Still working. Drawback of working from home. Also of having the West Coast as part of your territory.
And things are afoot with one of my previous employers. Just got a cryptic message from the old EVP via LinkedIn. He wants me to call him tomorrow. Please do not be bringing me into shenanigans. My current boss is his former direct report, and a number of our sales force and strategic consulting groups also worked closely with him previously. (Yes, my Current Employer can be called Previous Employer-East.)
Still working. Drawback of working from home.
I feel that. (Upside: dress code is NO PANTS FOREVER!)
Strix, keep hope. We had one cat that took a winter sabbatical in someone else's home. We thought he'd been plowed into a snowbank, and came back fat and smelling of woodsmoke. My own cat decided on a two week vacation (or maybe her kidnapper decided to release her after my Wanted posters went up. I was a fucking mess those weeks with her gone).
I did come home. No drama tonight. My mother suggests I yell less.
Well, thanks, mom? Yelling, while not exactly productive, can be a valve when necessary.
Grace had equipment issues last night so I was up to 1:00 AM waiting for the DME delivery. Really? Sigh.
I'm watching the Skip Gates genealogy show, with Tom Colicchio, Aaron Sanchez, and Ming Tsai, and I know I knew this, but the ancient Chinese did NOT fuck around. They want back to like 600 AD, generation by generation!
Also? Have you met me? Rage barely under meh surface at all times, I yell. It's like she has forgotten 43 years of me,
And the thing is, yelling isn't always inherently Bad. Now, around someone like me, it's ineffective and counterproductive (I shut down and remove) but that's not the dynamic here.
It doesn't seem the volume or method of delivery is mac's issue- it's that he doesn't like the content. You guys probably have some sort of feedback loop going ( what parent child dynamic doesn't?) but that's not primary issue.
I heard a fascinating interview with Alan Cumming last weekend. He found out as part of one of those shows that his father wasn't actually his biological father. Which, given what else he discussed, was probably not an altogether bad thing.
Ugh, I left work around 5:30 so I could walk home again because stress. I spent all day successfully wrangling all sorts of shit, had a chat with an old manager about my options locally (it isn't totally hopeless but my options also are severely limited), and now I'm logged into work again in between 1st & 2nd period of hockey because I'm dealing with a thing that has all kinds of important people cc:ed on it.
And again I am baffled as to why they are thinking of basically getting rid of my position, because I'm not sure they've considered the consequences if I'm not going to be there to do this?
I guess I should bring that up with my manager, huh.
