Ugh. I always get more headaches in winter and I don’t know why. But I hate it. Had one Monday, had one last night that continues into this morning.

Those German ads are great.

Raq that is awful being in a windowless room sans internet. Even without covid that sounds awful. Ick.

Silly/convoluted thing from work I have to share.

Every other week I gather and submit all the hours our department spends on COVID related things. For this example assume the first and third weeks of each month are A and the second and fourth are B. These timesheets are A/B

The weeks I do not do this form, I submit a timesheet for Big Boss to her boss of just her COVID time. These timesheets are B/A.

Could they have coordinated to be due the same weeks? You would think, but no.

Big boss does not actually keep her time so I guess and send in to her fir approval. As shown in previous examples Big Boss is prone to mis-reading and making things very confused, so we use just the one timesheets for her.

So the issue is, when I get her timesheet for her boss approved, I have only half of her time I need for the Department submittal. I then send her a half-filled out timesheet to just approve the time on the first week, she ALWAYS sends it back with the full thing filled out and signed and locked. So she fills out FUTURE TIME! It is so ridiculous and makes me laugh every time. Like how?!?!

...filled out and signed and locked. So she fills out FUTURE TIME!

She's not signing under penalty of perjury, is she?

What are the consequences if she ends up not working the hours reported?

Policy came down from my VP back in March that there would be no overtime without prior written notice from her. I have been abiding by that, even though it is very awkward when patches are released towards the end of a payroll cycle. My manager is not happy about it. Too bad.

Literally no clue what happens if time is ever audited.

I resend her this signed locked form before I submit to her boss (the next week) so she could alter the time.

And the department chief who 1) never sends me her dept attendance and 2) is always late with department and her own time sheets: is once again LATE! I have everything else ready to go.

In non-work related news I finally got around to scheduling the follow up ultrasound from my mammogram. Trying to get a bunch of Dr things done before year end.

So nice to see Volans here though I do get to interact with her on Twitter from time to time.

Ugh, I'm dispirited. There's talk they won't open the schools up again until fall of next year. As Bill Murray's character in the Royal Tenenbaums says, "Well, I just want to die." I'm not going to survive 18 months of Matilda being out of school.

Also, got an email from EM saying she won't be coming to Thanksgiving. Even though I think it would be safe (It's just us, her and Emmett), of course I respect her wishes. But it won't be the same without her.

Also, the 10th anniversary of my first girlfriend's death.

Obviously I'm going to need a lot more coffee to deal with today.

She has Great Faith that she'll keep to her schedule?

msbelle's boss, I mean.

Hi Hec! We're in the same boat - our school district just pushed back re-opening again. Mal is starting to crack from 9 months in solitary. I channeled my inner Karen last week and wrote a long letter to the school board...I guess it wasn't full Karen because I suggested several options for how they could hold in-person classes with social interaction while being safe, and I enlisted several companies who run things like conventions and job fairs and have figured out how to combine online with limited protected in-person to offer their services pro bono...but I doubt the school district will change anything from the "worst of all worlds" approach they are currently taking.

Our payroll system at work couldn't handle the covid changes, so we had to update it from the root code about 6 times. It's in COBOL.

Ugh. I’m sorry for all the parents dealing with kids at home. I’m worried we’re headed for another shutdown and ltc with no social outlet and with winter coming is just a nightmare scenario.

Tim is pissing me off royally because all of a sudden he's stubborn about getting a Covid test after finding out his co-worker tested positive. He listed off all the reasons why he "doesn't need" one: his shift and his co-worker's shift only overlap for 2 hours; he totaled up the amount of time he actually interacted one-on-one with co-worker, and it was less than 5 minutes; he (Tim) always wears a mask; he (Tim) has no symptoms.

I can't force him to get tested, but motherfucker. We all know it's possible to be asymptomatic and still be positive for Covid. And it's fucking irresponsible of him to not get tested, because if he *is* positive, his co-workers deserve to know that, and his goddamn WIFE deserves to know that. Plus also the whole thing where he's higher-risk and if he's positive, his doctors are going to want to know right away.

I know this is super weird for a couple, but we honestly never fight (we're both exceptionally conflict-avoidant and will do basically anything to avoid a fight) and sometimes he does stuff that frustrates me, but I really can't remember ever being flat-out ANGRY with him. But I am right now. And I'm going to continue to be angry until he fucking gets a fucking Covid test.

And also, it's his birthday tomorrow. Would it be wrong to hold his presents hostage until he gets a Covid test?