The thing I find appealing about karma is that it isn't about judgement, no one decides you deserve to be punished, it's more like physics.

I'm at our company Women's Summit this week, which is actually a really big deal (only 50 women are invited out of our US staff of 20-some thousand and all the firm leadership is here) and I want to say more about that but first I have to vent a bit. Our Global CEO and Americas CEO are taking questions and three questions in a row boil down to "but what about the MENZ?? How should we handle their fee-fees when they don't get to come?"

You guys should be proud I didn't shout out "all lives matter! And what happened to white history month?!?" It was a near thing, I'll tell you.

Plus side: Global CEO's suggestion was "get over it".

Your self-control is impressive, brenda!

OK, I've only worked 3 days this week, but that was enough. Ready for a 5-day weekend. I drive up the coast tomorrow, spend the weekend with my family - my brother flew from Texas to Oregon today and will drive down with my sister and her kids tomorrow, Mom and Dad are driving up I think tomorrow, might have left today, as far as Dad knows for a weekend in the redwoods - Monday is Dad's 75th birthday, drive back Tuesday. Should be fun!

"I'm getting an error that says my disk is out of space when I try to attach documents to a file."

"Well, let's check the disk space."

"C: drive has room, J: drive has room, but the S: drive is full. But I don't think we use the S: drive for anything."

"Let's double check."

Why look, the S: drive is the one that your entire network installation of my program is trying to save data to. How long have you been having weird errors and never thought of getting help for them, preferring instead to bitch about what a horrible program it is?

Computer users: "It hurts when I hit myself!" "Then stop hitting yourself." "No, you should design a system where it doesn't hurt when I hit myself!"

How frustrating Connie.

I did hear back from Ask A Manager. Her reply was that employers pay OT for hours worked. Which is an incomplete answer, to me. Yes, I agree, in excess of hours worked. But it essentially means I don't get paid the holiday.

I did find documentation in our employee policies that OT is only paid for exempt employees who have over 80 hours of client billable work. Which, once again, makes the holiday unpaid. Or the OT unpaid. But technically it follows policy. I think it is a stinky loophole. But whatever.

Argh! Just found out we've been victims of identity theft. Someone took a $10,000 loan out in our name. How did I find out, you ask? Payment coupons just arrived in the mail. Fuck. First phone call with the CU went okay, at least they believed me, but we'll see how long it takes to clear this up.

Your CU is not related to Wells Fargo, is it?

So in defense of people trying to get me to change grades, they are all about second, third and eightieth chances. The pressure around passing students has to do with how rigged and broken the system is and how important it is for students to have the right credentials to be able to access other things. I just want the credentials to match the skills and I believe that given some more time, it will. I don't think my colleagues believe that.

Though I am still ragey about it.

I understand that, Kat. Part of my outrage, maybe even the bulk of it, is not that the grades aren't "right" but that the grades given by you for good reasons were changed by someone not you and even if I grant that there was a good reason (which would take some doing) that's pretty wrong.

I am having a real hard time imagining your pay stub, Suzi. Not expecting you to explain in any more detail, just acknowledging that I do not think I have an accurate picture of how that all works in my head.

I should list what I have to do tonight. #1 eat. #2 make list of everything else I have to do...

Brenda, how cool is that? Your org is a BFD, and we knew you when!

Kat, I'm sorry that your leadership is not being supportive of what should be your main mission: making sure kids learn the material. I'm ragey on your behalf.