work has announced that people should be ready to telework again. Really that was the announcement. No WFH mandate. No, "Managers are strongly encouraged to have their staff go on a wfh rotation schedule". No, "Offices should aim to be at less than 50% capacity". Just, employees who are able should start taking their laptops home and be prepared to WFH if told.
Practically useless in every single way and yet IT CAUSED A SHITSTORM. a million calls, employees in my own department (who btw cannot even do their jobs from home) COMING TO MY DESK when they should send an IM or an email, asking if it pertains to them and omg should they be leaving RIGHT NOW to wfh.
Of the 5 things on my to do list this morning, 1 got done. My to do list I brought home is 10 things long and realistically the only one I could make any headway on at this point tonight is my self eval, which if I did now might be full of curse words.
This surge of COVID is a motherfucker and I hate it and everyone that helped it emerge by: refusing vaccines and hoarding vaccines and not wearing masks and carrying on as if nothing was going on with activities and world events.
Jesus, msbelle, that sounds awful.
My office was mostly empty yesterday, so I didn't bother going in today. Got about 2/3 of a day's worth of work done. Tomorrow I have a half day and then all day Friday off. I'll pick up some gifts, although I need advice:
What do I get for a 13-YO girl with undiagnosed ADHD, whose parents really don't want her to have any more books? She's wildly into dragons and adventure fantasy novels, and she plays hockey, and she got into baking during the pandemic. I have a Kindle Fire that I won in a raffle but that's a no-go.
I’d get her an age appropriate book either with a character with adhd or straight up about adhd. Because I’m a bad relative.
Some sort of baking mix, maybe with a few kitchen items? An apron or, I don't know, a bundt pan or something like that? (I would also be tempted to get her books anyway -- how can you have too many books??)
We are at my parents' house in Massachusetts, where my Southern children were overjoyed to find a small patch of ice in a park and spent a good 20 minutes playing with it and exclaiming over it, picking up pieces of ice to show us and then dropping them to watch them smash on the ground. I really hope we get some actual snow while we're here; that would be about the best Christmas gift I could imagine for them.
You should find a small package from me waiting there.
That is very sweet! It must have arrived just after I left. I've been out here since the 13th. I'm ready to head home.
Pix inspired me to record the sunrise time in my calendar for the next few months. Every day at sunrise I am always well up and awake. No excuse not to drink my coffee at the beach which is less than 2 miles from my house. I used to do this every day, but somehow got out of the habit.
What do I get for a 13-YO girl with undiagnosed ADHD, whose parents really don't want her to have any more books? She's wildly into dragons and adventure fantasy novels, and she plays hockey, and she got into baking during the pandemic.
It might be pitched a bit too young for her, but a Foodstirs baking kit subscription might be fun. (And the company was co-founded by SMG!)
I would totally want a book as that kid but uh….I guess cute baking things? Like if she makes cupcakes or cakes, cute sprinkles or cupcake wrappers?
