Not literally, I hope. Share an office? Share a cubicle? Please tell me people don’t have to share their desk space! I hope it’s a regionalism I know not of.
Not at the same time, no. We’re trying out desk sharing/hot desking and it’s not proving to be very popular. Desk sharing is pretty predictible. I’ll have this desk everyone Wednesday and you’ll have it every Thursday. With hot desking you just reserve a desk for a particular day. Will you be able to get the same desk? Maybe. It’s not popular because nobody wants to share space with someone else even if it isn’t at the same time. I’m fortunate in that respect because most employees can’t even get into my area let alone share a desk with me. I’ve got too much access to confidential employee information to just have anyone in my space.
Y’all are making me very grateful that my work gave our office space to another department when we went wfh so we couldn’t go back if we wanted to.
One key to a long and happy life is ignoring those who trash our favorite foods (or urge us to consume “miracle” foods).
The real “Poisonous P’s” are patronizing, prissy, petulant, pedantic, peevish, pleasure-denying pissants.*
*who probably will pass away prematurely, rather than their pathetic diet permitting them to live to 120.
You deserve it! They had their chances. An evil laugh and a well-timed “I told you so” would also be justified. 
Got a bit of a rant of my own, here. I just heard from my daughter. She works in admissions for a preschool in Manhattan. She had originally been shooting for a position with a university, such as UConn or some such place, but not having established any experience in academia at any level, she took her current position as a sort of “paying her dues” experience.
Today, she learned that six people in her office (which may seem like a lot for a preschool, but the school has four campuses) are being furloughed, effective next Monday, through January 6. Two staff members (including her) are being asked to come in two days per week. She will be able to claim partial unemployment benefits, and she expects to resume pursuing a position with a university on her free days.
Sure helps November be even more sucky, though.
They have a big disclaimer on their website about “surprise billling”, which as far as I can tell is related to, say, being in-network for surgery but the anesthesiologist isn’t - stuff like that. The outpatient MRI wouldn’t fall under that heading, I gather, since I’d have had the opportunity to double check and go elsewhere. It didn’t OCCUR to me to check - this is a fairly major hospital group (one of the only alternatives to Inova, which DC-area people will recognize) and our insurance has a pretty broad network; the surgeon I met with last month was billed as in-network.
I had an interesting phone call with someone associated to the insurer today, though. They found some way that it should be reprocessed as in-network. Supposedly, this means they’ll pay another 500 bucks or so and I won’t be on the hook for anything (hit my out-of-pocket limit months ago).
We’ll see what happens with the ultrasound, which is scheduled for Sunday of all things. I expect the same issue will occur.
And it all supports my being pissed off at how wacky medical bills are, and how fictional (e.g. a bill for 40,000 for my gallbladder surgery, and they paid maybe 2,000). How can that be legal???
Also called “hotelling”. My company went to that approach nearly 30 years ago - since we’re consultants, relatively few people are at the company offices at ALL (as in, in the past 15+ years I’ve likely spent less than 20 days in my corporate offices).
This approach SUCKS if you are doing anything in the office that takes more than a day or two. With my company, you literally CANNOT reserve a space for more than a day - which means that even if you’re in-office long-term, you need to lug all your crap to/from work every. single. day. Yes, there are “hotelling drawers” available… so you just have to lug most of your crap to/from the drawer, but you still have to take the laptop home.
It’s been over 10 years since I’ve had “an office” to go to - and that was at a client site. At least there I could leave most of my stuff at my very own desk. I had to bring my laptop to/from. Since I drove to/from work, that wasn’t a huge hassle; when I took the Metro, it would have been much worse.
Grabbed a bottle of spray cleaner to wipe down the bathroom counter. For some fucking reason either the lid is damaged or it was loose because the bottle fucking dropped to the ground, pouring out half the contents all over the fucking floor.
It’s a bitch to clean up.
I moved to a new apartment a few months ago. Instead of central heat, it has a radiator in each room. Instead of a central thermostat, each radiator has its own dial. Instead of temperatures, the dials are marked Off, Lo, Med, and Hi. I assumed that if I set the dial to anything other than off, the radiator would heat up the proper amount and pump out heat. I was wrong. With the radiators in the hallway and the living room set to Lo, the apartment was 63 degrees. I do not get cold esily. So, I was mostly okay. However, I have found that keep my apartment too cold, my skin gets dry and cracked and my psoriasis gets really bad. I also discovered that I cannot get hot water out of the bathroom sink. I have tried turning uo the radiators. The one in the living room is set to Hi and the one in the hallway is set to Med. The result? Over the past two days, the temperature in my place has gone up to 67. This may be coincidence. I do not know.
I only know what the temperature in my place is because I posted on Facebook asking for a thermometer I could hang on the wall.
I turned 63 today.
I’m not sure if that’s a mini rant (how in hell am I this old?!?! I should be 12!) or a celebration that I’m still chuggin’ along, doing pretty well all in all.
You may be encouraged to know that science has proven that people who have more birthdays live longer.
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Aw, you’re just a baby!
Correlation not causation/s.
Friday The 13th-The Series
For those unfamiliar- The series has nothing to do with the movies. The owner of an antique shop made a deal with the devil. The shop would do great business, but everything it sold would be cursed. The owner died and now the people who inherited the store are trying to get the cursed objects back and lock them safely away.
The show is wonderfully cheesy fun. Comet airs the show starting at 11 AM every Sunday. Sometimes, it is just two episodes. Sometimes, the block runs until it is time to go to bed.
But not today. Today for some reason Comet is showing an X Files marathon. This disappoints me. I have been looking forward to Friday The 13th The Series all week. It is definitely worth a mini rant.
Maybe next month they’ll have a Friday the 13th marathon…ON FRIDAY THE 13TH!
The New X-Files
They are showing the second series, not the classi one.I am watching because there is no better alternative on the channels I get. As a couch potato, I refuse to turn off the tv.
The new series stinks. Without spoiling-
The episode they just showed took place in Philadelphia. I have lived in the City Of Brotherly Love for over two decades. The episode placed Philly in Bucks county. Philadelpia is in Philadelphia county. If you go north from Philadelphia, you end up in either Montgomery county or Bucks county depending on exactly where you go north from. The episode depicted Bucks county as an urban area paked with tall buildings. Bucks county, AFAIK is a suburban area. I have never lived in Bucks (I did live in Montgomery for some time), but I have visited it many times. I have never seen anything but suburbia.
Yeah, but you can cross “clean bathroom floor” off your To-Do list.
Dunno, but … happy birthday!
I remember that show; it was good.