OMG! meara. how and why and HOW?!?!

Oh I feel for your friend.

I would not have guessed that was even possible, meara! Wow. Hope you don't melt at the wedding and brunch

Oh, we got the map of where we'll be sitting when we get back into the office, and facilities is scheduled to move us before the official Back in Office Day although we need to move our own personal stuff and I think that means I should go in and do it next week but I'm not entirely sure. Anyway, I'll be nearest the kitchen, which is also close to a printer. I had heard we were supposed to get a sort of shared, ad hoc office that we could use for conference calls and what not but that's not marked on the map (we used to have one but that is now someone's actual office) so maybe not. I think the major difference for me is going to be me more traffic passing behind me while I'm working which seems terrible right now thinking about it (after working in my living room with absolutely no one around for the past year+ and being in a low traffic area before that) but I'm sure I'll get used to it. And I have noise cancelling headphones. I am mildly irritated that someone on my team with the same title as me gets a bigger cube, but only on principle.

BTW, I feel y'all appreciate how wrong it is that when we asked about how we will be expected to back each other up when any of us our on vacation or sick or whatever the answer was that they haven't figured that out yet. Two people are leaving and there are no plans to hire replacements and management is not worried about coverage with PTO? Argh. To be fair, my boss definitely wants to hire at least a replacement for mt teammate who is leaving, but she has to make a case for it and I guess that means waiting to see how the new system works with 4 of us instead of 5, which even if we are overwhelmed we'll get the work done because that is what we have been doing, getting the work done while overwhelmed, and they'll all say we don't need another person. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe they will surprise me and be reasonable.

Yeesh, -t. That's a lot of change all at once.

Msbelle, that thought had crossed my mind, so, yeah, pony up the email before I buy you a car, kid, seems WAY reasonable to me.

What the hell with the air conditioner... and flooding... and not doing anything?! I do not understand.

Timelies all!

Sorry about the mac drama, msbelle.

What the hell with the air conditioner... and flooding... and not doing anything?! I do not understand.

Yes, a lot of this. Yikes.

I hope things so easier than anticipated, msbelle.

OK, I do need to go in next week but it sounds like I can just pop in late in the day and move my stuff rather than working in the office all day. That'll have to be a game time decision - it also might be nice to be on hand to have input as to where my monitor and phone and so forth actually get set up...

If at all possible, -t, I would flip my desk so I would face the people walking by. Same footage, same footprint, just flipped. And man it cheeses me off when employers blithely expect four people to do the work of five for the same pay as before. Grinding my teeth on your behalf.

Oh NO to the basement flooding--children, what happened to your factory-installed brains? Surely at 6 or ten you had enough brains to *call an adult* to help in a crisis like that!

I hope you get your pup's digestive issues figured out and fixed, 'suela. Poor pup.

Oh, Mac. Are you, by any chance, in cahoots with the Basement Boys? It's time for you to step up a little bit and not make your mom have to deal with the results of you not dealing.

I hope the ice holds out and you survive the heat at the wedding.

that post-apocalyptic solar punk novel set in Detroit.

I would read that book in a heartbeat!

Where exactly would one get air conditioning that can freeze pipes? Asking for a friend.