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!

Super cute house, flea! And this is also where I add the obligatory LA rant about how the price of housing in other states make me want to cry.

Listening to everyone cough and sneeze around me is making my lungs hurt.

Charlotte airport has rocking chairs in the main concourse. I know because I've run past them so many times.

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.

Exactly this.

There's one kid (in her 20s) at work who was always teasing me about being old because I'm resistant to jumping in and figuring new things out. It's a waste of time and energy to leave us floundering with new stuff instead of just giving us a set of instructions. It's not because I'm "old" or dumb, it's because I get annoyed at the inefficiency and the unnecessary stress.

Sophia, don't feel too bad, you're not alone. I had a similar experience in my brief stint working as a cashier at the Mart of Wal. I learned from that job that I cannot work retail.

Before I left work, I realized I didn't have any long-cooking food at home for the snow day, so I went to the supermarket. That was amazing. There was almost no produce! So I didn't get any of that, but I did get some pork shoulder, which was most of my plan. So that's good.