Ooh, nice. What kind of hair salon do you go to, Jesse?

...have we had this conversation before?

OK, I have realized the upside to everything going to shit here: in meetings yesterday and today, both the big boss and the #2 big boss have used curse words! I enjoy that. The #2 big boss just referred to some other people as "assholes" and then apologized to me. Little does she know I've been calling them motherfuckers for a year now!

Ooh, nice. What kind of hair salon do you go to, Jesse?

I go to a little kind of hair salon -- I think it's four chairs? So pretty casual. I was traumatised when my person there left, but I like her replacement even better! If I can get her to let me keep my hair a little longer tonight.

The lasagna I plan to have as a late dinner refuse to be ready.

Evil.

There have been a series of emails floating around that allege the total energy use of a Prius over its lifetime (including its manufacture) is greater than a Hummer. (Mostly because of the greater complexity of the Prius's battery.) Has anyone heard that? This article refutes that pretty well, so if you're curious or need ammo against someone you know....

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Today is one of those frustrating days in which I just have no idea. No, really. I don't know how it is supposed to work. It isn't written anywhere. No one's ever told me anything. I just don't know.

Speaking of hybrid cars, this baby aims to get 330 miles per gallon. It's already at 230.

Question:

I was just summarily dismissed from a job (that I was going to be leaving in a week anyway) with the verbal promise that it would not be made known that I was dismissed.

From what I know of this, my employer doesn't have legal grounds to do this. I was told of two infractions that led to this decision only after the decision was made known to me.

One was when I was unable to complete deliveries due to being ill and the frost heaves out on the roads making me want to puke (I don't think she believed me), the second was being left to manage the shop on my own, the shop being busy, me being the only one to handle phonecalls, increased walk-in customers due to a very sunny day, not getting a chance to check the wired-in floral orders until late in the afternoon, preparing the the floral deliveries for that day, recieving large deliveries in the midst of scrambling to do ten different tasks, being tied on on the phone on hold sorting out miscommunications from wired-in deliveries (customer had a bad credit card but kept wiring in orders). And then of course there's my actual duties as greenhouse manager and watering and cleaning the plants and talking to nursery customers.

In short, having to juggle by myself what three or four other people usually handle, some things got missed. In my defense, those things that were missed were also missed by my manager.

I was blamed for not reading the special instructions for an order due on a day I was not to be working, and I am (was) NOT the florist, damnit! I was frantic and harried and she had spent the day shopping for tacky knick knacks and sampling gourmet bread. So she called it a financial loss since the orders were not able to be fulfilled.

Okay, so sure, I have a lot of excuses but it was still a big mistake, on both our parts.

And I only had a week left.

And I can really use the time to shop for an apartment for my new job.

And I feel bad that I lost her customers which had her groveling on the phone trying to make things right, and that my going home sick meant she had to finish my job instead of doing hers (she should really hire a fucking delivery person, and about five other staff).

And I'm pissed at myself for just taking it and not arguing with her about the insane workload.

So, um, I guess my question is, should I just forget it and trust that she won't do anything to besmirch me, is it not a battle worth fighting? I did not steal anything, attack a co-worker, do or have drugs at work, or any of the other legal grounds for a summary dismissal.

I'm also wicked curious as to how she thought dismissing me before a huge holiday was the wisest choice, which makes me think there was something else going on. Or maybe I'm just being paranoid.

Crowned Lemur Baby (info: [link] )

It's just about the cutest thing ever. Except, of course, for Buffista babies....

That sucks, Julie. I hate it when employers put employees in impossible situations and then blame the employee.

Realistically, previous employers almost never say anything bad about employees, for fear of lawsuits.