Oh, and I am a little stressed because of a work drama that has almost nothing to do with me, except that I want to bop my friend in the nose.

My BFF's brother worked here before I did, and he is an hourly educational media manager. He helps people with blackboard and teaches us how to do things, and also set ups media equipment in classrooms and edits video and sound etc. He is really great, but has no sense of urgency and cannot remember anything. Seriously, I tell him he should make a list, or put things on his calendar, but it never fails that if you need something, it will mean nagging and nagging.

The problem is, he has no idea that people are dissatisfied with him and his output. I think his manager has never told him or he has never heard it correctly or something.

So, they hired a person with the title "Production Assistant", to help people pedogogically with their courses in blackboard. My friend is under the impression from his boss that this is not a higher position, just different. However, I was applying for the job and it is actually 2 grades higher than he is, and requires a masters degree (friend has no degree) but my friend thinks he is this person's manager and is annoyed that this person isn't reporting to him. But new person has no idea! In reality, I think this person might have been brought in to replace him, but he is totally not seeing it!

Now he is very angry because a THIRD person has been assigned to manage both of them and he thinks he should be the manager, but he can't really manage himself outside of a paperbag! But his boss needs to tell him that, not me. I only know how frustrated the faculty are because I am on the online learning committee as the staff representative and complaining about how bad IT support is is their #1 priority AND because my boss requested he be put on a performance improvement plan for a certain thing that he did not handle well. So now my friend is going to talk to his boss and he's angry and I imagine may quit in a huff when he really needs to keep his head down and do some improvement on his time management and customer service skills.

Oh, god, yeah. When my glasses fall off the nightstand while I'm asleep and I have to find them in the morning blind? Terrible.

I should really get rid of my landline as it is way too expensive and I could easily do without. It's been my standard contact number, though, and I'm dreading having to change that with everyone who has my number for non personal reasons. I should just do it and let everyone who tries to call me contact me by other means when they can't reach me.

ETA Oh dear, Sophia.

Sophia, that sounds like a mess not dissimilar to the statr of my own department.

Wow that was super long and not that clear, but the situation is hard to explain. I am just so frustrated because he cannot see the situation at all, and I think his boss is a people pleaser who tries to hint things to him. This is complicated by the fact that his boss is his brother's BFF. But anyway, someone, long ago, should have counseled him on his small frustrating behaviors and instead I feel like it is going to come to this big horrible head that ends with him quitting with no job prospects and never being able to get another job!

Yeah, he definitely needs a better manager and also better work!

We dropped the land line five or so years ago, and haven't missed it a bit.

I have the most magical glasses case, that came with my primary set of frames, which are bifocals, my regular distance glasses for driving, and computer range for reading the dashboard. They have magnetic clip-on sunglasses that precisely fit the frames. The case has a soft slipcase that velcros into the lid, where the sunglasses clip-ons live when they're not in use. And if I'm wearing my single-lens computer glasses, the bifocals are in the case. If I'm wearing my regular glasses, the computer glasses are in the case. There's also a microfiber cloth for lens cleaning tucked into the case. The case exterior is getting pretty banged up and disreputable looking, but I haven't found another like it, nor even a hard clamshell case large enough to velcro the slipcase into the lid and still close the case over either folded pair of glasses. I just keep my fingers crossed the old one doesn't fall apart.

That is a mess, Sophia. I hope that some workable resolution is reached.

Pix, any update this morning on the pups?

Ooh, that does sound like the Perfect Glasses Solution, Beverly! I am holding my breath on needing bifocals, but so far, so good.

I need new glasses. I'm down to the one pair.

I am awash in anxiety and I NEED to get over it and get to work. Ugh. My poor kids, I wish they didn't have to be near me when I'm like this. I'm in the other room in the hopes of keeping it away from them.

For now, taking things one item at a time: laundry to dryer, new load in washer, up to Liz's, then home to make lunch and take the kids (by bus) to the dentist.

That's a little harsh for kicking around a lighter. But glad he's doing well.

Heh. I didn't even scold either of them over the disposal mishap (they both know they're not supposed to be up on the countertop, and steer clear when I'm present), but Jackson did manage to speed up the timetable of his surgery considerably via a newly-acquired hobby of peeing on the furniture.