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.)

Dana looks EXACTLY like Elijah Wood!

I love the baby lellaphant!

When I took this job, I was advised to work at half capacity, and you know, I still am pretty good at my job.