Well, it's maybe a good thing that they all feel like it would be disaster not to say something? But agreed, better if they were doing something concrete and mentioning that (or just doing something would be my preference but that doesn't seem at all likely)
Stop that right now! I can hear the smacking!
Giles ,'Never Leave Me'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
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.
-t - Jun 08, 2020 3:34:47 pm PDT #22128 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
msbelle - Jun 08, 2020 3:45:54 pm PDT #22129 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I hate it, but I see people criticizing people/companies that stay quiet and then also see them criticizing how lame it is when they do a commercial or a tweet or whatever. I would HATE being in a PR position right now.
DXMachina - Jun 08, 2020 3:50:46 pm PDT #22130 of 30019
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Why is this monthly meeting now DAILY? That's insane.
It reeks of a manager with too much time on their hands trying to look like they're doing something.
-t - Jun 08, 2020 3:55:07 pm PDT #22131 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yup.
Took an hour break, lay down for a bit and had dinner, and then worked another 90 minutes-ish. Tired. And tomorrow starts at 6am. Every week starts this way - last week seemed like it was gettng better but then TJMaxx (and all their subsidiaries) started ordering again and they are always a lot of work and ask for stuff on Mondays like everyone else. Sigh.
Oh, hey, speaking of one-on-one meetings I have mine with the I guess new Director of Operations who had been my boss's boss, and maybe still is I'm not sure how the org chart has changed but he's definitely over more teams than just ours now. Not sure what to expect from that - his email said it's for getting to know each otehr but we know each other pretty well already?
DebetEsse - Jun 08, 2020 5:05:46 pm PDT #22132 of 30019
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I agree with DX. My supervisory structure did something similar.
-t - Jun 08, 2020 5:24:52 pm PDT #22133 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Our monthly team meeting has become a weekly conference call and we kinda need that right now just so we all know the same stuff, but daily seems excessive. Daily anything seems excessive to me, honestly.
sj - Jun 08, 2020 6:01:50 pm PDT #22134 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I find the daily facetime with both sets of grandparents exhausting. Daily distance work meetings sounds like hell.
A family friend just posted a picture on FB of her teenager having a "prom" in the backyard with a dozen teenagers. No masks, no distancing. I just can't with people.
Theodosia - Jun 09, 2020 12:52:56 am PDT #22135 of 30019
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Taking my car to a new garage this morning, and I was getting apprehensive about getting to/from work... got up in the night because I couldn't sleep, so I went onto Google Maps and discovered that it's significantly closer to work than it is back to my house. But because I had it mentally tagged as "further from home" (which it is mostly because of highways and one-way streets) it follows that it must be more difficult to get to work from there.
Brains is weird.
Flea, could you play Sudoku or do a crossword while the meeting goes on? Or take up knitting...
Jesse - Jun 09, 2020 4:29:10 am PDT #22136 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Daily anything seems excessive to me, honestly.
100%
-t - Jun 09, 2020 4:33:54 am PDT #22137 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, knitting! When my sister's kids were in Montessori, everyone was knitting. The kids because it was part of the curriculum and the adults probably also because it was part of the curriculum but also because it was a good way to be able to keep an eye on the kids but not just be watching them or be involved with whatever they were doing. Something like that might be very good for during meetings of the enraging sort.