as I did in both snail mail and email) and send it all on Monday. I swear, if they didn’t owe me several thousand dollars, I’d just blow it all off, but it’s too much money to forget about.
So, yeah, how’s your day? 
Good morning all. Well, afternoons.
I finally fell asleep around 5. Dog woke me up at 6:15. In fairness, this is when he usually goes out, so he wasn’t being unreasonable. It’s gonna be a loooong day.
Taters good luck with the work stuff. I have had very similar things happen to me. Repeatedly. It happened so often that folks started calling me “Deputy”. The boss is out, or we have no boss, Deputy’ll do it/handle it/manage it. You are learning much faster than I did. Hold your ground (politely - don’t burn your bridges unless you’re prepared to live with the consequences). You’d like to help, but you’ve had a split focus too long. You really need to put your customers first, now that staffing issues are straightened out. Perhaps someone else on the team could pick up the slack? Etc. Good luck. I know it sucks.
Sari good to hear the dog is improving.
Time for more coffee. I’ll be back later. After I log in again, of course.
ddsun, what you wrote is exactly how I’ll be phrasing my polite refusals. I don’t plan on burning any bridges. This particular situation has been going on since about 2007. I train them up; they move on. I should have learned much, much earlier. I’ve got nearly 33 years of federal service; I know how to play the game. I don’t like to play games, but if they wanna play, I’m in it to win it. I left this organization once when they tried to take advantage of me. I left and came back four years later. I left as a GS-05 and returned as a GS-11. I’d like to get one more promotion and hang onto the position for five or more years to bulk up my retirement. I can go in four, but I don’t plan on doing so. 56 is a little young to retire with today’s longer life spans. I want to be able live comfortably in my retirement and not die broke and in debt like my MiL.
Frankly, we’re still short staffed, but I will not be taking on the new lead’s customers. I have my own, and split focus means I can’t give my full attention to my customers. My customers are complicated and I need to be able to give them some deep dive analyses. I’ve been putting those on the back burner to deal with the many things I was doing. I’ll be pointing out these deep dives are needed because they are becoming a problem area in revenue generation. They need to see where they can focus their efforts and I need to be able help them do that.
Additionally, we may be losing another staff member. She has an interview this coming week. Although it hurts us, I hope she gets it. She has expressed a great deal frustration with how things are being run. Again, I cannot take on her customers. One of the junior analysts will have take her customers on. We’ve been grooming them to step in when needed, so this gives them opportunity to do so, and apply for her position if she leaves.
Mostly work around the house so tomorrow I can go to a Blessing of the Bikes via a scenic route that may include three states. Not that big of a deal really; from this corner of PA just getting groceries can involve three states.
Wow, so much general ickiness lately. ((( Hugs))) to those who could use one. I’m posting from the phone, and I’m afraid I’ll be logged out if I take the time to bold everyone’s names after checking the spelling!
Finally finished planting the kitchen garden during the Great Out®age, with “help” from the Littles. Already planning to put in raised beds for next year, because I’m too old for all of the bending! Hopefully the produce will be worth it.
Took all 3 of the girls to the arts festival at the university today - the 4-year-old: “Wow! I didn’t know college was so much fun!” Also met the boy with whom the 15-year-old did not go on a date last night. (Coffee and the comic book shop? Sounds like a date to me. And said young man high tailed it to the festival when he found out she was there. And brought chairs over to the shade for us oldsters when we wandered over to listen to the band.) Gotta have another talk about dating parameters - the rule is not chiseled in stone, but Girl 2.0 is only allowed on date-like activities in groups, and may only ride with a parent - her own, or parents we know. But the kid seems nice, and he doesn’t have a man bun, and we actually do know his mother. So there’s that. And I think that he likes G2.0 more than she likes him, and that’s probably also good.
Supper is running so far behind tonight. Breakfast it is!
Sounds like you’ve got it down. 
Just got a call. The Gramma of one of the couple we “officiated” for passed away. We’re changing our plans for Knoebels so we can visit and hug and try to make them feel somewhat better.
And while I’m thinking of my prayers and all – continued prayers for Swampy and all of his kin as well.
Things are not going well.
My condolences to all, for what they are worth.