God, I love that standard British breakfast. Minus the eggs, because I hate them, but beans, tomatoes (grilled or not), bacon, some sort of breadstuff...

I've finally found a place nearby that stocks Heinz Vegetarian Beans. Beans, toast, tomatoes, and some sort of potato thing makes my perfect breakfast. Maybe mushrooms too, but I can take or leave them.

I like to toast some bread and cheese and then put the beans on.

Soooooo good.

OK, upon reflection, it's possible my boss had a point. But I still hate getting dressed down for doing something I've done for years in previous jobs and hadn't been told not to do in this one.

Basically, I hate being in a subservient role and having my powerlessness rubbed in. But I don't want to be the boss, either, because why would I want to treat others in a way I hate being treated?

Please, God, let the WIP be the book that finally sells, and let me be one of those lucky ones who gets to quit her day job. Because I can't live like this for the rest of my life. I hate it.

Honestly - I don't see how someone reply-alling without double and triple checking the cc list is ever anyone else's fault but theirs. Sure, it happens, but it's hardly such a new phenomenom that adult people should get a pass on it.

I don't understand "reply all" being a default choice. I almost never reply to all.

Honestly - I don't see how someone reply-alling without double and triple checking the cc list is ever anyone else's fault but theirs. Sure, it happens, but it's hardly such a new phenomenom that adult people should get a pass on it.

Yes, this. Reply All is not anyone else's fault!

Beans, toast, tomatoes, and some sort of potato thing makes my perfect breakfast.

I tested my first breakfast potatoes recipe this weekend, and I'm thinking I need to expand that breakfast to include some of this stuff (and, well, meat).

Well, in fairness to my boss, "dressing down" is an exaggeration. I think from her perspective it was more like "explain why this caused a problem and offer suggestions to prevent it from being an issue in the future." It's just my own big giant Issues that made me go into simmering fury over it.

I just don't want to be doing this kind of work anymore, I really don't. And until my new boss got here, this job WASN'T this kind of work, at least not so much. I was the only organized person around, so I felt like I had power in all my organizing and paper pushing. Now, well--I feel like my boss's assistant, even though my cards still say "Operations Manager."

Stephanie, do you know the name of the beach we went to on Sunday?

Well, it's called something del Opisbo and translates to "Bishop's Crook" (like a shephard's crook - the hook thing they use to get the sheep back). I can't remember what the word for "crook" is in Spanish.