Urk. 4 hour flight and there’s a massive line for my rental car. And all the other places have no lines at all.
This is going to take an hour.
Fucking hell.
Book: Afraid I might be needing a preacher. Mal: That's good. You lie there and be ironical.
'Safe'
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.
DavidS - Sep 07, 2023 5:02:44 pm PDT #25169 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
-t - Sep 07, 2023 5:06:39 pm PDT #25170 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Sorry, Hec. That is totally unnecessary additional stress
I came in early so I could do a little non-meeting stuff first thing and now I'm leaving from catching up on the urgent things that came up while I was in meetings and while I am pleased that my job is more interesting these days (in the sense that I am interested in what I do, not that it's wildly unpredictable but I'm trying to be polite about it) I do not love that it is actually more work than it was when I was more bored. I assume i will get used to it eventually but right now I am pretty drained all the time.
lisah - Sep 07, 2023 5:09:06 pm PDT #25171 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
Hivemind - have any of you heard of a 2:1 meeting referring to a second 1:1 for an employee? or a 1:1 with an employee's boss's boss?
That’s a skip level.
Hope the wait isn’t as long as it looks like it will be, David
sj - Sep 07, 2023 5:13:45 pm PDT #25172 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Good luck, Hec.
DavidS - Sep 07, 2023 5:27:52 pm PDT #25173 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I’m almost up to the second row! Very exciting development.
smonster - Sep 07, 2023 5:58:32 pm PDT #25174 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
LOL I have never heard of a skip level, but then I left that world over a decade ago.
Rooting for you to get through, David. Travel sucks sometimes and it’s not fair that it is sucking on top of the super sucky reason.
And honestly, can go right to bed in it as well!
I don’t like how nightgowns tend to ruck up around my rib cage. Plus I tend to sleep au naturel these days.
Knit boxers rule. They make them for women now, I get lots of ads on fb. Woxer, TomboyX, etc.
Edit to change tuck back to ruck. Autocorrect definitely has not read enough fanfic.
msbelle - Sep 07, 2023 5:59:47 pm PDT #25175 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
2:1 meeting thing
Yeah, my boss just has her jargon wrong. she asked me to set up 2:1 with her and the two new chief hires, so I set up a meeting with both of them and her and she called me and said "no, not both of them a 2:1 is when it is their 2nd 1:1 since they already have one with their Deputy Director." No, no nonono crazypants wrongheaded lady.
Same boss has halted progress on my application for another job in the Department for stupid and petty sounding reasons, but unofficially and I only know from off-the-record back-channelling. Now I am applying for positions outside of our Department.
erin_obscure - Sep 07, 2023 6:01:41 pm PDT #25176 of 30000
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
remember when traveling was exciting? Those were good times for traveling.
Jesse - Sep 07, 2023 6:12:49 pm PDT #25177 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Getting the rental car has always sucked, I'm pretty sure.
Good luck with everything, David.
-t - Sep 07, 2023 6:40:18 pm PDT #25178 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Wtf, msbelle. Good luck with the outside the department apps