But eveyrthing, every issue, is reported to her on a weekly, if not daily basis. I assume it's reasons beyond my ken why nothing actually gets fixed about the situation."

Which is about as tactful way as possible to lay the blame on your manager.

Check out this way to separate eggs.

I've done it! It's fun.

Wow, you guys, I really feel like hell. I went back to bed and slept for three hours, which is really not like me. Now I'm making avgolemono for dinner. I may actually stay home again tomorrow and not even go to my interview.

Is it bad that I have a hard time believing this? But think its almost o GoodStuff worthy. Which is sad.

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I believe I've mentioned before the small-world fact that I know the guitar player/music director for Sugarland, or, as we call it, the Antichrist. (Sometimes knowing too much about band members is not a good thing.)

I love Sugarland. Glad I am living in ignorant bliss.

Huh.

Can I get some information from the hivemind about when/if I should fire my realtor? Has anyone here done it? He is a seller's agent and I'm trying to get a sense of whether I need to investigate the services of another realtor or not.

I've wondered about it, but not done it. What are your concerns?

I have never fired a realtor, though I seriously considered it when selling our house 4 years ago. I kinda regret not shopping around.

In ME news, just had my annual physical. All systems look good, pending results from the 5 viles of blood that was drawn. I also got a flu shot. Wheeeee.

I love my doc. I definitely got more than 15 minutes of her undivided attention. We talked through all my issues and I was the one who brought up the weight issue. She pointed me to a neat free app to track calories - my fitness pal. I'll give it a shot. I also need to get back to regular karate group class twice a week. Now that I should be past the mega-OT I've been working, I plan to return to day class.

I'm sort of confused that you have a manager who is not your boss?

My boss is the Senior Director who owns my group and a few other groups, and he has direct input into a number of our projects. My manager recently got promoted to have me report to her (her official title is Project Manager which is just a way to get her paid more money). She is the one who gets the day to day stuff, because she doesn't have departments reporting to her.

Man, we're on a call now, and people give me shit for not making sense some times, but...they're saying things that are wrong. We tested it with 30 users, not hundreds. At least my gibberish is correct.

So ita, you are the one who has to shoulder the blame when the developers fail to do what they are supposed to do but you haven't been given the authority to compel them to do it? How the hell does that work? That can't possibly lead to work getting done.