So I realized what bugs me overall about my team member -- I don't feel like she appreciates the fact that I hired her (when I was made to create a position for her), so I wish she appreciated literally anything at any point. She's on every fun committee, is barely in the office 9-5 (she doesn't have enough work yet), blah blah blah. That one (legit!) email was just One More Thing.
You know, I've saved lives. Dozens. Maybe hundreds. I reattached a girl's leg. Her whole leg. She named her hamster after me. I got a hamster. He drops a box of money, he gets a town.
Simon ,'Jaynestown'
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 - Nov 02, 2016 10:49:51 am PDT #581 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Dana - Nov 02, 2016 11:06:36 am PDT #582 of 30002
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
I required pie. Fortunately, that requirement has been met.
-t - Nov 02, 2016 11:13:44 am PDT #583 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Hooray pie!
I can see how that would rankle, Jesse.
Jesse - Nov 02, 2016 11:21:03 am PDT #584 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Not like I've done any work myself aside from several meetings this morning. I just did a copy-and-paste task I really could have delegated, but figured I was better off doing that than doing nothing...
P.M. Marc - Nov 02, 2016 11:31:43 am PDT #585 of 30002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Welp, rejected for the most recent job I applied/phone screened for, damn it.
Already had pie for lunch.
Did NOT expect this rejection to lead to actual factual ugly crying, but apparently I am out of cope.
Jesse - Nov 02, 2016 11:33:39 am PDT #586 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ugh, I'm so sorry, Plei.
P.M. Marc - Nov 02, 2016 11:37:47 am PDT #587 of 30002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Job-hunting is such a demoralizing task.
askye - Nov 02, 2016 11:46:13 am PDT #588 of 30002
Thrive to spite them
I'm sorry Plei.
P.M. Marc - Nov 02, 2016 11:53:25 am PDT #589 of 30002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Last time I had to job hunt, I had padding because I'd been laid off from an FTE position and got a package. This time, there's no padding at all (in large part because of huge medical expenses) and I'm far less optimistic about my prospects than I was when I started out last time.
I mean, I had suffered from the delusion that 7.5 years at a major company and a decent-sized network would help me get something decent and that particular delusion has long since vanished in the face of the realities of a niche skillset.
So I guess it's time to pull the trigger on Operation Sell the Car and then pay off as much of my remaining personal debt as I can with whatever proceeds I get. Pity. I love that car.
-t - Nov 02, 2016 11:55:35 am PDT #590 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Job-hunting is terrible. It's like having a job you hate and not getting paid for it and also carrying around a giant ball of stress. Extreme sympathies, PMM.