In case anyone needs pure mindless consumerist distraction, or a preemptive reward for what looks to be a hellish day, I cannot recommend Zulily enough today - look for the women's shoe sale called "Spring Step & Fly Flot," which is a horrible name but the shoes are all gorgeous and Fluevoggy, with quite a few that look extremely Scrappyish and Leeish and sarameggish and two pairs of extremely Jilli boots.

The bad news from one of our plants the other day was a fatality. Not uncommon in our industry, but really rough and the first one in 2-3 years, I think. bah.

There are a million pieces moving of high level meetings and travel. Several people are out of town and I feel like I am playing in a giant game of telephone/email tag with half conversations going around and people responded over each other because of delays in receiving messages.

Oh msbelle, that's a rough one.

shoes are all gorgeous and Fluevoggy, with quite a few that look extremely Scrappyish and Leeish and sarameggish and two pairs of extremely Jilli boots.

Luckily, they don't sell many shoes in my size. Even having just sold 4 pairs of shoes on ebay, I have way too many, and am going to try not to buy any more this year.

I am supposed to be doing my self assessment for this year's evaluation, and I don't wanna.

Someone was talking to me yesterday talking about how employees were incentivised because you're rewarded for good work, and penalised for bad, and I had to laugh.

I am laughing bitterly.

Signed, the worker who was told she wasn't being considered for a new and more interesting position because "it would take two people to replace you."

Signed, the worker who was told she wasn't being considered for a new and more interesting position because "it would take two people to replace you."

Hah. This is exactly why I had to threaten to quit, to get anyone to pay attention to my desire to be on a different project.

I am reminded of the button anonymously left on my desk when I worked at the Looniversity: "Remember, the better you do, the more they expect."

I have heard rumors that admins will be held hostage in this department and "not be allowed" to move to other departments when there are positions, but I am not sure that the source that info is reliable. A test of that will come soon enough and if it is in fact the case, then I will start looking outside the company hard and fast. No way am I loosing all ability to have a say in my work situation within a company.

Ginger, does that give you a good place for salary or vaction negotiations? Are you in a position to leverage?

Baby jaguars: [link]

Baby jaguars

I'll see your baby Jaguars with baby Cheetahs, [link] and raise you a baby elephant [link]

with baby Cheetahs,

Nutty could totally take those Cheetahs.

(Also, Holly is still an Eskimo and Dana looks like Elijah Wood, and Knut is difficult.)