Now I would like some tater tots, whether by themselves or on top of a casserole dealie.

I think there may also be hot dish with like, hash browns on top? But I am from a casserole place not a hot dish place

To my knowledge I've never had a 'hot dish'.

Happy Both Aims!

I got back from lunch today and the academy trainer asked me if the team lead and talked to me and I was like ..um noooo?

Our store manager "no longer works here". I have no idea what happened. I know the district manager (except she has a different title) and the store manager didn't get along. For the most part I liked my ex store manager. and after hearing horror stories about some of the managers (including the store manager that drove off 2 management teams including a bunch that transferred here) I'm worried about whoever is new.

And during remodel.

But M made it to his appointment, got an extended prescription for the anti anxiety meds and is going to make an appointment with a therapist.

I'm not sure if this is a California thing, but it seems to be that all anyone is officially allowed to say about someone leaving for any reason is that they are no longer employed. We had a sales director (Walmart specialist, coincidentally, who is our #1 or #2 customer, neck and neck with Amazon) who was suddenly let go in the middle of the day a week or two ago and we (everyone who worked with him at all, certainly my whole department) are INTENSELY CURIOUS as to what happened but nothing has leaked out except a vague reference to our code of conduct. My boss had been on the phone with him in the morning and a couple of hours later got an email bounceback with "not with the company", it was that sudden. This has, of course, meant upheaval amongst the salespeople as another sales director is going out on maternity leave as well so shuffling everyone around to cover all the customers adequately is messy

Hooray for anti anxiety meds, for sure!

Everywhere I've worked it's just "s/he no longer works here" which means they were terminated. I guess it's just a way to say it without saying anything concrete. When I got a text from my supervisor at Belk the day I came to an agreement with worker's comp I texted back "I'm sorry I can't , I no longer work there".

We aren't supposed to talk about it or her but of course people were and I guess she wasn't handling the stress of the remodel well which included taking it out on lower management people so ... who knows.

Along with M's appointment today Mom brought Lovey all the way back to our vet for a second opinion and Lovey will lose his other eye. She has an appointment Monday at 7:30 am (It's about an hour and fifteen min drive, I told her she can come over here for a nap after). And it will be the same cost of removing his other eye so both eyes will end up being just under the price her vet quoted for removing one eye.

I just found out a few days ago the reason a former supervisor of mine was let go unexpectedly several years back. I'd avoided asking her because (1) it wasn't really my business, and (2) I didn't want to know anything that could impact our friendship, or force me to choose sides between her and management who are relatives and friends of mine. But Mom got the 411 at a family event recently and spilled to me.

And one of our maintenance guys got fired this week for un-explained reasons. He was very popular with both staff and residents, so very helpful and eager to please. And also, he's romantically linked to the head of nursing. (She says he's already landed a new job, so that's a small beam of joy.)

Several years ago a co-worker of mine walked out halfway through the day and just never came back. And since he never officially quit it took WEEKS before our team lead was even allowed to say "He no longer works here" and start hiring to fill his role. (We weren't told that he hadn't given notice, of course, but it became clear after weeks of silence that HR was waiting some legally mandated amount of time before they could consider him to have quit retroactively, I assume to avoid paying severance to someone who just LEFT.)