If they short staffed the office during your transition, the onus is on them not you, Sail.
Wow, you've really mastered the power of positive giving-up.
Cordelia ,'End of Days'
Spike's Bitches 48: I Say, We Go Out There, and Kick a Little Demon Ass.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Burrell - May 29, 2015 6:39:17 am PDT #19568 of 30002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
SailAweigh - May 29, 2015 6:45:26 am PDT #19569 of 30002
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Oh, no. This employee put in for her vacation before I even interviewed for the new position. If it had been the other way, I probably would have said too bad, so sad. I'm also pretty sure my boss wouldn't have approved it just because of that.
eta: As an admissions office, we are very picky about when we let employees take vacation; office coverage is vital, especially at the start of the semester when everyone wants to enroll.
Hil R. - May 29, 2015 7:16:20 am PDT #19570 of 30002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Heh. One of my friends has a four-year-old son, and she read somewhere that a good game for them for learning phonics is to spell words on the fridge with alphabet magnets, and then have them see if they can replace one letter with a new letter to make a new word. After she'd given him a few words, he decided to try it with his name. His name is Tucker.
Dana - May 29, 2015 8:16:18 am PDT #19571 of 30002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Whoops.
sj - May 29, 2015 8:29:26 am PDT #19572 of 30002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Hee!
One iron infusion down, four to go.
Scrappy - May 29, 2015 2:02:04 pm PDT #19573 of 30002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
The contractor started work on our bathroom today. Months ago, when the floor tile started cracking, I told DH I thought the toilet was leaking. I said we could re-seat the toilet and maybe a couple of floor tiles. He was certain it was the floor joists and would cost too much to fix so we had to live with it. Cut to last month, when the floor had shifted so much that tiles were beginning to crumble and we could only get the door open about 10 inches and had to slide in sideways.
We decided to redo the whole thing, which is going to cost about $12,000.00. They demo-ed the floor tile today discovered that the leak was... yup, coming from the toilet. AS I SAID.
The bright side is that I never liked the beige bathroom tile, and it's going to be gorgeous when it's done. We'll be paying for it for a couple of years, but what the hell, we only have one bathroom.
Zenkitty - May 29, 2015 2:05:49 pm PDT #19574 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Scrappy, I would not have said "I told you so" but I would have expressioned it loudly. I'm a bad person.
Scrappy - May 29, 2015 2:11:56 pm PDT #19575 of 30002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I didn't have to "I told you so." I asked, "So where was the leak coming from?" "The toilet. You were right all along." "Huh."
sj - May 29, 2015 2:12:37 pm PDT #19576 of 30002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Smart husband to admit he was wrong, at least.
Zenkitty - May 29, 2015 2:15:40 pm PDT #19577 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Points to him!