Hope that is true, Matt!

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?

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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."

Aw, the image of you twirling in the snow makes me happy.

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.

It's been coming down steadily for a few hours now but nothing is sticking. The kids totally could have gone to school - probably didn't even need an early dismissal.

In promising news, S. is home from the hospital

That's great to hear!

Do most of you actually care about the ratings? I always say to myself that "everything is made up and the points don't matter." I know whether I'm doing a good job or not. (But I've also never had a hostile boss situation, so.)

Yes, because if they are as artificial as they are in stack ranking, you can still be doing a good job, be told you are doing a good job, be assured that you are just taking one for the team, and have it used against you later.

Welcome to tech.

It's sticking here for sure. It's accumulating sort of alarmingly quickly. Oh, also, I'm making those Ham and Cheese Biscuits you tweeted about, Jessica, because I actually have all the ingredients on hand and they look fantastic and pretty easy.

Do most of you actually care about the ratings?

My new job, for all it's family-owned, is very corporate in structure. We get "calibrated" once a month, which means a supervisor goes through and listens to an assortment of your calls at random and scores them. They partly define promotions and raises, I guess, but they seem both sort of fair and also weirdly subjective based on which supervisor is listening. The nice thing is that every supervisor was once a call specialist, so they do know what a weird job it can be.

I'm making those Ham and Cheese Biscuits you tweeted about, Jessica, because I actually have all the ingredients on hand and they look fantastic and pretty easy.

They are both of these things! If it's not too late, I'd recommend making them smaller than the original recipe - I wound up with 8 biscuits and I think they're still a little too big for how rich they are. 10 would probably have been better.

Welcome to tech.

Not just tech.

Glad to hear that, Amy. What a weird thing. (ETA S, not, ratings)

I'm currently on two conference calls at the same time. Because both of them are required, and they were scheduled at the same time.