Congrats on the gig, **Muppet ** Remember all of us here when you’re rich and famous…
Taters, I’m in with the rest of the “dump the worst of the worst work on the new cow-irker!”
**Lili **-- belated happy birthday to Nat, and some {{{}}} to go along with that…
Hi, STG! Long time no see!
**Nava **-- I know what you mean about the time, but why should you be paying the phone company? I assume that the number you dial to get Toshiba’s Customer “Service” is, if not toll-free, at least in Britain…?
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Well, do something dirty, anyway…
SnowBunny, you’re selling yourself short. BooFae said she’d be getting 32 p – that’s a whole, whopping, half dollar!!! (well, *roughly *half a dollar, anyway.)
There’s no such thing as a rich and famous food writer, unfortunately.* If I’m really lucky, the best I can hope for is to make a full-time gig of it someday… but I’m fully aware that it’s a bit of a pipe dream given how much competition there is out there.
swampus, I forgot to mention that I’m rooting for you. Tough times all 'round in telecom, but hopefully they’ll be content with cutting out a few layers of management and won’t touch the folks who do the real work (aka - you).
The only exception to this rule is Julia Child… but she was truly one of a kind in every possible way.
I grumble, grouse, cuss and generally become a big ol’ grump when I’m “puttin’ up” all those veggies in the Summer. However, it sure is nice to have fresh (although frozen) green beans and summer squash in January. The veggies along with the pork tenderloin I grilled yesterday and heated up today made a nummy dindin. Oh and I did thoughtfully steam the veggies instead of servin’ veggiesicles.
Muppet let ‘em tell me I’m laid off. I’ll show ‘em! I’ll march right down to that unemployment office, I will! Seriously, I’m at the point I wouldn’t really care. A lot of us are feelin’ that way lately, which is a weird way to feel in this economy but that’s the way it seems most people feel. I mean, our customers are gettin’ good care and all but it’s really gotten to be a " here or not here, either way I’m good" attitude at work.
OHMIGAWD!!!111 Our very own Muppet could be the next Julia Child!!!111
Well, apparently Monday waited until Tuesday to slime me. I wound up working 90 minutes over. They took my co-analyst away, but didn’t change the requirements. I’ll have to go in early tomorrow to get my spreadsheet modified and ready to go before 10. None of it is hard, but because of some of my software, it takes a loooooong time to do some simple things. Pain in the patoot.
We had a second spring-like day in a row. Snow is melting with proper rapidity. I don’t think we have any left in our yard, and only the shadiest ditches still have some left. The monster-sized piles in parking lots are mostly gone, or appreciably shrunk. Glad the snow has decided to descend upon **snowbunny **and not on me.
It was tough at work, too. Had things worked out differently, I would have been retiring on Friday. Although that really would have been silly. I’d go out of my mind being home all day. I’d have to work. And if I’ve got to work, I may as well stay where I am. The surroundings are nice, most of my coworkers are OK, and the pay is worth staying for. And it’s only 6 more years… <sigh>
swampy, keep us posted about work.
Nat’s fine, although he was weirdly unrelentingly horrible during dinner and we’re thinking about selling him for parts. And I need five drinks, but I’m pregnant. Going to eat leftover birthday cake and then go to bed early, and put him out on the lawn tomorrow morning with a sign saying “Free” around his neck.
Wow! Hubby called me at work and asked me to pick up a couple of ingredients for dinner on the way home. He’s cooking! Woot!
As for the new employee, my evil plan is to kill her with kindness. I will be nothing but pleasant, professional and polite. She’ll be there for awhile, so she’s just going to have to get used to working there. I won’t be handing anything off to her for awhile, unfortunately; she’s got some training for the other part of her job to complete first.
All the same, it was a long day. I had a very frustrating conversation with full bird Colonel at the end of the day. I managed to remain pleasant and polite and finally told him that neither of us had the time to get into the semantics of how an organization is set up and run. Bottom line, his department was funded for some equipment, the Army now wants to know if there’s been some pay off for it, and it’s his department’s responsibility to create and pursue the performance metrics. It’s not my job to run to Logistics or Budget; it’s his staff.
I compromised and did talk to the Budget Chief, but sent an email to his staff telling them that they need to track down when the equipment arrived, was set up, and when they shipped the other equipment to other MTFs. This will probably cause some consternation. I did this with my boss’s blessing, so I shouldn’t feel too much fall out.
Let us know how things go for you** Swampy**. I’m thinking good thoughts.
