Nothing new, just keep sending out clarifications that indicate they have no idea what they are fucking doing.

And when I think about the amount of vacation I have to burn through rather than be able to use next year as planned I come very close to putting a fist or foot through a wall.

Happy birthday Sox!

I am eating fruit. I ate fruit yesterday too. I might eat fruit tomorrow. Who knows what else I'll do.

I just ate fruit.

It was a currant scone.

I ate a banana this morning. It's a fruit-spiracy.

Thank you for the birthday wishes! It's been a pretty calm morning here. We're sneaking down to Baltimore this afternoon. I am excited. Sarameg, Lisah, Maria, if you all are around, we're not leaving until midday Friday

I had a nectarine this morning. Fruit for all!

I had squash bread? But I guess that's more a vegetable? (YES! I HAD VEGETABLES FOR BREAKFAST!)

And when I think about the amount of vacation I have to burn through rather than be able to use next year as planned I come very close to putting a fist or foot through a wall.

It would serve them right if y'all were like "Oh, in THAT case, we will ALL be on vacation. At the same time. For the next several weeks. OOPS!" Go you with the fomenting.

The only ones it would hurt would be the institute- this is not their fault, and our loyalties lie with our workplace- this is the subcontractor's doing. In 'organizing' we are trying to tread a very thin line of NOT threatening the Institute, but pointing out that *just* the latest vacation policuy change does have severe impacts on the workload in the next 5 months that we're not happy about and will be trying to mitigate, but that is only one of our sources of discontent.

If everyone affected were to take off the month of august to burn through time, the repercussions would be felt at least 18 months out. Not to mention certain parts of operations would have to cease entirely in catastrophic ways.

We don't actually want that to happen.

Happy Sox Day! Fill yourself with treats!