I'm off FB for the week per NAACP boycot, I may be even chattier than usual. Be warned.

Yay doughnuts!

The boycott is a full week? Dang I didn't notice that somehow, I thought it was a day.

I didn't know about the NAACP thing at all, but it looks like just today, which means I already didn't comply at all. Ooops.

Yeah, I didn't know about the NAACP boycott, either. Sorry. I don't usually cross picket lines.

The thing I saw yesterday said a week, now I'm seeing just today. I may stay off for the week just because I already had that in my head. You could make one last post about it and stay off the rest of the day if you wanted.

I have been thinking about the various "day without" social media thingies that I did NOT take part in and why this feels different to me. I think it's that somehow the framing reminded me that we users are not FB's customers, we are their commodity, and logging out interrupts their supply chain and decreases their value to their customers. So it would need to really be a mass movement to have impact, I guess, but considering how tightly they track analytics maybe even a relatively small blip will get some attention.

I am terrible at boycotting, but didn't even know about this one.

On the lighter side, in Berkeley a delivery robot caught fire. No injuries, but someone's food was - so to speak - toast. And some students set up a candle memorial to it.

So, I got a Taco Bell box for lunch yesterday - this thing where fast food places will let you order on an app and pick it up through the drive through, I'm a sucker for it - and it included their Cinnamon Twists, which I didn't feel like eating yesterday but I thought might be good with my coffee this morning. I also picked up a piece of peppermint bark at some point during the day and likewiise never got around to eating it, so I kept them both in the same little cardboard box overnight on my desk. I think the cinnamon twists absorbed some mint flavor. It's interesting.

The tater tots were not a lie today!

I know I have not been very positive lately, but I have to keep sharing with you all else I'll go something bad.

Office holiday party thing, just food ordered in, regular work day, and vendor donated raffle prizes drawn. It was a clusterfuck in many ways as of Thursday which was my last day in the office last week.

- boss had overridden workers suggestion for lunch food ( at the office location HE WAS NOT EVEN GOING TO BE AT) , not my suggestion, other employees.
- one of our vendor donates a box of hunting stuff -like dead stock from a store and a lot of it is clothing (not good and hard to value)
- as of Thurs end of day, we do not have enough prizes for all employees. I send an email to office staff saying we'll postpone the raffle drawing until We'd. Boss immediately replied, no we will not, we'll do it Friday and make it work and we can do it without you. As if my being there was the issue.

So they do get in more gift cards and everyone gets a gift, but some are truly shitty and the boss kept himself in the drawing AND he put everyone 's name back into the pot to draw for the big item last (which I HATE! as a practice) and so one guy got a 50 inch smart tv AND a $50 gift card.

I got an XL men's shirt with logo of a trucking company, a gimme cap from an industrial hose and fitting company, and a pocket knife set. I shit you not.

And mine was not the worst.