There's a master schedule with every Sale shift and who is signed up for it, and we each have our own calendar, that anyone in the company can see and that really seems like enough to me. It's really the annoyance of saying to myself for a couple of weeks "I wish people wouldn't do that" and then having everyone be told to do that as official policy.

My office has an Outlook calendar ... which is an issue itself. We don't seem to be able to get everyone looking at - or even having access to - the same calendar. So you put something on the calendar, but there are always people who don't see it. And we have SO MANY calendars, some started years ago for specific purposes that are now moot. And on the main calendar that I use, we have repeating events that were added years ago by people who are no longer with us for events that are not going to take place (like a team - spelled "teem" - meeting on alternate Mondays, all-staff meetings once a month and so on). And since they were added by people who aren't around any more, no one seems able to get them off the calendar. Let's hear it for the labor-saving advantages of technology!

Yikes and I thought trying to get people who send vacation as meeting requests to send them as free instead of busy was annoying! I generally just mark my own calendar out of office (which anyone in the company can see, though not how I label it) and send to my closest colleagues a meeting request for the time I’ll be gone but marked as free so it doesn’t block their calendars but they can quickly see that I’m out.

When I'm on a Zoom call, I have to go on Teams and mark myself as "do not disturb" ... and then remember to go back and mark myself a available. Outlook and Teams do not seem to work well together.

Timelies all!

It is gray here, though not raining. Still, bleah.

The calendar shows a triple Buffista birthday! Wishes for a wonderful day filled with treats and love for Matt the Bruins fan, megan walker, and Cashmere.

DH arrived last night about midnight. Good to have him here.

A review of Brach's Turkey Dinner Candy Corn. This horror exists specifically so that this review could be written.

I saw that elsewhere. I'd have been dubious if I'd seen the stuff in the store; after reading that, I know it's a bad idea. ick

Just thinking of all the people who had to say "yes, let's do this" from the idea stage to actually sending bags of candy to stores for that to happen is pretty amazing.

And how many people will buy a bag to see if it's really that terrible? or because they honestly think it'll be good?