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
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
hippocampus - Jul 10, 2014 8:38:13 am PDT #1655 of 30000
not your mom's socks.
-t - Jul 10, 2014 9:17:47 am PDT #1656 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I had a nectarine this morning. Fruit for all!
meara - Jul 10, 2014 9:29:36 am PDT #1657 of 30000
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.
sarameg - Jul 10, 2014 9:54:41 am PDT #1658 of 30000
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.
DavidS - Jul 10, 2014 9:55:37 am PDT #1659 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Happy Sox Day! Fill yourself with treats!
Jesse - Jul 10, 2014 9:57:33 am PDT #1660 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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.
My last job was kind of like that anyway, and people knew the vacation was use-or-lose. But damn, it was hard to get anything done in August.
Jesse - Jul 10, 2014 9:58:39 am PDT #1661 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Also, I had a piece of (what I now know to be) pulled pork and mango pizza for lunch. Fruit!!!
-t - Jul 10, 2014 9:58:55 am PDT #1662 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That is a difficult situation, sarameg, when your recourse is to hurt someone you don't want to hurt and not the ones who are screwing you. Good luck.
-t - Jul 10, 2014 9:59:40 am PDT #1663 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
meara, google tells me squash is a fruit.
Connie Neil - Jul 10, 2014 10:01:14 am PDT #1664 of 30000
brillig
Is anyone here a member of AAA? Now that my vehicular resource is gone, I'm wanting someone I can call if weirdness happens when I'm driving home. Is it worth the money?