Nooooooo. A meeting that has taken like 6 weeks to schedule just got cancelled because of the weather. It's tomorrow afternoon! Couldn't we have waited to see what it looks like tomorrow??
Every nightmare I have that doesn't revolve around academic failure or public nudity is about that thing. In fact, once I dreamt that it attacked me while I was late for a test and naked.
Willow ,'The Killer In Me'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
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.
Jesse - Mar 21, 2018 5:02:11 am PDT #23508 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Toddson - Mar 21, 2018 5:12:42 am PDT #23509 of 30002
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Well, I live close to the office, just off a major bus route, so I hauled myself into the office to take care of my weekly e-newsletter (which has become the bane of my existence), but I'm not staying long. The snow is coming down heavily, it's sticking, and it's slick. Luckily, I brought the grippers to go on my boots, so I can walk safely (except on the surfaces that have been cleared, of course).
-t - Mar 21, 2018 5:21:10 am PDT #23510 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It's like, I want to contribute and make the product better and cooler, we're on the same page here. Isn't that enough?
Right?
Jessica - Mar 21, 2018 5:25:00 am PDT #23511 of 30002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I understand the value of goal-setting and giving/getting feedback, but I have never worked anywhere where my responsibilities, expectations, and goals were set clearly enough for my annual review to make any sense. Just about every self-appraisal I've ever written starts out with some variation on "the goals set at the beginning of the year are all irrelevant now so I'm making this up completely as I go along."
sarameg - Mar 21, 2018 5:31:40 am PDT #23512 of 30002
All 3 meetings cancelled, Y is staying closed for the day.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 21, 2018 5:54:51 am PDT #23513 of 30002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I don't want to jinx myself, but we haven't had employee evaluations since our highly-organized micromanaging president retired and our new president got the job. I think he's of the same mind as me about the evaluation process and highly granular billing recordkeeping being counterproductive when the company is small enough that the people in charge can see directly how workers are doing at their jobs.
-t - Mar 21, 2018 6:29:58 am PDT #23514 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Hope that is true, Matt!
Zenkitty - Mar 21, 2018 7:06:35 am PDT #23515 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
It's like, I want to contribute and make the product better and cooler, we're on the same page here. Isn't that enough?
i Right?
Right?!?
Anyway! Last night I went out at midnight and twirled around in the falling snow and caught the flakes on my tongue like a kid, and felt like a kid. This morning, there's so much snow. We got about 4 inches and it's still snowing, but gently. Happy first day of spring!
And this afternoon's meeting with New Jersey and Chennai India is still on, of course, because the phones still work. Not like I can take a snow day! "Sorry, my commute down the stairs is totally snowed in. Yeah, it's a mess. Can't risk it."
-t - Mar 21, 2018 7:08:32 am PDT #23516 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Aw, the image of you twirling in the snow makes me happy.
Amy - Mar 21, 2018 8:09:03 am PDT #23517 of 30002
Because books.
Jessica, it didn't start here until around 8 am, but it is SNOWING now, like maybe they weren't wrong about more than 8 inches. So you may see something yet.
In promising news, S. is home from the hospital, and communicating almost 100% okay now. He's got a heart monitor for three months, and two preventive prescriptions (Plavix and Crestor), but there's apparently really nothing at all wrong with him. So strange. Fingers crossed it gives him the motivation to get his life together.