Aw.

I just got the most ridiculous email about the work "outing" we're having next week. For one thing, we have to pick between chicken salad or tuna salad sandwiches. Maybe I don't want to eat a mayo-based sandwich that's been sitting around all morning? At least we found out from our mole on the committee that we won't actually have to come back to the office after the outing ends at 3:30.

job~ma to Kathy A and Jilli, and safe~ma to Trudy and Jess!

For one thing, we have to pick between chicken salad or tuna salad sandwiches.

That is just weird. Haven't they heard of a sandwich tray?

I just found out that my raise, which was supposed to be retro-active to July 1 will probably not be, as the law prevents someone from going salaried retro-actively. Or something (I am not clear, and I am hearing about it fifth hand). Hey- big!Boss, perhaps you should check with someone before promising me that repeatedly. Perhaps I should tell HR I am going to sue because I worked like a salaried person for the two months when I was told it was just a formality!. Thankfully, I am less annoyed than I could be, because I work for a university and the bureacracy is craxy AND managers are not business people with real-life training, they are professors and nurses and such, so they don't check things out.

You should consider yourselves all under orders to keep your jobs!

While I was making lunch, my shipment from Amazon arrived -- I CAN HAZ TEXBOOKS!1!! Now I feel like a real student and everything, although my university ID won't be ready until Tuesday.

Alright, where in the theater district can I have brunch before a show? This should not be so tricky!!!!

That is just weird. Haven't they heard of a sandwich tray?

This is what I'm saying. I'm going to bet the sandwich tray we order for meetings is too expensive to waste on the staff. Maybe I'll just pick up something normal on the way over to the park. We have to bring our own chairs and blankets, too.

For one thing, we have to pick between chicken salad or tuna salad sandwiches.

Dude. While not providing anything for people with voluntary or medical dietary restrictions is lame, I don't often trust other people to prepare and store mayo-salady foodstuffs.

There are certain members of my family whom I love but would not eat their potato salad for fear of food poisoning.

You know what's not fun? Walking to the cafe with your boss and having her say "Yeah, I don't know anything. Everything may be fine, but if you want to start looking at what openings there are on other teams, everyone has permission to." I mean, I'd already started scoping out the internal job board, but still! Not Reassuring, BossLady!

Oh, jeez, Jilli. Good luck.

I don't often trust other people to prepare and store mayo-salady foodstuffs.

Not to be eaten outside!! I mean, seriously.

I figure the asking you to choose a sandwich in advance is to cut costs on food that isn't eaten ... but those don't sound like good choices. Unless their clever plan is to save lots of money by having people bring their own.

It did just occur to me that I could just bring my own turkey sandwich...