I like the card and charity combo, too

I'd definitely be in for group charity, and possibly even new year cards?!?!?! (I will never get it together for cards before that....)

New Year's cards are fabulous! Secular/cross-holiday for those of us who don't really christmas, plus handy for the procrastination-oriented!

Timelies all!

I am at Philcon, as is Gary. Mr. S is at home with Gary's parents. They offered to watch him for a weekend, so here we are. I'm not sure how well this is going to go, so I am nervous.

New Year's cards are fabulous! Secular/cross-holiday for those of us who don't really christmas, plus handy for the procrastination-oriented!

I do also like that part.

Condolences to you and your family, Laura. So hard to lose two people, and so strange that they departed at almost the same time.

amyth, much healing~ma to you! Never thought there'd be any reason to be grateful for kidney stones.

Battling health insurance is worthy of Valhalla, I swear. The bastards do everything they can to make it difficult and ever more expensive.

I would probably be able to do donations or cards; doubt I'll be up for anything else.

I am exhausted and weepy and cranky and having a hard time not crashing into a deep depression and existential despair. I wish I hadn't quit drinking; I really want whisky.

Sheryl, there's one upside to the grandparents having Mr S for the weekend -- they'll be more inclined to believe you in the future about what a handful he can be.

Carrying packages up to the residents rooms is part of my job, and I am expecting it to get even more busy, what with Xmas package season upon us. I'd better start lifting weights NOW.

Been training my replacement for a week now. Most of that has been normal and I think she'll be a good replacement.

BUT (tl:dr - shit is bubbling up I do not like and I need to get gone from this place)

She knows my boss / her new boss outside of work and in these 7 days - we have been taken to lunch by him 3 days - a little background: he is the boss of 2 locations - 1 near where he works and then the one I normally work at. When he is in town, he usually is only at the one I work at about 1 a month - that's been true for at least a year. When he is at my office he usually takes the 2 managers out for lunch, sometimes a guy who is a mngr in training, but me and the other non-exempt office guy stay in the office and they sometimes ask us what we want and they bring it back. There is a whole history of why this is how it goes, our phones are super busy, someone has to be answering them - I used to REALLY not like the person who was my boss so it became a thing that I would bow out of joining them for lunch, so then it is just that I stay at the office. - so anyway - being around my boss so little for the last year I did not realize that he takes out the people at the other location almost everyday for lunch I guess. That SUCKS. I mean, I could use having the company pay for my lunch even 1 day a week every GD week. So it was not something I got, but now seems to be something that she will.

I saw her salary and they started her out the same as I make now.

I've heard my boss say a couple of things this week that led me to believe he was leaving his position, so today I just confronted him on it (he is not a fast reactor and he is also a bad liar). He is set to leave this position for a new one with the company in 4 days. - why this is a thing - the person who is likely to be promoted to his position (my boss) is not someone I want to work for and is someone that I do not think likes me, he TOLERATES me as a co-worker, but resents my opinion being taken and my world outlook (that is what I believe, nothing he has actually said) - ALSO means that my boss and his boss have probably been pretty busy working on this move for him (his boss would need to be onboard) and so I doubt they have actually done any feet on the ground work for finding me something new within the company.

SO all of this is to say - I am really wanting to get out sooner rather than later.

RUN AWAY!

(seriously, succession planning shit when you're NOT ACTUALLY THE BOSS is a total no-win. do the least you need to do, but we all get sucked into spending way too much time and energy on companies that know we're out the door.)