Sorry, Jesse, but for a family emergency, I would never use the words I hope to be able to, because if it's non-optional, you don't give your boss wiggle room to say you can't. You know you would have said yes, but an employee has no way to know that.

Yeah, you give some bosses any kind of wiggle room, and they'll say "Are you sure you're the one who needs to go take care of this?", then they reluctantly acquiesce when you say "Yes, I do," and they hint very hard that you should prioritize the job over most anything else. And you get dinged for not being a "team player" in your evaluations.

Doctor Penfield! I immediately went to that, Sue.

I can't even with the emails. I am so over all of this.

My only jitteriness about the email thing is that voters who were on the fence and recently leaned toward HRC will hear "Clinton" and "emails" and leap to the worst assumption without actually seeking out the facts.

(Although, honestly, even *if* HRC had been deliberately shady with her emails [though I believe that what she did is fine], that still pales in comparison to the horror show that is Trump. He gets a huge pass for being the worst person in the world, and to beat him, she has to basically be flawless. It's bullshit.)

I voted! The poll workers said they have been slammed since the doors opened Monday. Lots of booths and people though so it was fast. Apparently I am in a minority, but I was completely thrilled to cast my ballot for a capable and competent candidate. People around me that were talking were Clinton folk, but that isn't a surprise in Palm Beach County.

Sorry, Jesse, but for a family emergency, I would never use the words I hope to be able to, because if it's non-optional, you don't give your boss wiggle room to say you can't. You know you would have said yes, but an employee has no way to know that.

Yeah, that's fair.

(I said I already resented this poor woman, right? I'm not actually trying to say I am in the right here.)

Hah. Bitch eating crackers syndrome? I admit, I would not be one bit shocked if I had sent similarly annoying emails...but I've also been similarly annoyed by one of my underlings (who I've several times now had to be like "PLEASE DON'T JUST FORWARD WHAT I SEND YOU TO THE CLIENT!" because OMG my email was written to her, not to the client...)

Steph, make a complaint directly to Amazon about the merchant pressuring you to remove a negative review. I had the same happen to me, and Amazon dinged the merchant and refunded my money, even though I was keeping the product.

Ooh, that's good!

I have no Halloween costume. I need to get one before tomorrow. Um.

Dana, glad you made it and so did your stuff! Unpacking is my favorite part.

but for a family emergency I do word notifications as informing my superiors that I *will* be gone rather than asking if I may.

Sounds like the employee was asking about touching base, not asking about leaving early. Which I would think it's better to say "can we touch base" rather than "we must touch base"? Or something?

I have no Halloween costume. I need to get one before tomorrow. Um.

Fantasy Football!

I have no Halloween costume. I need to get one before tomorrow. Um.

OB-GYN Kenobi!

Boo on late deliveries! The shaming "boo," not the scary one.

I finished my costume except for the thyrsus. I'm going as a maenad, and they carry a stalk of giant fennel wrapped in ivy leaves and tipped with a pine cone, which is called a thyrsus. I considered attempting to attach a pine cone to a stick, both of which I can source for free, but decided it was too much of a pain in the butt. The dress and sort-of-leopard-skin-shaped cloak thing are done, and I have some brown cord for a belt. I went out and nabbed some of the ivy we have taking over part of the yard, washed it with soap, and dunked it in boiling water for over a minute to make sure any critters were dead and gone. I'll wear that on my head. And I picked up some fake blood on my lunch hour. So I guess my costume is as good as it's going to get for tonight's party.

Here's a picture of a maenad: [link]

My dress has sleeves to the wrist and the skin is leopard, but that's otherwise pretty much what I'm going for. With added blood.

ETA:

OB-GYN Kenobi!

Yes!