Wash ,'War Stories'
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.
The interesting thing I've learned from Wikileaks is that things are pretty much the way one suspects they are.
Listening to the shocking details this morning DH and I were mostly looking at each other and shrugging at the news that the campaign was competent. Like wow, they prepared themselves for possible questions from the press. How practical! That is some October surprise.
Man, Ohio is red (well, pink) again on 538. Stop it, Ohio!
Since I don't work in an office, I genuinely have no idea: what's the proper way to ask someone higher up than you if the two of you can discuss XYZ project? Is "touch base" something that only goes from higher-up to lower-down?
Yeah, I don't know. And I don't know that I could come up with an actual rule, it was just the whole tone was "here's what I need from you," which is not the right tone to take with your new boss IMO.
I've always just walked up and asked. But maybe that's in the tech world which might be different.
She was emailing before work, so neither one of us was here yet.
One of my co-workers is pregnant, the girlfriend of another co-worker is mysteriously ill. Much discussion of childbirth and "I should definitely not have a kid but it could be cool" has resulted. I feel old. And amused.
Yeah, I don't know. And I don't know that I could come up with an actual rule, it was just the whole tone was "here's what I need from you," which is not the right tone to take with your new boss IMO.
Would it be better to word it as "Would you be available to discuss my project"?
She can say touch base! But more "I hope I can leave early today due to family emergency; are you around to touch base this morning?" rather than "I need to leave by noon; let's touch base."
(I said I already resented this poor woman, right? I'm not actually trying to say I am in the right here.)
Oh, it was the "I need to leave by noon" part. Okay, I wouldn't have done that, so I feel a little less like I'm completely unsuited to working with other humans.
I'm not actually trying to say I am in the right here.
Well, there are appropriate standards of conversation (email, etc.) in the office, and they're different based on the relative status of the people involved in the conversation. I just misunderstood and thought it wasn't okay for someone to use "touch base" with their superior. I think I've got it sorted out now, though.