Not huge but better than I feared – without specifics, 5%. Not that that means it’s too much, but it’s going to make a small but noticeable difference. And I’ve been told that I’m better at my job than I think I am. smug
I’d love to keep the snow up here. Thursday looks promising for it. We’ll see whether it happens, though. It was so nice to tell people we’d finally gotten a decent amount. (Yes, I know, a decent amount here is a disaster elsewhere. Ha!)
You know, this is the kind of stuff you need to hold onto until he’s somewhere past his teens and can either be publicly embarrassed and/or amused by the information.
Veggies sound yummy, swampy.
Hope the job stuff gets straightened out soon, swampy.
That’s quite a generous raise, snowbunny, especially these days!
Welcome back STG!
Had a fun volunteer meeting tonight then came home and am now watching Scarecrow and Mrs. King, which, it turns out, is available on fancast. I don’t think I watched much of season 1; either that, or I’ve forgotten all of it. It’s still quite amusing. The streaming quality on fancast isn’t as good as hulu, but it’s free, so I can’t really complain.
LiLi, if by staged an intervention, you mean grumbled when he turned on his game tonight, then yes. :rolleyes: He’s having a rough week at work, so I’m going to let it slide for the next few days. We’ll have a chat if he’s still glued to the computer come the weekend. (BTW, did you get my email about brunch?)
Pie, that’s one of the (many) reasons I’m keeping my amateur status. I totally admire anyone who actually takes on a career in food, though… it takes guts.
So the meeting went quite well, I think, and I’m officially on board… well, as much as I could be on board before submitting my first article, that is. I even have business cards… though they’re generic ones with a blank space for me to write my name. Bow before my awesomeness!
Trust me, it sounds like more as a percentage. But it’s welcome. I hate feeling so happy what with the current situation, I really do…but I’ve been in this job for a bit over two years and this is the first raise. I’ve been scraping by, honest. [cheesy announcer voice]Let’s play…Juggle the Bills![/cheesy announcer voice]
My life is so dull there’s not much else going on, but I do want to say, honest, I didn’t mean to brag in here today. It’s just that things have been dicey in general lately, and this is one good thing that happened. And it was totally unexpected.
I forgot to mention I need to take the car into the dealership this week. I’m about 500 miles overdue for an oil change, the check engine light came on, and my brakes are starting to squeal. Hurray for credit cards, right? :rolleyes:
I’m doing okay and the two (of three) classes seem like they’re going to be alright. We’re still doing the budge dance though - five people got dropped from one class so that people graduating this semester could take it (it’s a requirement). Plus of course, furlough days. sigh I have to see the dean too about doing an independent study for my last unit. Hopefully I’ll manage that tomorrow. Tomorrow’s going to be busy.
I’m a bit down right now, probably stress over the car and tomorrow, plus my stomach being all screwy from the Paxil. I’ve been nauseous almost all day and it’s making it difficult to eat. Then of course my blood sugar is screwy and I get the blues.
I am up, decaffeinated and at work. And I lost a pound at Fat Club last night, even after going out for lunch with the girls in the office. And it’s pub night tonight so there are beerverages to look forward to.
My bathroom cabinets are finished and looking fab, they’ve got a coat of primer on them but won’t be painted properly until I decide on the colour I want for the walls. Next job is to get my tiler friend lined up to do the floor and the splashbacks, then I can think about the wals.
'im indoors has threatened to clean the bathroom today as there’s a lot of sawdust all over the place and I wasn’t at home to clean it last night. I suspect that means I’ll have to do it properly later!
In other news, I freecycled my old washing machine yesterday so that’s another thing out of the house.
mmmmmmmmmmms - how soon can you leave the job from Hell and get back to Mr Ems?
Breakfast should be strictly outlawed in favor of brunch. Or at least any breakfast that I have to get up early to make. :o
Muppet, yes, you either have to be super-rich, a super-genius, or a complete and utter moron to make it in this business. Obviously I fall into the third category. :p:D
{{{Swampy}}}{{{ems}}}{{{Taters}}} Been there, done that, got the severance paycheck
Just got off the phone from a technical call with a very nice, but Australian, guy working in the UK. I now understand the meaning of “Two countries separated by a common language…” (my English, while excellent [if I say so myself], is strictly “American.”)
**SnowBunny **-- 5% is nice! Congrats!!
Spaz, yup, I noticed your picture in the Gallery. I might add that I was skimming through it to see if I could match names to the better-looking women’s pictures (so I’m male. Sue me.)
Remember all of us here when you’re rich and famous… 
(well, *roughly *half a dollar, anyway.)
It’s just that things have been dicey in general lately, and this is one good thing that happened. And it was totally unexpected.