We are doing layoffs and I got up at 3:45am to deal with the Chicago office. So far today I have fired 10 people. Seven more to go. This is a result of more efficiency and stuff here, so it's a good change, but, still. Hard day. MUCH harder for them, but still shitty for those of us doing the deed as well.

I'm willing to stick it out through this next year (meetings start this month and go through May 2015 [also, there are no meetings in November and December, so there are only 7 meetings in a year]), because advance notice would give them enough time to find a replacement.

So late, but Tep? Quit now. The people in the group can't manage to return a book on time (which, believe me, I get) - they probably will not be able to find a replacement in that time, and you might feel guilted into staying longer. Quit now. Especially since the head lady was so disrespectful of your time and clearly-stated work boundaries. Quit now.

I am getting more and more convinced that I am not fit for work.

msbelle, I am with you, and I'm sorry everything's so FUBARed at your work. It's kind of that way here. (My boss keeps raising his voice and clattering things around. It's very stressful.)

Scrappy, I'm sorry you have to do that.

Aw Scrappy, it is tough thing to do.

I am getting more and more convinced that I am not fit for work.

Work is not fit for you.

"I hate everything" is the exact phrase I said to my therapist yesterday. Seriously, if I had to go back to working in the office, with my boss popping up at my desk like a miniature Beelzebub fifty times a day, I'd lose my mind. I am no longer fit for work that involves F2F contact with other humans. Never really was, but I can't fake it any more. I would have to take so many drugs. I totally grok those people who say fuck all this and go live in a box under a bridge. Like, if my only choice was between working retail again or living in my van? Fuck it, I've got an air mattress and a portable fridge, I'm out.

Scrappy, I'm sorry you have to do that; that has to suck.

Pneumatic tubes are amazing. My bank still has them at the drive-through. *sssshhhhkkkk* *clank*

Zen, this made me thing of you:

The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection - Boing Boing

It has a glossary of new terms:

Going Walden
The often ill-conceived decision to live without connective technologies for a period of time in order to cleanse the spirit. “While we’re in Bali,” said Harry, “what if we went totally Walden?”

Your job sucks, msbelle. It's not you, it's them.

Ugh, Scrappy. That's a no-fun day for sure!

There's something deeply wrong with a workplace culture that makes people as uber capable as msbelle and juliana feel unfit for work. They're the problem, not you.

I got a wierd call from my boss yesterday. Internal audit had called him about my timesheets, asking general audit questions and questions about teleworking. I'm not an official teleworker. By the time I looked into making it official this year, they said they weren't approving any new requests. Plus, the teleworking requirements would cost me more money than I'd like to spend.

He said not to worry about anything but just wanted to give me a head's up. To that I say, wtf?

I killed Natter. Oooops.

Teppy - wanted to say thanks for your help with 504 resources. We had our meeting last week and were able to address a bunch of stuff. Now it is just a matter of both the teachers AND CJ doing their parts. So far so good - he has 1 A, 2 B's and 2 C's. And the B's are close to A's with the C's being close to B's - so at least he isn't starting in a hole.

Well, it just got super dark. Watch out for severe thunderstorms and hail, Chicagoistas.