Numfar! Do the dance of joy.

Elder ,'Power Play'


Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.  

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.


aurelia - Jan 24, 2023 7:02:15 am PST #20164 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

There is a sunbeam on my face! I don't know how many gray days in a row that was, but it was enough that the path of the sun now puts morning light on a place where I can sit (if I lean a little to the left) instead of just skimming the windowsill and a bookshelf. Welcome back, orb!


aurelia - Jan 24, 2023 7:05:54 am PST #20165 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Big Boss was like "Oh right...I meant finish your work and then take the rest of the day off." My dude I don't know if you know this but finish your work and then stop for the day is just how a regular work day goes

Oy.


-t - Jan 24, 2023 7:13:28 am PST #20166 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Yikes to shrift and Jess. That all sounds more unpleasant than it probably needed to be, for an inherently unpleasant thing to happen


meara - Jan 24, 2023 7:48:38 am PST #20167 of 30000

Ugh Jess and Shrift. I’ve always been in the laid off, not the other end, but neither is great. Sorry for the suck.


Jessica - Jan 24, 2023 7:57:11 am PST #20168 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I'm in a bizarre laid-off-but-still-here limbo. My role has been eliminated but my end date isn't until October because somebody needs to stick around and finish turning all the lights off. So I'm actively job hunting but also still at work.


JenP - Jan 24, 2023 8:03:32 am PST #20169 of 30000

Big Boss was like "Oh right...I meant finish your work and then take the rest of the day off." My dude I don't know if you know this but finish your work and then stop for the day is just how a regular work day goes.

Wow. People.

This morning I am reconfiguring my work area, because since I've been sitting in my iconic Ikea chair and working, my right shoulder and back have stopped hurting. So I havne't worked from my desk in a couple of months. The chair sucks, but I've never found good office chair, so I'm giving up for now.

But the desk is where the big monitor is, so I'm going to move it over so that I can use it again, but I havent quite figured out logistics yet.


DavidS - Jan 24, 2023 8:12:09 am PST #20170 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

JZ not only got all the sleep, she got up early this morning to handle her Tuesday morning case conference of pediatric heart surgeons.

Which was pretty hard to imagine happening after Sunday morning's puke fest.

I took in her tea and toast (with clotted cream and apple butter) and overheard a bit of the case conference. (No HIPAA violations!)

One of the doctors was presenting her case and her voice was clear, and low and she enunciated everything. Very articulate.

But she was popping her "P's" like she's never had an audio engineer glare at her through a sound booth.


lisah - Jan 24, 2023 8:17:48 am PST #20171 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate

I'm in a bizarre laid-off-but-still-here limbo. My role has been eliminated but my end date isn't until October

This was me in 2021. I was formally told in July that my role was being eliminated but I’d known for months before that that it would be. I was really lucky to then get severance that lasted through the end of that year but I still haven’t found a new permanent job. I’ve done ok freelancing but it’s been a rough year emotionally. I’d never been fired or laid off before in my 40 year working life.


lisah - Jan 24, 2023 8:18:49 am PST #20172 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate

Huzzah for a good night’s sleep, JZ!!!


JZ - Jan 24, 2023 8:24:31 am PST #20173 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

I can almost guarantee that none of these people have ever been inside a sound booth.