Good vibes for your mother.

I am hiding in my car because I don't want to go in to this work conference. This is not a long term solution.

Good luck to your mom, Callaluna.

I feel like I just had a strategic victory -- our CEO is taking the office to see Selma this afternoon, and I really want to go, but assumed my boss would think it is a bad idea, given all the work to do. So I went in to her and said I didn't think I should go, and she said I should! So that's good. Now at least I can think about my own workload and actually decide for myself.

Grrr, it's really annoying to get an email from my boss that says "In the future, please do X and not Y," when I check and not only *did* I do X, I copied her on the fucking email in which I did X.

I emailed back to tell her I checked the email, and I did do X, and I copied her, and perhaps there was a misunderstanding on the author's part, and how can I avoid that in the future?

And her reply was "Please do X." AUGH I ALREADY HAVE BEEN DOING THAT WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU.

Steph, I commiserate; that sounds just like my boss.

I admit I am one of those people who really wants to always be right (like, the question "Would you rather be right, or would you rather be happy?" is a no-brainer for me [uh, I am that jerk who would rather be right, because being right MAKES me happy]).

But in this case, it's not so much an issue of being "right," as much as I just don't want my boss to think I'm an incompetent fool who can't follow the proper procedure, when I clearly DID follow the proper procedure.

Good thoughts callaluna.

This came up on the Google hangout the other day. I tend to not think of people in their board names much anymore. Some people it is still all I know, but with Facebook I know most real names and that is how I think of most you. Doubly so if I have met you. Others said they think of us in board names. What say you?

So maybe I change my name here to real name?

Ugh, Tep. Super-annoying. It's got to be one of the great perks of working from home, though, that you don't have to seethe silently to yourself, but can kick things and grumble and yell at the sky about the super-annoying (at least, God knows that's exactly what I do when I have to go in on a weekend and it's all silent and I know I'm totally alone and then I make the mistake of checking my work email).

Callaluna, so much ~ma to your mom, and steady hands and wisdom to her medical team.

Jilli, Copenhagen sounds lovely. Chocolate for breakfast and office windows that open - if you really must work for a living, that's the way to do it.

So maybe I change my name here to real name?

I think I will skip this or it will be like high school all over again with 47 Heather's.

msbelle, I think it varies from person to person? I still think of you as msbelle more than [Realname], but could be persuaded either way.

(OTOH, I actually friended shrift on FB because she had a pink gingham avatar, but had no idea at all who she was and finally had to ask Hec who the hell I'd friended. However, it's an established fact that shrift's birth name is in no way her real name except by accident of birth and legal identity, and that for all actual purposes of selfhood she is shrift.)

I think of people by their board name. On Facebook I mentally translate those names to board names. ETA if I know them.

Surgery~ma for Callaluna's mother.

Copenhagen does sound lovely. I wish I didn't associate it with chaw.

Tep, maybe she just has a mandate to tell everyone to do X whether they already do or not?