As long as you're healthy and traditionally employed, the system here works great!
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.
And Massachusetts has very good hospitals and doctors. (Please move here)
Holy cow, I am not in the right frame of mind to be cheerful and interested for a 7AM meeting.
There are rumors about layoffs at my company. Well, they aren't rumors, practically a whole department got laid off. The rumor is they're eyeing Books next, since that department has never been profitable. (And I'm all, "but aren't we a non-profit?" Still gotta make money, I guess.) My gossipy coworker who's my conduit to the grapevine is fearing our department will be next. I doubt it, we're the most profitable department besides sales/marketing, but you never know what our evil overlords are planning.
I don't know how much to fret. Some job~ma would be appreciated, if you can spare some.
I am not in the right frame of mind to be cheerful and interested for a 7AM meeting.
I hope that you can get away with just being present and no one insists on cheerful & interested.
job~ma, Zen. Even if they don't hit your dept, it will change company culture.
Oof, good luck, Zen.
Holy cow, I am not in the right frame of mind to be cheerful and interested for a 7AM meeting.
I would literally never be in that frame of mind. I guess I should be grateful that our folks in other time zones mostly accommodate us here.
Hello New Natter!
Yikes Zen, job~ma.
Eating leftover pizza for breakfast and catching up a bit. Heart warmed this morning by loving thoughts in email and on line.
I am never happy for the 7AM meeting, but this morning I was just not able to deal with the stupid little things that I'd normally ignore. I was mostly a seething, silent pile of resentment.
But! That's done, and the packers are here.
I continue to get Trump campaign emails, and they are so second rate compared to the Clinton campaign! This morning, they are offering "a free personal gift from Mr. Trump" with my donation, but no indication of what it is! The Clinton campaign constantly asks for my input on bumper sticker slogans, wants me to buy merch, offers me "free" buttons, etc. but it's all very specific. How do I even know if I want the thing Mr Trump wants to send me?? (Spoiler alert: I don't want it.)
I am in New Orleans and stuck in all-day meeting that started at 7:30AM, yay!
It was a Natter thread ago but belated thank you to Nora for all the suggestions of restaurants nearby. Looking forward to trying at least a few of them while in the city.