My nephew has built a Little Free Library

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That is adorable, DCJ.

Kudos, omnis, on doing your civic duty! I've never been on a jury.

THat's awesome DCJ.

Hope jury duty goes well.

Steph hope you feel better.

This week at work has been like every stereotype and superstition of Friday the 13th and Full Moons plus Black Friday rolled into one. EVERY SINGLE DAY. I can't even. The work computer I use isn't broken, it needs a new monitor, I have a spare one. There was a massive system update to the back end stuff that had almost all of our inventory systems out until 11:30 am or so on Monday and since then the program I use to process orders over the phone doesn't work. They are working on it. There's another issue that's going on (I think from the update) that is causing problems. When you call the help desk there's at least a message for that one going "we know! we know! if you're calling about it hang up!"

So I can't earn money for my dept becuase I can't sell things. Plus I've got customers with special issues. Plus I feel very very rage rage rage agressive, unsympatheic which is NOT what I need. I really need to see Guardians of the Galaxy this weekend. And maybe read a lot of fluffy Due South Fic.

Good luck with the dietician, WS.

omnis, WTHeck is pink noise?

askye, sorry you had a rough day. I hope you get to see some nice, soothing, hilarious explosions.

My coworker/ de facto supervisor left some notes out on a clipboard today, which included the following:

[smonster name]
Constructive criticism
Selective slowdown
Instincts

So, yeah. I don't know what that's about, or when she wrote it, or if there's an unpleasant meeting in my near future, or what. I know I'm a crappy employee, but she's a pretty crappy supervisor. Trying to decide whether to be proactive about it or not. Thoughts?

ugh smonster, hard to not perseverate on that one, but probably not a good thing to perseverate about either. Many hugs for you.

Ugh, that's awk, smonster. Do you think "selective slowdown" means she thinks you're slowing down at your own times/choice as a bad thing, or that she wants you to slow down (as a fewer hours thing, or as a "you're going too fast" thing or as a "we want to bill the client more hours" thing??). Weird.

meara, most likely the first. Which, I don't. I'm just apparently slow as shit.

It sucks. I psyche myself out so much, getting so anxious that I make even more mistakes than I would otherwise. I'm paranoid and afraid of being judged, and I don't get timely feedback (most likely because she's afraid I'll get defensive and upset; I do, sometimes, and I know I need to work on that). I don't know, there are days where I'm like "Just ascend and fire me, already." It's frustrating because we are both good people, and want the company to succeed, but have very different work styles and personalities and she is not trained as a supervisor at all.

Pink Noise: [link]

Kinda like static. But with specific details.

Clicked on the link. Brain says "Here be weird squiggles" and panicked. Tried to read description, triggering Barely Understood the Title of the Article Syndrome.

I hate encountering the inner mysteries of fields I don't know, it's like discovering a wing of a library where I don't know the language of the books and knowing I don't have time to learn it.

What Connie said.