Good morning everyone.
It’s currently 58 degrees and dark outside. I guess it’s cloudy too, but I didn’t go outside to look. The high temp is supposed to be around 82 degrees, and rain showers may occur between 6:00 am and 9:00 am. Other than that, the day will be cloudy to partly cloudy.
I am grateful for the cool down. It’s been darn hot for the last several days.
Yesterday was an in-office day, and I was swamped as always. Usually, very few people are in on Mondays, and my boss isn’t there, which I like. However, he came in yesterday, so I chatted with him about some things that bothered me. He seemed taken aback, mainly because I don’t complain at the office (I know! Hard to believe, right?) He explained his reason for not pursuing the training I wanted, and frankly, it was not good enough. He could not explain the SD’s reason for omitting me from a delegation of authority, and I will take that up with her. I heard my boss on the phone with her shortly after our conversation, and the SD called me soon after. Ostensibly, it was to talk about some state meeting crap. She kept asking if there was anything she could do for me, and I finally told her, “Not while you’re on the road, but the next time we’re both at the office, we’ll talk.”
I’m still working on that resume; I already see where this is going, and I’m getting out as soon as possible. I hate this type of work anyway. I hope I see an excellent posting soon. I decided against applying for the Seattle jobs because I didn’t want to commute there. The days would be longer than I have now, and with the constant threat to recall feds to work more from our offices, I am careful about locations. The telework schedule I have right now is pretty nice (but even that will change), and I’m not in a hurry to add more miles, wear and tear to my Jeep. Also not in a hurry to have even longer days than I have now.
For now, I’ll continue to herd cats, shepherd recalcitrant huskies, not lose my mind when another employee forgets how to adult, continue to deal with short-fused data calls, and keep everyone in line.
In other work news, my boss asked if I would meet with them next week and drive to the state meeting place en masse. I told him that I planned to drive from my home to the meeting location and that the MPA and I had already discussed this. They don’t need me there to load up the GOV van. I’m not going to the damn office to work, get sweaty loading stuff, drive to Skamania, and then get to work again. I plan to work a few hours from home, finish packing my stuff, and hit the road; where I will take my sweet time getting there because I will stop for lunch along the way. They get enough of my time. Besides, how many people do you need to load stuff up? The MPA and PIO, and three other management officials will be there. They don’t need me there too. That’s just a waste of time. Besides, I’ll probably be setting up and taking down the meeting materials daily while we’re at Skamania.
Cookie, your rent is far too high to have such crappy (and so few) laundry machines.
I read everything but retained little. I was going to try and keep up via my phone yesterday, but I was just too busy.
Sending hugs, yays and boos as appropriate.
My work station is awful, but our crayons don’t melt.
