{{{Nora}}} My clean slate meeting seems to have worked, so I hope yours will, too.

Sorry, Nora. I would rather NOT be right in this instance.

I'm sorry, Nora. I hope your interview is great and you get into a position that you love!

What Soon-to-be-MomCookie said!!

Arrrrgh. When my company entered a partnership deal with a large pharma co, my role was finding a good, secure, easy-to-use file sharing site. We decided on Egnyte.com and we are having MULTIPLE issues. Issues so bad that I now have to find another site. Like, immediately. And do the set up and data migration over the holidays. Thankfully really only our QA groups have been using the site, and there's not that much I'll have to move. But still.

Anyway I write this here in the hopes that one of you has a site you use for work that you LOVE? I am looking at box.net and filesanywhere.com right now.

We use FilesAnywhere and it's fine. "Love" would be a strong word, but we've never had any real problems with them.

I'm not the one who deals with them directly, but they seem to be very responsive to feature requests and we haven't had any issues with downtime. (Our biggest problems come from clients who don't tell us that their corporate firewalls block FTP and then complain that they can't download the clips.)

Jess, thanks for the feedback!!

(You might want to also post that in Tech, java.)

Oh, Nora. I hate those meetings. I still twitch when I think about the time one of my more asshat supervisors said that he'd been irritated all year that I didn't bring my calendar to meetings. I didn't see any need for it, because I knew my immediate schedule and I'd put any dates in my notes and enter them in Outlook. I, on the other hand, had been irritated all year that he was the last person in the department not using the Outlook calendar system, which had made him miss several important meetings.

He was the same supervisor whom I would ask for help, since I had had an ever-growing website added to my existing duties, and he's say, "Well, everyone's plate is pretty full." Then when something was late a few weeks later, he'd say, "Why didn't you ask for help?"

Thanks Ginger, I shall.

I just sent my boss an email thanking him for his feedback, appreciating the fact that he continued to hold the conversation with me while I was in tears, and offering to start the new year early by readjusting my attitude to expectations as of today.

Basically, the only thing I really meant was the thing about continuing conversation while I was crying, but I hope the other two will help me, in a "fake it till I make it" kind of way.

Nora, sorry about the job problems. sigh ....

On the lighter side, an appropriate gingerbread construction for us.