oh dear lord ... my office has decided we need the MFA - multi-factor authentication - to get on our network

First it tried to force me to purchase MS Office Premium ... fought my way past that. Then I had to BUY the QR code reader app. Now I'm trying to get the MS Authenticator ... and it looks like I'm going to have to BUY A NEW PHONE because Authenticator says my device isn't compatible with the version they have. Either that or not be able to do any work.

It has been a BITCH of a day. Can't get assistance from anyone - it's getting close to 6:00pm and I've been in the office since before 8:00am. We're moving in a week and a half, so I've been packing, trying to get some actual work done, had to walk three blocks out of my way to get lunch. And our tech support can't figure out what the f*ck is up.

I'll be working on Thanksgiving and I'll be 10-7 on Wed so I'm not sure what I'll actually do for any kind of get together. Not sure what Mom is going to do. I think M wanted to have a Thanksgiving dinner I could participate in but it looks like it would have to be Tuesday or Monday so I don't know....

My current schedule is 3pm -9pm on Thanksgiving and 6 am-4 pm on Black Friday but that was a computer generated schedule and I brought this up to the store manager and he said they will try to change it. Usually they are good about not having that kind of crazy schedule.

I hit my head today at work, I was walking into a stock room and had my head turned. I realized there was a fixture right as you walked in but didn't see one of the arm/post things and ran into it. It hit my temple pretty hard. No bruising or broken skin but I have a headache and I felt woozy and kind of out of it for the rest of the day. I filled out an incident report -or well went to Asset Protection and gave him the info while he filled it out- and then went and sat down and rested for awhile. Although that was after I worked a little more. I still have a headache but I don't feel woozy or anything. But it was hard for me to concentrate .

and then when I was trying to find something I heard 2 women who were walking by talking about the Rittenhouse verdict. I didn't catch the first part but one woman assured the other that, yes, she thought the verdict was right. And then the other made the comment about how "I guess now they'll just tear their own community up again for no reason" or something like that.

I heard about the verdict. Matt Gaetz is talking about hiring KR as an intern (although those are usually unpaid positions for Congress). But I guess he'll be getting enough donations that he'll never have to do any actual work.

I rented out the local skating rink for 2 hours on Thanksgiving Day. It may only be me, but I will skate and eat pizza.

OMG that sounds awesome. Would totally go and drag my parents along if I were closer!

That is fucked up, Toddson.

OMG, Todd, that is some next level tech BS. I'd say you've done more than your due diligence and call it a day.

Toddson, what phone do you currently have?

It it runs on Android, I found this article: [link]

Timelies all!

We are going to Gary's mom's house for Thanksgiving, now that Mr. S has had his first COVID shot.(He has his second one scheduled for Dec. 1.)

OMG that sounds awesome. Would totally go and drag my parents along if I were closer!

Where’s our teleporter???

I even get to make my own playlist.

dcp, thanks. I spent about an hour and a half talking to tech support ... the first person I spoke with couldn't quite manage it, so he kicked it up a level. The next person was very reassuring - I was afraid I'd come in on Monday and not be able to get into my computer (the notice was sent this morning) and I had a Zoom call of a little over an hour, then trying to write up notes from the call, plus packing - we're moving in a week and a half ... and, being self indulgent (and I was going to kill my boss, the only other person in the office), I took an hour for lunch. Carbs ... very calming ... until I tackled the f*cking MFA.

Ironically, we've been secure up until now. The tech support company, when they were starting, sent out a phishing test; we were the only clients they had who didn't click on the link.

I'm thinking of retiring after my next birthday. I'll be 70 and I've been working, pretty much non-stop, since I was 22 (I was off for two weeks before starting my current job ... in 1997).

I spent far too long in the last 3 days trying to arrange to get my new staff member on board. She's going to be remote, and she starts officially on Monday but won't come to the office until the week after Thanksgiving. HR is perfectly fine doing her onboarding paperwork remotely, but our own office manager is being fucking impossible about some of the forms. Like, he won't put in a request for her computer account unless he has a wet signature on hard copy that he sees her sign himself.

We are at the point where I had to go to his boss' boss and have her tell him we will accept a scan of a signed PDF until she brings the hard copy to the office with her.

This is why people hate the government, I swear.