I thought I remembered something like that, Theo!

I needed the snail to clean the container that holds a plant and hangs on my cubicle wall. My dad gave me the plant and said the person who made the thing suggested adding a snail. So now I'm looking at adding some aquatic moss to make the snail more comfortable, because the plant is mostly above the water and google tells me snails like plenty of vegetation.

Email from my boss

"how are you going to approach on boarding (person I hired to replace you that I have still not talked you about)?"

1) he still hasn't talked with me about any of this 2) I am still working from home 3) NO PLAN OFFERED UP ABOUT TRAINING, TRANSITIONING, ANYTHING

I recently saw a brief video of a newly hatched snail eating its shell. Seemingly, they use the nutrients in the shell (calcium?) to help form their own shell (they hatch naked ... as do we all).

I'm sorry to gloat about my job when so many of you are in crappy situations, but honestly, my job is so great! I am seriously never leaving here. Even when it's aggravating (and maybe I'm coming in on Saturday again??), it's good. I just got a raise for no reason, because HR did a salary review!

I did reach out directly to an HR person at my current company because I do not think boss had done so. Nothing of it, but at least I reached out. I would be over the moon if a job fell in my lap with this place, it would make things much easier in the short-term.

Despite that, I will never be rich enough to buy holiday cards at $10 a pop, no matter how much I love them. [link] [link]

Jesse, I bet you could find someone with graphics software and take a file to a print shop and get something printed. It might not be QUITE as nice, but you could probably get something comparable.

I have one friend for whom I will spend more than usual for special cards, but I'd have to think twice about over $10 for a single card ... I did draw the line at the $13.50 Halloween card (it's a mask ... a nice one).

$10 cards is CRAZY!

Just came across wording in a job description that is a BIG NOPE, "create a vision and a plan....". Nope nope nopity nope. There will be no visioning and overall from scratch planning. There will be following directions, taking deadlines and making things for to them, there may even be improvements made to current systems, but make up from thin air and figure out how to do . Hells no

I love you people and your snails and your jalapeno balls.

I especially love Sophia.

I am having a terrible week. Don't raise teenagers, and don't work for a dysfunctional place, and especially don't do both at the same time. It's too much.

I would not appreciate that those were super expensive cards if I received one. I mean, I just wouldn't recognize the fact. FTR

Congrats, Jesse!

Your boss is a piece of work, msbelle.

Speaking of bosses, mine just told me to think about trading my JCP [JC Penney]account (which I have had since I started here and they were only carrying one item that we were often out of stock for, but it has grown into a top ten account) for BBB [Bed Bath & Beyond. I guess we come under "Beyond"] (which has a bigger assortment and higher volume and more visibility) and on the one hand it would present interesting challenges (I mean that sincerely, it would be interesting and I'm stagnating a little) but on the other they are so annoying to work with when their current analyst is out! I wouldn't say evil, but certainly annoying.