I HATE diving in and figuring stuff out. Hate. So badly that I'll just back away and leave it undone.

Greensboro has rocking chairs in the lobby, -t. Don't know about Charlotte.

Wow, Sophia, that is some astonishingly bad policy they had.

Have lunch (including Izze, nom) and have selected 4 squares for the superb owl pool. I think I won something last year, so I probably won't this year, but it's only money.

Greensboro has rocking chairs in the lobby, -t. Don't know about Charlotte.

Charlotte has rocking chairs in one of the concourses, I believe.

Wow, that sucks, Sophia.

I'm ok with diving in and figuring things out if the setup is built for it. I pretty much learned Moodle that way--my (good) manager (not to be confused with the one mentioned earlier) asked me to figure out how to use the learning management system and then how to make it do what we wanted. No micromanaging, no "why didn't you do it this other, more efficient way?" Just figure out how to make X do Y. On the other hand, things like, "take this article you wrote and make it better," don't fly for me unless you tell me what "better" means. More concise? More detailed? Frontload some outcomes in the first paragraph instead of having them flow with the narrative? Write about Tom Hiddleston's career arc instead of public health funding issues? "Better" is useless in this situation.

I would not be able to work where I work if I wasn't okay with diving in and figuring things out, but it's an exhausting way to live and contributes to my constant decision fatigue. And this is why I'm trying to find a role with healthier boundaries.

I just found a file drawer of applications from 2006 to 2010. Company policy says we only have to keep them for one year! And these all have to be shred. By me. Ridiculous.

This nonsense at the office is a big reason I do not want to deal with papers and organizing when I get home.

Beautiful house, Flea! Great news, Sumi! Plei, you may borrow my brother anytime. He's a good guy and he's even a geek, so bonus!

I generally prefer the dive in and figure it out school of learning. It's how I learned Photoshop, how I am learning painting, how I cook... I had the freedom to do that at my last job (oh so many years ago), which was largely why I loved it.

"Make it better". They know they don't like it, they don't know why they don't like it or how to fix it, tell the minion to fix it. Is this Peter Principle?

I generally prefer the dive in and figure it out school of learning. It's how I learned Photoshop, how I am learning painting, how I cook...

I'm perfectly happy to do that on my own, for a hobby or whatever. I'm less likely to do it (even for a hobby) in front of people who can see me fail. And for work? Actually, setting aside my crippling emotional reaction to being set up to fail, it's ridiculously inefficient to just throw me in the deep end, watch me flail, and THEN tell me everything I did wrong, when just telling me what TO do in the first place would have saved so much time on my end AND the end of the person who has to review my work. It makes no sense. But yes, I also hate looking ignorant/lazy in the eyes of the people who pay me, when I'm not actually ignorant or lazy, just woefully lacking in information that I didn't even know existed or I needed.

It's like, if you're told to hem a skirt and so you do, but it's crooked as shit, and THEN you're told "Hey, you need to measure and pin it first so it won't be crooked." Well for god's sake TELL ME FIRST. Then things don't have to be redone. You wasted my time and yours.

Ahem. I am perhaps still a little worked up about this.

I guess it's not that they want you to fail but they get such a warm glow of helpfulness when they gently correct your errors. So many shrieking fights over this.

Timelies all!

Yay flea! Yay sumi!