There's more work I need to do. But I think I'll bring my laptop home tonight and fire it up whenever hockey is stressing me out too much that doing work actually seems like an appealing option.

My first day of work went pretty well. Everyone was nice and welcoming. The workload doesn't look too crazed, although my first impression of the LMS's backend is not entirely positive.

Yay for a good first day, Calli!

Past Me keeps doing stupid stuff Future Me has to fix.

sorry, Lee, I could not manage it on a weekend and the voucher expires Friday, but I will report back if it is a must to try)

YAY I am glad you are using it, and that I can stop feeling guilty about not driving to Napa.

No guilt! And it was very good, would lunch again. Dessert was a crazy concoction of lime ganache, coconut foam, mango sorbet and pop rocks that I am still tasting delightedly.

Good God woman, if you want to leave the office stop asking me questions and GO HOME. You don't have to ask three times to make sure I don't need the door locked, or the kitchen light turned off, or the copier turned off, etc. I've closed this office up all by myself thousands of times before you started working here, the place won't burn down if you're not the last one to leave for one night.

Boss man dismissed our corporate volunteers 45 minutes early, stating they had finished their project, and when I questioned him, he admitted that they hadn't finished the project. WTF?! So instead of being ready to plant, we have hours of work left, because we don't have 8 extra hands that could have gotten it done in ten or twenty additional minutes. And they still would've gotten out early. He actually said to me in the morning that he was all about wasting their time and making projects take longer just to fill up the time, rather than, you know, getting more stuff done. He disrespects volunteers capabilities and contributions, and simultaneously wants to give them a party experience so they leave happy and wanting to come back with friends. It seems contradictory to me. If he gates them so much, shouldn't he discourage them by working them hard? Which it wouldn't, you fucker, because they are awesome and not lame and will take on what we dish out and be proud. Because that's my experience if the past five years, the "bring it on" attitude. Here he is bringing out the kid gloves and being all delicate about it and shooting ourselves on the foot.

Oh, and ED made another blanket statement of "don't be cranky, be kind" and boss man, bless him, called him on it. Saying that such statements made us all feel guilty whether we were at fault it not. ED replied that it wasn't his fault if our parents had instilled that mindset and that it worked to his favor if we were constantly second guessing ourselves. Wow, fuck you too.

Bossman then requested that the ED at least follow up the vagueness with private meetings involving the actual offenders. ED said of "course, he always does, don't we trust him? ". Me, probably one of the offenders, couldn't help blurting "No".

Dessert was a crazy concoction of lime ganache, coconut foam, mango sorbet and pop rocks that I am still tasting delightedly.

That sounds AWESOME

Was the ED stranded on an island and raised by monkeys?