Hm, bimonthly meeting with Sr. Director has been cancelled. I'll try not to take it personally. But if we don't meet again until September I'll be annoyed if she expects us to remember what we talked about in May. That's a long time between meetings.
'Dear Diary, Today I was pompous and my sister was crazy.' 'Today, we were kidnapped by hill folk never to be seen again. It was the best day ever.'
Jayne ,'Safe'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
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.
-t - Jun 29, 2015 10:29:15 am PDT #29953 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Sophia Brooks - Jun 29, 2015 10:31:10 am PDT #29954 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I have to come up with a WHOLE BUNCH OF PEOPLE to answer a survey about me! This year my boss and I skipped it because we have a new online review process, which we hate, and we were too busy hating it.
-t - Jun 29, 2015 10:34:33 am PDT #29955 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That's kind of nice that your boss hates it with you, at least.
Jesse - Jun 29, 2015 10:39:03 am PDT #29956 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, it's pretty annoying. I'm glad my boss hates it as well, because otherwise I'm pretty sure I'd be looking for three IN ADDITION to my two direct reports.
Sophia Brooks - Jun 29, 2015 10:41:52 am PDT #29957 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
It is. It is too bad my boss does not decide my raise (or even know my salary).
I am actually not certain if we are getting raises. If we are, it will be effective on Wednesday. We usually get a letter detailing the raise, and I haven't gotten one. I wasn't at the last all staff meeting, so maybe they talked about it there and let us know that there were no raises.
brenda m - Jun 29, 2015 10:50:19 am PDT #29958 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
The people with whom I both work a lot and am confident would give me a good grade are pretty senior, so probably overwhelmed with reviews themselves.
Ask them anyway.
Jesse - Jun 29, 2015 10:54:20 am PDT #29959 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Thank you, brenda! I think you are better at leaning in than I am.
Jesse - Jun 29, 2015 10:54:55 am PDT #29960 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I am actually not certain if we are getting raises. If we are, it will be effective on Wednesday.
Oh yeah, same.
shrift - Jun 29, 2015 11:12:08 am PDT #29961 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I think you are better at leaning in than I am.
We are in the process of handing off projects and people have been saying to me, "I will learn from the master!" when I say that I'm comfortable chasing down leadership.
And I don't know what to do with that. Because I guess I have gotten reasonably good at it, but it's because I'm like that cartoon with the dog sitting in a room on fire going, "This is fine."
Theodosia - Jun 29, 2015 11:32:23 am PDT #29962 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I'm watching sparrows hopping around the backyard. There are several just-fledged youngsters, which I can tell because they're spending more time chasing the adults around and doing the flutter-beg than pecking at possible bugs.
One of my passengers yesterday was named Eunique! (OK, without the exclamation point.) And she totally lived up to it, in a non-crazy, non-weird way. Yet another fun encounter via Uber.