omg, my boss is trying to kill me with unhelpfulness.
I explain a situation and ask for help from people - I bcc him.
He sends me back NO ANSWERS, but questions, and not questions that help resolve the issue at all.
Also? He wants to give hams to employees for the Holidays. I mean, I guess, it is food and maybe good for most people, but I am so used to being around multiple food restrictions - that REALLY? ham. I can't eat it - no one Jewish or Muslim could - no Vegetarians - no one on Sodium restrictive diet. Of course I would be the only one to object. I will just donate to a food bank, I guess.
Oh Lisah, how sad.
msbelle, any way to talk him into gift cards instead? Even for people who can eat ham, it's not everyone's taste.
You can send me the ham, no problem.
FWIW, even The HoneyBaked Ham company sells things that are not ham, so a gift certificate there could do both things. (Although I'm sure the boss likes the idea of rolling up with a truck full of hams and handing them out like Santa.)
Very sad, lisah.
We have an everyone buys for everyone Xmas, but it's understood that little gifts are just fine for the various extended family members. Siblings too tend to get smaller gifts. It's really only the kids (my two and their two cousins) who get the big gifts. Oh! And there's a baby on Cody's side, she'll be a big gift magnet in a year or two.
Although I'm sure the boss likes the idea of rolling up with a truck full of hams and handing them out like Santa.
Yep, I think that is the idea, since the drivers and foreman get paid by the hour and in the winter the work really slows down. STILL and I cannot emphasize this enough, despite the environment and culture that this is low-level work and they are all somehow scrapping by, the drivers' base pay IS MORE THAN MINE. Uneducated and blue collar does not equal economically down trodden.
everyone is too quiet. did you all miss the part where I do not want to work today?
So 1 of the issues I need help on is at least getting discussion circulating higher than my pay grade. I love that I was just sent this task to do and when I start asking questions, no one knows how to deal with it and there is not any real agreement on steps to take.
I think you should sing show tunes, msbelle. It would be less quiet and would be not working.
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This is an incredible story. A 5-year-old boy in India gets separated from his older brother in a train station and falls asleep on a train. He wakes up in Calcutta, a long way from home, and has no idea how to get back. Eventually he ends up in an orphanage, and then adopted by an Australian couple. 25 years later, he uses Google Earth and his memories of what his hometown looked like to find where he was from. [link]
Valjean, at last, we see each other plain.
